SOCIETY for propagating the gospel in foreign parts, was instituted by king William, in 1701, for securing a maintenance for an orthodox clergy, and making other provisions for the propagation of the gospel in the plantations, colonies, frontiers, &c. To that end he incorporated the archbishops, several bishops, and other nobility, gentry, and clergy, to the number of ninety, with privilege to purchase two thousand pounds per year, inheritance and estates for lives or years, with other goods to any value. They meet yearly on the third Friday of February, to chuse a president, vice-president, and other officers; and the third Friday in every month to transact business, depute fit persons to take subscriptions for the said uses, and of all moneys so received to give account to the lord chancellor, &c. They have a standing committee at the chapter-house to prepare matters for the monthly meeting which is held at St. Martin's library.