5b MEMOIR OF 



intimately acquainted with Mr Ray, and wrote 

 his life, and edited his epistolary correspondence, 

 amongst which are many of Mr Willughby T s 

 letters, never mentions or alludes even in the 

 most distant manner to the circumstance. * 



He frequently speaks of Mr Skippon, Mr Peter 

 Courthope, Mr Bacon, and others, and often dis- 

 tinguishes them as Mr Ray's pupils, but althdugh 

 he much more frequently mentions Mr Willughby 

 than any of these gentlemen, he never takes 

 notice of him in that capacity. 



It is stated in Dr Derham's Life of Ray, that 

 he went to Cambridge, to Catherine Hall, at the 

 early age of sixteen, distinguished among his 



* The following sentence in Dr Derham's Life of Ray, 

 seems studiously constructed with the view to avoid giving 

 occasion to such an inference. 



Mr Ray having spent the latter end of this year, 

 1668, with his friends, Mr Barrel and Mr Courthope, at 

 Danny, in Sussex, and Sir Robert Barnham, at Bocton, 

 in Kent, (all three his pupils at Trinity,) and Mr Wil- 

 lughby in Warwickshire, he then, in July following, 

 began another journey alone by himself," &c. 



This passage refers to a period when the connection of 

 all the parties with Cambridge had totally ceased for some 

 years. 



It should seem that, upon the supposition that Mr 

 Willughby had been a pupil of Mr Ray while at the 

 University, it would have been both the most natural, 

 and the easiest procedure, for Dr Derham to have classed 

 him along with the other gentlemen whom he mentions 

 as "Mr Ray's pupils at Trinity." The distinction has 

 all the appearance of having heen made for the sake of 

 accuracy. 



