The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

by L. Tyerman

[445] Evangelical Magazine, 1814, p. 418.

[446] Probably his three lay preachers, Howell Harris, John Cennick, and Joseph Humphreys.

[447] Against the decisions of Commissary Garden's court at Charleston.

[448] Weekly History, September 5, 1741.

[449] The following list of the collections for his Orphan House, which Whitefield made in England, during the year 1741, will shew, at least some of the country towns he visited. The list is taken from his "Continuation of the Account of the Orphan House in Georgia, from January 1741 to June 1742."

1741.	COLLECTIONS AT	£	s.	d.
April 12,	Moorfields, London.	19	16	4
12,	Charles' Square, London	16	16	10
19,	The Tabernacle, London	23	11	1
May 17,	Bristol	4	1	6
June 7,	The Tabernacle, London	16	4	31⁄2
14,	The Tabernacle, London	18	17	0
19,	Rotherhithe, London	5	4	10
22,	The Tabernacle, London	26	1	10
29,	Halstead, Essex	12	9	6
29,	Braintree, Essex	32	13	2
30,	Weathersfield, Essex	10	0	6
30,	Waldon, Essex	15	9	10
July 1,	Stortford, Herts	13	9	9
1,	Bedford, Bedfordshire	19	9	4
6,	Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire	6	19	2
8,	Burwell, Cambridgeshire	6	4	4
9,	Bury, Suffolk	8	13	10
10,	Sudbury, Suffolk	10	16	9
12,	Dedham, Essex	8	13	0
12,	Colchester, Essex	13	13	0
13,	Coggeshall, Essex	8	2	10
15,	Matchin, Essex	13	14	6
18,	The Tabernacle, London	28	8	6
	Total	£339	10	101⁄2

[450] By Gilbert Tennent's letter, dated "New York, April 25, 1741." See p. 476.

[451] "Acts of Proceedings of Ministers and Elders, met at Edinburgh, May 16, 1739."

[452] In 1847, "The United Secession Church" and the "Presbytery of Relief," which had its origin in the "deposition" of the Rev. Thomas Gillespie, in 1752, were amalgamated, and took the designation, "United Presbyterian Church." The former had four hundred congregations, and the latter about one hundred.

[453] "Life and Diary of Rev. Ralph Erskine," p. 287.