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LEI'TZESTORFF, a town of Auftria : three miles 
north-eaft of Storkerau. 
LEI'TZKO, or Leitz^e, a town of the Middle Mark 
of Brandenburg, initiated in the duchy of Magdeburg : 
fourteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Magdeburg. 
LEIX / LIP, a pod-town of the county of Kildare, Ire¬ 
land. It is beautifully lituated on the banks of the river 
Liffey ; and near it is a fine waterfall, called the Salmon 
Leap. It is eight miles weft from Dublin. 
LEK'ENFIELD, a village of Yorkfiiire, in the Eaft 
Riding, north of Beverley; has a fair for a week, com¬ 
mencing September 14- 
LEKE'O, one of the Japan iflands, about 120 miles in 
circumference; twenty miles fouth of Ximo. Lat. 31. 
so. N. Ion. 1 32. 40. E. 
LEK'HAM, a village in Wilts, with a bridge over the 
Avon, fouth of Chippenham. Roman coins are often 
found here. 
LEKINPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the pro¬ 
vince of Cattack: twelve miles north-eaft of Cattack. 
LEK'NO, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : twenty- 
eight miles north-north-weft of Gnefna. 
LEK'SAND, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia: twenty 
miles north-weft of Falun. 
LE'LAND, a village in Cornwall, five miles from Pen¬ 
zance ; vyith a fair on the 15th of Auguft. 
LE'LAND (John), an eminent Englifti antiquary, was 
born in London, probably about the end of Henry VII’s 
reign. He was educated at St. Paul’s fchool under Wil¬ 
liam Lily, whence he was fent to Chrift’s college, Cam¬ 
bridge. After a tefidence of fome years in that univer 
fity, he removed to Oxford, and entered at All-Souls’ 
college. For farther improvement, efpecially in the Greek 
language, he travelled to Paris, where he cultivated an 
acquaintance with fome of the greateft fcholars of the age, 
and alfo acquired a knowledge of feveral modern lan¬ 
guages. Upon his return he took orders, and obtained a 
rebtory in the marches of Calais. Henry VIII. appointed 
him one of his chaplains, and the keeper of his library ; 
and conferred upon him the title of royal antiquary , 
which no other perfon in this kingdom, before or after, 
poffeffed. This was not a mere title; for, in 1533, a com- 
iniftion was iffued under the great feal, empowering Le¬ 
land to make fearch after all objects of antiquity in the 
libraries of all cathedrals, abbeys, priories, colleges. See. 
as alfo all places in which records and public writings 
were depofited. In confequence he fpent above fix years 
in travelling through England, fufferingno part to efcape 
his refearches; nor did he confine himfelf to the objects ^ 
particularly mentioned in his commiilion, but vifited all ' 
the remains of ancient buildings and monuments of every 
kind, with a view of collecting every thing that could il- 
luftrate the hiftory and antiquities of this nation. At the 
dilfolution of the monafteries, he was much affeCted with 
the probable lofs of many of the manuferipts they con¬ 
tained ; and made application to fecretary Cromwell to 
get them conveyed to the king’s library. Other benefice? 
were conferred upon him ; one of which was a canonry 
in King’s college, now Chrift-church, Oxford ; another, 
a prebend in the church of Sarum. He retired, with his 
great collections, to his houfe in London, for the purpofe 
of digefting them, and preparing the great publications 
he had promifed to the world ; but either too intenfe ftudy, 
or fome other caufe, brought upon him a derangement of 
mind, about the year 1550, from which he never reco¬ 
vered. He died in 1552, and was buried in his parilh- 
church of St. Michael le Quern, which was deftroyed by 
the great fire in 1666. Leland publiihed during his life 
feveral Latin poems of confiderable elegance, and fome 
traCIs on antiquarian fubjeCts. His manufeript collec¬ 
tions, after palling through various hands, came for the 
moll part into the Bodleian library, and great ufe has 
been made of them by Bale, Camden, Burton, Dugdale, 
and other antiquaries. A volume of his fmall Latin 
poems was publiihed in 1589, by Thomas Newton, of 
Vol. XII. No. 844. 
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Chefhire, with the title of “ Principum & illuftrium ali¬ 
quot & eruditorum in Anglia Virorum Encomia,” Sec. 
