style was agreeable, and imitative of Titian and
Salvator Rosa.
LANDA, Catherine, a learned lady, author
of an elegant Latin letter to Peter Bembo, died
in 1526.

through the crowd to come up to her majesty, who was then walking in her garden, she chanced to drop one of the pistols. This being seen by the guards, she was seized, in order to be sent immediately to prison, but the queen not suspecting her to be one of her own sex, had a LANDEN, John, born in Northamptonshire, mund first to examine her. Accordingly, de-in 1719, died in 1790, having written largely on manding her name, country, and quality, Mar-mathematics, and advanced that science congaret replied with an unmoved steadiness, "Ma-siderably by his studies and experiments. dam, though I appear in this habit, I am a wo- LANDINI, Christopher, a learned Venetian man; my name is Margaret Lambrun; I was of the 15th century. several years in the service of queen Mary, my mistress, whom you have so unjustly put to death; and by her death you have also caused that of my husband, who died of grief to see so innocent a queen perish so iniquitously. Now, as I had the greatest love and affection for both those personages, I resolved, at the peril of my life, to revenge their death by killing you, who are the cause of both." The queen pardoned her, and granted her a safe conduct till she should be set upon the coast of France.

LAMI, Bernard, a philosopher of a noble family of Mons; he was a warm admirer of the principles of Descartes, and died in 1715.

LAMI, Dom. Francis, a French writer, who distinguished himself against Spinosa; he died in 1711.

LAMI, John, ecclesiastical professor at Florence, was a facetious and agreeable man, and died in 1774.

LANDO, Hortensio, an Italian physician, of the 16th century, who wrote several works. LANDO, Bassiano, a physician, of Padua,au thor of some medical works, was assassinated in 1552. LANDRI, bishop of Paris, and founder of the hospital called Hotel de Dieu, died about 660.

LANE, Jane, a female of extraordinary sagacity and spirit, who assisted in the escape and preservation of Charles II., after the battle of Worcester, and was amply rewarded at the restoration. Charles (disguised in her father's livery) rode before her on horseback from Bentley Hall to Staffordshire, to Mr. Norton's near Bristol.

LANFRANC, John, an Italian painter; he excelled chiefly in fresco, and died 1647.

LANFRANC, a physician, of Milan; he restored surgery to a regular and respectable system, and died in 1300.

LAMIA, a celebrated Grecian courtezan, Home time mistress to Ptolemy I., king of Egypt. LANFRANC, archbishop of Canterbury LAMOIGNON, Christian Francis de, advo-in the reign of William I., died in 1089. He recate general and president of the parliament, of built the cathedral of Canterbury, and has the Paris, died in 1677. character of a great statesman, as well as a LAMPE, Frederic Adolphus, rector of Bre-learned prelate. men university, and an author, died in 1729. LANFRANCO, Giovanni, an eminent ItalLAMPLUGII, Thomas, an Englishman, and ian painter, disciple of the Carracci, born in archbishop of York. He crowned king Wil-1581, died in 1647. lian, after exhorting the people to adhere to James II, he died in 1691.

LANG, John Michael, professor of divinity at Altorf, died in 1731.

LANGALIERE, Philip de Gentils, marquis de, distinguished himself in the service of France during 20 years. He was afterwards in the service of the emperor, and king of Po

LAMPRIDIUS, Ælius, a Latin historian, who flourished under the emperors Dioclesian and Constantine, in the 4th century. We have of his writing the lives of four emperors, viz. Commodus, Antoninus, Diadumenus, and He-land, and died in 1717. liogabalus.

LAMPRIDIUS, Benedict, a Latin poet, of Cremona, died in 1540.

LANA, Francis de, a jesuit, of Brescia, born in 1637. From his works, it appears that he had an idea of aerostation prior to Montgolfier. LANCASTER, Janies, a celebrated English navigator, died in 16:20.

LANCASTER, Nathaniel, D. D., an English divine and an author, died in 1775.

LANCELOT, Claude, a native of Paris, and tutor to the prince of Conti, was a Benedictine monk, and the author of several works; he died in 1659.

