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

by L. Tyerman

[575]. Letters, 1791, p. 288.

[576]. Fletcher’s dedication is dated, “Madeley, Salop, January 28, 1784.”

[577]. Christian Observer, 1807, pp. 768–772.

[578]. Unpublished letters.

[579]. Cox’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 147.

[580]. Ibid., p. 149.

[581]. Cox’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 150.

[582]. Letters, 1791, p. 290.

[583]. The Methodist meeting-house, erected, under the auspices of John Nelson, about the year 1751. The trouble, at this time, arose out of the demand of the trustees to elect, after Wesley’s death, their own preachers, and to order them to preach in Birstal chapel twice every Sunday, every Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Good Friday, and also every Thursday night. (See “Life and Times of Wesley,” vol. iii., pp. 373–383.)

[584]. See an account of this remarkable work of God in the “Life and Labours of the Rev. John Valton, edited by Joseph Sutcliffe, A.M., 1830,” pp. 104–114.