Loud. +to. From his collections, Antony Hall pub¬ 
liihed, in 1709, “ Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britan- 
nicis,” Oxon. 2 vols. 8vo. “The Itinerary of John Be¬ 
laud, the Antiquary,” was publiihed by Hearns, at Ox¬ 
ford, in 9 vols. 8vo, 1710, reprinted in 1743. The fame 
editor publiihed “Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii de Rebus 
Britannicis ColleCtanea,” Oxon. 1715, 6 vols. 8vo. re¬ 
printed in 1770. Biog. Brit. 
LE'LAND (Dr. John), a learned Englilh proteftant-dii- 
fenting divine; was born at Wigan, in Lancalhire, in the 
year 1691. When he was very young, his father removed 
with his family to Dublin, where the fubjeCt of this ar¬ 
ticle was feized with the fmall-pox, which was of fo ma¬ 
lignant a kind, that it entirely deprived him of his un- 
derftanding and memory. In this melancholy condition 
he remained almolt twelve months; and, when the ufe of 
his faculties was reftored, all his former ideas Teemed ex¬ 
punged, and he had entirely forgotten whatever he had 
learned before he was attacked by this diftemper. He 
now difeovered, however, great quicknefs of apprehen- 
fion, and a ftrong memory, by which he recommended 
himfelf fo much to notice, that his parents refolved to 
bring him up to a learned profefiion. Being fent to a pro¬ 
per lchool, he foon made fuch a proficiency as fully an- 
fwered the expectations of his friends ; and was then 
placed under a celebrated tutor, with whom he went 
through a courfe of philofophy. Afterwards, with the 
aliiftance of fome learned and worthy minifters, he dili¬ 
gently applied himfelf to the ftudy of Hebrew and divi¬ 
nity, till he became well qualified for the minifterial of¬ 
fice. He had not long engaged in this chara&er, before 
he was invited to preach ltatedly to a congregation of 
proteftant-diflenters in Dublin, with a view to a future 
iettlement with them; and he gave fuch fatisfaclion both 
in his profeflionnl exercifes, and in his private conduCt 
and manners, that he was foon invited to become joint- 
paftor with the Rev. Mr. Weld; to which office he was 
ordained in 1716. The duties of this new relation were 
difeharged by Mr. Leland with the utmoft diligence and 
fidelity ; while, at the fame time, by indefatigable appli¬ 
cation to his ftudies, jhe acquired fuch a confiderable ftock 
of literature and ufeful knowledge, as railed him to dif- 
tinguiffied reputation in the learned world. In the year 
1733 he firft commenced author, by publilhing “ An An- 
fwer to a late Book, entitled,- Chriftianity as old as the 
Creation,” Sec. in two vols. 8vo. In the year 1737 he 
embarked in controverfy with Dr. Morgan, by publilh- 
ing, “The Divine Authority of the Old and New Tefta- 
tnent aflerted, Sec. againft the unjuft Afperfions and falfe 
Reafonings of a Book, entitled The Moral Philofopher,” 
8vo. The defign of this treatife was, to take a diftinCl 
view of what Dr. Morgan had offered, both againft reve¬ 
lation in general, and the Holy Scriptures in particular ,; 
and it induced the doCtor to level the fecond volume of 
his “ Moral Philofopher” chiefly at our author. In reply 
to this attack, Mr. Leland publiihed a fecond volume of 
“ The Divine Authority of the Old. and New Tellament 
aflerted;” in which the various mifreprel’entations, the 
unjuft afperfions, and the confident attempts, of his an- 
tagonift to impofe falfehoods upon his readers, are very 
fatisfaftorily dete6fed and expofed. In the year 1739, 
the univerfity of Aberdeen conferred upon him, in the ' 
molt honourable manner, the degree of dofforof divinity. 
In the year 1742, appeared the celebrated pamphlet, 
entitled, “ Chriftianity not founded on Argumentin 
which the author, under.fpecious appearances of zeal for 
religion, endeavoured to (how, that the Chriftian faith 
has no foundation in reafon, nor any thing to fupport it 
hut a wild and fenfelefs enthuliafm, deftitute of all proof 
and evidence. In anfvver to this difguifed and illiberal 
attempt to expole Chriftianity to the derifion of mankind. 
Dr. Leland wrote “ Remarks on a late Pamphlet, entitled, 
Chriftianity not founded on Argument,” in two letters, 
'6 C which 