LANCELOTTI, John Paul, an Italian, employed by pope Paul IV., to compile the canon law; he died in 1591.

LANCJEAN, Remi, the most eminent of Vandyck's pupils, died in 1671.

LANCISI, John Maria, an eminent Italian physician and anatomist, born at Rome, in 1654, died in 1720.

LANCRET, Nicholas, a famous French painter, born at Paris, in 1690, died in 1743. There are a great many prints after his paintings.

LANCRINCK, Prosper Henricus, an excelJent landscape painter in the English school, boru a Antwerp, in 1622, died in 1692. His

LANGBAINE, Gerard, an English writer, who acquired literary celebrity by his edition of Longinus; he died in 1657.

LÄNGBAINE, Gerard, born in 1656, was author of "An account of the English Dramatic Poets," which has been of great use to later bio|graphers; he died in 1692.

LANGDALE, Marmaduke, an Englishman of great courage, who espoused the royal cause in the rebellion; he died in 1681.

LANGDON, Samuel, D. D., minister of a church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and afterwards president of Harvard college; he died in 1797.

LANGDON, John, LL. D., an active and powerful advocate of the revolution, was a member of Congress in 1775, and afterwards a member of the convention which formed the federal constitution, a senator in Congress, and governor of the state of New-Hampshire; he died at Portsmouth, in 1819.

LANGE, Joseph, Greek professor at Friburg, in 1600; he turned catholic in the latter part of his life.

LANGE, Charles Nicholas, a Swiss naturalist, about 1720.

LANGE, Rodolphus, canon of Munster, distinguished himself as a poet; he died in 1519. LANGELANDE, Robert, author of "The Vi

sions of Pierce Plowman," and one of the most of 10 vols. folio, of commentaries on the Scripancient English poets, flourished about the mid-tures, died in 1637. dle of the 14th century.

LAPO, Arnulphus di, a native of Florence, LANGHAM, Simon, archbishop of Canter-known as an able architect, died in 1300. bury; he was made treasurer of England by Edward III., and died in 1376.

LANGHORNE, Dr. John, rector of Blagden, in Somersetshire, and author of several literary productions; among which the best known are, "Poems," in 2 vols., "Sermons," in 2 vols., "Theodosius and Constantia," "Frederick and Pharamond, or the Consolations of Human life;" and a translation of " Plutarch's Lives." He was born in 1735, and died in 1779.

LANGIUS, John, of Lawenburg, practised physic at Heidelberg; he was physician to four successive electors palatine, and died in 1565. LANGLAND, John, principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and bishop of Lincoln, was a popular preacher and a benevolent man; he -died in 1547.

LANGLE, John Maximilian, minister of the reformed church at Rouen; he wrote a defence of Charles I., and died in 1674.

LANGLE, Samuel de, son of the preceding: on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he went to England, was made D. D. at Oxford, and died in 1699.

LARCHER, Peter Henry, a French writer, author of a translation of Herodotus, of Xenophon, &c.; he died in 1812.

LARDNER, Dr. Nathaniel, a very cminent dissenting divine, author of "The Credibility of the Gospel History;" of "The Testimonies of the Ancient Jews and Pagans in favour of Christianity;" "The History of Heretics," &c. ; he was born in 1684, and died in 1768.

LARGILLIERE, Nicholas de, a French painter of great merit. He painted portraits of James II., of England, and his queen, and died in 1705.

LAROON, Marcellus, a painter, born at the Hague, was celebrated for his astonishing correctness as a copyist; he died in 1705.

LARREY, Isaac de, a French Calvinist, who, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, fled to Holland, and was made historiographer to the states; he died in 1719.

LARROQUE, Matthew de, a French protestant minister, of deserved popularity; he died in 1684.

LARROQUE, Daniel de, son of the precedLANGLEY, Batty, an English architect, au-ing, and author of several works, died in 1731. thor of some useful books, died in 1751.

LANGTON, John, an English Carmelite monk, was at the council of Basil.

LANGTON, Stephen, made archbishop of Canterbury by the pope, in the reign of king John, died in 1228. He was one of the most illustrious men of the age in which he lived, for his learning and his writings.

