Wesley's Designated Successor / The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire

by L. Tyerman

[448]. Ibid.

[449]. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”

[450]. The war with the American Colonists was now raging, and England was greatly excited.

[451]. Letters, 1791, p. 271.

[452]. James Barry and Robert Costerdine, the two Methodist itinerant preachers stationed in the Chester circuit, of which Madeley and its neighbourhood were a part.

[453]. The meeting-house Fletcher had recently erected in Madeley Wood, and which is now a part of the Wesleyan Chapel there.

[454]. Letters, 1791, p. 47, and the Christian Miscellany, 1877, p. 333.

[455]. Letters, p. 48, and ibid, p. 334.

[456]. Wesley’s Journal.

[457]. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”