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the mother of our naturalist, died. Mr Wii- 

 lughby's widow, soon afterwards, married the 

 rich Turkey merchant, Sir Josiah Child, when 

 his friend's children being removed from under 

 his tuition, Mr Ray thought it best to leave 

 Middieton Hall. He retired to Sutton Cofield, 

 at the distance of about four miles, and con- 

 tinued there till Michaelmas, 1677? when he 

 removed to Falborne Hall, not far from Black 

 Notley, and afterwards, upon the death of his 

 mother,* to Black Notley itself, where he passed 

 the remaining, twenty-five years of his life. 



There are some instructions in Latin addressed 

 by Mr Ray to his pupils ; but whether written 

 ^respectively for their future use, or at a time 

 when they were sufficiently acquainted with the 

 language to understand them, is uncertain. They 

 will be perused by every scholar with admiration 

 for the beauty of the style, and by every good 

 man for the excellence of the sentiments. They 

 may be committed to memory, by the youthful 

 reader especially, with advantage.j As soon as 



* This event happened March 15, 16/8. The follow- 

 ing words are part of a memorandum respecting it, found 

 among Mr Ray's papers, by Dr Derham, and transcribed 

 into the life he wrote of him, " I have good hope that 

 her soul is received to the mercy of God, and her sins 

 pardoned, through the merits and mediation of Jesus 

 Christ, in whom she trusted, and whose servant she had 

 been from her youth up, sticking constantly to her profes- 

 sion, and never leaving the church in these times of 

 giddiness and distraction." 



t " Curn educationis vestrae cura a pia? memorise parente 