LANGUET, Hubert, a learned Frenchman, minister of state to the elector of Saxony, and afterwards in the service of the prince of Orange; he died in 1581.

LASCARIS, Constantine, one of those learned Greeks who quitted Constantinople upon its being taken by the Turks in 1453, and took refuge in Italy. He was author of a "Greek Grammar," and other small works of a similar kind.

LASCARIS, John, surnamed Rhyndacenus, was of the imperial family. He was an admi' rable scholar, and died in 1535.

LASCI or LASKO, John de, a learned Pole, made bishop of Vesprim. He declared in favour of the reformation, and was dismissed from his bishopric; he died in 1560.

LANGUET, John Baptist Joseph, doctor of the Sorbonne, the celebrated vicar of St. Sulpice at Paris, and one of those extraordinary men whom Providence raises up for the relief of the indigent and wretched, for the good of society, and the glory of nations, was born at Dijon,"travels in Italy," and died in 1768. June 6, 1657, and died in 1750.

LASENA, or LASCENA, Peter, a learned Italian, and an author, died in 1636.

LANGUET, John Joseph, archbishop of Sens, a polemical divine, esteemed for his benevolence and piety; he died in 1753.

LANIER, a painter, employed by Charles I. LANNOY, or LAUNOY, Charles de, an able general in the service of the emperor Charles V., who took Francis I. prisoner at the battle of Pavia; he died in 1527.

LASSELS, Richard, an Englishman, who embraced the catholic religion; he published

LATIMER, Hugh, bishop of Worcester, one of the first reformers of the church of England, born in 1470. It is a remarkable circumstance, though not altogether without parallel, that, from being a papist he became a zealous protestant, active in supporting the reformed doctrine, and assiduous to make converts. his zeal, however, in the protestant faith, he was, with Ridley, bishop of London, burut at

LANSBERGHE, Philip, a learned mathe-Oxford, in 1555. matician, of Ghent, and the author of several works; he died in 1632.

LANSDOWNE. See GRANVILLE. LANZANO, Andrea, an Italian painter who excelled in his art, died in 1712.

LANZONI, Joseph, a native of Ferrara, eminent as a physician, and an antiquary; he died

For

LAUD, William, archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Charles I., was born in 1573, and beheaded in 1645 for high treason; he fell a sacrifice to party violence, and high church sentiments.

LANZI, Lewis, an Italian jesuit, distinguished LAUDER, William, a native of Scotland, as an antiquary. On the suppression of his or-memorable for an attempt to ruin the reputation der, he was made sub-director of the gallery at of Milton; an attempt which ended in the deFlorence. He was author of an essay on the struction of his own. He began first to retail Tuscan language, and other works, and died part of his design in the Gentleman's Magazine, in 1810. 1747; and finding that his forgeries were not detected, was encouraged, in 1751, to collect them, with additions, into a volume, entitled "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of LAPARELLI, Francis, an Italian, eminent the Moderns in his Paradise Lost." The fidelias an architect, mechanic, and engineer. Hety of his quotations had been doubted by seveassisted Michael Angelo in his designs for St.ral people; and the falsehood of them was soon Peter's church, at Rome, and died in 1590. after demonstrated by bishop Douglas, in a LAPIDE, Cornelius, a French jesuit, author||pamphlet entitled, "Milton vindicated from the

in 1730.

harge of Plagiarism, brought against him by vanced. Success inflamed his imagination, and auder: and Lauder himself convicted of seve- he became an enthusiast in the study of physia! Forgeries and gross Impositions on the Pub-ognomy. The opinions relative to it, which he lic." The appearance of this detection over-propagated, were a medley of acute observawhelmed Lauder with confusion. He subscribed tion, ingenious conjecture, and wild reverie. a confession dictated by Dr. Johnson; and, finding that his character was not to be retrieved, quitted the kingdom, and passed the remainder of his life in universal contempt. He died at Barbadoes, in 1770 See BOWLE.

