The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley / Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists

by L. Tyerman

[70]. Athenian Oracle, vol. iv. p. 56.

[71]. Clarke’s Wesley Family.

[72]. Athenian Oracle, vol. iv. p. 60, 61.

[73]. Dunton’s Life and Errors.

[74]. Athenian Oracle, vol. iv. p. 65.

[75]. The edition of the “Dunciad” in which Wesley appeared was a surreptitious one. The following were the lines printed:—

“How all the suffering brotherhood retire,

And ’scape the martyrdom of jakes and fire;

A Gothic library of Greece and Rome,

Well purged; and worthy Wesley, Watts, and Brome.”