[529]. Ann Tripp was converted under the ministry of Wesley and Thomas Maxfield. After the marriage of Miss Bosanquet and her removal to Madeley, she settled at Leeds, and, at the time of her death, in 1823, was one of the oldest leaders of the Leeds Society. (Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1823, p. 706.)
[530]. “Probate of Mr. Bosanquet’s Will.”
[531]. Unpublished letter.
[532]. These statements are partly taken from “A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley. By a Gentlewoman, 1764” (Miss Bosanquet); and partly from the “Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. By Henry Moore, 1818.”
[533]. Letters, 1791, p. 143.
[534]. Arminian Magazine, 1788, p. 48.
[535]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 78.
[536]. “Mrs. Fletcher’s Life.”
[537]. Thomas Brisco, a fine old Methodist Itinerant Preacher, at that time the Superintendent of the Birstal Circuit.
[538]. Miss Bosanquet’s married sister. The two sisters began their religious life together at a very early age.