[346] Boyle dictated a good deal to Burnet, and the use of the Scottish word “forenoon” suggests that Burnet assisted in the drawing up of this announcement. Evelyn, the Englishman, uses the word “morning.”
[347] Evelyn to Wotton.
[348] Ibid.
[349] Evelyn to Wotton.
[350] Birch’s Life.
[351] Where, also, Nell Gwynne had been buried in 1687.
[352] Eccles. ii. 26. The sermon was published and may be read.
[353] Among these was one to found and endow in perpetuity the Boyle Lectures—a course of eight lectures, which are still delivered yearly—“In Defence of Christianity.”