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

[103]. Dryden’s Miscellaneous Works, vol. i. Notes, p. 60, 1760.

[104]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xii. p. 165.

[105]. Clarke’s Wesley Family.

[106]. Stonehouse’s History of Axholme.

[107]. See Clarke’s Wesley Family. Note, vol. ii. p. 136.

[108]. Moore’s Life of Wesley, vol. i., p. 75.

[109]. Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 718.

[110]. See C. Wesley’s Journal.

[111]. Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 235.

[112]. As a specimen of Mehetabel’s wit, we subjoin the following riddle respecting a pen, published in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1734, and subscribed by her usual signature in that periodical, “Sylvius:”—