£5426 S. d. 4049 960 11 300 0 0 To the Itinerant Methodist Preachers' Annuity Fund, Sundries paid by Mr. Whitfield, 116 10 10 £5426 3 3/2 To Balance due to sundry Circuits and Preachers, for extraordinary deficiencies left unpaid, 922 19 3 No. LXII. SHEFFIELD, July 29, 1805. Q. 1. WHAT Preachers are admitted into full connexion this year? A. John Bryan, William Radcliffe, Zechariah Taft, Isaac Clayton, Edward Higgins, John Brown, Maximilian Wilson, Robert Wheeler, Thomas Ashton, William Beswick, John Mercer, Isaac Bradnack. Ireland.-Thomas Lougheed, James Sterling, John M'Adam, John Nesbitt. Q. 2. Who remain on trial? A, John Jordan, George Russell, John Davies, Edw. Jones, sen. John Maurice, Samuel Warren, Lawrence Kershaw, Francis Derry, William Naylor, John Fairbourn, William France, John Draper, Edward Thompson, Thomas Graham, John Fisher, David M'Nicoll, George Thompson, John Jones, Stephen Butler, John Simmons, James Waller, Amice Olivier. Ireland.-George M'Elwin, John Wilson, jun. George Hansbrow, James M'Cutcheon, Charles M'Cord, John Howe, James Rutledge, William Harrison, Robert Strong. The above have travelled three years. Philip Rawlins, James Sydserff, William Radford, Stephen Games, Thomas Dowty, William Woodall, James Etchells, Barnard Slater, William Nother, William Breden,. Robert Melson, Edward Banks, Jacob Newton, Edward Linnel, William Jones, William M'Kittrick, Abraham Haigh, Robert Gunn, John Lee, Robert Pilter, William Scholefield, James Blackett, Henry Evans, Samuel Sewel, Robert Roberts, William Tranter. Ireland.-John Rogers, Thomas W. Doolittle, John Hadden, David Campbell. The above have travelled two years. Josiah Walker, Lewis Andrews, William Martin, Thomas Mill, Edward Jones, jun. Thomas Gillgrass, William Sutcliffe, John Aslin, William Barr, Edward Chapman, Thomas Sawyer, Anthony Triffet, George Lazenby, John Lancaster, John Brownlass, George Johnston, Aaron Floyd, Alexander Weir, Thomas Brocklehurst, Michael Cousin, Thomas Fletcher, William Hill, Edward Green, William Todd, Valentine Ward, Griffith Owen, William Batten, Joseph Womersley, Thomas Martin, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Slugg, John Newton, Joseph Wilson. Ireland.William Thompson, Castor Clements, William Peacock, Henry Kearney, John Joyce, William Crooks. The above have travelled one year. Q. 3. Who are admitted on trial? To Balance due to sundry Circuits and Preachers, for extraordinary deficiencies left unpaid, 922 19 3/ No. LXII. SHEFFIELD, July 29, 1805. Q. 1. WHAT Preachers are admitted into full connexion this year? A. John Bryan, William Radcliffe, Zechariah Taft, Isaac Clayton, Edward Higgins, John Brown, Maximilian Wilson, Robert Wheeler, Thomas Ashton, William Beswick, John Mercer, Isaac Bradnack. Ireland.-Thomas Lougheed, James Sterling, John M'Adam, John Nesbitt. Q. 2. Who remain on trial? A, John Jordan, George Russell, John Davies, Edw. Jones, sen. John Maurice, Samuel Warren, Lawrence Kershaw, Francis Derry, William Naylor, John Fairbourn, William France, John Draper, Edward Thompson, Thomas Graham, John Fisher, David M'Nicoll, George Thompson, John Jones, Stephen Butler, John Simmons, James Waller, Amice Olivier. Ireland.-George M'Elwin, John Wilson, jun. George Hansbrow, James M'Cutcheon, Charles M'Cord, John Howe, James Rutledge, William Harrison, Robert Strong. The above have travelled three years. Philip Rawlins, James Sydserff, William Radford, Stephen Games, Thomas Dowty, William Woodall, James Etchells, Barnard Slater, William Nother, William Breden,. Robert Melson, Edward Banks, Jacob Newton, Edward Linnel, William Jones, William M'Kittrick, Abraham Haigh, Robert Gunn, John Lee, Robert Pilter, William Scholefield, James Blackett, Henry Evans, Samuel Sewel, Robert Roberts, William Tranter. Ireland.-John Rogers, Thomas W. Doolittle, John Hadden, David Campbell. The above have travelled two years. Josiah Walker, Lewis Andrews, William Martin, Thomas Mill, Edward Jones, jun. Thomas Gillgrass, William Sutcliffe, John Aslin, William Barr, Edward Chapman, Thomas Sawyer, Anthony Triffet, George Lazenby, John Lancaster, John Brownlass, George Johnston, Aaron Floyd, Alexander Weir, Thomas Brocklehurst, Michael Cousin, Thomas Fletcher, William Hill, Edward Green, William Todd, Valentine Ward, Griffith Owen, William Batten, Joseph Womersley, Thomas Martin, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Slugg, John Newton, Joseph Wilson. Ireland.William Thompson, Castor Clements, William Peacock, Henry Kearney, John Joyce, William Crooks. The above have travelled one year. A. James Hopewell, Charles Haime, Jon. Williams, William Worth, Edward Jones, Maurice Jones, William Hughes, Hugh Carter, William Davies, David Rogers, Griffith Hughes, John Williams, Benjamin Milman, Thomas Biggins, Thomas Hurd, John Wheelhouse, Thomas Pollard, Thomas Warren, Jon. Holmes, John Walton, John Bedford, Jonathan Brown. Ireland.-William Little, Johnson Brothers, Richard Philips, Michael Burrows, James Olliffe. Q. 4. Are any recommended to act as Missionaries? Q. 5. Who have died this year? A. 1. Richard Seed,-an old, well known Preacher. He travelled several years with a fair character, and finished his earthly course by an apoplectic fit; which, although a sudden call, we are well satisfied, found him prepared for his heavenly inheritance. 2. John Atkin, a man of great simplicity and honesty, who travelled about fourteen years. He ended his days in peace. 3. Thomas Hanson,-who departed this life Oct. 18, 1804, in the 72d year of his age, and forty-fifth of his ministry. He spent about 22 years in the Vineyard of the Lord, as an Itinerant Preacher; and when able to bear the fatigues of Itinerancy no longer, he retired to Horbury, near Wakefield, the place of his nativity; where he spent the last 20 years of his life, copying the example of his Lord and Master "who went about doing good." He was a plain, honest, faithful, zealous man. death was a comment on the words of the Psalmist; " Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." His 4. Christopher Watkins.-He was a man of God, and zealous to promote his glory, and the salvation of immortal souls. In this work he was engaged from the age of 18 years, till bodily diseases rendered him unable to continue longer in it. He laboured under some severe afflictions for many years, but patiently endured them all. For the space of about two months before his death, he was confined to his house, during which time he was very happy in God, and rejoiced much in sure and certain hope of the glory to be revealed. He often said, that all his hopes of heaven depended only on the Redemption by Christ Jesus, frequently repeating those words: "Thy blood and righteousness, I make my only plea." A few days before his death, he said to a friend, “Oh! what a precious Saviour is Jesus! a precious Prophet, a precious Priest, a precious King! Yea, he is altogether precious." The day before his departure, he said to a friend who came to see |