river of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen, near Carbery in Kildare, and flowing in a N.E. direction, passes Trim, Navan, and Drogheda, and enters the Irish Sea about four miles below the last-mentioned town. It is navigable for barges of 70 tons to Navan, 19 miles from its mouth. About three miles west of Drogheda, an obelisk, 150 feet in height, marks the spot where the forces of William III. gained the celebrated victory over those of James II. on 1st July 1690, known as the "battle of the Boyne."

Boyse, Boys, or Bois, John, one of the translators of the English Bible, was born at Nettlestead in Suffolk, January 3, 1560. He received the rudiments of learning from his father; and so precocious were his talents, that it is said he could read Hebrew at the age of five. At fourteen he was admitted of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was during ten years principal Greek lecturer. He also delivered a Greek lecture for some years at four in the morning, in his own chamber, which was frequented by many of the fellows. On the death of his father, he succeeded to the rectory of West Stowe. At the age of thirty-six he married the daughter of Mr. Holt, whom he succeeded as rector of Boxworth, in Cambridgeshire, in 1596. On his quitting the university, the college gave him L100; but his wife being a bad economist, he soon became so much involved in debt that he was obliged to sell his choice collection of books, consisting of every Greek author then extant. When James I. directed a new translation to be made of the Bible, Bois was chosen as one of the translators; and he not only executed his own portion, which was the Apocrypha, but also the part assigned to another. He was also one of the six who had met at Stationers' Hall to revise the whole; which task they performed in nine months, having each, from the company of stationers during that time, thirty shillings a-week. He afterwards assisted Sir Henry Savile in publishing the works of St. Chrysostom. In 1615 Dr. Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Ely, bestowed on him unasked a prebendal stall in his cathedral. He died 14th January 1643, and left a great mass of manuscripts behind him. A work of his on the text of the Evangelists and Acts was published in 1655. When a student, Boyse received from the learned Dr. Whitaker three rules for avoiding those diseases which are often engendered by sedentary pursuits, viz., to read standing, not to study at a window, and never to go to bed with cold feet. By attention to these simple precepts he is said to have preserved to the last an unwrinkled brow, with a freshness of complexion and vigour of constitution very rarely to be found in advanced age.

Boyse, Samuel, an English writer of considerable ability, but scandalous character, was born in 1708, and died in great wretchedness in 1749. His poetical compositions were numerous, and one of them, entitled *The Deity*, received the praises of Hervey and Fielding; but none of them have survived the test of time.