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

by L. Tyerman

[628]. Letters, 1791, p. 307.

[629]. This was a premature statement. Mr. Dickenson did not marry Miss Briggs, Mr. Perronet’s grand-daughter, until three years later.

[630]. Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1825, p. 745.

[631]. Evidently, Fletcher hoped to attend Wesley’s Conference, begun in London on July 26, 1785, but his hope was not fulfilled.

[632]. Letters, 1791, p. 309.

[633]. The reference is to the hymn quoted at page 362 of the present work.

[634]. “Memoir of Mrs. Mortimer,” p. 101.

[635]. Letters, 1791, p. 310.

[636]. Fletcher’s Works, vol. viii., p. 329.

[637]. No doubt to attend Wesley’s Conference, which began on July 26.