2 "The Life Mr. RAY. 
made fuch Proficiency (although at 
that time no good School, which 
Mr. Ray ufed fometimes to lament, 
as a great Misfortune to his younger 
Year's,) that before he arrived at the 
Age of Sixteen he was fent to the 
Univerjity of Cambridge^ and entered 
2it Katherine-Hall, on yum 28th, 
1644, under the Tuition of Mr. 
Here he continued about a Year 
and three Quarters, and then re- 
moved to Trinity -College : But for 
what Reafon, or by v/hat Means, I can- 
not tell j only I find he was afterwards 
much pleafed therewith ; becaufe in 
Katherme-Hall they chiefly addicted 
therafelves to Difputations ; but in 
Trinity the politer Arts and Sciences 
were principally minded and' culti- 
vated. 
'When 
