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CANTABRIGIANA. 
CXXX, MR. RAY, THE NATURALIST. 
\ AT R. Ray, the naturalift, was fellow 
3VJL of Trinity College, and ejected 
from his fellowfhip by the Bartholomew 
A&. His name was, confequently, inferted 
in our litt of minifers cjected from Cam- 
bridge. However, J. W, is reminded, it was 
daid, that “ Ray did not properly become 
a diffenter, but continued to attend the 
Eftablithed Church.”” The following is 
an accurate ftatement of that matter, ex- 
trasted from Dr. Derham’s Life of him, 
prefixed to Mr. Ray’s Itineraries. 
_ © During all this period Mr. Ray con- 
tinued fellow of Trinity College, till the 
beginning of the Bartholomew Act (in 
3661) which requiring a fub{cription 
againft the Solemn League and Covenant, 
occafioned Mr. Ray to refign his fellow. 
fhip, he refufing to fign that declaration; 
but the reafon of his refufal was not 
(as fome have imagined,) his having 
taken the Solemn League and Covenant 
(for that he never did, and often declared, 
that he ever thought it an uniawful a&,) 
but he faid he could. not declare, for 
thofe that had taken the oath, that no 
obligation lay upon them; but feared 
there might. And one thing, that un- 
fortunately then happened was (as Mr. 
Brokefby informed me) that he was at 
that time abfent from his college, where 
he might have met with fatistaciion to 
his {cruples, and was among fome zealous 
Non-conformijts, who too much. influ- 
enced him, by the addition of new fcru- 
ples. And we may alcribe allo. {ome- 
what to prejudice of education in unhappy 
times." 
CXXXI.z-A PROPER MOTTO for KING’S 
COLLEGE CHAPEL. 
This chapel has already been fpcken 
of, as the moft beautiful Gothic chapel 
in Europe, 
adopt this motto : 
Uc Rofa flos florum, 
Sic eft domus ifta domorum, 
As fhines the Rote, the flower of flowers, 
Mid chapels fo this chapel of ours, 
CXXXII.—CURIOUS BOOKS, 
An occafion offered itfelf fome time 
fince of noticing fome curious books in 
different -colleges of Cambridge. ‘The 
following fhould not be omitted :—A feries 
of manuicript letters between Sir Ifaac 
Newton and Mr. Co es.—Sir Lfaac New- 
tons own copy of the Principia corrected 
by himfelf tor a new edition, with Dr. 
Halley’s Latin verfes, corrected by Dr. 
Bentley. This book has defcended from 
Sir Iinac to the present mathematical tuter, 
Cantabrigiana. 
The focicty, therefore, may ~ 
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Mr, Jones. (A MS. feries of a correfpond- 
ence between Dr. Bentley and other learn- 
ed men. Dr, Bentley’s copy of Homer, 
with the Digamma. This was conveyed 
to Heyne, and made ufe of in his Splendid 
edition of Homer. -All the above are at 
Trinity College. Dr. Taylor’s copy of 
Homer ; (the Glafgow edition,) it has 
the Digamma in various places to nearly 
the end of the firft volume. This is 
among the numerous writings of Dr. 
‘Taylor in the public library.— iwo copies 
of Taverner’s edition of the New Teita- 
ment, A. D. 15393 one in the Univer- 
fity library, the other in St. John’s. 
The following extraét is made from Mat 
ters’s Life of Baker, and is copied from 
Baker’s Notes. ** This Tranflation of the 
bible is a great rarity, for which the 
tranflator is faid to have been fent to the 
Tower, but for what reafon cannot eafily 
be found, only he was then, or foon after 
looked upon as heretically inclined ; and 
the king's famous Bible being printed the 
next year, from which this varies confi- 
derably, offence might be juftly taken 5 
and yet it is printed by licenfes and de- 
dicated to the king. 
This tranflation feems for the mot 
part according to that of Tyndall, which 
was poffinly one thing that might give 
ofrence, he being burnt for an here- 
teed 
CXXXIII.—GRAY, THE POET. 
Thofe who remember Mr. Gray, when 
at the univerfity, will recollect that he 
was a little prim faitidious man, diftin- 
guifhed by a fort fhuffling flep. He 
commonly held up his gown behind with 
one of his hands, at the fame time, cock- 
ing up his chin, and perking up his nofe. 
Chriftopher Smart, who was contemporary 
with him at Pembroke, ufed to fay, “* that 
Gray walked as if he had fouled his fmall 
clothes, and Icoked as if he {melt it.’ 
CXXXIV.—a LATE PLUMIAN PROFES~ 
SOR. - 
A late Plumian profefflor of .alftronomy 
was once addrefled in company, as the 
Plumbdian profeffor. “This, mot proba- 
bly, nettled him. A gentlemian fitting by 
archly obferved, See ! How 'titat little 6 
ttings the profeffor. . 
CXXXV.—=DR. FARMER, 
Dr. Farmer is only Known as a Com- 
mentator on Shakelpear. The following 
lines, written by him, when a young 
man, fhew that he might have been a 
poet, had he cultivated his talent. They 
are extracted from ‘*the Gratulariones et 
Lu&us,” publifhed at Cambridge in 1755. 
As the original work is in the hands of 
few ‘people, the enfuing extract ee 
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