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more pleafing proTpeft of evei-larting verdure. The river 

 again emerges out of the ealltni fide of this lake, as it wore 

 by conftraiiit, and then glides on to pay its tribute to the 

 Shannon, which it joins a little above Carnc-k. 



Boyi-e's Leclurcs-, a courlc of eight ftimons or Icflure":, 

 preached annually, fet on foot by the honourable Robert 

 Boyle, efq. by a codicil annexed to his will in 169 1 ; thedclign 

 of w^hich, as exprcfTed by the inllitutor, is, to prove the truth 

 of the Chriftian religion againft intidcls, without difcending 

 to any CDntroverfies among Chrittians ; and to anUvcr new 

 difficulties, Icruples, &c. 



For the fupport of this leflure, he affigned the rent of 

 his houle 1:1 Crooked-lane to fome learned divine witliin 

 the bills of inoitahty, to be elected for a term not exceced- 

 ing three years, by the late archbilhop Tcnnifon, and 

 otherf. But the fund proving precarious, the falary was 

 ill paid : to remedy which inconvenience, the faid arch- 

 bifliop procured a yearly ilipcnd of 50 pounds, for ever, to 

 be paid quarterly ; charged on a farm in the parillf of Brill, 

 in the county of Bucks. 



To this appointment we are indebted for many elaborate 

 defences both of natural and revealed religion. A collec- 

 tion of thcfe fcrmons from the year l6yl, to 1732, was 

 printed in lyjQ, under the title of " A defence of natural 

 and revealed religion," in 3 vols. fol. ; and thoie of Icvcral 

 of the preachers have been printed and publifhed in dif- 

 tind vohmics. An abridgment of thefe left'ires in 4 vols. 

 8vo. was pu.jliilied by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert Burnet, vicar 

 of CoggL-lhall, in EfTex, who died in 1746. 



BOYLING. See Boiling, and Ebullition 



BOYLSTON, in Geography, a townlhip of Worceder 

 oounty, in the ftate of Malfachufetts, America, 10 miles 

 N. E. of Worccller, and 45 N. W. of Bollon. It was 

 incorporated in 17B6, and contains by furvey I4,3i;6 acres 

 of land, of rich foil and well watered, and 839 inhabi- 

 tants. 



BOYNE, the name of a confiderable river in Ireland, 

 fnppofed to be the Bulimia of Ptolemy. It takes its rife 

 in the bog of Allen, in the county of Kildare, and having 

 feparated that county from the King's county, and tlie 

 fouthern part of Meath for feveral mile-^, it enters the 

 latter county at Clonard, and flowing N. W. divides it 

 nearlv into'two equal parts, forming the general civil divi- 

 fion of the county, and conllituting a boundary to every 

 barony touching its banks. The fccnery of this river has 

 been miicli celebrated, and there are few fituations adapted 

 to the purpofe of mill machinery that are not occupied. 

 In its com le within the county of Meath alone, there are 

 fix cxtenfive bouliing mills, belides fevtrsl grift and cloth 

 mills; and one for tlie manufaftory of cotton was erefting 

 in 1802. The Boyne navigation, between Drogheda and 

 Navan, runs akng tlie courie of the river, and lias c-jufider- 

 ably increaied ilie trade of both thofe towns. At Navan, 

 it receives the Blackwater, and having paffed by Slaiiie and 

 Drogheda, it flows into the Irifh fea, a few miles below the 

 latter town, to wh;ch it is navigable. The fifliery of this 

 river is valuable, and the falmon in part'cular is highly 

 efteemed. The Boyne, however, is not fo noied for any 

 circumilance as for the viftory gained by William 111. 

 over that infatuated prince James II. on the ill of July, 

 lOiyO. The place where the battle was fought is between 

 Drogheda and Slaine, and is marked out by an obeliflc, 

 founded on a rock, v. iicli rifes boldly from the river. The 

 advantage of fituntion was in favour of James's army ; and 

 if he I ad not himlcll fled before the battle was decided, the 

 event tnight have been very different. The brave duke 

 Scliomberjj loft, his life on this occafion, and Wiliir.m was 



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often in great danger. It was long cuflom.nry to celebrate' 

 liie anniverfary of the day on which this baltle was gained ; 

 but as it ferved no purpofe but that of perpetuating party 

 aniiiiofity, the obfervan<-e begins to be neglefted ; and it is 

 to be hoped that the different fefts will become fo united 

 in attachment to their common country, as almoll to forget 

 that they were ever enemies. Thomfon's Meath, &c. 



