BOYLE'S Lectures, a course of eight sermons or lectures preached annually, and founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, whose design, as expressed in a codicil annexed to his will in 1691, was to prove the truth of the Christian religion against infidels, without descending to any controversies among Christians, and to answer new difficulties or scruples that might from time to time arise. 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 time not exceeding three years, by Archbishop Tennyson and others. But the fund proving precarious, the salary was ill paid; and to remedy this inconvenience, the archbishop procured a yearly stipend of £50 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.