SELECT REMAINS AND LIFE OF RAY, 



WILLIAM DERHAM, D.D. P.R.S. 



Mr. John Eay, the subject of the following Life, was 

 the son of Roger Ray and Elizabeth his wife, of Black 

 Notley, near Braintree, in Essex. He was born Novem- 

 ber 29th, 1628,* and was bred a scholar at Braintree 

 School, under one Mr. Love, the master thereof, where 

 he made such proficiency (although at that time no good 

 school, which Mr. Ray used sometimes to lament, as a 

 great misfortune to his younger years,) that before he 

 arrived at the age of sixteen he was sent to the University 

 of Cambridge, and entered at Catherine Hall, on June 

 28th, 1644, under the tuition of Mr. Duckfield. 



Here he continued about a year and three quarters, 

 and then removed to Trinity College ; but for what reason, 

 or by what means, I cannot tell ; only I find he was 

 afterwards much pleased therewith, because in Catherine 

 Hall they chiefly addicted themselves to disputations, but 

 in Trinity the politer arts and sciences were principally 

 minded and cultivated. 



* In a MS. notice of Ray and his works, by the Rev. W. L. P. Garnons, b.a. 

 of Sidney College, Cambridge, with the use of which I have been favoured, 

 he states that although the 29th of November is usually regarded as the 

 birthday of Ray, that on " searching the parish registers" it was discovered 

 that " he was baptized on the 29th of June, 1628 ; consequently the above 

 date, as the supposed one of his birth, is incorrect." 



