390. The Rev. Walter Shirley.

391. Wesley had held, in London, the usual “Covenant Service,” on Wednesday, January 1st. Probably, Fletcher had attended it, and, perhaps, taken part in it.

392. Letters, 1791, p. 30.

393. The Pastoral letter already mentioned. The places here named were, probably, Fletcher’s Methodist Circuit, in each of which Methodist Societies had been formed.

394. Letters, 1791, p. 23; and Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1846, p. 141.

395. Letters, 1791, p. 239.

396. Letters, 1791, p. 240.

397. Berridge, of Everton, also came to Fletcher at Stoke Newington.

“They“They met and parted in the spirit of Christian love; and I believe saw each other no more in the body.” (The Works of the Rev. John Berridge, A.M.; with a Memoir of his Life, by Rev. R. Whittingham, p. 63.)

Another, who visited him, was Dr. Price, who, afterwards, said, “I was introduced to the company of a man, whose air and countenance bespoke him fitted rather for the society of angels, than for the conversation of men.” (Cox’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 114.)

398. Letters, 1791, p. 242.

399. The chapel was enlarged a short time before Fletcher’s death in 1785. On the morning of the day when his friends began to hew the stones for the enlargement, he went to the quarry, and said, “First of all, let us pray.” The workers knelt upon the rock; Fletcher prayed in a way that few besides himself could pray; and then, till duty called him elsewhere, assisted in shaping the stones for the extension of the building. (Crowther’s “Portraiture of Methodism,” p. 96.)

400. MS. in Fletcher’s own handwriting.

401. Letters, 1791, p. 24.

402. Unpublished MS.

403. Ibid.

404. Letters, 1791, p. 246.

405. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher.”

406. Letters, 1791, p. 248.

407. Letters, 1791, p. 26.

408. Wesley’s “Life of Fletcher.”

409. “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 71.

410. “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 72.

411. “Life of Rev. Henry Venn, M.A.,” p. 240.

412. Wesley’s Journal.

413. Wesley’s Journal.

414. Macdonald’s “Life of Benson,” p. 62.

415. Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. Sixpenny Edition, 1863, pp. 1–8.

416. “Life of Adam Clarke, LL.D.,” by Rev. Samuel Dunn, p. 127.

417. “Experience and Labours of James Rogers,” written by himself, 1796, p. 22.

418. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”

419. Miss Bosanquet kept an orphanage, wholly at her own expense.

420. Three grand old Methodists, and, at least, one of them a preacheress.

421. Mrs. Fletcher’s “Letter to Mons. H. L. De la Flechere,” 1786, p. 35.

422. Stevenson’s “City Road Chapel.”

423. Letters, 1791, p. 256.

424. Letters, 1791, pp. 249, 253.

425. Letters, 1791, p. 34.

426. Ibid, p. 36.

427. Letters, 1791, p. 40.

428. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”

429. Methodist Magazine, 1804, p. 520.

430. Wesley’s Journal.