is the root of good and evil; it is there where the foundations of knowledge are laid; it is there where the seeds of wisdom are sown, and not in the Universities according to the present regime. He gave to the school £.30, and purchased an estate at Culgaith, of the then value of £.20 a year, half to the use of the school and half thereof to bind out two parish apprentices; and thus

"Prov'd by the ends of being to have been*.”

This good and learned man died on the 10th of February, 1657, at the early age of forty-nine.

He was succeeded in the Provostship by Barlow (afterwards Bishop of Carlisle), whose life will be found in a former page.

Dr. Langbaine was buried in Queen's College Chapel, where there is a monument with the following

Juscription:

D. O. M.
S.

GERARDO LANGBAINIO, S.S.J., Professori,
Coll. Reg. per xii. annos Præposito
Viro antiquâ pietate, summâ integritate,

Ingenio literarum omnium capaci,
Omnibus supra fidem exculto.

* Dr. Dawes gave £.25 and also £.25 yearly to this school out of the tithes of the estate called Barton-Kirke. Dr. Adam Airay also gave to it the interest of £.100, and Dr. Lancaster gave an additional sum (how much does not appear) to augment the master's salary. The parishioners seem also to have subscribed something. See Burn (Barton).

Judicio acerrimo, industria animo pari,
Cui corpus (quamvis validum) impar:
Literis juvandis propagandisque nato,
Qui temporibus suis omnia,
Et naturam suam omnibus
Restituere poterat.

In quo nec collegium cui præfuit,
Nec Academia cui se impendit,

Vel fidem unquam desideravit vel successum, Qui sæculo difficillimo inter æstuantes rerum fluctus Clavum rectum tenuit

Vixit annos L.M. 1. D. VI.

Animam Deo reddidit A.D.

IV. Id. Febr. A.S. CIO. IOCLVII.
H. M. P. conjux mæstissima.

End of Vol. I.