DR. BENJAMIN ALLEN, OF BRAINTREE. 
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came from Suffolk ; but Mr. Ray took it for a mistake, thro’ the sending 
not the same original numerical plant, [Mr. Ray] having never heard such' 
virtue in the Otis or Sesamoides ; but such virtue is known to belong to 
the Plantains ; so, considering this plant was sent by the name of ‘ Starr 
of the Earth ’ [and] that the Coronopus is call’d in Suffolk by the name of 
‘ Starr of the Earth,’ he sayd undoubtedly that the right plant should 
have been the Coronopus, [surmising that] the plant might not be sent 
with the name, but taken up at second hand.” 
That there were others who believed in the power of the 
Coronopus is clear from a note in another part (p. 303) of Allen’s, 
book :— 
" Bite of Mad Dog : —Mr. Smith, of Helen’s Bumstead, told me he 
had known several men and beasts cur’d only by giving them the Star of 
the Earth, wch. seeds like Plantain and is the Coronopus.” 
Before I pass from these passages relating to Ray, I am pleased 
to be able to announce another interesting discovery which has 
been made since (and, this time, as a result of) the publication 
of my former paper on Allen. 
In that paper, I reproduced the Ray Society’s engraving 
(1848) of “ Dewlancls,” at Black Notley, the house Ray 
built for his mother and in which he himself afterwards lived 
many years and ultimately died. This I did, believing it to be 
the only existing representation of the house, which was destroyed 
by fire in 1900. Nevertheless, I asked any reader who knew 
of the existence of a photograph to communicate with me 27 ; and,, 
before my request had been published many days, I heard from 
our member, Mr. H. S. Tabor, of Fennes, Booking, that he had a 
photograph, taken by himself shortly before the house was burned. 
That photograph he was kind enough to place at my disposal,, 
and I reproduce it herewith (PI. I.), believing it to be the only 
photograph of the house ever taken. It shows the house from a 
different point of view from the engraving—namely, from the 
north, instead of from the east. 
Entries of purely personal interest, such as are frequent in the 
other volume, are rare in this, as stated already. 
One of the few such records (pp. 331 and [361]), “ What I 
learned from Dr. Gale, Maister of St. Paul’s School, my maister.” 28 
The record is too vague to be worth reproducing, but we learn 
that Dr. Gale had “ commend[ed] Mr. Ray and his Vocabulary.” 28 
27 See ante, xvi., p. 147 n. 
28 See ante, xvi., p. 148. 
29 A Collection of English Words not Commonly Used, 1674 (second ed., 1691). 
