^lO CHAPTER 1 6. 
enough to recommend itfelf to fubfequent 
writers of didlionaries and lexicons, and has 
been reprinted feveral times. 
On Noveinher 19th, 1672, he fuftalned, 
in the death of Bifhop Wilkins, the lofs 
of another of his beft friends. For this 
candid, ingenious, and learned man, he had 
a fincere efteem and veneration. 
In the lot of human life, fuch chafms 
are not eaiily filled up after the age of forty- 
five. It is hovi^ever not unreafonable to con- 
jedure, that thefe privations added ftrength 
to his motives for domeftic retirement, and 
accelerated at leaf!:, that connexion he 
made the next year, when he married Mar- 
garet the daughter of Mr. John Oakely^ of 
Launtofiy in Oxford/hire, They were mar- 
ried in the church of Middleton^ on June 
the 5th, 1673. 
In the fame year Mr. Ray gave to the 
public the fruit of his foreign travels, under 
the title of, Obfervations, topographical, 
moral, and phyfiological, made in a jour- 
ney through part of the Low Countries, 
Germany^ Italy, and France.'' London, 
1673. 8°. pp. 499. 
The great objedl of accompanying his 
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