Tlje hivs. of Mr. RAY. 41 
Mr. Ray having thus loft fome of 
his heft Friends, and being in a Man- 
ner left deftitute, began to have . 
Thoughts of Marriage, having met 
with a young Gentlewoman (then in 
the Family he was in) of about Twenty 
Years of Age; whole Piety, Difcre- 
tion, and Virtues, recommended her 
to him, as well as her Perfon. Fler 
Name was Margaret., the Daughter 
of Mr. fobn Oakeley, of Launton in 
Oxfcrdjhire, a Gentleman of a younger 
Branch of a Family of that Name in 
Shropjhire. They were married in 
Middleton Church, on fune the 5 th 
1673, by the Reverend Mr. Antro- 
bus, Minifter of the Parifh. 
I 
Towards the latter End of this 
Year 1673, Mr. Ray's Obfervations 
Typographical, Moral, See. came forth, 
and therewith his Catalogus Stirpium 
in extern Regionibus, a nobis obferva- 
tarum. 
