Thomas Langley was an English clergyman who rose to the position of canon of the 9th prebend of Winchester cathedral, which he held between 1559 and his death in 1581/82. In 1546, he translated parts of the De rerum inventoribus by Polydore Vergil (c. 1470—1555), and in 1552 a treatise on the Sabbath written in Italian by Giulio da Milano (viz. Giuseppe della Rovere [1504—1581]). He also wrote Latin verses in 1559 for William Cunningham’s Cosmographical Glass.

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Thomas Langley was an English clergyman who rose to the position of canon of the 9th prebend of Winchester cathedral, which he held between 1559 and his death in 1581/82. In 1546, he translated parts of the De rerum inventoribus by Polydore Vergil (c. 1470—1555), and in 1552 a treatise on the Sabbath written in Italian by Giulio da Milano (viz. Giuseppe della Rovere [1504—1581]). He also wrote Latin verses in 1559 for William Cunningham’s Cosmographical Glass. Life Earlier career Thomas Langley’s origins are unknown. In his will, he mentions a brother named Robert, who had children named Christopher, Thomas, and Katherine. That is all we know for certain of the family into which he was born. However, it has been suggested that he was the illegitimate son — one of two? — of the Thomas Langley who was a canon at the Augustinian priory at Leeds, near Maidstone in Kent. The name Langley here is a monastic toponym, equivalent to ‘de Langley’, and there is a village two miles west of Leeds called Langley.

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