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he was admitted at Trinity College, 1622, and 
made Professor of Greek, 1632. 
What, then, is the obvious inference from these ^ 
statements, but this, that instead of Mr Wil- 
lughby having been a pupil of Mr Bay, both 
Mr Bay himself, and Mr Willugbby, were, at 
different periods of time, each of them pupils of 
Mr Duport ; but whom, in consequence of his 
having, some time after Mr Willughby became 
his pupil, received the doctorate, Dr Derham, 
in his Life of Bay, speaks of by his latest and 
highest designation of Dr Duport ? Nor is there 
any thing in the ages or standing of the parties, 
respectively, inconsistent with this inference. 
For, allowing that Duport, when admitted at 
Cambridge, in the year 1622, was twenty years 
old, which, in those times, was rather a late age 
for admission to the University, he would be 
about forty-two years old when Mr Ray became 
his pupil, and but little more than fifty years old 
when Mr Willughby became his pupil. 
In the total absence of evidence to the con- 
trary, and till that which is now produced is either 
invalidated or explained in some other way, 
the very general statement, which obtains in 
both English and foreign publications, that Mr 
Willughby was Mr Bay’s pupil,* must be added 
to the numerous exemplifications already in exis- 
tence, of the danger of one writer being contented 
* In the Biographie Universelle the words are, “ son 
gouverneur.” 
