CRAY (ST-PAUL'S), a parish in the hundred of RUXLEY, lathe of SUTTON at HOVE, county of KENT, If mile (S.) from Foot's Cray, containing 364 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £12. 13. 4., and in the patronage of Viscount Sidney, The church is dedicated to St. Paulinus. In 1729, Richard Chapman bequeathed a rent-charge of £2 towards endowing a school, in furtherance of which the Rev. Thomas Kingsman, in 1752, left £ 50 three per cents., producing annually about £1. 10., which sums are paid to a schoolmistress for teaching six girls. The river Cray runs through this parish.