"The Life of Mr. RAY. 13 
Shropfoh'e, Worceferfnre^ and Glou- 
cofcrfjire. 
After this Journey, having finifh- 
ed his Cambridge Catalogue., and 
publifhed it, as I faid, in 1660, and 
peaceable Times coming on, by the 
Refauration of the King and Royal 
Family, Mr. Ray began to think of 
entering into Holy Orders ; and at 
the latter End of the Year was or- 
dained both Deacon and Priefl by 
the learned Bifhop Sandxrfon. One 
or both which Ordqrs, his Lordfhip, 
then Bifhop of Lincoln, conferred 
upon Mr. Ray, in his Chapel in Bar- 
bican in Londott, on the 23d of De- 
cember i66o. 
But now, if it iBould be afked. 
How it came to pafs that Mr. Ray, 
who was not in Orders, till 1660, 
was admitted to preach (as I have 
faid 
