BOYLE'S Lectures, a course of eight sermons or lectures preached annually, set on foot by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; by a codicil annexed to his will in 1691; whose design, as expressed by the institutor, is, to prove the truth of the Christian religion against infidels, without descending to any controversies among Christians; and to answer new difficulties, scruples, &c. For the support of this lecture he assigned the rent of his house in Crooked-lane to some learned divine within the bills of mortality, to be elected for a term not exceeding three years, by the late Archbishop Tennison and others. But the fund proving precarious, the salary was ill paid; to remedy which inconveniences, the said archbishop procured a yearly stipend of 50l. for ever, to be paid quarterly, charged on a farm in the parish of Brill in the county of Bucks. To this appointment we are indebted for many elaborate defences both of natural and revealed religion.