[257]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 326.
[258]. One of Wesley’s itinerant preachers, well-read and popular, but now enervated, and settled in Dublin.
[259]. “Thirteen Original Letters written by the Rev. J. Fletcher.” Bath, 1791, p. 22.
[260]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 128.
[261]. A second edition, “revised and much enlarged,” was published about the same time as Fletcher’s “Third Check.” The first edition consisted of forty pages, the second of fifty-two. There is nothing of importance, however, in the second issue which is not in the first, except a few acrid references to Wesley. The following may be taken as a specimen: “I shall make no remarks upon the poor, loose, flimsy manner in which the ‘Minutes’ are worded; but I cannot help observing that it seems almost impossible for Mr. Wesley to write a page without contradicting himself” (p. 50).
[262]. In the second edition it is dated “Feb., 1772.”
[263]. The reference here is to Father Walsh, the Benedictine monk at Paris; and, it may be added, that, in a foot-note, Mr. Hill acknowledges himself to have been the author of the “Conversation” with that gentleman, recently published.
[264]. The date, at the end of the Third Check, is “Madeley, February 3, 1772.”