[70] The Rev. John Clayton, also an Oxford Methodist, who became Chaplain and Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester.
[71] Life of C. Wesley, vol. i., p. 70.
[72] "Further Account of God's Dealings with George Whitefield, 1747," p. 9.
[73] Mr. Barnard says, "She was a lady of exactest breeding, of fine intellectual endowments, filled with Divine wisdom, renewed in the spirit of her mind, fired with the love of her Creator, a friend of all the world, mortified in soul and body and to everything that is earthly, and little lower than the angels." ("Historical Character of Lady Elizabeth Hastings," by Thomas Barnard, M.A., p. 95.) She died on December 22, 1739, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. ("Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon," vol. i., p. 249.)
[74] The Rev. Charles Kinchin died January 4, 1742.
[75] The population of Dummer, even as late as 1801, was only 286.
[76] See C. Wesley's Journal, vol. i., p. 59.
[77] "Further Account of God's Dealings with George Whitefield, 1747," p. 12.
[78] Matthew Salmon and Westley Hall, both of them Oxford Methodists, who, when the Wesleys went to Georgia, in October, 1735, intended to go with them, but, at the last moment, changed their minds and remained at home.
[79] The Moravians, who had settled in Georgia.