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Methodist Archives and Research Centre, JRUL (GB-135)
Archive Accessions: Full Details Report
Accession Number 1977/001 Date Received 09/01/1977
Reference Code MAW Ms 359
Title Clapham:(WM) Chapel legal case
Date of Material 1853-54
Quantity of Material 1 linear metres
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clapham

Legal--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Clapham)
Description Legal papers consisting of eleven volumes of depositions, judgements and

associated documents in the case of the Attorney General versus Clapham
heard at the Lord Chancellor’s Court, Lincoln’s Inn, London.
This was a case arising from a dispute regarding Clapham Wesleyan Chapel.
Notes
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Reference Code MAB M 1841-1842
Title Anglican-Methodist union:Press cuttings
Keywords Church of England--Union--Methodist Church

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Relations--Church of England.
Church of England--Relations--Methodist Church
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Union--Church of England
Description Two scrap books containing cuttings from the Methodist Recorder
documenting the progress of union talks and reactions on both sides of the
question within the Church of England and Methodism.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 187
Title Youth and Citizenship:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth Dept

Youth--1930-1950.
Description Minutes of the Youth and Citizenship standing committee.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Magazine
Date of Material 1968
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Magazine
Description Christian Citizenship Magazine (magazine of the Methodist Church

Department of Christian Citizenship).
Notes
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Reference Code MAW P14d
Title Methodist Times:(WM)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Periodicals--Methodist Times
Description Copies of the Methodist Times for 19 November 1902 and 15 November 1904.
Notes
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Title Young Methodist Citizenship:(WM) Committee etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Youth and Christian Citizenship committee

Youth--1930-1950.
Youth--1910-1930.
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Temperance
Temperance and religion--Great Britain
Description Papers of the Young Methodist Citizenship committee etc, 1927-1931,

including minutes of the following:
- Young Methodist Citizenship committee 1927-1928
- Youth and Citizenship Standing committee 1928-1931
- Youth and Christian Citizenship committee 1929
- Youth and Christian Citizenship and Temperance standing committee 1929
- Sub-committee established to plan the Young Ministers’ Summer School 1930
- Meeting of the Temperance and Social Welfare and Sunday School

denominational Secretaries 1930
- Sub-committee established to plan the Joint Youth Methodist Conference
1932-1933
- Sub-committee established to plan the Young Methodist Centenary
Temperance campaign 1932.
Notes
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Title Temperance:(WM) News cuttings
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance

Description Newscuttings relating to temperance drawn from the Methodist Recorder and
several national newspapers, including The Times, The Daily Mail, The
Manchester Guardian etc. Many of the cuttings refer to Henry Carter.
Notes
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Reference Code MAR 216E. 15
Title Wesleyan Deaconess Order:(MCGB) Membership rolls
Keywords Women and religion

Wesley Deaconess Order
Description
Membership rolls of the Wesley Deaconess Order
1.Roll of members of the Order compiled from the first entries in 1890 until
March 1935, including name, date of entry and date of death.
2. Roll of members of the Order compiled from the first entries in 1890 until April
1937,including name, date of entry and date of death.
3. Roll of members of the Order compiled from the first entries in 1890 until September 1952,
including name, date of entry and date of ordination.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Executive Committee
Description Minutes of the Executive of the Christian Citizenship committee.
Notes
Access Restrictions Information in this collection or document may pertain to living individuals and may therefore
be subject to access restrictions or closure. Please consult an archivist before issue.
Title Youth and Citizenship:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth and Citizenship committee
Description Minutes of the Youth and Citizenship Standing Committee
Notes
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Executive Committee
Description Minutes of the Executive of the Christian Citizenship committee.
Notes
Title Temperance:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Temperance

Description Minutes of the Standing committee on Temperance.
Notes
Title Social Reconstruction:(MCGB) Standing Committee,
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Social Reconstruction committee

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--International Relations
Social justice--Great Britain
International relations--1940-1970
Description Minutes of the following committees:

- Social Reconstruction Standing committee, 1950-1959
- International Relations Standing committee, 1950-1959
Notes
Title International Relations:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--International Relations

International relations--1940-1970
Description Minutes of the International Relations Standing committee.
Notes
Title Moral Welfare:(MCGB) Sub-Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Moral Welfare sub-committee

Morality and society
Description Minutes of the sub-committee on Moral Welfare.
Notes
Title Temperance:(WM) Women’s Executive

Women and religion
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Women’s Temperance work
Description Minutes of the following Wesleyan Methodist committees involved in women

and temperance:
- Women’s Group 1922
- Women’s Executive 1922-1924
- sub-committee of the Women’s Temperance Group 1924
Notes
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Title Gambling:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Morality and society

Gambling--Great Britain
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Gambling
Description Minutes of the following Methodist Church committees:

- Standing Committee on the Gambling Problem, 1932-1959
- Standing committee on Gambling, Sunday Questions and Use of Leisure,
1959-1960
- Standing committee on Gambling and Leisure, 1960-1965.
Notes
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Standing Committee

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Finance
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Administration

- Standing Committee on Christian Citizenship 1956-1966
- Standing Committee on Finance and Administration 1966-1973
Notes
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) General Committee
Description Minutes of the General Committee of the Department of Christian Citizenship.
Notes
Title Temperance and Social Welfare Department:(WM) High Legh

Summer School

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance and Social Welfare Dept.
Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--High Leigh Summer School
Description Photograph album relating to High Leigh Summer School 1927. The
School was run by the Temperance and Social Welfare Department of the
Wesleyan Church.
Notes
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Title Temperance and Anti-Gambling:(WM) Standing Committee
Keywords Gambling--Great Britain

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Gambling
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance
Description Minutes of the following Wesleyan Methodist Church committees:

- Standing Committee on Temperance and Anti-Gambling, 1918-1922
- Temperance Standing Committee, 1922-1924
Notes
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Title Lord’s Day Observance:(WM) Standing Committee
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Sunday Observance

Sunday observance

- Standing committee on Lord Day Observance, 1918-1920
- Standing committee on Sunday Questions, 1920-1928
Notes
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Title Industrial Questions:(WM) Standing Committee etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Industrial Relations

Wesleyan Methodist Church--International Relations
League of Nations--1920-1940

- Standing committee on Industrial Questions 1918-1919
- Standing committee on International and Industrial Relationships 1919-1926
Notes
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Title Temperance:(WM) Standing Committee,1924-28

Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Temperance Standing committee.
Notes
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Title Sunday Questions:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sunday Observance

Sunday observance

- Sunday Questions Standing committee 1932-1933
- Sunday Questions and Use of Leisure Standing committee 1933-1959
Notes
Title Temperance:(MCGB) Standing Committee
Keywords Temperance and religion--Great Britain

Description Minutes of the Temperance Standing committee.
Notes
Reference Code MA 245b
Title Temperance and Social Welfare Department:(WM) High Legh

Summer School

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance and Social Welfare Dept.
Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--High Leigh Summer School
Description Photograph album of High Leigh Summer School 1928. The School
was run by the Temperance and Social Welfare Department of the Wesleyan
Church.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 245c
Title Temperance:(WM) Committee for Reorganisation of Youth Work
Keywords Temperance and religion--Great Britain

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance
Youth--1910-1930
Band of Hope
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Youth work
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Committee for the reorganisation of the Band of
Hope and other juvenile temperance work.
Notes
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Title Parliamentary papers:Report on patent medicine
Keywords Parliamentary papers (Great Britain)

Patent medicines--Great Britain
Description Printed parliamentary report of the select committee on the sale of patent
medicines.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship etc:(MCGB) Cash book

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth work
Description Cash book 1948-1969 - labeled as a "Payments Cash book" and containing
details of payments of staff salaries, office expenses, stationery, grants to
district committees, postage, juvenile temperance work etc 1948-1969 (almost
certainly relating to the work of the department of Christian Citizenship and
successor institutions).
Notes
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Cash book,Income

Description Cash book containing details of income relating to the work of the department
for Christian Citizenship, including circuit contributions,
subscriptions/donations, collections etc.
Notes
Title Henry Carter:(WM) (1874-1951) Newscuttings
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Gambling# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Temperance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--International Relations#
International relations--1920-1940# Temperance and religion--Great Britain#
Gambling--Great Britain
Description Newscuttings regarding the work of Henry Carter. Newspapers include

Methodist Recorder and local press, including the Gloucester Citizen, Morning
Advertiser, Yorkshire Observer, Harrow Observer and the Barnsley
Independent. The reporting include such subjects as temperance meetings,
gambling and international affairs.
Notes
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Reference Code MAB RQ 10A
Title London:(MCGB) Fulham,Wandsworth Bridge Road Chapel
Keywords Photographs--Methodist Church (Great Britain)--London (Fulham)# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--London (Fulham)--Photographs#
Description Photograph album showing Wandsworth Bridge Road Chapel, Fulham, London.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW M5327
Title Conference:(WM) Autograph book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1831-80
Description Wesleyan Conference autograph book consisting of the autographs of ministers

attending the Nottingham Conference.
Notes Deposited originally in 1975 when the Methodist Archives and Research
Centre was located in London.
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Reference Code N/A
Title Scrapbook:(WM) Miscellaneous denominational subjects
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1881-1932 # Photographs--

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1910
Description Scrapbook containing photographs of Wesleyan ministers, politicians and

other scenes from Conference.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Photograph Album:(WM) Miscellaneous denominational subjects
Date of Material c.1910
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1881-1932# Photographs--

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1910
Description Photograph album showing scenes from the Wesleyan Methodist Conference
including ministers, politicians and scenes from chapel life.
Notes Originally deposited with the Methodist Archives in London in 1967.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title William R. Bird:(PM) (1854-1943) Autobiographical material
Date of Material c.1854-1943
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--clergy# Autobiographies--Bird,

William R.
Description Memoranda book compiled by the Primitive Methodist minister William R.

Bird (1854-1943) containing notes on Bird’s life, including his family
background, and reminiscences regarding his ministry. Includes cuttings from
church newspapers and other memorabilia.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy shorthand diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800
Description Copy of John Wesley’s last shorthand diary with modern research notes.
Notes Photographed by E.T. in 1907.
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Title Bramley:(WM) Circuit scrap book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Bramley--circuit plans# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Bramley--finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Bramley--class
tickets# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Bramley--circuit papers
Description Bramley Wesleyan Methodist circuit scrap book containing the following
material relating to the Bramley circuit in Yorkshire: circuit plans, portraits of
itinerant preachers, obituaries for ministers and lay people, letters written
mainly by ministers stationed in the circuit, class tickets, accounts and fly
sheets advertising services and meetings.
Notes Originally collected by Titus Hardcastle of Armley and presented by him to Mr

and Mrs Birdsall in 1914.
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Title Photograph Album:(WM) Ministers’ portraits
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--clergy# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--clergy-photographs
Description Photograph album containing formal portraits of Wesleyan ministers.
Notes
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Reference Code Maw Ms 419
Title Scrapbook:Miscellaneous secular and religious subjects
Keywords
Description Scrap book containing cuttings from magazines relating to John Milton, the
Wesley brothers, Dr Samuel Johnson, Lord Thomas Macaulay, Alfred Lord
Tennyson, Cardinal Newman and John Ruskin.
Notes
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Title Scrapbook:Miscellaneous secular and religious subjects
Keywords
Description Scrap book containing engravings and news cuttings, some relating to Wesleyan
Methodism and others of a more general nature.
Notes Fragile condition - do not issue without archivist’s permission
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Reference Code MAW ms 422
Title Scrapbook:(WM/PM) Denominational subjects
Keywords Sunday schools--Great Britain# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Sunday Schools#

Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Circuit plans# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
1820-1860
Description Scrap book containing the following material relating primarily to the
Wesleyan Methodists, but with at least one Primitive Methodist document:
circuit plans, news cuttings, letters, Sunday school papers and fly-sheets
advertising meetings. The material relates to several areas including London,
Manchester and the North-east of England.
Notes Fragile condition - do not issue without archivist’s permission
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Reference Code MAW ms 308
Title Chilliat family:Bible
Keywords
Description King James bible, printed in 1627, bearing the names of several members of the
Chilliat family inside the cover.
"Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, printers to the

King...1627"
Notes Originally deposited with the Methodist archives in London in about 1966.
Access Restrictions
Title Luke Tyerman:(WM) (1820-89) Memoranda book on denominational

subjects
Date of Material c.1740 - c.1880
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Historical scholarship
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan Methodist minister

and historian Luke Tyerman (1820-1889) covering a very diverse range of
subject including biographical jottings concerning various individuals and places,
newscuttings regarding Methodist historical matters, and a large number of
extracts from letters and pamphlets regarding Methodism with the emphasis on
the Wesleys and their contemporaries and the controversies after 1791.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW MS 421
Title Abey family:(PM) Scrap-book on denominational subjects
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--clergy# Primitive Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--circuit plans--1820-1860# Primitive Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--class tickets--1820-1860
Description Primitive Methodist Scrap-book relating to members of the Abey family

containing circuit plans and class tickets relating to Primitive Methodism in
several areas of the country, including Plymouth, Hull, Brompton (London),
Bridlington, Redruth, Falmouth and St Austle. There is also a certificate
identifying Richard Abey as an itinerant in 1826
Notes Presented to the Methodist Archives via William Leary (Connexional

