CRAY (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of RUXLEY, lathe of SUTTON at HOVE, county of KENT, 1 mile (N. by E.) from Foot's Cray, containing 245 inhabitants. The living is a rectory with Ruxley, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £13. 9. 9£., and in the patronage of T. W-.Coventry,Esq. The church is dedicated to St. James. In 1771, the Rev. William Hetherington, and Elizabeth Hetherington, gave a tenement for a school, in support of which the latter bequeathed £100 in 1776, which, with other donations for the same purpose, produce about £11. 11. per annum; in 1777, the former left £ 200 for repairs and other uses, which, with additions since made, yields an annual dividend of £ 12. 8. From these funds £ 10 a year is paid to a mistr-ess for teaching an unlimited number of young children, who, on attaining the age of seven years, are admitted into the National school at Bexley, the master and mistress of which receive from this charity £ 5 per annum each, with an allowance of 20s. a year for books and rewards. This parish is pleasingly diversified with villas and well cultivated domains, of which Mount Mascall and Vale Mascall claim distinction; in the grounds of the latter the river Cray forms a cascade much admired for its picturesque beauty. In 1723 a subterraneous fire broke out, and the inhabitants for several days afterwards employed themselves with wagons in conveying water from Bexley, for the purpose of quenching the flames.