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the mother of our naturalist, died. Mr Wil- 
lughby's widow, soon afterwards, married the 
rich Turkey merchant, Sir Josiah Child, when 
his friend's children being removed from under 
his tuition, Mr Ray thought it best- to leave 
Middleton Hall. He retired to Sutton Cofield, 
at the distance of about four miles, and con- 
tinued there till Michaelmas, 1677, when he 
removed to Falborne Hall, not far from Black 
Notley, and afterwards, upon the death of his 
mother,* to Black Notley itself, where he passed 
the remaining twenty-five years of his life. 
There are some instructions in Latin addressed 
by Mr Ray to his pupils ; but whether written 
prospectively for their future use, or at a time 
when they were sufficiently acquainted with the 
language to understand them, is uncertain. They 
will be perused by every scholar with admiration 
for the beauty of the style, and by every good 
man for the excellence of the sentiments. They 
may be committed to memory, by the youthful 
reader especially, with advantage.f As soon as 
* This event happened March lb, 1078. The follow- 
ing words are part of a memorandum respecting it, found 
among Mr Ray’s papers, by Dr Derliam, and transcribed 
into the life be wrote of him, — .“ I have good hope that 
her soul is received to the mercy of God, and her sins 
pardoned, through the merits and mediation of Jesus 
Christ, in whom she trusted, and whose servant she had 
been from her youth up, sticking constantly to her profes- 
sion, and never leaving the church in these times of 
giddiness and distraction.” 
t “ Cum educationis vestrte cura a pise memoriae parente 