Archivist) in 1975 by the former housekeeper of Mrs Abey of
Waddingham.
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Title Ecumenical Conference:London,City Road,Delegates’ autographs
Keywords Ecumenism# Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (City Road)# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Ecumenism
Description Autographs of delegates to the Ecumenical Conference held at City Road

Chapel in London, September 1881.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW Ms 119.6
Title Forward Movement:(MCGB) Women’s Work sub-committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Women# Women and religion# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Forward movement
Description Minutes of the Forward Movement: Women’s work sub-committee.
Notes
Title Scrapbook:Methodist subjects
Keywords
Description Scrapbook containing newscuttings on Methodist themes.
Notes
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Title Bonham family:(WM) Scrapbook of class tickets
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--class tickets--1860-1900# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--class tickets--1900-1932# Class tickets--Methodist Church (Great
Britain)
Description Scrapbook containing Wesleyan Methodist and Methodist Church class tickets
issued to the Bonham family.
Notes
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Title Financial Accounts:(WM) Circuit Payments
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance
Description Miscellaneous Wesleyan Methodist account book containing details of

payments from various circuits.
Notes
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Title Financial Accounts:(UMC) Chapel Loans
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Finance
Description United Methodist Church chapel loans book divided by circuit and chapel and
containing details of loans made to the chapel and the interest and other
repayments.
Notes
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Title Scrapbook:Engravings of Wesley family portraits
Date of Material 19th century
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-

88)# Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-1800
Description Scrapbook containing portrait engravings of the Wesley brothers and scenes
from their lives.
Notes
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Title Christopher Watson:(WM) (fl.1871) Scrapbook on secular subjects
Keywords Engravings--general
Description Wesleyan Methodist scrapbook compiled by the Wesleyan Methodist

Christopher Watson and containing Watson family details, engravings of
members of the family, Manuscript poetry, autographs (including statesmen
such as George Canning and the Duke of Westminster), coloured engravings and
water colour paintings etc.
Notes
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Title Conference:(PM) Photograph album
Keywords Photographs--Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference 1929#

Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference 1929--Photographs
Description Photograph album of scenes from the Primitive Methodist Conference held at
Tunstall in 1929.
Notes
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Title Temperance:(WM) Photograph album
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance# Temperance and

religion--Great Britain# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance# Wesleyan
Methodist Church--clergy
Description Photograph album containing portrait photographs of Methodist ministers and

lay people involved in the temperance movement. Compiled in about 1905 but
containing material from the second half of the 19th century.
Notes Book plate - ‘ex libris E. Crawshaw’
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Title W. H. Bedford:Scrapbook containing hymns
Keywords Hymns
Description Hymnbook labeled W. H. Bedford containing pages from printed hymnals

pasted into a scrapbook.
Notes
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Title Methodist Post Card Album:(WM) Number 1
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--clergy# Engravings--general#

Engravings--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-
88)# Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-1800
Description Methodist Post Card Album c.1932 - contains postcards (often produced by the
Methodist Publishing House) showing the following illustrations:
- portraits of the Wesleys and scenes from their lives
- Wesleyan chapels and colleges
- Portraits of Wesleyan ministers from the period 1900-1932
Notes
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Reference Code MAW H 802
Title Methodist Psalmody - Hymns and Tunes for divine worship:(MNC)
Keywords Hymns# Hymns--Methodist New Connexion# Methodist New Connexion--

Hymns
Description Methodist Psalmody - Hymns and Tunes for divine worship compiled for the
Methodist New Connexion (London: 1867).
Notes
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Title The Quest:Biblical Study Group,Newcastle
Keywords Biblical studies
Description Papers relating to "The Quest" 1918-1940.
"The Quest" was a biblical club formed on September 13th 1918 in Newcastle.
Its aim was in-depth study and discussion of the scriptures. The papers consist
of the following:
- Minutes and financial statements 1918-1936
- meeting programmes
Notes
Title Photographs of Chapels:(WM) National coverage
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Chapel photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--
Chapels
Description Photographs of Wesleyan chapels in England. The coverage may be

comprehensive.
Notes
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Title Methodist Post Card Album:(MCGB) Number 2
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels# Photographs--Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--
photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Photographs#
Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-1800
Description "Methodist Post Card album" c.1954, containing post card illustrations of the
following:
- Wesley portraits and scenes from the brothers’ lives
- Wesleyan chapels and associated premises
- Portraits of Wesleyan ministers and deaconesses during the period 1900-1954
Many of the later portraits seem to relate to the one area of work, namely the
city missions and perhaps one family as there are wedding groups and baby
portraits included in the collection.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW Ms 356-357
Title Conference:(WM) Agenda
Description Wesleyan Methodist Conference Agenda - personal copies owned and signed by
John Scott-Lidgett (1854-1953).
Notes
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Title Conference:(MCGB) Scrapbook
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference 1933
Description Scrapbook containing cuttings etc relating to the Methodist Conference of 1933.
Notes
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Title James Smetham:(WM) (1792-1847) Book of sketches and notes etc
Keywords Art
Description Miscellaneous book of sketches, water-colours, jottings etc relating to biblical

themes and family[?] matters. Compiled by the Wesleyan minister James
Smetham (1792-1847).
Notes
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Title Scrapbook:(WM) Class tickets etc
Keywords Class tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1740-1860# Class

tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1860-1900# Class
tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1900-1932
Description Scrap-book of Wesleyan class tickets consisting mainly of class tickets (1793-
1912), but also includes one class list (c.1800), several manuscript letters and
one circuit plan for the St Columb circuit (1844-45).
Notes The collection was originally compiled by the Wesleyan minister W.

Hargreaves Cooper and was presented to the Methodist Church in July 1928.
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Reference Code Lamplough collection 6821/MAW
Title Wesley family:Miscellaneous papers
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-88)# Genealogy--Wesley family
Description Folio containing several papers relating to the Wesley family (one of which
has been removed to the John Wesley letter file). The papers consist of the
following:
- 19th century family tree of the Wesley family from Samuel Wesley (1662-
1735) to the children of Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- 18th century engraving of Colonel Gardiner
- 18th century engraving by J. Illman of John Wesley
- Letter from Josiah French to Dawson Turner concerning late 18th and 19th
century members of the Wesley family 12 February 1849
- Letter from Vincent Novello to Josiah French regarding Samuel Wesley

(1766-1837) 19 February 1849
Notes Part of the Lamplough collection.
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Title Methodist Post Card Album:(MCGB) Number 3
Date of Material 19th/20th century
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-

88)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--photographs# Wesleyan Methodist
Church--Chapels--Photographs# Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--
1730-1800
Description Methodist Post card album 19th/20th cent. Contains post cards, mainly
produced by the Methodist Publishing House, illustrating the following:
- portraits of the Wesley brothers and scenes from their lives
- 19th/early 20th century chapels and associated buildings
- portraits of 19th/early 20th century Wesleyan ministers
Notes
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Title John Telford:(WM) (1851-1936) Certificate of appreciation
Date of Material August 1905
Keywords
Description Certificate of appreciation by the Dorking and Horsham Wesleyan circuit to

the minister John Telford and his wife.
Notes
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Title Wesleyan Methodist Magazine:Index to portraits
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings# Photographs--Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--photographs
Description Index to portraits in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine 1778-1893. Arranged

alphabetically by surname.
Notes
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Reference Code Allan Library
Title John Wesley:(1703-1791) Deed of Settlement and associated papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Constitution--Deed of Settlemen 1784t#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1781-91# Legal--Wesleyan
Methodist Church--Deed of Settlement 1784
Description Deed of Settlement of 1784, and associated papers as follows:
- Declaration and Appointment by John Wesley of the Conference of the

People called Methodists as enrolled in the Chancery Court 28 February 1784
- Attested copy of the Declaration and Appointment by John Wesley of the

Conference of the People called Methodists 28 February 1784
- History and Invalidity of Wesley’s Poll Deed by "A Solicitor" (London: 1835)
Notes Bears the stamp of the [Thomas] Allan Library
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Title Scrapbook:(WM) Denominational subjects
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1881-1932# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Chapels--Photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--
Photographs# Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels#
Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy
Description Wesleyan Methodist Scrap book containing the following illustrations:
- Portraits of Methodist ministers
- Methodist chapels and associated buildings
- Scenes from Conference
Notes Donated to the Methodist Archives on 18 June 1964
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Reference Code N/A
Title Scrapbook:(WM) Denominational subjects
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--India--Medical
Description Scrap book of Wesleyan news cuttings. The cuttings relate to a variety of
Wesleyan Methodist themes but with a particular concern with medical
missions in India.
Notes
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Reference Code Ms 319
Title Scrapbook:(WM):Relating to Leeds etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Leeds--Circuit papers# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Leeds--circuit plans# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Leeds--class
tickets# Class tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)#
Description ‘Leeds Scrap book’ of Methodist ephemera.
Contains circuit plans, chapel building plans, portrait engravings, class tickets
and printed letters. The collection relates mainly to Wesleyan Methodism in
Leeds, but there is ample material relating to other areas of the country.
Notes
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Reference Code DDX 22/1-6
Title Wesley Deaconess Order:(WM) Agenda Magazine
Keywords Wesley Deaconess Order# Women and religion# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Periodicals--Wesley Deaconess Order# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Periodicals--Wesley Deaconess Order# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Women
Description "Agenda" - Magazine of the Wesley Deaconess Order 1922, 1934-1936.
Notes
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Title Missionary Review:(MCGB) Australasian missions magazine
Keywords Methodist Church (Australasia)--Foreign Missions--Periodicals# Periodicals--

Methodist Church (Australasia)--Foreign Missions
Description "The Missionary Review" - magazine of the Methodist Missionary Society of

Australasia (renamed the Department of the Overseas Missions of the
Methodist Church in Australasia in 1937) 1932, 1936-1939.
The Society organised work in Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, New
Britain, the Northern Territory of Australia and India.
Notes
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Title Wesley Guild:(WM) Magazine,1923-44
Keywords Periodicals--Guild Magazine# Wesley Guild--Periodicals
Description The Guild Magazine - Illustrated Monthly Record of Youth and Enterprise,
1923, 1930-1932, 1939 and 1940-1944.
Notes
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Title Photographs:(WM) Ministers’ portraits
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1831-80 # Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Clergy--Photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--
Clergy
Description Portrait photographs of Wesleyan ministers, possibily taken on the occasion

of the Bradford Methodist Conference.
For an item list see the DDX catalogue
Notes
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Title Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society:Papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--Periodicals# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Periodicals--Foreign Missions# Periodicals--Wesleyan
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign Missions
Description Printed material, mainly magazines, re the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary

Society 1814-1916. For an item list see the DDX catalogue.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) 200th anniversary of his conversion
Keywords Conversion--Church of England# Conversion--Methodism
Description Scrap book containing press cuttings relating to the 200th anniversary of the
conversion of John Wesley.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(MCGB) Richmond,Photographs etc
Keywords Colleges--Richmond# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--clergy--Training#

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Colleges--Richmond
Description Richmond College scrapbook, containing photographs of staff and students and
copies of college songs.
Notes
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Title Methodist Archives and Books:(WM) Accession register
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Archives# Archives--Wesleyan Methodist

Church (Great Britain)
Description Accession register containing details of the manuscripts, engravings and printed
books deposited in the Methodist Archives in London c.1920 - created while
the archives were located at Wesley’s Chapel in City Road London.
Notes
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Title Scrapbook:(MCGB) Press cuttings
Keywords Methodism--Union
Description Scrap book of news cuttings relating to Methodism.
Notes
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Reference Code No reference
Title Ellen Gretton: (d.1793) Account of the life of etc
Keywords Poetry--18th century# Women and religion
Description Papers re Ellen Gretton (d.1793):
1. Two manuscript poems, 1773
2. Letter regarding living the life of faith, c.1775
3. Manuscript account of Ellen Gretton, n.d.
Notes
Ellen Gretton was the daughter of a clergyman and a correspondent of John
Wesley. She married William Christian in 1783.
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Title Scrapbook:(MCGB) Newscuttings
Description Scrap book of Methodist news cuttings.
Notes
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Title Scrapbook:Engravings published by SPCK
Keywords Engravings--general# Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
Description Scrapbook of engravings on biblical themes published by the Society for the
Propogation of Christian Knowledge.
Notes Originally deposited on 5 June 1969
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAW JWL
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to William Mears
Date of Material 15 August 1790
Keywords
Description Copy letter of John Wesley to the local preacher William Mears 15 August
1790.
This letter is not in Wesley’s hand, although the handwriting certainly appears
to be 18th century in date. I suspect therefore that it is an original copy from
1790. The letter is published in the Standard edition. The letter comes with a
covering letter from Frank Baker to Sheila Himsworth of the Wesley Historical
Society dated 25 October 1977 communicating details of the letter as he
understood them. I suspect that the letter was deposited with the Methodist
Notes
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Reference Code Unlabelled
Title Hugh Bourne:(PM) (1772-1852) Water-colour portrait
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Portraits
Description Water colour portrait of Hugh Bourne (1772-1852), founder of Primitive