Boyne, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Loiret, and chief place of a canton, in the jillrid of Pitlii- 

 viers ; 2 leagues S. E. of Pithiviers, and 7 N. E. of 

 Orleans. 



BOYSE, or Bois, John, in B'wi^rnphy. Sec Bois. 



BoYSE, Joseph, a protellant difl'enlir.g minillcr, was born 

 at Leeds, in Yorkdiire, in January, 1^)59-60. After early 

 inftru6tion under the care of his parents, he received the 

 firll part of his education for the miniftry at the private 

 academy of the Rev. Mr. Fiankland, near Kendal, in Weft- 

 moreland, and completed it under the luition of the Rev. 

 Mr. Edward Veal, who kept a private academy at Stepney, 

 near London. Having continued in thefe feminaries five 

 yearj, and availed himlelf of the opportunities which he en- 

 joyed in the latter fituation of attending on the preaching of 

 many able divines, both coiiformifts and non-coiiformilis, lie 

 entered on the exercife of his miniilrv about the year 1680. 

 In 1683, finding that he could not dileharge the duties of 

 his function in England without moleftation, he accepted 

 an invitation to be joint-pailor with Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 

 Daniel Williams, in Dublin ; and had afterwards for his 

 co-adjutorthe Rev. Mr. Thomas Emlyn, fo well known for 

 his writings and his fufferings. This comiedion fubfiftcd 

 for more than ten years with mutual fricndfliip and unin- 

 terrupted harmony ; but it was at length difTolved in con- 

 fequence of Mr. Emlyn's fentiments concerning the doc- 

 trine of the Trinity. On this occafion the zeal cf Mr. Boyfe 

 for the orthodox led him to take fome fteps that were 

 thought injurious to his former colleague, and inconfil'ent 

 with the friendlhip that had fubliiied between them ; though 

 he difapproved the profecution which Mr. Emlyn fiiflered, 

 and behaved towards him with a greater degree of kindnefs 

 than any of the other diffenting minillers of Dublin. The 

 iai ter years of Mr. Boyfe's life were embittered by bodily dif- 

 orders and llraitened circumftances. His funeral feimon 

 was preached in December, 172S; but the prtcife time of 

 his death is not known. He was confidercd as a pious, 

 learned, and ufeful divine ; afliduous in the exercife of his 

 mkiiilry, and in his couducl generally efletmcd. He had 

 a principal concern in promoting live adl of toleration in 

 Ireland. His works were publifhed in 17:8, in 2 vols. fol. 

 The Jirjl contains 71 fermons, 6 differtalions on the doc- 

 trine of juftifieation, and a paraplnafe on thofe pafiages of 

 the N. T. which chiefly relate to that doiflrine. Th« 

 Jccond volume contains feveral pieces^ of which the principal 

 is a " Vindication of the true deity of our bleffed Saviour,'' 

 in anfwer to Mr. Emlyn's " Humble inquiry into the 

 Scripture account of Jefus Chfifl, &c." As Mr. Boyfe's 

 anf'.ver was publidied at the time when Mr. Emlyn was 

 under profecution for his fentiments, his condutt did not 

 efcape cenfure ; and was thought not to be candid, liberal, 

 and ingenuous. Biog. Brit. 



BoYSE, Samuel, the fon of the former, was born in 

 170H, and having received the rudiments of his education 

 in a private fchool at Dublin, was lent, at the age of 18 

 years, to the univeifity of Glafgow, probably w:th a view 

 to the office of a mimfter. Belore he had attained his 2oth . 

 year, he imprudently married ;' and this connection, in ad- 

 dition to tlie natuia: extraviigance of his temper, involved 

 him ii: pecuniary diflieultits, which obliged ium to quit the 



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