LAUDOBN, or LOUDON, Gideon Ernest, field-marshal, and commander in chief of the Austrian forces, born iu 1716, died in 1790. So high was his reputation, that Frederic the Great, of Prussia, used to say, he feared nobody so much as Laudohn.

LAUGIER, Mark Antony, a French jesuit, the author of several works, died in 1769. LAUNAY, Francis de, a French advocate of eminence, and an author of law publications, died in 1693.

His books, published in the German language, were multiplied by many editions, and translations. This amiable clergyman (for such he was,) was born at Zurich, in 1741, and died there in 1801, in consequence of a wound which he received from a French soldier a twelve month before.

LAVINGTON, George, bishop of Exeter born in 1683, and died at Exeter, in 1762. Be sides sermons, he published, "The Enthusiasn of the Methodists and Papists compared." LAVIROTTE, Lewis Anne, a French physi cian of eminence, died in 1759.

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent, a celebrated French medical and chymical writer, born at Paris, in 1743,was murdered by the guillotine unLAUNOI, John de, a learned French writer, der the execrable tyranny of Robespierre, with known for his defence of the rights of the Gal-27 other farmers-general, in 1794. lican church, died in 1678. LAW, John, of Edinburgh, a famous protroller-general of the finances of France, upon the strength of a scheme for establishing a bank, an East-India, and a Mississippi company, with the profits of which the national debt of France was to be paid off; but this great fabric of false credit fell to the ground, and alinost overthrew LAURATI, Peter, a celebrated Italian pain-the French government, ruining some thousands ter, who flourished in the 15th century.

LAUNOY, Charles de, a French general.jector, who raised himself to the dignity of compSee LANNOY.

LAURA DE NOVES, the mistress of Petrarch, who wrote in her praise 318 sonnets and 88 songs, most of which breathe the warmest spirit of poetry. She was born at Avignon, in 1310, and died in 1348.

of families; and it is remarkable, that the same LAURENS, or LAURENTIUS, Andrew, desperate game was played by the South Sea professor of medicine, at Montpelier, and phy-directors in England in the same fatal year, sician to Henry IV., died in 1609. 1720. Law, being exiled as soon as the credit of his projects began to fail, retired to Venice, where he died in poverty, in 1729.

LAURENS, Honorus, brother of Andrew, an advocate in the parliament of Paris, and afterwards archbishop of Embrun; he died in 1612. LAURENS, Henry, a member of Congress .rom South Carolina, and president of that ody in 1777. He was taken prisoner by the British, while on his way to Holland, as anibas sador from the United States, and confined in the tower, and treated with great rigour until 1781. On his liberation, he went to France, and afterwards, joined the American ministers in signing the treaty with Great Britain. He died in Carolina, in 1792.

LAW, Edmund, bishop of Carlisle, an emi nent theological writer, born in 1702, died in 1787. LAW, William, an able English dissenting divine, and author of the "Serious Call;" he died in 1761.

LAW, Jonathan, a native of Connecticut, was successively a judge and chief justice of the superior court, lieutenant-governor, and af terwards governor, of that state; he died in 1750.

LAW, Richard, LL. D., an eminent lawyer LAURENS, John, son of the preceding, was of Connecticut, was for several years, a judge a distinguished officer of the American army, and chief justice of the supreme court of that during the war of the revolution, and rendered state, and afterwards judge of the United States essential services to his country. He was mor-district court. He died in 1806. tally wounded in an action with a small party of the enemy in Carolina, and died in 1782.

LAURENT, Peter Joseph, a native of Flanders, celebrated for his astonishing mechanical powers; he died in 1775.

LAWES, William, an eminent English musician and composer, was killed at the siege of Chester, in the army of Charles I.

LAWES, Henry, his brother, and also a great musician, in which art he is by some thought to LAURENTIO, Nicholas, a remarkable cha-have excelled William, was born at Salisbury racter in the history of moderu Rome, who, al-in 1600, and died in 1662. though the son of a vintner, rose to the supreme | power, but was murdered by the populace. LAURI, Filippo, an eminent Italian painter, born at Rome in 1623, died in 1694.

LAVATER, Lewis, an ecclesiastic, known for his abilities as a protestant controversialist, died in 1586.