Methodism (unknown artist).
Notes Presented to the Methodist Archives in March 1906
Access Restrictions
Title Scrapbook:(WM) Circuit plans, national coverage
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--circuit plans--1861-1932
Description Scrap book of Wesleyan circuit plans & letters. The coverage of the circuit
plans is national for England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and appears to be
comprehensive. The letters are replies to the request for the plans and contain
manuscript listings for some of the more rural circuits, especially in Ireland.
Notes
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Reference Code unreferenced
Title Jeremy Taylor:(1613-67) Ductor Dubitantium (published)
Keywords
Description Copy of "Ductor Dubitantium" by Jeremy Taylor.
Notes From the library of E. Benson Perkins
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Unreferenced
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Annotated Prayer Book (published)
Keywords Church of England--Book of Common Prayer
Description Printed "Book of Common Prayer, together with Psalter" (London: 1702) -
Inscribed on the fly-leaf in the hand of Charles Wesley "C Wesley. The gift of
the Earl of Huntingdon". The title page is also signed in the same hand "C.
Wesley 1743".
Notes
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Title Jemima Peach-Taylor:(WM) Class tickets

tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1860-1900# Wesleyan
Methodist Church--Class tickets--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Class tickets--1860-1900
Description Book of Wesleyan class tickets belonging to Jemima Peach (married name -
Taylor) 1847-1862.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Union:Merger of Connexional magazines
Keywords Periodicals--Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Methodism--Union
Description Box file of correspondence concerning the merger of connexional magazines as

a result of Methodist Union.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Scrapbook:(WM) Wesley engravings etc
Keywords Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-1800
Description Scrap book containing engravings and news cuttings relating to the Wesleys and
early Methodism.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Fernley-Hartley Trust:Correspondence
Keywords Fernley-Hartley Trust
Description Box file of correspondence regarding the constitution of the Fernley-Hartley

Trust.
Notes
Reference Code N/A
Title Methodist Hymn Book:(WM) Annotations by W.H. Bedford (published)
Keywords Hymns--Wesleyan Methodist Church# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Hymns
Description Methodist Hymn Book, with Tunes (London: Wesleyan Conference Office,
1904). Copious manuscript historic/biographic/literary notes by W. H. Bedford
in 1909 - inscribed to Bedford’s daughter Margaret.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAM JW 2.57A
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Thomas Cooper
Date of Material 31 March 1786
Keywords
Description Letter from John Wesley to Thomas Cooper 31 March 1786 (not included in
the standard edition of the letters).
Notes Deposited at the Methodist Archives in London on 16 September 1974
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Financial Accounts:(MCGB) Unspecified fund
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Finance
Description Account book for an unspecified fund.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Portrait engravings of Presidents
Date of Material 1791-c.1883
Keywords Engravings--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings
Description Scrap book containing portrait engravings of Wesleyan Presidents of

Conference (arranged alphabetically).
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Portrait engravings
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-88)
Description Portrait engravings of John Wesley, with a copy of "Features of the Wesley
Family" by A. H. Carr and a letter dated 1930 from Carr to Mr Lamplough.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Sheldon Local History Collection:(WM) Newscuttings
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local history# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Periodicals--Methodist Recorder# Periodicals--Methodist Recorder
Description Sheldon Local History Collection of cuttings from the Methodist Recorder
reporting on local chapels and other Wesleyan Methodist institutions.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Epworth:(CE) Parish Accounts
Keywords Church of England--Epworth
Description Manuscript accounts of the parish of Epworth compiled during the Rectorship
of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Sheldon Local History Collection:(WM) Newscuttings
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local history# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Periodicals--Methodist Recorder# Periodicals--Methodist Recorder
Description Sheldon Local History Collection of cuttings from the Methodist Recorder
reporting on local chapels and other Methodist institutions.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Portrait engravings
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)
Description Bundle of portrait engravings of Charles Wesley (1707-1788) based on the

original portrait by William Gush and engraved by J. Cochran.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Robert Newton:(WM) (1780-1854) Portrait engravings
Description Bundle of portrait engravings of the Wesleyan minister Robert Newton (1780-
1854). Engraved by J. Cochran from the original painting by William Gush.
Notes
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Title Financial Accounts:(MCGB) Bills Receivable (unspecified fund)
Description "Bills Receivable" (unknown fund - possibly relating to Methodist publishing).
Notes
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Title Financial Accounts:(WM) Bills Receivable (unspecified fund)
Description "Bills Receivable" (unknown fund - possibly relating to Methodist publishing).
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Hadfield:(WM) Station Road Chapel music books
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Hymns# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Colleges--Hartley Victoria# Colleges--Hartley Victoria--Library# Libraries--
Hartley Victoria
Description Music books from Hadfield Wesleyan Chapel (formerly part of Hartley
Victoria College Library) c.1877
1. Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists by John
Wesley (1877)
2. Manuscript hymn tunes n.d.
3. The Chorister, volume 1, Twenty Popular Anthems ed. Cornelius Ward
4. Manuscript tune book used by the Hadfield Wesleyan String Band
7. Manuscript chant book
8. Printed chant book ed. Bate and Ingle
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Hadfield:(WM) Station Road Chapel tune book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Hymns# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Colleges--Hartley Victoria# Colleges--Hartley Victoria--Library# Libraries--
Hartley Victoria
Description Manuscript tune book used by the choir of Station Road Wesleyan Chapel and
fomerly in the possession of Hartley Victoria College.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title LPMA:(MCGB) Halifax and District
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers# Local Preachers Mutual

Aid Association
Description Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association: Minute book of the Halifax and
District branch.
Notes
Title London:(PM) Northfleet/Galley Hill/Balham,Society roll books
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Membership rolls
Description Primitive Methodist Society Roll books for Northfleet and Galley Hill circuit
and for Balham circuit.
Notes Discovered in the Manse, Woodley, Stockport and deposited in the Archives in
March 1972.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Hymns on the Great Festivals (published)
Keywords Hymns--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)
Description Hymns on the Great Festivals (1746)
Annotated by Charles Wesley junior (1757-1834) - ‘These hymns were

composed by the Revd. Charles Wesley and for him set to musick by Mr
Lamps, a celebrated German composer, who published an excellent treatise on
Through Base and many other anthems for the Church.’
Further annotated - ‘Thomas Marriott bought of Miss Tooth Nov. 14 1848’.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Methodist Union Fraternal:Photograph,London,City Road
Keywords Methodism--Union# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--Chapels
Description Group photograph of the Methodist Union Fraternal, taken in front of City
Road Chapel in London.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Committee of Privileges:(WM) Papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Committee of Privileges
Description Papers of the Wesleyan Committee of Privileges 1803-1932
Box 1
1. Minutes of the Committee of Privileges 1803-1819
2. Minutes of the Committee of Privileges 1835-1845; Minutes of the

Parliamentary sub-committee 1845-1867
3. Miscellaneous notes (including agendas and draft minutes), letters and press
cuttings etc relating to the Committee of Privileges 1889-1891
4. Minutes of the Committee of Privileges 1893-1909
5. Letter book of the Committee of Privileges 1897-1898
Box 2-4
Bundles of loose official papers connected with the Wesleyan Committee of

Privileges, including official correspondence, parliamentary papers, legal
judgements and news cuttings. Subjects covered include effects of legislation on
Wesleyan privileges, legal cases, exhumation and reburial of bodies from
redundant chapels and participation of Wesleyan representatives at state
occasions such as the Coronation of King George V in 1911.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Committee of Privileges:(PM) Papers
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Committee of Privileges
Description Minutes of the Primitive Methodist Committee of Privileges.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Financial Accounts:(WM) MacNaughton Bequest
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--MacNaughton Bequest
Description Minutes and treasurer’s accounts of the MacNaughton Bequest to the Wesleyan
Methodist Church.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly Society:(PM) Papers
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly

Society# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Pensions#
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Pensions#
Description Papers of the Primitive Methodist Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly Society
Box 1
1. Minutes of the annual meetings of the Society 1823-1840
2. Minutes of the annual ‘Conference Assembly’ of the society 1841-1861
3. Minutes of the annual meeting of the society and of sub-committees such as

the committee of management and the special committee appointed to
consider the Actuarial Valuation report 1893-1912

the management committee, the executive committee and the sub-committee
on "Holborn Review" 1912-1925
Box 2

the management committee 1925-1941
2. Minutes of the special [management] committee of the society 1841-1888
3. "Mortality of members of the Society" - lists every minister who was a

society at the time of their death and records for every individual the date of
death, cause of death and place of death 1849-1970
Box 3
1. "Mortality and Annuity experience from January 1st 1888" - lists every
minister who was a member of the society at the time of their death after 1
January 1888 and records for every individual; date of birth, date entered the
society, annuity due, date and cause of exit from the society (normally through
death). The same details, with the exception of names, are recorded for wives
of members but also giving the date of marriage. It is to be noted that if a
minister died prior to 1888 but his widow survived after that date, his details are
recorded also 1888-c.1970
2. "General Rules of the Primitive Methodist Church" (London: 1922)

3. "Rules and bye-laws of the Primitive Methodist Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly
Society" (London: 1914)
4. Bundles of printed annual statements of account and annual reports of the

society 1852-1968 (incomplete coverage)
5. Printed "Yearly Handbook and Almanack of the Primitive Methodist

Church for 1929"
Notes
Reference Code DDTh
Title Schools:(WM) Southport,Trinity Hall and Wintersdorf, Papers
Keywords Schools--Trinity Hall# Schools--Wintersdorf# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Schools--Trinity Hall# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Schools--Wintersdorf#
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Schools--Trinity Hall
Description Records of Trinity Hall School, Southport, 1867-1971 (and Wintersdorf

School, Southport, 1867-1912)
DDTh 1/- Pupils’ administrative records
1/1
Class lists, containing names of pupils, date of entry to the school, date of
leaving the school, examination results, order of merit, lists of ‘preceptors’
[graduates?] and names of pupils awarded places at universities, 1867-1896
(volume).
This document relates to Wintersdorf School in Southport, not Trinity Hall;

Wintersdorf was a private school opened in 1867 by the daughters of the
Wesleyan minister Dr John S. Simon. Trinity Hall School purchased the school
buildings in 1926 for use as the junior house.
1/2
Class register, containing names of pupils, date of birth, date of admission to
the school and names of fathers, 1872-1957 (volume)
DDTh 2/- Committee papers
2/1
Minutes of the School Governors, 1894-1940 (volume)
2/2
Minutes of the School Governors, 1941-1953 (volume)
2/3
Minutes of the House and Finance committee, 1888-1907 (volume)
2/4
Minutes of the House and Finance committee, 1907-1935 (volume)
2/5
Minutes of the “Committee for furnishing the School now in process of
completion …,”
1872; minutes of the General committee, 1872-1880; minutes of the House
and Finance committee, 1880-1888; minutes of the Local Executive
committee 1882-1886; minutes of the Finance committee, 1885-1886
(volume)
DDTh 3/- Trust papers
3/1
Printed Copies of the Deeds relating to Kingswood, Queenswood and Trinity
Hall Schools (Taunton: 1885)
3/2
Manuscript Trust Deed establishing the trust governing the affairs of Trinity
Hall School, 1871
DDTh 4/- The Wintersdorf Reading Circle
4/1
Manuscript journal of the first annual meeting of the “Wintersdorf Reading
Circle” held at Borrowdale in the Lake District, containing photographs of the
members and the Lake District, together with a detailed record the proceedings
of the circle, 1889
4/2
Manuscript journal of the annual meeting of the “Wintersdorf Reading Circle”
held in Church Stretton, Shropshire, containing photographs Church Stretton
and its surrounding area, together with a detailed record of the proceedings of
the circle, 1891
4/3-5
Annual reports of the Wintersdorf Reading Circle, 1892-1893 and 1907
DDTh 5/- School Magazines
5/1/1-10
Wintersdorf Review and Guild Magazine 1894-1912 (incomplete)
5/2/1-39
Trinity Hall School Magazine 1927-1970 (incomplete)
DDTh 6/- Miscellaneous Printed material
6/1-4
Copies of the printed School Prospectus, 20th cent.
6/1/5
Printed Memories of Trinity Hall School c.1971
6/16
Memoir of Mr John Fernley of Clairville, Southport by Reverend W. B. Pope
(London: 1874)
DDTh 7/- Miscellaneous Manuscript
Notes
Reference Code MAM Fl
Title Fletcher-Tooth Collection:(WM/CE) Papers
Date of Material 18th/19th
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Church of

