Wesley's Designated Successor: The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire — John Shaqi
Wesley's Designated Successor: The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, ShropshireTyerman, L. (Luke)
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Wesley's Designated Successor: The Life, Letters, and Literary Labours of the Rev. John William Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire
Tyerman, L. (Luke)
Fletcher, John, 1729-1785
Letters to Miss Perronet and to Lady Mary Fitzgerald—History of
Miss Bosanquet—Her Orphanage at Leyton—Her fortune and her
debts—Her removal to Yorkshire—She turns farmer and
maltster—Debts and difficulties—Fletcher proposes to marry
her—Fletcher on celibacy—Unpublished love-letter—Unpublished
letters to Miss Bosanquet’s uncle and her brother—Further
correspondence—Settling affairs in Yorkshire—The wedding and
letters respecting it 473–500
CHAPTER XXV.
TWO YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE AT MADELEY. 1782–1783.
How Fletcher began the year 1782—Husband and wife go to
Madeley—Wesley visits them—William Tranter—Dr. Jobson and L.
Tyerman at Madeley—Letter to author of “The Fool of
Quality”—The Methodists of Dublin invite Fletcher and his
wife to visit them—Mrs. Fletcher’s letter to Wesley—Fletcher
has an accident which disables him—Letter to Charles Wesley—A
new poem—Nathaniel Gilbert and Melville Horne—Letters to Mrs.
Thornton and to John Valton—Fletcher and his wife visit the
Dublin Methodists—Their successful labours—Unpublished
letter, thanking them for their services—Unpublished pamphlet
by Fletcher—Fletcher begins Sunday schools at Madeley—Rev. H.
Venn visits Fletcher 501–529
CHAPTER XXVI.
LAST DAYS ON EARTH. 1784–1785.
Dr. Coke and his friends begin the Methodist Missionary
Society—Fletcher one of the first subscribers—Unpublished
letter by Dr. Coke—Fletcher’s unpublished letter to Rev. Mr.
Bouverot—Dr. Priestley—Fletcher’s “_Rational Vindication of
the Catholic Faith_”—Fletcher’s “_Socinianism
Unscriptural_”—Fletcher’s Millenarianism—Unpublished letters
to Mrs. Smyth and to Lady Mary Fitzgerald—Fletcher at
Wesley’s Conference at Leeds—Sermons preached—Fletcher a
peacemaker—Remarkable scene—Fletcher objected to—Enoch Wood
and Fletcher’s discourse on Wesley’s bust—Fletcher in his
“Sentry Box”—Letter to his god-son—Rev. Charles Simeon visits
Fletcher—Modified millenarianism—Letters to Rev. Peard
Dickenson and Rev. Melville Horne—Mrs. Fletcher ill of
fever—Letter to Lady Mary Fitzgerald—Fletcher ill of
fever—Mrs. Fletcher’s account of him—Last service in Madeley
Church—Dying—Death and burial—Mrs. Fletcher’s letter to C.
Wesley—Wesley preaches Fletcher’s funeral sermon—Testimonies
concerning Fletcher—Inscription on his tombstone—Inscription
on the tablet in City Road Chapel 530–575
_INTRODUCTION._
EIGHTEEN years before his death, Wesley wrote the following letter to
Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley—
“_January, 1773._
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