LAWRENCE, Stringer, a distingished general on the East-India Company's establishment, born in 1697, died in 1775. In gratitude for his emi nent services in the command of their forces on the coast of Coromandel, during a period of 20 years, the Company erected a noble nonumen to his memory in Westminster Abbey. LAVATER, John Gaspar Christian, a Swiss LAWRENCE, James, a captain in the nav divine, of warm fancy, and natural acute-of the United States, distinguished for his bra ness, by which he was led to turn his attention very and skill, was wounded in an action with to the expression of human sentiment and chathe British frigate Shannon, in 1813, and died racter. He perceived that not only transient four days afterwards.

passion, but even the more permanent qualities LAWSON, Sir John, captain of a ship in the of character, are often very distinctly expressed; navy of the parliament, and afterwards rear but carried his observations in this way much admiral under the duke of York; he was kill farther than any other person had before ad- fed in 1665.

LAY, Benjamin, an eccentric, but benevolent quaker, who distinguished himself by his deci-distinguished patriot of the revolution, was a ded opposition to slavery, and to the use of articles of luxury. He was a native of England, but removed to the West Indies, and afterwards to Philadelphia, where he died.

LEE, Ezra, a revolutionary officer, who was engaged in several of the principal contests of the war. He enjoyed the confidence of his suLEBID, an Arabian poet, employed by Ma-perior officers, and was selected to take charge homet to answer satirical works against him. of the marine "Turtle," in an attempt to blow LE BLANC, Marcel, one of the fourteen je-up the British ship Asia, in the harbour of Newsuits whom Lewis XIV. sent to Siam, died in 1693.

LEESE, Anna, a native of England, of obLEE, Samuel, an Englishman, ejected from scure origin, and of doubtful character, was the his living for non-conformity in 1686, and em-founder of the society of shakers. She came barked for North America. to America, and settled near Albany, where she died in 1784.

LEE, Charles, a native of Wales. After LEGGE, George, lord Dartmouth, an eminent serving in the English army under generals English admiral, who commanded the force sent Abercrombie and Burgoyne, came to Virginia, to demolish Tangier, in 1683. In 1688, he was in 1773, and at the commencement of the revo- made admiral of the fleet; but, after the revolutionary war, was appointed a major-general in lution was effected, he was committed to the the army, and afterwards to the command of the Tower, on suspicion of corresponding with the troops in the southern states. He rendered great abdicated king; and he died in that prison in and important services to the United States, but|| 1691.

LEGUANO, Stefano Maria, a historical pain-of a large volume on "English Etymology," ter, the pupil of Carlo Maratti His pieces are being a derivative dictionary, in which he ha masterly, particularly in the diffusion of light not only investigated the radical meaning of and shade; he died in Italy, in 1715. many obscure and almost unintelligible words, LEIBNITZ, Godfrey William de, baron of but exploded many vulgar errors, and illustraLeipsic, an eminent statesman, poet, and law-ted many passages in ancient English writers yer, but more eminent as a writer on philoso-He was born in 1726, and died in 1797. phy, born in 1646, died in 1716. His philosophical writings are very numerous, and have rendered his name immortal.

LEIGH, Sir Edward, an English critic and Hebrew lexicographer, died in 1671.

LEIGH, Charles, F. R. S., an able naturalist, of England. He wrote a natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, &c., and a history of Virginia. He died in the beginning of the 18th century.

LE MONNIER, Peter Charles, a cclebrated French astronomer, and one of those who made the journey to the north in 1785, for the adineasurement of the globe, died at Paris, in 1799.