England--Madeley# Women and religion--Conversion testimonies#
Autobiographies# Sermons--Fletcher, John# Sermons--Fletcher, Mary#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Madeley
Description Personal papers of the Anglican Methodists John Fletcher (1729-1785), his
wife Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher (1739-1815) and Mary’s companion Mary
Tooth (1777-1843) of Madeley in Shropshire.
43 boxes of papers divided as follows:
Seven boxes of letters written to Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher, John Fletcher and

Mary Tooth, each containing several hundred items arranged by correspondent
in alphabetical order (see 8 volume calendar of the correspondence)
Five boxes of Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher’s diaries and journals 1772-1813
Two boxes of Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher’s notes on Scripture
Three boxes of miscellaneous Manuscripts of Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher

including scripture notes, remedies for the treatment of illnesses, copy
letterbooks, title deeds, notes on the Dispensation of the Spirit and over one
hundred draft letters to unnamed correspondents.
One box containing bound journals of Mary Tooth, covering Tooth’s; life
between 1798 and 1842. The journals are in conventional diary form but also
contain some draft letters, memoranda and spiritual writings.
Six boxes of miscellaneous papers of John Fletcher including correspondence

written to Fletcher (some of it satirical), devotional writings on various
themes, fragmentary sermons, devotional writings in French, drafts in English
and French of some of Fletcher’s published works, commonplace books,
sermons and sermon outlines.
Manuscript of Henry Moore’s life of Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher (published in

1817)
Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher’s manuscript autobiography and her account of John

Fletcher
One box containing Mary Tooth’s pocket books containing details of lists of
meetings and lists of expenses for the years 1799-1831 (incomplete run).
One box containing Mary Tooth’s Commonplace books from 1787 to 1818.
They contain dated addresses/ sermons delivered by Tooth at named places,
copies of John Fletcher’s notes on scripture, copies of psalms and verse,
financial accounts and spiritual testimonies of named individuals.
Three boxes containing Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher’s Watchwords -
spiritual/devotional reflections on specific scriptural themes. Many of the
Watchwords take the form of questions and answers. It is probable that they
were used in class meetings. Recent detailed investigation indicates that the
watchwords contain documents that should be categorised as sermons. This
would make them the only large collection of preaching material written by an
early Methodist woman to have survived.
One box of conveyances relating to a house and associated land in Madeley

Wood, converted by the Fletchers into a chapel and school. The deeds date
from 1729 to 1786, with a codicil of 1808. Also in the box are two notebooks
used by Mary Tooth to record contributions towards enlarging the chapel and
providing for the addition of a school room, and a sheet of income and
expenses in the name of John Fletcher towards funding a school room c.1785.
One box containing manuscript volumes in John Fletcher’s hand of dated

sermons in French and English, bible notes, copy letters in French and English,
notes in Latin and Greek and receipts for money given to Methodist preachers
in London by the circuit official Samuel Tooth [it is not thought that Tooth
was a relation of Mary Tooth]. Recipients include the Wesley brothers, Joseph
Bradford, Thomas Lee and James Creighton. There are also scripture notes used
in meetings by Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher.
One box of manuscript verse by several authors including Mary Bosanquet-

Fletcher.
One box of manuscript accounts of the lives and spiritual experiences, happy
deaths etc of named individuals. The collection is arranged by surname and
appears to cover the period 1775 to 1825.
One box of letters written by Mary Tooth to named individualsbetween 1798

and 1838. Correspondents include family members, Mary Fletcher, Henry
Moore and Sarah Jenkins.
One box containing Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher’s accounts of Sarah Ryan and

Sarah Lawrence together with a folder of manuscript notes concerning the
running of children’s meetings. The notes take the form of questions and
answers on biblical/devotional themes.
One box containing letters written by John Fletcher both copy and original,
written in English to various correspondents between 1752 and 1785.
One box containing letters written by Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher both copy and
original to named individuals between 1764 and 1814 - many are in draft form.
Notes One box of papers of the Madeley Methodist Society containing a wealth of
material including three eye-witness accounts of the opening of Madeley barn
as a chapel in 1788, detailed scripture notes used in meetings, notes for
Access Restrictions watchnight services, draft addresses/sermons by Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher and
financial bills and receipts.
One box containing papers relating to Sarah Lawrence, including diary extracts,
an address/sermon, scripture notes, correspondence, account of the opening of
Madeley barn as a chapel in 1788 and a commonplace book.
Reference Code MAM JW.5.27a
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to John Valton
Date of Material 24 December
Keywords
Description Letter of John Wesley to John Valton.
Notes Donated to the Methodist Church (pre-1977). The letter was removed from a
frame in August 2005 as a conservation measure.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Ordination certificate for James Bogie
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Ordination
Description Ordination certificate of James Bogie, signed by John Wesley.
Notes Donated to the Methodist Church (pre-1977). The document was removed
from a frame in August 2005 as a conservation measure.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code PLP 25.11
Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760?-1832) Portrait engraving
Description Silhouette engraving of Adam Clarke.
Notes Presented to the Methodist Church before 1976 by a descendant of Adam Clarke.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code HC
Title College:(WM) Handsworth,Papers
Keywords Colleges--Handsworth
Description Institutional records of Handsworth College
HC 1/- College committees
1/1
Minutes of the trustees, 29 October 1884-14 November 1932 (volume)
1/2
Minutes of the Building sub-committee, 17 March 1879-28 June 1882;
Executive sub-committee, 28 May 1880-28 June 1882; House committee, 22
September 1881-18 April 1882; Discipline committee, 18 April 1882; Organ
committee, 28 June 1882 (volume)
1/3
Minutes of the House committee, 22 September 1882 – 20 December 1889;
Executive committee, 22 September 1882-20 December 1889; Disciplinary
committee, 16 March 1883-26 September 1888 (volume)
1/4
Minutes of the Discipline committee, 21 March 1890 – 19 June 1912; House
committee, 21 March 1890 – 19 June 1912; Executive committee, 21 March
1890 – 19 June 1912; Special committee on Work and Fitness, 19 June 1912
(volume)
1/5
Minutes of the Discipline committee, 18 September 1912-18 December 1931;
Special committee on Work and Fitness, 18 June 1914 – 28 June 1931;
Designation committee, 15 April 1926 –14 April 1931 (volume)
1/6
Minutes of the House committee, 18 September 1912 – 18 December
1931;Executive committee, 18 September 1912 – 18 December 1931;Building
committee, 27 April 1931 – 29 December 1931 (volume)
1/7
Minutes of the House committee, 22 March 1932 - 6 June 1944;Executive
committee, 22 March 1932 – 9 March 1944 (volume)
HC 2/- Records concerning students (see also the minutes of the Discipline,
House, Designation and Work and Fitness committees)
2/1
Folder containing the following documents:
- unofficial list of students and their residential addresses, 1881 – 1929
- official lists of students arranged chronologically, with designations 1919
–1920
- official lists of students in residence (with year of admission and designation)
at Richmond, Handsworth and Didsbury colleges, 1920 – 1921
- official lists of students in residence (with year of admission and designation),
1921-1936
- official lists of students in residence (with year of admission), 1950 – 1970
(including deaconess students from 1966)
- list of college officers, members of committees and fellowship groups etc,
1907 - 1916, 1919 - 1940, 1947 – 1970
2/2
Folder containing lists of former students belonging to the Handsworth College
Old Boys Association, c.1967
2/3
Presentation autograph album containing signatures of former students and
colleagues of William Francis Lofthouse, presented to Lofthouse on the
occasion of his 90th birthday, 1961
HC 3/- Mission archives
3/1/
Files (alphabetically arranged) containing letters sent by missionaries, who were
mainly but not exclusively former Handsworth staff or students, to the college
missionary secretary containing news of the overseas work, c.1950 - c.1963
(portrait photographs are sometimes pasted onto the front of the files):
- J. Allan Angus (Nigeria)
- Gerald Barraclough (Nigeria)
- John Beech (Gold Coast)
- Keith Beecroft (Northern Rhodesia)
- Esward A. Bishop (Burma)
- David Boyle (Jamaica)
- Dennis R. Capes (Sarawak)
- Peter G. Cochran (India, Madras)
- Stanley B. Davies (India, Madras)
- Graham Thackray Eddy (Gold Coast)
- W. Le Cato-Edwards (India, Medak)
- Alan F. Elgar (Southern Rhodesia)
- J. Lawson-Garforth (India, Dornakal)
- W. T. Harks (Sierra Leone)
- Alan Herrick (India, Madras)
- Albert W. Hodgetts (Nigeria)
- Stanley Hollis (British Guiana)
- Rowland Joiner (French West Africa)
- Lewis J. Julian (Ceylon)
- R. Elliott Kendall (Kenya)
- J. Rossendale S. Law (Sierra Leone)
- H. Jesse Lawrence (Southern Rhodesia)
- Ian W. Lewis (Kenya)
- David H. Macdonald (S.E. Asia)
- Glanville T. Magor (French West Africa)
- John A. Makey (British Honduras)
- Thomas F. Mellor (Nigeria)
- William F. Mellor (Nigeria)
- Henry Mills (Kenya)
- Reginald T. G. Mitchell (British Guiana)
- John W. Mountford (India, Trichinopoly)
- Frank Mussel (Southern Rhodesia)
- Claude Nurse (Burma)
- W. S. Page (India, Medak)
- Baden Pearce (India, Dornakal)
- Peter J. Perowne (Panama)
- Peter Phillipson (India, Dehli)
- G. E. Hay Pluke (Southern Rhodesia)
- Eber Priestley (India, Medak)
- William G. B. Ream (Sierra Leone)
- William Rushton (Kenya)
- N. Carr Sargant (India, Mysore)
- David W. Smithson (India, Lucknow and Benares)
- Harold Spencer (India, Lucknow and Benares)
- Peter Swinglehurst (Jamaica)
- E. Howard Thomas (Leeward Islands)
- Christopher Tomlinson (Sarawak)
- Bryan Walker (India, Dornakal)
- Harold W. Ward (Bahamas)
- Peter D. Warner (Jamaica)
- Harold C. Willans (Burma)
- Sydney G. Williamson (Gold Coast)
3/2
Bundle of files containing printed publicity material produced by the Home
Organisation department of the Methodist Missionary Society, c.1950 - c.1963
3/3
Bundle of newsletters produced by the Home Organisation department of the
Methodist Missionary Society, c.1960 - c.1965
HC 4/- College life and interaction with the community
4/1
Bundle of printed lecture timetables, 1904-1916, 1919-1940, 1946-1964
4/2
Folder containing typescript community rules and blank theological diplomas,
1953 and 1968
4/3
Typescript list of duties of the college monitor, n.d.
4/4
List of students’ preaching appointments in local circuits, with detailed
information concerning availability of public transport and directions to the
chapels, c.1912 (volume)
4/5
Two printed copies of “Students’ Voluntary Rules”, with manuscript
annotations and lists of student chairmen, 1912-1971
4/6
Bundle of miscellaneous papers regarding college activities, consisting mainly
of programmes for the mission days, quiet days and garden parties, c.1957-
c.1970
4/7
Bundle of papers regarding the college jubilee, including printed programmes,
invitations to events and press cuttings, 1931-1932
Notes
Reference Code Diaries collection
Title John Bennettt:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Journal
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Autobiographies
Description Manuscript journal/memoir of the Wesleyan preacher John Bennett
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Diary extracts
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1700-50
Description Extracts from the Manuscript diary of John Bennett 1742-1744, 1747.
Notes
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Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Letter book
Keywords Sermons--1735-91
Description Manuscript letter book of John Bennett. Also contains sermons and extracts
from devotional works.
Notes
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Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--1700-50
Description John Bennett’s manuscript diary.
Notes
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Title Grace Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1715-1803) Diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Women and religion
Description Manuscript diary of Grace Bennett (maiden name - Murray).
Notes
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Title John Fletcher:(CE) (1729-85) Ministerial certificates etc
Keywords Church of England--Madeley# Church of England--Ordinations# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Madeley# Ordination
Description Folder of loose manuscripts relating to the ministry of John Fletcher as

follows:
- Appointment of John Fletcher as domestic chaplain to David Stuart, Earl of

Buchan. Witnessed by George Whitefield and Cradock Glascott, 7 December
1767
- License of Mrs Ann Ward’s house in the parish of Beckbury, Shropshire, as a

dissenters meeting house, 20 November 1812
- Admission by James, Bishop of Hereford, of John Fletcher to the vicarage and

parish church of Madeley, 7 October 1760
- License issued by James, Bishop of Hereford for John Fletcher to preach and
officiate in the office of curate of the parish of Madeley, 14 March 1757
- Declaration by John Fletcher that he will conform to the liturgy of the

