BY DR. DERHAM, 



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September 18th, 1658 ; which he took by himself alone 

 through Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, 

 Derbyshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbigh- 

 shire, Carnarvonshire, Anglesea, Merionethshire, Shrop- 

 shire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire. 



After this journey, having finished his ' Cambridge 

 Catalogue,' and published it, as I said, in 1660, and 

 peaceable times coming on, by the restoration of the king 

 and royal family, Mr. Ray began to think of entering 

 into holy orders, and at the latter end of the year was 

 ordained both deacon and priest by the learned Bishop 

 Sanderson ; * one or both which orders his Lordship, 

 then Bishop of Lincoln, conferred upon Mr. Ray, in his 

 Chapel in Barbican, in London, on the 23d of De- 

 cember, 1660. 



But now, if it should be asked. How came it to pass 

 that Mr. Ray, who was not in orders till 1660, was ad- 

 mitted to preach (as I have said he did) in the college 

 chapel and at St. Mary's, before the University ? I briefly 

 answer, in the before-mentioned Mr. Brokesby's words, 

 " that preaching and common-placing were then com- 

 monly performed by persons not ordained." 



After his ordination, Mr. Ray continued to pursue his 

 inquiries after plants, and other curiosities, and therefore 

 took another journey (accompanied by Mr. Willughby,t 



* Sanderson, Robert, d.d , Bishop of Lincoln, was born at Rotherham in 

 Yorkshire, in 1587. He studied at Oxford, and was made canon of Christ- 

 church, and regius professor of divinity in that University in 1642. He was 

 distinguished as a theological casuist, and wrote many works on theological 

 subjects. He died January 29th, 1662. His life and sermons were edited 

 by Izaak Walton, and published in London in 1689. 



f WUlughby, Erancis, was the only son of Sir Prancis Willughby, knight, 

 and was born in 1635. His father, who was in easy circumstances, paid 

 great attention to the education of his son, who was so diligent in his studies 

 that it was feared he would injure his health. He early acquired great 

 knowledge both of the classics and mathematics, and in the various branches 

 of natural science. He was admitted at Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, and 

 took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1656, and of Master of Arts in 1659. 

 It was here that he became a pupH of John Ray, and a lasting friendship 

 was soon formed between the master and pupil, Willughby had a mind 

 constituted very similarly to that of Ray, and both of them took great inte- 

 rest in the progress of natural science. Ray had at this time made great 



