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

by L. Tyerman

[22]. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher,” 2 edit., p. 320.

[23]. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher.”

[24]. Benson says, “He also preached twice in St. Alkmond’s Church in Shrewsbury.”

[25]. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher.”

[26]. Thomas Walsh, one of the most remarkable of Wesley’s Itinerants. To say nothing of his piety and usefulness, Wesley declared him to be the best Hebrew scholar he had ever met. He died two years after the date of Fletcher’s letter.

[27]. “Thirteen Original Letters, written by the Rev. J. Fletcher, 1791,” p. 8.

[28]. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher,” 2nd edit., p. 38.

[29]. “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 231.

[30]. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher.”

[31]. Wesley himself not infrequently set out on his long journey to the north on Sunday.