[2]. Cox’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 140.
[3]. Gilpin’s “Account of Fletcher.”
[4]. Arminian Magazine, 1794, p. 219.
[5]. The elder of these sons died on coming of age; the younger became M.P. for Shrewsbury, and afterwards for Shropshire. In 1784, he took his seat in the House of Lords, as Baron Berwick. The title still exists. The old Tern Hall has long been called Attingham House.—Debrett’s “Peerage” and Wesley’s and Benson’s “Lives” of Fletcher.
[6]. The long letter from which the foregoing is extracted was first published in 1826, in a “Life of Fletcher” in the French language, and printed at Lausanne. In the same year, Mr. Benson printed it as an appendix to the ninth edition of his “Life of Fletcher.” In 1839, it was inserted in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. The extract is partly taken from Benson’s translation and partly from that in the magazine.
[7]. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 17.
[8]. Letter to Mons. H. L. de la Fléchère, 1786, p. 13.
[9]. Gilpin’s Translation of “The Portrait of St. Paul.”
[10]. Meaning the war then raging.
[11]. Arminian Magazine, 1793, p. 411.