Church of England, 14 March 1757
- Ordination by the Bishop of Bangor (at the request of the Bishop of

Hereford) of John Fletcher as a priest of the Church of England, 13 March
1757
- Ordination by the Bishop of Hereford of John Fletcher as a deacon of the

- Declaration that John Fletcher did read in Madeley parish church the services
appointed by the Book of Common Prayer and that he did thereafter in public
declare his assent to the use of all things contained within the said book etc, 6
October 1760
- Declaration by James, the Bishop of Hereford, that John Fletcher did appear
in person and subscribe to the 39 Articles of the Church of England upon his
admission to the vicarage and parish church of Madeley, 7 October 1760
- Declaration by John Fletcher that he will conform to the liturgy of the

Church of England, 7 October 1760
- Certificate of John Fletcher’s subscription to the 39 Articles of the Church of

England, 7 October 1760
- Presentation to the Bishop of Hereford by Edward Kynaston of Hardwick,

Salop, patron of the Vicarage of Madeley, of John Fletcher as incumbent of the
parish of Madeley, 4 October 1760
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P4d
Title John Fletcher:(CE) (1729-85) Ministerial certificates etc
Keywords Church of England--Madeley# Church of England--Ordinations# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Madeley# Spirituality--18th century--Covenant#
Description Folder of loose manuscripts relating to the ministry of John Fletcher as

follows:
- Copy in John Fletcher’s hand of "Part of the Office for the ordering of
Priests" - according to a 19th century annotation this hung on the wall in John
Fletcher’s study in Madeley
- Copy in John Fletcher’s hand(?) of a statement in Greek
- 19th century copy of John Fletcher’s personal covenant with God, 24 August
1754
- Manuscript of John Fletcher’s personal covenant with God (written in Latin),

24 August 1754
- Xerox copy of John Fletcher’s certificate of ordination as a priest of the

Notes
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Reference Code Lamplough 668
Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735) Printed Elegies on the Queen etc
Keywords Poetry--17th century
Description "Elegies on the Queen and Archbishop" by Samuel Wesley (London: 1695).
Notes Riviere binding
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Portrait engravings
Date of Material 18th and 19th century
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John# Engravings--Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-

1800
Description Scrapbook containing portraits of John Wesley comprising a mixture of

engravings, photographs of statues, depictions of scenes from Wesley’s life etc.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW 457
Title Presidents of Conference:(WM) Portrait engravings etc
Keywords Engravings--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist
Church--Clergy--Photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--
Presidents
Description Scrapbook containing portrait engravings, portrait photographs, news cuttings,

printed biographical details and a few manuscript letters relating to Presidents
of the Wesleyan Conference.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Presidents of Conference:(WM) Portrait engravings etc
Keywords Engravings--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist
Church--Clergy--Photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--
Presidents
Description Scrapbook containing portrait engravings, portrait photographs, news cuttings,

lists of stations, printed biographical details and manuscript letters relating to
Presidents of the Wesleyan Conference, 1744-1900.
The scrapbook contains the following manuscript letters:

William Thompson to Joseph Benson, 29 October 1796
Alexander Mather to Robert Carr Brackenbury, 3 October 1799
John Pawson to Robert Carr Brackenbury, 31 October 1801
Thomas Taylor to Samuel Bardsley, undated [1782 or 1783]
Thomas Coke to unnamed female correspondent, 16 December 1811
Joseph Benson to Isabella Benson, 19 December 1814
Samuel Bradburn to Jonathan Crowther, 9 July 1809
James Wood to unnamed correspondent, 25 April 1810
Henry Moore to unnamed correspondent, 24 February 1826
Adam Clarke to James Denton, 23 October 1807
John Barber to George Marsden, 25 June 1812
Charles Atmore to Jabez Bunting, 29 April 1815
Joseph Entwisle to George Marsden, 6 March 1826
Walter Griffith to Jabez Bunting, 11 July 1812
Richard Reece to Mr Collins, 18 December 1826
John Gaulter to Jabez Bunting, 12 April 1809
Jonathan Edmondson to Mrs Edmondson, 20 July 1830
Jonathan Crowther senior to Jonathan Crowther junior, 31 August 1814
Jabez Bunting to Thomas Mease, 31 December 1836
George Marsden to Jabez Bunting, 2 April 1835
Robert Newton to Thomas Mease, 22 May 1832
Richard Watson to Isaac Keeling, 16 November 1832
John Stephens to James Everett, July 1818 (this is a very interesting letter
about accommodation at Conference)
James Townley to Samuel Wood, 21 January 1827
George Morley to Jabez Bunting, 8 December 1828
Richard Treffry to Joseph Hutton, 18 April 1834
Joseph Taylor to Charles Prest, 9 December 1842
Edmund Grindrod to Jabez Bunting, 1 November 1825
Thomas Jackson to Jabez Bunting, 3 May 1838
Theophilus Lessey to Jabez Bunting, 2 April 1840
James Dixon to unnamed correspondent, 20 March 1843
John Hannah to Charles Prest, 24 November 1842
John Scott to John Boyd, 25 August 1835
Jacob Stanley to Jabez Bunting, 11 September 1842
William Atherton to Jabez Bunting, 27 May 1845
Samuel Jackson to Joseph Butler[?], 26 August 1850
John Beecham to Jabez Bunting, 6 August 1838
John Farrar to Mr H. W. Blackburn, 8 October 1867
Isaac Keeling to John Brown, 13 December 1858
Robert Young to George Osborn, 25 December 1852
Francis A. West to Jabez Bunting, 29 January 1844
John Bowers to George Mather, 20 May 1854
Samuel D. Waddy to Jabez Bunting, 4 December 1834
William W. Stamp to Luke Tyerman[?], 1 July 1868
John Rattenbury to John Shipham, 25 January 1873
Charles Prest to John Scott, 17 February 1844
George Osborn to Mr Hardcastle, 30 October 1868
William L.Thornton to Mr Boyce, undated
William Shaw to Mr Smith, 20 April 1858
William Arthur to Luke Tyerman, 12 October 1853
John Bedford to John E. Coulson, 10 April 1848
Samuel Romilly Hall to John E. Coulson, 26 April 1872
Frederick Jobson to unnamed male, 10 November 1855
John H. James to John Shipham, 17 December 1866
Luke Wiseman to Luke Tyerman, 18 September 1863
George T. Perks to unnamed correspondent, 5 September 1861
William Morley Punshon to unnamed correspondent, 10 April 1866
Gervase Smith to John B. Dyson, 18 February no year
Alexander Macaulay to Stephen Cox, 20 February 1885
William B. Pope to John Gould, 5 November 1877
James H. Rigg to William Lees, 3 February 1876
Benjamin Gregory to unnamed correspondent, 30 October 1883
Ebenezer E. Jenkins to unnamed correspondent, 16 January no year
Charles Garrett to unnamed correspondent, 11 November no year
Thomas McCullagh to Richard Green, 21 September 1883
Frederick Greeves to William J. Marris, 17 December 1889
Richard Robert to Mr Leslie, 26 October 1894
Robert N. Young to William J. Marris, 31 August 1889
John Walton to Luke Tyerman, 9 December 1863
Joseph Bush to John Priestley, 5 October 1868
Charles H. Kelly to R. Thursfield Smith, 9 February 1897
William F. Moulton to Mr Mors[?], 2 February 1893
T. Bowman Stephenson to unnamed correspondent, undated
Henry John Pope to R. Thursfield Smith, 10 February 1899
Walford Green to Moses Atkinson, 28 August 1893
D. J. Waller to John Jackson, 12 March 1896
Marshall Randles to R. Thursfield Smith, 2 October 1894
W. L. Watkinson to Mr Smith, 9 January 1899
Hugh Price Hughes to William MacArthur, 18 June 1884
Frederick W. MacDonald to Luke Wiseman, 20 January 1868
Thomas Allan to unnamed correspondent, 15 December 1863
Notes Purchased at Sotheby’s for £270 on October 12th 1973
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Reference Code N/A
Title Autograph album:(WM)
Keywords Poetry--19th century# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--General# Art#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--General
Description Manuscript autograph album containing water colour paintings, sketches,

autographs, uplifting comments/scripture quotes and a small number of
manuscript letters. Many of the autographs seem to have been collected at the
Wesleyan Conference, eg Liverpool 1839. The album is inscribed inside the
front cover with the names Miss Pernley of Lark Hill, Stockport; Mrs
Thackray of 33 Park Square, Leeds, 13 June 1855; Maria Louisa Thackray of
Harrogate; Mary Louisa Stuart, 1883.
The autographs and uplifting comments/scripture quotes comprise

contributions from the following:
Theophilus Lessey, 26 August 1829
Joseph Taylor, 14 August 1839
William Barton, 16 August 1839
Robert Newton Pickering, 24 August 1838
Thomas Jackson, 14 August 1839
Joseph Entwisle senior, 18 August 1839
Thomas Waugh, 15 August 1839
Edmund Grindrod, 15 August 1839
William Stewart, 15 August 1839
Thomas Bowers, 15 August 1839
Daniel Walton, 16 August 1839
John P. Haswell, 15 August 1839
Isaac Keeling, 16 August 1839
Francis A. West, 3 September 1839
George Stevenson, 15 January 1840
John Fernley
James Wood, 1 February 1840
Richard Roberts, 27 August 1858
Joseph Heaton, 1840
James Parsons, 25 October 1842
J. Thornton
Ephraim Harper, 21 December 1842
William L. Thornton, January 1843
John Hannah, 20 June 1843
William W. Stamp, 23 August 1843
James Bromley, 21 May 1844
Charles Westlake, 19 August 1844
Alexander Hall, 28 February 1845
Stephen Kay, 26 February 1845
George Chapman, 23 February 1846
John Nelson, 13 July 1846
Maria Heald, 31 May 1849
Thomas Brumwell, 6 August 1855
John Lomas
David Hay, 25 July 1859
John Scott, 6 August 1855
John Scott Lidgett, 22 May 1916
Samuel Jackson, 6 August 1855
John Stirling, 6 August 1855
John Kirk, 25 July 1846
Alfred Barrett, 26 November 1850
William Arthur, 1 March 1852
Josiah Cox, 3 November 1860
John Gay Wilson, 8 August 1853
Jabez Bunting, 12 August 1855
John Farrar, 12 August 1855
William Shaw (South Africa missionary), 24 October 1856
N. Cooke, 31 May 1858
George Scott, 7 August 1866
William Wilson, 26 August 1859
Mark B. Bird (Haiti missionary)
Frederick B. Cowl, 3 March 1882
William Henry Groves, August 1882
W. Henry Thompson, 26 December 1887
M. B. Calvert, 18 May 1906
E. Stanley Edwards (Mysore, India, missionary), May 1906
Joseph Hargreaves, 24 April 1840
James Osborn, 30 May 1859
R. Spence Hardy, 16 December 1866
William T. Radcliffe, 24 August 1852
John Bedford, 7 August 1866
R. J. Campbell, 12 April 1903
William Morley Punshon, 15 September 1859
George Maunder, 1859
John S. Powlyn, 19 August 1866
Rodney ‘Gypsy’ Smith, 5 February 1903
Dinsdale T. Young, 12 December 1907
William Wilson, 22 June 1860
James Calvert (Fiji missionary), 27 July 1866
Daniel Sanderson (Bangalore, India, missionary), 27 July 1866
John S. Hainstock, 1933
Frederick Parsons, 4 August 1933
Benjamin Hellier, 2 December 1870
George E. Young, 2 December 1870
Edward H. Sugden, 16 June 1878
J. Denholm Brash, 18 November 1878
Alfred W. Hooker (South China missionary), 1907-25
William Hudson, 2 February 1902
R. Bevan Shepherd, 2 November 1902
Nicola Eyoub Tams (Palestine), 24 February 1899
William H. Findlay (South India), 8 October 1900
Matthew Stephenson (Lord Mayor of Newcastle), 19 February 1912
Henry Haigh, 14 July 1912
Albert Schweitzer, 27 November 1934
Albert H. Walker, 22 January 1936
Samuel David, 1935-40
Also includes:
Manuscript poem by Anne Middleton, Stockport, 22 January 1830
Water colour painting by Anne Middleton
Drawing by M. Fernley, Manchester 27 May 1830
Manuscript poem by John Pearson, July 1848
Poem by Mrs Hermans copied by Eliza Fernley, 18 January 1840
Poem by Angus Bulmer copied by M. Wood, 1 February 1840
Manuscript poem by Thomas Birch Freeman (missionary, West Africa), 7
September 1840
Manuscript poem by Thomas Galland, 9 February 1841
Poem copied by George Osborn, 19 April 1841
Drawing by M. Guy Pearse,
Manuscript letters of the following correspondents:

