an eminent nonconformist minister, born in 1628. He was invited to Winchester in 1657; and continued a stated preacher there until the re-es- tablishment of the church by Charles II. when he chose rather to suffer the penalties of the act of conformity, than to submit to it contrary to his conscience. He was after- wards engaged by Philip Lord Wharton as tutor to his sons, whom he attended to an academy at Caen in Nor- mandy; and when this duty had been fulfilled, he became pastor of a congregation of private conventiclers in Hol- born. He died in 1678, and is principally known by an elaborate work entitled the *Court of the Gentiles,* calcu- lated to show that the Pagan philosophers derived their most sublime sentiments from the Scriptures.

Gale, Dr Thomas, a learned divine, born at Scruton, in Yorkshire, in the year 1636, was educated at Cambridge, and at length became professor of the Greek language in that university. He was afterwards chosen head master of St Paul's school, London, and was employed by the city in writing the elegant inscriptions on the monument erect- ed in memory of the conflagration in 1666. In 1676 he was collated to a prebend in the cathedral of St Paul's; and was likewise elected a fellow of the Royal Society, to which he presented a Roman urn with its ashes. About the year 1697, he gave to the new library of Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, a great number of Arabian manuscripts; and in the same year he was admitted as Dean of York. He died in that city in 1702, and was interred in the cathe- dral, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory. He was a learned divine, an eminent historian, one of the best Greek scholars of his age, and maintained a correspondence with the most learn- ed men abroad as well as at home. He published, 1. His- toria Poeticae Scriptores Antiqui, Paris, 1675, in 8vo; 2. Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica, et Physica, Cambridge, 1671, in 8vo; 3. Herodoti Historiarum libri x. London, 1679, in fol.; 4. Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores quinque, Oxford, 1687, in fol.; 5. Historiae Britannicae, Saxoniae, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores quindecim, Oxford, 1691, in fol.; 6. Rhetores Selecti, and other works.