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MEMORIALS OF RAY 



When he was come to Trinity College, he had the . 

 happiness to have Dr. Duport* for his tutor, — a man . 

 well known for his learning, particularly for his great skill 

 in Greek, which he gave the world good proof of, in his 

 Homerical Translations of Job and the other Hagio- 

 grapha. 



Under this learned tutor, Mr. Eay so closely applied 

 himself to his studies, that what he missed of at Braintree 

 school, he sufficiently attained to at Trinity College ; having 

 acquired great skill in Greek and Latin, and I have good 

 reason to think in Hebrew also. Besides which, I find, 

 by some of his papers written about that time, that he 

 was very early an excellent orator and naturalist; and 

 upon the account of his great diligence, learning, and 

 virtue, he w^as soon taken notice of by the College, and at 

 about three years' standing was chosen Minor Fellow of 

 Trinity, on September 8th, 1649, together with his in- 

 genious friend Isaac Barrow; and as Dr. Duport had 

 been tutor to both of them, so he used to boast of them, 

 as Mr. Ray's fellow collegian, the late pious and learned 

 Mr. Brokesbyf informed me, who saith, that he in dis- 

 course with Dr. Duport, reckoning up several gentlemen 

 of worth that the Doctor had been tutor to, the Doctor 

 said, the chief of all his pupils were Mr. Bay and Dr. 

 Barrow, \ to whom he esteemed none of the rest com- 

 parable. 



* Duport, J., D.D., was born at Cambridge, in Jesus College (of which his 

 father was master) in 1606. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 and appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1632. He was made pre- 

 bendary of Lincobi and Archdeacon of Stow in 1641, and in 1656 ejected 

 for refusing his engagement. In 1660 he was made chaplain in ordinary to 

 Charles II., and was restored to his professorship, which he subsequently 

 resigned in favour of Dr. Barrow. He was made master of Magdalen College 

 in 1668. He was the author of ' Gnomologia Homeri/ 4to. Cambridge, 1660, 

 and other works. He died in 1679. 



t Brokesby, Francis, esq., was born in Leicestershire, in 1637, and died 

 in 1715. He ™te ' The Life of Henry Dodwell,' 1715, 2 vols. 8vo, London; 

 ' Of Education with respect to Grammar Schools and Universities,' 1710, 

 Svo, London ; ' A History of the Government of the Primitive Church for 

 the first three Centuries,' 1702, London, Svo. 



X Barrow, Isaac, was the eldest son of Thomas Barrow, linen-draper to 

 Charles I, and descended of a Suffolk family. He was born in 1630, and 



