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of his infantine pupils, by compiling for their use 
his Nomenclator Classicus, and which was pub- 
lished the same year of their father’s death. « It 
consisted of an accurate nomenclature, enriched 
especially with the correct meanings of both the 
Latin and Greek names of animals and plants, 
assigned to them by himself and Mr Willughby. 
It was highly serviceable not only to schoolboys, 
but to the amendment of the dictionaries and 
lexicons published after its appearance.”* In the 
November of the same year in which Mr Wil- 
lughby died, Mr Ray sustained another heavy 
affliction in the death of his friend, Bishop Wil- 
kins. He now, therefore, sought consolation for 
his bereavements in domestic endearments, and 
married a young gentlewoman at that time a 
visiter at Middleton Hall, whose piety, discretion, 
and virtues, had recommended her to him as well 
as her agreeable person. Her name was Margaret, 
daughter of Mr John Oakly of Launton, a gentle- 
man of a younger branch of a family of that name 
in Shropshire. They were married in Middleton 
church, June 5, 1673. Mrs Ray is said to 'have 
superintended the English part of the young 
gentlemen’s education. Mr Ray was also en- 
gaged in preparing Mr Willughby’s works, and 
some of his own, for publication, and in commu- 
nicating papers to the Philosophical Transactions. 
During the year 1674, and part of the next 
year, he was employed, as far as Mr Willughby’s 
Derham’s Life of Ray. 