LE MONNIEŘ, Lewis William, brother of the preceding, was a distinguished physician and an able philosopher. He wrote several valuable articles for the French Encyclopedia, and died in 1799. L'ENCLOS, Ninon de, a very distinguished LEIGHTON, Alexander, a native of Edin-French courtezan, who, with a fine understandburgh, author of " Zion's Plea," and "Looking ing and philosophic spirit, would reason like Glass of the Holy War," both directed against Socrates, though she acted like Lais; while, the government. He was in consequence punish-therefore, the great Conde, the Villarceaux, the ed by having his nose slit, his ears cut, and run-Sevignes, the Rochefoucaults, enjoyed her as a ning the gauntlet. He died in 1644. LEIGHTON, Robert, an eminent Scotch pre-sopher and a critic. This bewitching woman late and theological writer, died in 1684.

mistress, the learned consulted her as a philo

died in 1706, aged 90, retaining her personal LEISLER, Jacob, known as the leader of a charms to the last. She left some children, and rebellion, in the colony of New-York, for which, one of her sons died before her, a very tragical he was accused of treason, condemned, and ex-death indeed. Not knowing her to be his mo ecuted, about 1691. ther (for all her operations were conducted with LEISMAN, John Anthony, a German pain-secrecy and mystery,) he actually fell in love ter, some of whose pictures are very much admired; he died in 1698.

LELAND, John, the first and last antiquaryroyal in England, was born in London, and died in 1552. He has been styled the father of English antiquaries.

with her; and when, to get rid of his passion, she discovered herself to him, through shame and despair he poignarded himself in her presence.

L'ENFANT, James, an eminent French protestant minister, born in 1691, died in 1728. He LELAND, Dr. John, a celebrated English was author of three capital works, viz. Histo dissenting divine, settled in Dublin, who distin-ries of the Council of Constance, Basil, and guished himself by some very estimable and la- Pisa. Besides these, he published the New borious publications, particularly" A View of Testament, translated into French from the orithe Deistical Writers of England," and "The ginal Greek, with notes, in conjunction with Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Re-Beausobre; which version was much esteemed velation." He was born in 1691, and died in by the protestants. 1766.

LELAND, Dr. Thomas, author of a "History of Ireland," a "Life of Philip of Macedon," and translator of Demosthenes, was born in 1722, and died in 1785.

L'ENGLET, Nicholas du Fresnoy, a very voluminous French writer, born in 1674, died in 1755. His" Methode pour etudier l'Histoire," &c. seems to have been thought his best production. His end was very tragical: for, falling asleep as he was reading by the fire, he fell into it, and his head was nearly burnt off before the accident was perceived.

LE LONG, James, author of "Historical Library of France." He died at Paris, in 1721. LELY, Sir Peter, an excellent portrait and historical painter, born in 1617, at Westphalia, LENNARD, Sampson, a friend of Sir Philip but afterwards settled in England, under the pa- Sidney, with whom he distinguished himself at tronage of Charles II., died in 1680. the battle of Zutphen. He was also an eminent LEMENS, Balthasar Van, a native of Ant-translator from Latin and French; he died in werp, eminent as a historical painter, died in 1630. London, in 1704.

LENNOX, Charlotte, a writer of novels and LE MERCIER, Andrew, a minister of Bos-plays, the daughter of colonel Ramsay, lieutenton, for many years pastor of a French protest-ant-governor of New-York, was born in 1720, ant church in that place; he died in 1762. and died in 1804. Her best known novel is LEMERY, Nicolas, a celebrated French" The Female Quixotte." The latter part of chymical writer, born at Rouen, in 1645, died in her life was clouded by sickness and penury; 1715. her chief support being derived from " The Literary Fund."

LEMERY, Lewis, son of the preceding, was born at Paris, and became physician to the king. He was the author of several useful books, and died in 1743.

LEMNIUS, Lævinius, born at Zealand, where he became a physician, and afterwards took orders. He wrote on astrology, plants, &c., and died in 1568.

LENS, Bernard, painter and enameller to George II., died in 1741.

LENTHAL, William, speaker of the long parliament, a dubious character during the civil wars, who sought his own fortunes by secretly siding with the republicans; he died under contrition, in 1663.

LEMOINE, Francis, a French painter, who, LENTULUS, Cneius, a Roman consul, hiswithout genius, became, by application, an emi-torian, and poet, he was put to death by Tibe nent artist; he died in 1737.

rius.

LEMON, George William, an English divine, LEO I., or Ancient, succeeded Marcian, on who distinguished himself by the publication the throne of Constantinople, in 457. He wan