William Dawson to Mr Fernley, 23 December 1836 and 7 January 1837
Charles Haddon Spurgeon to Frederick W. Steward, 13 February 1888
John Unthank to James Everett, 1 August 1834.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P11b
Title Benjamin Ingham:(CE/Ind) (1712-72) Copy journal etc
Keywords Inghamite Connexion# Inghamite Connexion--Conference
Description Bound manuscript volume entitled "Church History collected from the
memoirs and journals of Reverend Benjamin Ingham and the labourers in
connexion with him", 14 July 1779 - probably compiled by the Inghamite
preacher William Batty.
The volume contains:

- detailed biographical notes regarding the life and ministry of Benjamin
Ingham
- list of preachers attending the Inghamite Conference held on 27 December
1755 together with the minutes of the conference.
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 26 March 1756
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 26 June 1756
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 25 September 1756
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on an unspecified date
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 9 April 1757
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on an unspecified date
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held in September 1757
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 27 December 1757
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held in 1758
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held in December 1758
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 24 December 1758
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 29 March 1760
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 29 December 1760 (out of
sequence - see page 136)
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 24 March 1761 (out of
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held in December 1761 (out of
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 3 July 1774
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on23 August 1776
- Minutes of the Inghamite Conference held on 11 April 1779
Notes
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Reference Code Wesley collection
Title George Lawton:(fl.1974) Notes on John Wesley’s Concordance.
Description Xerox copy of manuscript notes on John Wesley’s Concordance, written by

George Lawton.
Notes
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Title Joseph Sutcliffe:(WM) (1762-1856) Ms History of Methodism
Description Manuscript "The History of Methodism comprising the life and labours of Rev.
John Wesley and of the people under his care brought down to the present
time" by Joseph Sutcliffe (comprising the third revision begun January 8th
1852).
The history is wrtten in four bound autograph manuscript volumes as follows:
Volume 1. From the birth of John and Charles Wesley to 1755

Volume 2. 1756 to 1779
Volume 3. 1779 to 1791
Volume 4. 1791 to 1824
The four volumes contain a total of approximately 1560 pages and there is a
manuscript index at the back of volumes 3 and 4.
Notes The volumes are in very poor physical condition
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Reference Code N/A
Title Richard Rymer:(WM) (1809-1907) Autograph book etc
Description Bound manuscript volume compiled by the Wesleyan minister Richard Rymer
and containing a few manuscript letters, autographs, verse and uplifting
comments by Wesleyan ministers and other individuals associated with
Wesleyan Methodism.
The book contains autographs, verse and uplifting comments by the following:
Benjamin Clough, 19 May 1824 [missionary in Ceylon]

Joseph Stephens [can probably be identified more precisely as Joseph Raynor
Stephens]
S. S. Swale, 9 July 1830
Peter Jones, 13 September 1831 [Missionary in Upper Canada]
Rich Win[?] Hamilton, 22 May 1832
Robert Wood, 23 May 1832
W. Stephenson, 13 August 1832
Thomas H. Squance, 15 August 1832 [missionary in Ceylon]
William L. Thornton, October 1833
Richard Treffry, 22 August 1835
Henry Fish, 22 June 1836
Joseph Beaumont, 23 May 1837
Ann Gilbert, 26 August 1841
Joseph Gilbert
Th book contains the following letters (many of them loose) to Richard Rymer
by the following correspondents:
William Naylor, 23 October 1860
John Hickling , 28 May 1852
Robert Leake, 7 February 1861
William B. Boyce, 6 November 1843
M. L. Taylor, 1 June 1858
William L. Thornton, 7 April no year
William Morley Punshon, 2 November 1858
Peter McOwen, 14 May 1845
John McLean, 28 February 1853
William Barton, 24 June
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title James Smetham:(WM) Copy poetry
Description Bound manuscript volume containing poemst by James Smetham copied by H.

Smetham of London, 1883.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title George Sargent:(WM) (d.1823) Sermons
Description Bound manuscript volume containing notes for 250 sermons preached by the
Wesleyan minister George Sargent.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title W. E. Knight:(WM)
Keywords
Description Bound manuscript book containing reflections on spirutual matters by Mr W.

E. Knight.
Knight was a merchant in Newark, Lincolnshire. He served as a Wesleyan local

preacher for many years and endowed a fund for the benefit of the Wesleyan
Methodist Missionary Society.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM PS
Title Ernest Edward Crosby:(Australian Methodist Church) (d.1926) Papers
Date of Material 19th and 20th
Keywords Methodism (Australia)
Description Letters and news cuttings etc relating to the life and ministry of the Australian
Methodist minister Ernest Edward Crosby.
Notes
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Title Mary Wells:The Triumph of Faith (1787) - annotated by John Wesley
Keywords Women and religion--Conversion testimonies# Conversion--Biography#

Conversion--Case studies
Description Copy of "The triumph of faith over the world, the flesh and the devil
exemplified in the life, death and spiritual experiences of that burning and
shining light Mrs Joanna Turner, who departed this life on the 24th December
1784 in the fifty-third year of her age."
Annotated throughout by John Wesley.
Notes
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Title Dr Floyde:(fl.1775) Sermons
Description Manuscript volume containing "Heads of sermons preached at different times

by Dr Floyde, volume 1, 1775. There are also some passages that appear to be
in the hand of John Wesley, but this is unconfirmed.
Notes
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Reference Code Lamplough 138a/G.257/III J.10
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Published tracts - annotated by Wesley
Description Two tracts bound together as follows:
1. "An Extract of Letters by Mrs L***" [Mrs Lefevre] (Bristol, 1773) -

presented by John Wesley as a gift to Miss Thornton and annotated by Wesley
inside the front cover with his signature and date of 5 February 1791
2. "Letters wrote by Jane Cooper to which is prefixed some account of her life
and death" (London, 1789) (not annotated)
3. "Reflections upon the conduct of human life; with reference to learning and
knowledge extracted from Mr Norris" (London, 1776) - not annotated
4. A treatise on Christian prudence extracted from Mr Norris by John Wesley"

(London, 1784)
Notes
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Reference Code Lamplough 518 III J13
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Life of John Fletcher - annotated
Keywords
Description Copy of "A short account of the life and death of the Rev. John Fletcher" by
John Wesley (London, 1786). Annotated inside the front cover by John
Wesley - ‘The Revd Mr Stedman. Aug. 12 1789’.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Ms draft of the 1780 hymnal
Description Bound manuscript volume dated 16 April 1778 containing John Wesley’s
autograph draft of the text of "A collection of hymns for the use of the people
called Methodists", subsequently published in 1780.
Notes The volume was originally kept at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire , was
transferred to the Conference Office in London and from there to the
Methodist Archives in March 1973.
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Title Francis Gastrell:(CE) (1662-1725) Published work (1703) - annotated
Keywords
Description "The certainty of the Christian revelation and the necessiry of believing it
established in opposition to all the cavils and insinuations of such as pretend to
allow natural religion, and reject the Gospel" by Francis Gastrell (London, 2nd
edition, 1703) - inscribed with John Wesley’s signature inside the front cover.
Notes
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Title John Mills:(d.1784) Essay on bees (1766) - annotated
Keywords Bees
Description Copy of "An Essay on the Management of Bees" by John Mills (London,
1766). Annotated inside the front cover by John Wesley - ‘JW 1769
Kingswood’. The copy also bears manuscript annotations by Wesley’s hand
throughout the text of the work.
Notes
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Title Patrick Middleton:(1662-1736) On Christian religion-annotated
Keywords
Description Copy of "A short view of the evidences upon which Christian religion and the
divine authority of the holy scriptures is established" In 2 parts) by Patrick
Middleton (London, undated). Annotated inside the front cover by John
Wesley - ‘J Wesley [shorthand notes].
Notes There is an attached 20th century note stating that this volume was formerly
part of the John Wesley’s personal collection of books.
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Title Nathaniel Bacon:(1593-1660) On Francis Spira (1720) - annotated
Keywords Anti-Catholicism--Early works to 1800# Church of England--Anti-Catholicism
Description Copy of "A relation of the fearful estate of Francis Spira, after he turned
apostate from the Protestant Church to Popery, as also the miserable lives and
woeful deaths of Mr John Child, who desperately hanged himself in Brick Lane,
in Spittle Fields, London, 1684 and George Edwards, who wilfully shot himself
to death, January 4 1704. To which is added King James the First’s prophetical
curse upon any of his race that should apostasize to the Church of Rome etc"
by [Nathaniel Bacon] (London, 1720). Annotated throughout by John Wesley.
Noted inside the front cover as having been the property of John Wesley and
given by him to Mr Hulett. Mr Hulett’s son James then passed it to James
Reynolds in January 1840. A separate 20th century annotation records that the
book was found at Reading in May 1921. Reverend Thomas E. Brigden.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Autograph album (Moravian interest)
Keywords Moravian Church
Description Manuscript volume formerly owned by John Wesley (Wesley’s signature occurs
inside the front cover) and containing several hundred signatures with appended
uplifting comments and scriptural quotes written by members of the Moravian
community at Herrnhut in Germany.
The volume was compiled during John Wesley’s visit to Germany between June
and August 1738. The album includes autographs by many of the prominent
Moravians of the time, including Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf and
David Nitschmann.
Notes The volume has a 19th century stamp - "Methodist Chapel House Library, City
Road, London".
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Lamplough 141a/MAW G62B.1
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Instructions for Children
Keywords Youth--18th century
Description Copy of "Instructions for Children" by John Wesley (London, 1787).
Annotated by the Wesleyan preacher Joseph Bradford (c.1741-1808) inside the

front cover - "This book is the gift of that man of God, the late Revd. John
Wesley, to his much loved Charlotte Lupe, and the last he lived to give away.
Jos. Bradford April 1791".
Notes ESTC lists this Rylands copy as being the only copy of this edition in existence
anywhere. It is bound together with Wesley’s abridgement of James Janeway’s
"Token for Children" (London, 1788) (1977/531)
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Lamplough 141b/MAW G62B.2
Title James Janeway:(1636-74) Token for Children
Description Copy of "A Token for Children" by James Janeway and abridged/edited by John
Wesley (London, 1788).
Notes ESTC lists this Rylands copy as being the only copy of this edition in existence
anywhere. It is bound together with Wesley’s "Instructions for Children"
(London, 1787) (1977/530).
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Title New Testament:London,1619 (Bill and Norton)-annotated
Keywords
Description Copy of "The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Newly
translated out of the original tongues and with the former tranlations diligently
compared and reissued by His Majesties special commandment. Imprinted at
London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, printers to the King’s most excellent
Majestie. Anno 1619"
Inside the front cover is the autograph signature of John Wesley and William
Severn dated 1773.
There are also the following later annotations:
"The scriptures are like a river in which a lamb may quench his thirst and an
elephant cannot exhaust"
and in a separate hand - "Given to AG, April 7 1822, and a sacred relic of the
late (revered and regretted) owner"
There are also shorthand annotations (not in Wesley’s hand) on the fly leaf.
Inside the bible is a loose paper dated 23 October 1902 recording that "Mrs
Richard Angrave has given to the Conference the New Testament used by John
Wesley in sick visitation. It contains his autograph …"
Notes This particular copy of the New Testament appears to be unrecorded, although
this needs to be confirmed.
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Title Elizabeth Ritchie:(1754-1835) Account of John Wesley’s death
Date of Material 8 May 1791
Keywords Women and religion# Deathbeds--Wesley,John
Description Notebook containing a manuscript account by Elizabeth Ritchie of the final

illness and death of John Wesley.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy autograph album (Moravian interest)
Description Bound notebook containing a transcript by Edward Pope of Western Australia

of the contents of "John Wesley’s notebook" - Wesley’s autograph album
compiled during his visit to Herrnhut in 1738 (MA 1977/529).
Notes
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Title Samuel Wesley:(WM) (1817-97) Letters
Keywords
Description Letters from the Wesleyan minister Samuel Wesley to James Young, 1876-90
(10 items)
Wesley claimed descent from a brother of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), Rector

of Epworth and father of John and Charles Wesley. His daughter was Elizabeth
Ann Wesley (1852-85), who engaged in a successful ministry to soldiers - her
father wrote a memoir after her death entitled "Memorials of Elizabeth Ann
Wesley - the Soldiers’ Friend" (London, 1887).
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Notes upon the Old Testament (1765) -
Description "Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament" by John Wesley, volume II
(Bristol, 1765).
Annotated throughout in Byrom’s shorthand. An accompanying bundle of

correspondence dated 1921 by George Severs, a Byrom shorthand expert,
indicates that the shorthand annotations are certainly not in the hand of John
Wesley and consist of devotional comments - "chiefly prayers or moralising".
Notes
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Reference Code Lamplough 594 (1-2)
Title New Testament in Greek:(London,1714) - annotated by George
Keywords Biblical studies# Calvinism# Methodism (Calvinistic)
Description Interleaved copy of "The New Testament in Greek" (London, Jacob Tonson
and John Watts, 1714, 2 volumes). This copy was owned by George Whitefield
and is copiously annotated by Whitefield throughout the two volumes.
The front of Volume 2 also contains cuttings from 18th century newspapers
reporting Whitefield’s ministry.
Notes
Access Restrictions Very poor physical condition

