30 rhe^iv-E. of Mr. RAY. 
leaving out the PF' in the Beginning 
of it. This Way of writing his 
Name JVray., was what he had ufed 
all the time he was in the Univer- 
fety., at kail whilfl he was at Trinity.,- 
his Name being always with a Wm 
the College '"Regifter. And fo in the 
Philofophical TranfaSlions, before the 
Year 1670, he writes his Name 
TVray. But this being, he faith, 
contrary to the Way of his Fore- 
fathers writing their Names, he 
therefore re-ailumed the Name of 
Kay. And in all Probability this he 
took to be the trued V/ay of writ-, 
ing it, as being derived from fiich 
Places as bear the Name of- Ray, as 
the Ray-Field, the Ray-Houfe, the- 
Ray-Mead, &c. Which is appro- 
priated to Places adjoining to navi- 
gable (but not exclufive of other) 
Rivers, where People Row, or pals 
along with Boats ; and is derived, I 
conceive, 
