GALE 
e vice-chancellor of Oxford, for 
print it. It was accordingly publifhed at different periods; 
the firft part came outinthe year 166, and was entitled, “The 
Court of the Gentiles; or, a Difcourfe touching the Ori- 
ginal of Human Literature, both Philology and Philofophy, 
from the Scriptures and the Jewifh Church.’ This fpeci- 
men was received with great applaufe both at home and in 
foreign countries: and Mr. Gale publifhed the remaining 
parts in 1671 and 1677. The whole was {peedily tranflated 
into the Latin language, and the fame of the author was ex- 
Mr. Gale had publifhed, 
induftry, hig manners were mild 
conduct irreproachable, and his piety towards his ma 
He was 
; and, having abandoned worldly good 
-and temporal advantages, at the call of his confcience, he 
was at all times ready to vindicate his conduct, and give a 
ALE, THomMAS, was born at Scruton, in York. 
ire, about the year 1635, and was educated in Welt- 
minfter fchool. From We minfter he went. to Trinity 
colle i here he took his degrees, and of 
afterwards became a fellow. He ‘was dif- 
and about the fame time he was chofen a fellow of the 
Roman urn with its 
Rity college a great number of 
Having continued 25 years head, mafter of St. Paul’s 
{chool, he was, as a reward for his greaf merit and in- 
ceffant induftry in that laborious oeeupation, promoted 
to the deanery of York. He died April 8, 1702, in the 
68th year of his age, highly refpected by all who knew him. 
ivine, a great hiftorian and antiquary, and 
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reign countrics. ublifhed new editions of various 
learned works, and likewife two volumes in folio of our an- 
cient Englifh hiftorians. Biog. Brit. 
ALE, Rocer, fon of the tormer, a learned antiquarian, 
was born in 1672, and educated at Trinity college, Cam- 
bridge, of which he became fellow in 1697. e was repre 
fentative of North Allerton, in Yorkfhire, during three par- 
liaments, and he held the office of commiffioner of the ex- 
ife. He was a fellow of the Roy ntiquarian So- 
cleties, and of the laft he was vice-prefident and treafurer. 
He publifhed « Antonini Iter Britanniarum Commentariis 
iluftratum Thome Gale, S « nuper Decani Ebor 
Acceffit 
ws 
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&c. tranflated from the 
onoris de Richmond ;” 
French of Joubert ; 
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man Ways in’ Britain,”’ 
> 
Difcourfe on 
apers in the Tranfac- 
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and feveral 
chefter,”” which was begun by Henry earl of Clarendon, 
and continued to the year 1715. Biog. Brit. 
Gar, Joun, born in London inthe year 1680, was in- 
ftru€ted with great care in the learned languages, and in 
Hebrew, in which he had made a very contiderable profi- 
ciency by the time that he was feventeen years of age. At 
this period he was fent by his father to the univerfity at Ley- 
den, where his progrefs was fo great that in lefs than two 
A. and dodtor of philofophy. 
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anguages, he undertook a critical examination of the Old 
and New Teftament in their originals. So great was his ree. 
putation for real learning, that the univerfity of Leyden 
offered him the degree of doctor in divinity, provided he 
would fubferibe to the articles eftablifhed by the 
Dort. But he rejected the propofal, being” refolved never 
to facrifice his liberty for worldly profit or hterary honours, 
and to callnone mafter on earth but Chrift. Dr. Gale had 
been educated in the principles of the antipedobaptifts, and | 
in 1705 he was called upon by his friends to juftify his fen- 
timents, by anfwering “ The Hiftory of Infant Baptifm,” 
publifhed by Mr. Wall, vicar of Shoreham, which hiftory 
had been honoured by a vote of thanks of the Houfe of 
Convocation. He accordingly drew up a feries of letters 
on the fubjeé&t, which were publifhed in the year 1711, un- 
der the title of “ RefleGions on Mr. Wall’s Hittory 
Letters to a iend.”? 
f In- 
n the 
the imputations of herefy and impiety caft on him by Walk 
of Chriftian faith. Dr. Gale, on ac n 
modefty, could not be prevailed on to undertake the paftoral 
office till he was thirty-five years of age. He then fettled 
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