BY DR. DERHAM. 



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During his abode there, his mother, Mrs. Ehzal)eth 

 Ray, died at Black Notley. She was a very rehgioiis 

 and good woman, and of great use in her neighbourhood, 

 particularly to her neighbours that were lame or sick, 

 among whom she did great good, especially in chirur- 

 gical matters. Her death was much lamented by all 

 sorts of persons in her neighbourhood.* 



Mr. Ray having continued at Ealborne Hall a year 

 and three-quarters, on June the 24th, 1679,t he and his 

 family removed to Black Notley, where," saith he, in his 

 remark on that removal, " I intend, God willing, to 



asciscas, cum iis amicitiam colas, & libentissime verseris, a quibus ipse aut 

 doctior semper, aut melior possis discedere. 



" Fastum omnem & superbiam ex animo ejicias : reputes tecum, quam 

 stultum sit hoc vitium, quam ratioui contrarium quam Beo et hominibus 

 odiosum. 



" Summopere exorandus es, ut pietatem exerceas erga parentes, aliosque 

 sanguine conjunctos, quibus setatis, dignitatis, aut gradus respectu observan- 

 tiam et reverentiam debes, ut eos debitis officiis colas eorumque monitis, 

 consiliis, imo et reprehensionibus justis auscultes et obtemperes. 



" Tandem ut grato animo esse velis erga omnes, qui de te bene meruerint : 

 — decorum, honestum, justum est, ut eos, qui te amore & benevolentia 

 prosequuntur, qui fideli consilio, aut precibus apud Deim juverunt, qui bene- 

 ficiis cumularunt, ut eos, inquam, vicissim diligas, et affectu mutuo complec- 

 taris ; ut paria facere contendas ; imo ut cum favore beneficium reponas, et 

 agros fertiles imiteris, qui midto plus reddunt, quam acceperunt. 



" Hsec sunt, quae tibi consulere officii mei esse duxi, ut ingrati, imo injusti 

 notam effugiam ; ' ut qui beneficium acciperem, officium autem non prsestarem 

 ullam :' — quse, ut eodem, quo a me animo profecta sunt, accipias ; eademque 

 non ut monita mea, sed ut mandata paterna, imo divina respicias, et ob- 

 serves, rogo; meque habeas pro hunulissimo et fidissimo tuo cliente et 

 servo, " J. K" 



* Concerning her, I find this note of Mr. Ray's, viz. " March 15tli, 1678, 

 being Saturday, departed this life, my most dear and honoured mother, 

 Elizabeth Ray, of Black Notley, in her house on Dewlands, in the hall- 

 chamber, about three of the clock in the afternoon, aged, as I suj)pose, 

 seventy-eight ; whose death, for some considerations, was a great wound to 

 me. Yet have I 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 hath been from her youth up, 

 sticking constantly to her 'profession, and never leaving the Church in these times 

 of giddiness and distraction^" — G. S. 



f Mr. Ray takes notice, that on July the 7th follomng, there fell the 

 strangest hailstones he ever saw, being of extraordinary bigness, and of irre- 

 gular figures, scarce any two alike ; pellucid throughout like great pieces of 

 ice, many of them having several long snags issuing out of the body of them. 

 They fell in a great t empest of thunder and lightning, — G. S. 



