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he was admitted at Trinity College, 1622, and 

 made Professor of Greek, 1632. 



What, then, is the obvious inference from these 

 statements, but this, that instead of Mr Wil- 

 1 ugh by having been a pupil of Mr Ray, both 

 Mr Kay himself, and Mr Willughby, were, at 

 different periods of time, each of them pupils of 

 Mr Duport ; but whom, in consequence of his 

 having, some time after Mr Willughby became 

 his pupil, received the doctorate, Dr Derham, 

 in his Life of Ray, speaks of by his latest and 

 highest designation of Dr Duport ? Nor is there 

 any thing in the ages or standing of the parties, 

 respectively, inconsistent with this inference. 

 For, allowing that Duport, when admitted at 

 Cambridge, in the year 1622, was twenty years 

 old, which, in those times, was rather a late age 

 for admission to the University, he would be 

 about forty-two years old when Mr Hay became 

 his pupil, and but little more than fifty years old 

 when Mr Willughby became his pupil. 



In the total absence of evidence to the con- 

 trary, and till that which is now produced is either 

 invalidated or explained in some other way, 

 the very general statement, which obtains in 

 both English and foreign publications, that Mr 

 Willughby was Mr Ray's pupil,* must be added 

 to the numerous exemplifications already in exis- 

 tence, of the danger of one writer being contented 



* In the jBiographie Universelle the words are, "son 

 gouverneur." 



