1738. August 26. Laid out for Highgate School and the maintenance of the master, John Doble, as follows:—

£sd.
Paid Mr. Gilbert, the tailor, for Mr. Doble056
1 pair of box hinges006
50 lb. of beef, at 2d.084
32 lb. of biscuit, at 2d.054
Half a bushel of corn016
Paid for 2 months' provisions, and a quarter's washing, and other necessaries for John Doble250
Left him for a year's provisions and other necessaries1100

[134] In a MS., found after Whitefield's death, he wrote concerning his present visit to Georgia:—"During my stay there, the weather was most intensely hot, sometimes almost burning me through my shoes. Seeing others do it, I determined to inure myself to hardiness by lying constantly on the ground. Afterwards it became a hardship to lie upon a bed."

[135] One of these was John Martin Boltzius, whom Wesley, in the exercise of his high-churchmanship, had refused to admit to the Lord's Table at Savannah, because he had not been baptized,—that is, baptized by an episcopally ordained clergyman. The Saltzburghers were deplorably poor. In a letter to Dr. Isaac Watts, dated "Kensington, Nov. 30, 1737," the Rev. F. M. Ziegenhagen, Court Chaplain to the Queen Consort of George II., says concerning them,—"In every respect they are suffering great poverty and hardships. Their pious and indefatigable minister, the Rev. Mr. Boltzius, acquaints me that any old rag thrown away in Europe is of service to them: for instance, old shoes, stockings, shirts, or anything of wearing apparel for men or women, grown people or children." (Milner's "Life of Watts," p. 572.)

[136] In reality Whitefield was appointed to be the minister, not of Savannah, but, of Frederica. The reason why he settled at Savannah was because, since Wesley's departure, the town had been without a minister; and the reason why he deferred his residence at Frederica was because there, there was not a church. (See Whitefield's Letter to Rev. Thomas Church, in 1744.)

[137] During the whole of his residence in Georgia, it was Whitefield's custom, after reading the Second Lesson, to expound it, and, to make time for this, he omitted the First Lesson and the Psalms for the day. (Stephens's "Journal of Proceedings in Georgia," vol. i.)

[138] This man's name was William Aglionby—in all respects a disreputable fellow. (Stephens's "Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia," vol. i.) He had been "a thorn in the flesh" to Wesley. (See "Life and Times of Wesley," vol. i., p. 157.)

[139] This was not the only instance in which Whitefield took ecclesiastical law into his own hands. A few weeks before, he had informed a man at Savannah, that, for the future, he should refuse to "give him the cup at the sacrament," because the man "denied the eternity of hell-torments."

[140] Stephens, the Secretary of the Trustees of Georgia, says: "The congregation was so crowded that a great many stood without the doors and under the windows to hear him, pleased with nothing more than the assurances he gave of his intention to return to them as soon as possible." He adds, that, when Whitefield left Savannah, he appointed Habersham, the Savannah schoolmaster, to read the Church Service to the people during his absence. Habersham did this for two months, when the Rev. Mr. Norris came and took Whitefield's place. ("Journal of Proceedings in Georgia," vol. i.)

[141] Bancroft's "History of the United States."