Entries for the tag ‘Ray, John (1627-1705)’
One of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. 
- 30 July 1661: John Ray encounters the effigy of a tragic Inuit in his canoe at Hull Trinity House
- 4 August 1661: The tenant of St Robert’s cave, Knaresborough, tells the parson-naturalist John Ray the legend of the saint and the cripple
- 5 August 1661: John Ray is told that a knocked-through lighting niche in the Anglo-Saxon crypt under Ripon minster is a chastity test device
- 5 August 1661: John Ray visits Copgrove (Harrogate), the pauper’s spa
- 9 August 1661: John Ray encounters kelp-makers on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby
- 27 April 1703: Ralph Thoresby of Leeds sends a list of “local” dialect words to the naturalist and linguist John Ray – an alphabet of your compiler’s favourites
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