[565]. Deep indentations in the stone pillars of the vicarage gate still exist, occasioned by the Sunday visitors to Madeley sharpening their knives to eat their dinners. (Randall’s “Lives and Usefulness of the Rev. J. and Mary Fletcher,” p. 33.)
[566]. Letters, 1791, p. 214.
[567]. Two years before this, Wesley had published his abridged edition of “The Fool of Quality,” in two volumes, 12mo.
[568]. Original Letter.
[569]. “Mrs. Fletcher’s Life,” by H. Moore.
[570]. A term well understood by Methodists: a meeting of the most spiritual people who met in class.
[571]. Arminian Magazine, 1790, p. 391.
[572]. Probably, Princess Elizabeth Caroline, the third daughter of George the Second, one of the most excellent of women. She died, in St. James’s Palace, in 1787.
[573]. Probably Mrs. Grinfield, “one of Cæsar’s household,” as Whitefield called her, an attendant at St. James’s Palace.
[574]. Letters, 1791, p. 287.