^{page 9 note 1} M[ethodist] C[hurch] A[rchives] MS. Autograph by Jabez Bunting, August 30, 1828.

^{page 9 note 2} Life of Bunting, i, p. 21Google Scholar; M.C.A. MS. notes of the life of Jabez Bunting, July 18, 1877. In fact the newly married pair were given hospitality in the homes of substantial laymen for some months, being allotted only the room at City Road normally taken by the junior preacher and ‘the use of the large drawing room … on the second floor’. M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to George Marsden, April 21, 1804.

^{page 9 note 3} No. 58, infra.

^{page 10 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. Joseph Entwisle to Jabez Bunting, February 29, 1804. After Dr. Percival's death Jabez Bunting arranged his papers. M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to [Rd. Reece] November 28, 1804.

^{page 10 note 2} Life of Bunting, i, pp. 11, 25, 51.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 3} It was clearly affirmed in Bunting's life-time by William L. Thornton, preacher and classical tutor at Didsbury College, who later edited Bunting's sermons, that he and young Bunting had been pupils at Sigston's academy at the same time. M.C.A. MSS. W. L. Thornton to Dr. Melson, June 20, 1845.

^{page 11 note 1} Life of Bunting, i, p. 115. This MS. copy of this letter in M.C.A. seems to have been made from the printed version here quoted.

^{page 11 note 2} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to [Disney Alexander], October 14, 1802. The argument of this paragraph seems confirmed by a sentence in Jackson's funeral sermon that ‘Jabez Bunting belonged to the class of revivalists, but not to that class only’. Jackson, T., The Character and dismission of the Prophet Daniel (London, 1858), p. 29.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to Richard Reece, July 15, 1803. For Bunting on Bramwell, cf. his letter to George Marsden, December 13, 1803.

^{page 12 note 2} Life of Bunting, i, p. 186.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 3} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to George Marsden, December 13, 1803.

^{page 12 note 4} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to George Marsden, June 10, 1803.

^{page 12 note 5} M.C.A. MSS. Notes of the life of Jabez Bunting, July 18, 1877.

^{page 13 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to J. Dutton, February 3, 1809 (Draft endorsement to J. Dutton to Jabez Bunting, January 30, 1809). Cf. Bunting's endorsement to Jonathan Barker to Jabez Bunting, April 6, 1807.

^{page 13 note 2} James Wood (1777–1849) entered the same Methodist class with Bunting in September 1794. In 1796 he became one of the first members of a religious improvement society founded by Bunting, along with Edward Westhead, with whom he formed a successful partnership in the cotton trade. First President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, opponent of free trade and tory politician, he was a lifelong local preacher and class leader, and acutely divided Manchester opinion. Esteemed by tories for venerating ‘church order and discipline as an ordinance of God for the maintenance of religion’ (Manchester Courier, 05 9, 1849, p. 293Google Scholar), he was an especial target of radical abuse. ‘Of all men amongst us who have acquired wealth, without an accompanying enlargement of the intellect, there is none … more conceited and self-important, and less able to comprehend a liberal principle in commerce or politics, than Mr. James Wood.’ Manchester Times, 07 15, 07 22, 1837Google Scholar. Cf. Manchester Guardian, 06 1, 1833.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 3} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to [Disney Alexander], October 14, 1802 [partly printed in Life of Bunting, i, p. 144Google Scholar]: Disney Alexander to Jabez Bunting, January 30, 1802; July 25, 1802; February 28, 1803; Joseph Entwisle to Jabez Bunting, December 20, 1803. Thomas Jackson claimed that Bunting ‘studied the best sermons in the English language’. Character … of Prophet Daniel, p. 30.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. W. H. L. Eden to Jabez Bunting, June 25, 1812; Jabez Bunting to W. H. L. Eden, July 3, 1812.

^{page 14 note 2} Life of Bunting, i, p. 182.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 3} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, March 25, 1823: R. Johnson to Jabez Bunting, September 25, 1804 (cf. W. E. Miller to same, [1805]): W. H. L. Eden to same, October 31, 1809, with Bunting's pencilled endorsement. (This letter is very inaccurately printed in Life of Bunting, i, p. 345 n.)Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 4} U[nited] M[ethodist] C[hurch] Archives, Lake Junaluska, N.C.] MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, March 15, 1808. (A garbled version of a portion of this letter is printed in Life of Bunting, i, p. 310.)Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 5} M.C.A. MSS. B. Sadler to Jabez Bunting, January 24, 1804: Jabez Bunting to [Richard Reece], November 28, 1804: same to George Marsden, June 24, 1805. (This letter is partly printed in Life of Bunting, i, pp. 258–261.)Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 1} Life of Bunting, i, p. 259Google Scholar; ii, pp. 24–28. It is noteworthy that a projected course of 17 sermons included nothing on the doctrine of the ministry.

^{page 15 note 2} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to Thomas Marriott, November 25, 1824.

^{page 15 note 3} No. 96 infra contains another portion of this letter.

^{page 16 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. David Watson to Jabez Bunting, October 14, 1824; West, Robert A., Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers (London, 1849), p. 17.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 2} M.C.A. MSS. John Mason to Elijah Hoole, February 6, 1861.

^{page 16 note 3} Memorials of the late Rev. William M. Bunting, ed. Rowe, G. Stringer (London 1870), pp. 15, 24–25, 34–35, 36.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 4} U.M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, September 26, 1801.

^{page 16 note 5} U.M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, December 11, 1801.

^{page 16 note 6} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, October 14, 1802.

^{page 17 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. Disney Alexander to Jabez Bunting, January 30, 1802.

^{page 17 note 2} M.C.A. MSS. Joseph Entwisle to Jabez Bunting, September 6, 1803.

^{page 17 note 3} Life of Bunting, i, p. 169.

^{page 17 note 4} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to Sarah Maclardie, November 5, 1803.

^{page 17 note 5} Life of Bunting, i, pp. 150–156, esp. pp. 154–55.

^{page 18 note 1} Life of Bunting, i, pp. 157, 338.

^{page 18 note 2} Ibid. i, p. 223: M.C.A. MSS. Disney Alexander to Jabez Bunting, November 18, 1805.

^{page 18 note 3} U.M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, November 8, 1810: Manchester Courier, May 9, 1849, p. 293.

^{page 18 note 4} U.M.C.A. MSS. Same to same, September 29, 1807. (Partly and inaccurately printed in Life of Bunting, i, pp. 300–301.)Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 1} M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to John Gaulter, February 24, 1808: Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. MS. John Gaulter to Jabez Bunting, May 4, 1808. For a posthumous attempt to put a good gloss on Haslam's conduct, Life of Bunting, i, p. 336.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 2} On Robert Newton, see n. 1, p. 93.

^{page 19 note 3} Life of Bunting, i, p. 338.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 4} U.M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, April 1, 1805.

^{page 19 note 5} M.C.A. MSS. John P. Haswell to [T. P. Bunting], September 7, 1868: J. Hocken to Dr. Leppington, July 29, 1841.

^{page 19 note 6} U.M.C.A. MSS. Jabez Bunting to James Wood, March 16, 1802.

^{page 20 note 1} M.C. A. MS. Journal of proceedings of Conference, 1828.

^{page 20 note 2} As a very young man Bunting spotted (generations ahead of historians) ‘that Mr. Pitt's integrity as a statesman is by no means equal to his extraordinary talents’. M.C.A. MS. Jabez Bunting to Sarah Maclardie, November 5, 1803. Percy Bunting characteristically omits this sentence without notice. Life of Bunting, i, p. 210.Google Scholar