Reference Code MAW G172D
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Notes upon the New Testament
Description "Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament" by John Wesley (5th edition,
London, 1788).
Inscribed inside the cover "Francis Stoper, with kind regards, Charles Wesley" -
this is a 19th century hand and therefore relates to a later member of the
Wesley family, not Charles Wesley.
Notes Very good physical condition
Access Restrictions
Title Wesley Frank Swift:(WM) (1900-61) Notes on John Wesley
Keywords Methodist Episcopal Church--General# Holy Club# Universities--Oxford#

Methodist Episcopal Church--Liturgy# Liturgies
Description Research material consisting of notebooks and folders of loose papers compiled
by Wesley Frank Swift in the process of working on the following projects:
1. The diaries kept by John Wesley while at Oxford University. Swift’s papers
include transcriptions and photographic copies of the original manuscripts.
2. "The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America" (1784). Swift’s

papers include correspondence with libraries and special collections regarding
the and status of early editions of the work.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Prison Committee:(WM) Minutes, reports etc
Keywords Prison chaplains# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Prison chaplains# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Prison chaplains
Description SEE ALSO 2009/14 FOR OTHER PRISON CHAPLAINCY RECORDS
1. Leather-bound volume containing minutes and papers of the following

committees:
- Index
- Wesleyan Prison Committee, 20 June 1910 - 24 October 1913
- Home Mission Prison Committee, 23 March 1914
- After Care Committee, 25 February 1938 - 9 June 1938
- Prison and After Care Committee, 15 June 1939 - 20 October 1939
- Joint meeting of the Prison Committee and Representatives of the Social
Welfare Committee, 17 November 1939
- Juvenile Delinquents Sub-Committee of the Joint Prison and Social Welfare
Committee, 4 December 1939
- Prisons and Sub-Prisoners Sub-Committee of the Joint Prison and Social
Welfate Committee, 8 December 1939
- Remedial Sub-Committee of the Joint Prison and Social Welfate Committee,
11 December 1939
- Meeting of the Prison Committee and Representatives of the Social Welfate
Committee, 22 February 1940
- Prison Committee, 1 May 1940 - 28 May 1954
- Prison Sub-Committee, 5 December 1946
- Sub-Committee of the Prison Committee and Women’s Fellowship, 16
December 1949
2. Manilla folder containing minutes and other papers of the following

committees:
- Prison Committee, 19 April 1963 - 13 March 1975
- Precis of the minutes of the General Committee of the Home Mission
Department, 13 November 1970
- XI Committee for Prisons, Borstals, Detention Centres and Approved
Schools - report to Conference, 1966
- Report to Conference, 1975
- Cuttings from Methodist Recorder, 12 July 1973, 2 October 1975
- Cutting from The Times, 28 July 1975
- Cutting from The Times, 12 November 1975

committees:
- Prison Committee, 12 March 1976 - 3 March 1978
- Aide memoire relating to the first meeting of Methodist Regional Co-
ordinators for Prison Work, 4 September 1978
- Aide memoires relating to the meeting of Regional Co-ordinators, 9
November1978 - 5 July 1979
- Memorandum on the meeting of Prison Regional Co-ordinators, 13 December
1979
- Paper re the purpose of the Prison Committee and its mandate
- Prisoners’ Sunday, 15 November
- Westminster Abbey commemoration of the centenary of the Prison service.
4 July 1978
- Summary of the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the UK Prison
Service, [1979]
- Discussion and Planning Aid: Break 81 Through
- Letters to Reverend Hedley Percival Lyddon, Secretary of the Prison
Committee
- Letters from Reverend J. David Bridge, Chair of the Prison Committee
- Letters from the Chaplain General of Prisons
- Letter from Alan R. Duce to Reverend John Cavell

committees:
- Reports of the Prison Committee to the Home Mission Board, 1983 - 1996
- Report to Conference
- A Chaplaincy for the 1990s, 18 July 1988
- Suggested policy statement - Methodist chaplaincy to HM Prisons in England
and Wales
- Letter from Keith Bannister of the Prison Service to Adrian Speller of the
Division of Social Responsibility, 10 August 1987
- Home Mission Prison Committee, 18 September 1980 - 9 February 1994
- Home Mission Prison Committee correspondence

committees:
- Prison Committee, 11 February 1981
- Home Mission Prison Committee, 2 March 1983 - 12 February 1992
- Correspondence file of Reverend William J. Davies, Superintendent Methodist
Chaplain, including material relating to a disagreement with Reverend Peter
Timms over Myra Hindley, 1993 - 1997 (CLOSED UNTIL 2070)

committees:
- Home Mission Prison Committee, 21 September 1993 - 16 November 1994
Notes
In addition, there is a closure period on certain documents until 2070 (as marked on the catalogue description).
Title Hedley Percival Lyddon:(MCGB) (1927-2003) Prison ministry
Keywords Prison chaplains# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Prison chaplains
Description SEE ALSO 2009/13 FOR OTHER PRISON CHAPLAINCY RECORDS
1. Chaplains log containing reports of prisoner interviews etc , 1976 - 1987

[CLOSED TO PUBLIC ACCESS UNTIL 2070]
2. Chaplains log containing reports of prisoner interviews etc, 1982-1985

[CLOSED TO PUBLIC ACCESS UNTIL 2070]
3. Black and white portrait photograph of Reverend Hedley Percival Lyddon

(1927-2003), prison chaplain, September 1981
Notes
Access Restrictions Closed to public access until 2070

Reference Code Lamplough
Title Susanna Wesley:(CE) (1662-1742) Artefacts
Keywords Artifacts--Wesley, Susanna# Women and religion
Description
- Letters regarding the gift of two alleged artifacts of Susanna Wesley (see
below) by the Methodist minister Edmund George Hunt Bryant (1882-1963) to
the Women’s Fellowship of the Methodist Church (facilitated by Frank Baker).
The provenance of the items is unknown before 1916 in which year they were
given by one Mrs Ritchie to the mother of Alice Bradley, widow of a
Wesleyan minister, October 1952 (4 items).
- Needle case reputed to have been the property of Susanna Wesley.
- Piece of lace reputed to have been worked by Selina Hastings, Countess of

Huntingdon, and given by her to Susanna Wesley.
Notes
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Title John Wesley((1703-91) Preaching band (collar)
Keywords Artifacts--Wesley, John# Church of England--Preaching band
Description A linen preaching band given by John Wesley to a young girl at City Road
Chapel in London shortly before his death.
Notes A preaching band was an early version of the clerical dog collar.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Artifact
Keywords Artifacts--Wesley, Charles
Description Small piece of fabric that once reputedly formed part of Charles Wesley’s chair.
Notes
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Title Mary Bosanquet:(CE/WM) (1739-1815) Artifact
Date of Material November 1781
Keywords Artifacts--Bosanquet, Mary# Women and religion
Description Two cloth pieces of Mary Bosanquet’s reputed wedding dress worn on the
occasion of her union to John Fletcher (1729-85).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Hester Ann Roe:(CE/WM) (1756-94) Artifact
Keywords Women and religion# Artifacts--Methodism
Description Piece of Hester Ann Roe’s reputed wedding dress worn on the occasion of her
union to the Wesleyan minister James Rogers (1749-1807).
Notes According to a paper enclosed with the item, all three of Rogers’ wives wore
the same wedding dress.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code WTI
Title Colleges:(WM) Theological Institute,Administrative papers
Keywords Colleges--Wesleyan Theological Institute
Description The Wesleyan Theological Institute was established in 1834 to oversee the
training of probationers for the Wesleyan ministry. The institute was located
from 1834 to 1842 at Hoxton in London (additional premises were acquired at
Abney Park in 1839). From 1842 there were Northern and Southern branches
of the Institute at Didsbury in Manchester and Richmond near London and
additional colleges were opened later in the 19th century. Each of these
colleges, which were officially branches of the Institute, had their own records,
but the Institute continued to exercise a general oversight of all Wesleyan
ministerial college training until after union in 1932. Material relating to
individual colleges, such as Handsworth and Didsbury, can often be found in the
Institute archive as well as the collections of individual colleges.
Wesleyan Theological Institute Collection — List of Contents
WTI I/- Committee Minutes
WTI 2/- Accounts and related papers
Wesleyan Theological Institute
WTI 1/- Committee Minutes
WTI 1/1
Institute Committee minutes, 18 August 1834-17 October 1849 (manuscript

volume MAW Ms 569)
Function: Oversight of policy and administration relating to the constituent

colleges, including appointment of sub-committees, maintenance of the
Hoxton buildings, provision of suitable students to supply circuit shortages,
curriculum and receipt of reports concerning student quality and academic
achievement.
WTI 1/2
Institute Trustees ‘minutes, 26 July 1842-30 July 1850 (manuscript volume,

MAW Ms 553)
Function: Record of the deliberations of the combined meetings of the

Southern [Richmond] and Northern [Didsbury] branches of the Institution.
Matters discussed included finance, committee appointments and terms of
leasehold of buildings.
WTI 1/3-5
Institute General Committee minutes, 20 March 1856 - 7 July 1882, 6 October

1899 - 24 April 1908, 25 June 1908 - 23 June 1932 (3 manuscript volumes,
MAW Ms. 556-557)
Function: Established in accordance with the decision of the 1855 Conference

(Minutes: 148). The committee met twice a year and its purpose was defined by
Jabez Bunting at the inaugural meeting as to ensure ‘an accurate supervision
from time to time of all Institution affairs... especially those connected with
the Endowment Fund, the annual income, and various financial details; the
relations of the Missionary and Institution Funds; the minimum number of
missionary students to be counted on; the terms of supplying affiliated
Conferences (as the French, Canadian and Australian) with the
advantages of training for their young ministers; the due supply of ministers for
both branches; and the enlargement of the literary curriculum’.
WTI 116
Special Committee minutes, 14 November 1861-5 July 1862 (Manuscript

volume, MAW Ms 547)
Function: Established by the Conference of 1861 (Minutes, 110) ‘to consider

the whole question of providing more adequate means for receiving theological
students, with a view to promote the spiritual and intellectual advantage of our
churches ... and especially to prevent the accession of untrained and
unfurnished men to ranks of the ministry...’
WTI 1/1/7
Institute Finance Sub-Committee minutes, 5 October 1899-22 June 1922

(manuscript volume MAW Ms 562)
Function: Established to consider expenditure and other financial matters

relating to the constituent Colleges. Replaced by the Institute Executive
Committee in 1921 [WTI 118].
WTI 118
Minute book of the Institute Executive Committee, 14 Oct. 1921 – 22

Jun.1932 (MAW Ms 549)
Function: Established by the Conference of 1921 (Minutes, 31) to ‘supersede

the present Finance Sub-Committee and shall have power to deal with all the
ordinary expenditure and administration of the Colleges.’
WTI 119-10
Institute General Discipline Committee minutes, 15 October 1891-27 June
1923, 18 January 1924-3 June 1961 (2 manuscript volumes MAW Ms 563 and
548)
Note: The earliest volume referred to this committee as the Board of

