[10]. It will be seen, from the above dates, that two days only elapsed between the issuing of the warrant against John Wesley and the commencement of the assizes. No wonder that he was not prepared for trial.
[11]. Calamy says Wesley was arrested in the beginning of 1662.
[12]. Sandford’s Joseph Alleine, &c.
[13]. Mr Dolling became master of Dorchester School in 1664, and held the office until 1675. He was LL.B of Wadham College, Oxford; and translated “The Whole Duty of Man” into Latin. The work, a copy of which is in the Dorchester School Library, was licensed in 1678.—Hutchin’s History of Dorsetshire.
[14]. Dryden’s Miscellaneous Works, vol. i. notes, p. 54. 1760.
[15]. Macaulay.
[16]. Wesley’s Letter from a Country Divine. Third edit. London: 1706.
[17]. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1790, p. 63, &c.
[18]. The £10 exhibition was one of upwards of twenty more, left by Dr G. for the benefit of young scholars designed to be ministers.
[19]. S. Wesley’s Letter from a Country Divine. Third edit. 1706.