Abbreviations

AM

Arminian Magazine, 20 vols. (London: J. Fry, 1778–1797)

AV

The Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible

BCP

The Book of Common Prayer

Clarke

Adam Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley Family, Collected Principally from Original Documents (New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824)

DNB

Dictionary of National Biography

FB

Frank Baker, ed., Letters, I: 1721–1739, in The Works of John Wesley, vol. 25 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980)

LB

John Wesley’s Letter Book, Methodist Archives, Manchester

MA

Methodist Archives, John Rylands University Library, Manchester

MH

Methodist History (Lake Junaluska, N. C.: Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, 1962–)

MSS A, B, C

The “Headingley” Manuscripts of Susanna Wesley, owned by Wesley College, Bristol

OED

Oxford English Dictionary

Priestley

Joseph Priestley, ed., Original Letters, by the Rev. John Wesley and His Friends . . . (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1791)

PWHS

Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society ([Burnley Eng.]: Printed for the Society, 1897–)

Stevenson

George J. Stevenson, Memorials of the Wesley Family (London: S. W Partridge; New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1876)

SWJr Letter Book

Samuel Wesley Jr.’s Letter Book, Methodist Archives, Manchester

Walmsley

Robert Walmsley, “John Wesley’s Parents: Quarrel and Reconciliation,” in PWHS 29. 3 (1953–1954): 50–57

WB

The Wesley Banner, 4 vols. (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1849–1852)