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with it in his nineteenth year, and in 
the latter llage of his life, he fufFered |ong 
confinements in this difeafe, and became 
afthmatical. Being at length reduced to a 
degree of poverty, and dependance, v/hich 
his fpirit could not fuftain, oppreffed with 
calamity, and complicated difeafe, he died 
April 12, 1749. Two of his principal cre- 
ditors adminiftered to l^is effefts, and buried 
him in SL Peters church-yard^ oppofite the 
houfe in which he refided. 
He left an Hortus Siccus of the plants of 
his Catalogue,'* confifting of upwards of 
600 fpecies, in eight volumes, of the quarto 
form y befides feparate tables of the Mojfes^ 
and a volume of paintings of the Fungi^ ac- 
curately done by his own hand. Some part, 
if not the whole, of this colleftion, was, I 
believe, purchafed by the Honourable Roth- 
'ze'^'// WiLLOUGHBY, who had been oue of 
his benefadtors, while living, and inherited 
a portion of that tafte, which diftinguifhed 
his family in the time of Mr. Ray. He 
left alfo a manufcript treatife, in Latin^ De 
Re objietricaria. 
His 