Discipline and there was an additional change of name to General Oversight
Committee from January 8 1934.
Function: Joint meeting of the Local [College] Discipline committees,

convening twice a year to consider reports from the colleges regarding named
individuals and to discuss formulation of common procedures with regard to the
same, together with agreement concerning the duties and running of the Local
Discipline committees. The cases regard conduct, transfers between colleges,
response to ministerial shortages in the circuits, suitability for the ministry and
health.
WTI 2/- Accounts and related papers (for the relevant committees see WTI Q
WTI2/1
General Accounts, I Sept.1834 – 12 Nov. 1874 (manuscript volume)
Contents: Itemised income and expenditure accounts covering the full range of
institution finances.
Accounts of the following subsidiary funds are included: ‘ Fund for Preparing
and Furnishing the Premises at Hoxton’, ‘Building and Furnishing Fund’ and
‘Salaries account’. Other entries cover furniture and repairs, stationery, investments,
students’ contributions, medical expenses, external teachers’ expenses, income
from the college garden and farm and students’ class money.
WTI 211
Cash book, 8 Dec.1834 – 1 Nov. 1841 (manuscript volume RC 2.3)
Contents: Itemised expenditure and subscriptions/donations (including names of

subscribers.
Notes
Reference Code RC 1-14
Title Colleges:(WM) Richmond,Administrative records
Keywords Colleges--Richmond
Description Richmond College opened in 1843 as the Southern branch of the Wesleyan
Theological Training Institute (see MA 1977/545). It trained Wesleyan
ministers for both the home work and overseas missions until 1868 when it
switched focus entirely to the training of missionaries until 1885 after which it
again accepted candidates for the home work. The college closed in 1972.
(for a detailed itemised list of this archive, see the Richmond College collection
on ELGAR)
Notes
Reference Code MAW Ms 538/538A
Title Colleges:(MNC) Ranmoor,Adminstrative papers
Keywords Colleges--Ranmoor
Description Ranmoor College near Sheffield opened in 1864 as a ministerial training college
for the Methodist New Connexion. After Methodist union in 1907 there was a
gradual merging of the functions of Ranmoor and Victoria Park Colleges and in
1919 Ramoor was sold and all United Methodist ministerial training
transferred to the Victoria Park site in Manchester.
The collection consisting of 2 boxes is not catalogued in detail but contains

correspondence, architectural drawings and building specifications, college
accounts, title deeds and a schedule of deeds and other conveyances relating to
MNC chapels in the 19th century (nationwide coverage), 1863-1910 (general
covering dates)
Notes
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Reference Code Colleges
Title Colleges:(UMC) Victoria Park,Student society laws, minutes etc
Keywords Colleges--Victoria Park
Description Victoria Park College opened as the training establishment of the United
Methodist Free Church in 1877. After union in 1907 and closure of Ranmoor
College, Victoria Park became the ministerial college of the United Methodist
Church. In 1934 after the union that created the Methodist Church of the
Great Britain, Victoria Park merged with the nearby Hartley College to create
Hartley Victoria College and the Victoria Park college site was sold.
This document consists of a notebook containing the manuscript "Book of

Laws and Precedents" of the Victoria Park student organisation and contains
the minutes of student meetings, 1911-1933.
Notes
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Reference Code M9690
Title Colleges:(WM) Handsworth, Autograph book
Description Manuscript notebook containing signatures of students who were trainined at

the college arranged under the date of admission. Some of the entries are
annotated with details of careers and dates of retirement or death.
Notes
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Title Schools:(BC) School Committee minutes etc
Keywords Bible Christian Church--Schools committee
Description 1.Manuscript notebook containing minutes of the Bible Christian School

Committee (and successor bodies), 21 October 1847 - 28 July 1879.
2. Black and white photograph of a group of delegates to the Bible Christian

Conference, 1903.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 1193/MAM P86
Title Colleges:(WM) Wesley House Cambridge,Trust document
Date of Material 24 February
Keywords Colleges--Wesley House Cambridge
Description Declaration of Trust of funds for the establishment of a Wesleyan Methodist

College at Cambridge.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Circuit plans:(WM) Retford
Keywords Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1791-1819#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1791-1819
Description Retford WM circuit plan.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks box 1
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Richmond)
Date of Material 18th centuey
Description Hymnbook labelled "Manuscript Hymns" containing hymns in the hand of

Charles Wesley and known as "Manuscript Richmond".
The first hymn in the volume is "On the birthday of a friend [Sarah Wesley],
October 12", the first line of which is
"Hail the bright auspicious morn".
Notes
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Reference Code Charles Wesley notebooks box 1:
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Deliberative)
Description Hymnbook containing hymns in the hand of Charles Wesley and labelled
"Manuscript Deliberative".
The first hymn in the volume is "To the Tune of - Hail, holy, holy, holy
Lord", the first line of which is
"All-good, all-wise, almighty Lord".
The volume is annotated as "The Gift of Charles Wesley [junior] to Eliza

T[elitha] Tooth. Deliberative Hymns. Given me 1828".
Notes Former reference L351
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks box 1:
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Psalms)
"Manuscript Psalms".
The first hymn in the volume is "Psalm 1", the first line of which is
"Blest is the Man, and none but He"
The volume also contains other psalms by Isaac Watts and transcribed by the
Wesleyan minister John Pawson.
Notes Former reference C49
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks box 1:
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Shent)
"Manuscript Shent".
The first hymn in the volume is "The Sixth Chapter of Isaiah", the first line of
which is
"I saw the Lord in Light arrayed".
Notes
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Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1:
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Acts)
"Manuscript Acts".
The first hymn in the volume is "All that Jesus began both to do and teach
Chapt 1:1", the first line of which is
"The life of a true pastor".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Misc Hymns)
Description Hymnbook containing hymns in the hand of Charles Wesley and labelled "Misc
Hymns".
The first hymn in the volume is "At the meeting of Minister and People", the
first line of which is
"Glory and power, and thanks, and praise".
Notes Former references C26 and DDCWH 2. Formerly part of the Conference
Office Library
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Epistles)
"Manuscript Epistles".
The first hymn in the volume is "Epistle to a Friend. Written in the year
1743", the first line of which is
"My more than friend, accept the warning lay".
Notes Former references C9 and DDCWH 1. Formerly part of the Conference Office
Library
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Friendship I)
"Manuscript Friendship I".
The first hymn in the volume is "To - The Lord my pasture shall prepare", the
"Jesus, with kindest pity see".
Notes Former references: 80 and MS.X
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Patriotism & Miscellaneous

Poems
"Manuscript Patriotism" (long title - "Hymns and Verses on on Modern
Patriotism, and the American Rebellion and Independency etc").
The first hymn in the volume is "Hymn for His Majesty King George", the
"Why do the Christened Heathen rage".
At the back of the volume is a separate section entitled "Miscellaneous Poems

July 1 1785". The first hymn in this section is "Written after passing by
Whitehall", the first line of which is "Unhappy Charles, mistaken and misled".
Notes Former reference C27 - formerly part of the Conference Office Library.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Judges)
Description Hymnbook containing hymns composed by Charles Wesley (but not in in his
handwriting) and labelled "Manuscript Judges".
The first hymn in the volume is "Judges - Therefore the Lord left those
nations. Judges 2:23", the first line of which is
"Refusing with our sin to part".
The book is divided into the following sections: Judges, Ruth, I Samuel, II
Samuel, I Kings.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Clarke)
"Manuscript Clarke".
The first hymn in the volume is "Phil. 3.13", the first line of which is "Come
let us who to Christ are joined".
The notebook is annotated by the Wesleyan minister Adam Clarke as follows:

‘This hymn book composed and written by the late Rev. Ch[arle]s Wesley was
brought from Savanna in Georgia, & presented to me by the late Revd Dr
[Henry] Kellock of the United States. A. Clarke. In the shorthand, I find the
date 1743’.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Friendship II)
"Manuscript Friendship II".
The first hymn in the volume is "Friendship", the first line of which is
"Friendship, divine, thy praise I sing".
Annotated inside the front cover - ‘These are original hymns in the
handwriting of Charles Wesley, received from Miss [Eliza Telitha] Tooth. CR’.
Notes Former reference Lamplough collection 350 (L350)
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Occasional)
"Manuscript Occasional".
The first hymn in the volume is "For seriousness", the first line of which is
"Thou God of glorious Majesty".
Notes Formerly deposited in the Conference Office Library. Former reference C46
Access Restrictions
Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Miscellaneous papers
Keywords Sermons--1735-91# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings#

Baptism# Independent Chapels--Warburton
Description Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to John Bennett including sermons, a letter,

photograph of a Bennett portrait and a list of baptisms performed by
Bennett at Warburton Independent Chapel in Cheshire.
Notes
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Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Diary transcript (indexed),20th cent.
Description 20th century indexed transcript of John Bennett’s diary.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Diaries collection (C82)
Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-59) Account of Warburton
Keywords Independent Chapels--Warburton# Ordination
Description Manuscript volume labelled "Warburton meetings 1754". This volume contains
the following:
- detailed account of the founding of the independent congregation in
Warbuton, Cheshire, giving particular attention to the ministry of John
Bennett.
- piece relating to the "ordination of deacons"
- list of names, trades and places of residence of members of the congregation
- register of infant baptisms 1755-1758.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code DDWF 2/30
Title Susanna Wesley:(CE) (1670-1742) Journal
Keywords Spirituality--18th century--Journal
Description Manuscript spiritual journal of Susanna Wesley based on the text Eccles 7:4.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Reuben Barron:(PM) (1835-1909) Circuit account book
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit accounts
Description Circuit account book compiled by the PM minister Reuben Barron 1881-1900 -
covers each of the circuits in which Barron was stationed between 1881 and
1900. Information includes number of members, increases and decreases
compared to the previous year and financial accounts.
Notes
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Reference Code Colman 304
Title Financial Accounts:(WM) London,St David’s Welsh Chapel
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (St David’s Welsh)--Financial accounts#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance
Description Manuscript accounts of St David’s (Welsh Wesleyan) Chapel in London,

including class mony collected and trustees’ accounts.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Joseph Raynor Stephens:(WM) (1805-79) Disciplinary proceedings
Date of Material 28/29 April
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Discipline# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Manchester--Discipline
Description Manuscript copy of the deliberations of the Manchester WM district meeting

in the case of Joseph Raynor Stephens.
Notes Deposited in July 1976.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Register of applications for baptismal certificates:(WM)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Baptism# baptism
Description Manuscript register of applications for baptismal certificates.
The register has a national coverage and contains the following information:
- Date of application
- Names of parents and children
- Address of applicants (normally the local Wesleyan minister)
- Expenses
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Sarah Crosby:(CE/WM) (1729-1804) Ms hymn book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Hymns# Women and religion# Hymns--

Wesleyan Methodist Church# Church of England--Hymns
Description Manuscript hymn book of Sarah Crosby (1729-1804) containing of works

written by others, with some comments by Crosby herself. An index of first
lines appears at the back.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Philip Henry:(18th cent) Sermon
Description Manuscript sermon by Philip Henry (fl.1750).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Meatyard Budden:(WM) (1812-96) Diaries
Description Diaries of the Wesleyan minister John Meatyard Budden (1812-1896), 1857-
1858, 1860, 1863-1864, 1868-1871, 1873-1875, 1877-1879, 1883, 1889,
1891-1892 and 1896.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(MCGB) Hartley Victoria,Papers
Keywords Colleges--Hartley Victoria# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Colleges--

Hartley Victoria# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--clergy--Training
Description
The following Institutional archives of Hartley Victoria College, Manchester,
1948-1973
MA 351.1
Commemorative booklet entitled “P.S. to a Quarter Century: In
commemoration of Dr Percy Scott’s 25 Years of Service to Hartley Victoria
College 1947-1972”
MA 351.2
Duplicate of MA 351.1
MA 352.1
Minutes of the Common Room Committee 26 October 1959-21 February
1967
MA 352.2
Minutes of the Common Room Committee 27 October 1967-27 October 1971
MA 352.3
Folder containing the following;
- regulations for students
- college constitution 1969/70
- proposals presented to the Common Room Committee 1967-1972
- minutes of the Common Room Committee 23 January c.1970
MA 352.4
Minutes of the Devotional Committee 24 September 1958-2 September 1966
MA 352.5
Minutes of the Devotional Committee 12 October 1966-23 May 1973
MA 352.6
Folder labeled “Theological Training” and containing the following;
- minutes of Common Room Committee meetings, with associated papers
including agendas, nominations and accounts 6 May 1969-1 November 1972
- correspondence and associated papers concerning the decision to close
Hartley Victoria College 1972
- miscellaneous papers such as lists of monitors’ duties and college officials
c.1970
MA 352.7
Folder containing lecture time-tables 1948-1964
MA 352.8
Folder of papers regarding Manley Park Youth Club, Manchester, including
constitution, financial papers, lists of members etc .c1960-c.1970
MA 352.9
Folder labeled “Quiet Day” and containing the following;
- programmes of “Quiet Days” 1972
- correspondence concerning invitations to outside speakers to contribute to
the programme 1970-1972
- college lectionaries and lists of services c.1972-1973
MA 352.10
Bundle of college service sheets, college lectionaries and lists of services 1967-
1973
Notes See aso the list of an additional Hartley Victoria College collection available in the
reading room.
Access Restrictions Information in this collection or document may pertain to living

individuals and may therefore be subject to access restrictions or closure. Please consult an
archivist before issue.
Title Edward Wales Hirst:(MNC) (1870-1952) Sermons
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sermons--

1907-32# Congregational Church (Great Britain)--Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Methodist New Connexion,

Congregational and United Methodist minister Reverend Dr Edward Wales Hirst.
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-77) Memoranda book
Keywords
Description Memoranda book containing anecdotes, extracts etc of an uplifting nature etc.
Ascribed in the accession register to Thomas William Blanshard, but this must
be regarded as doubtful as many of the anecdotes pre-date 1824, and Blanshard
was born in 1834.
Notes
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Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Published biography
Keywords
Description Published biography of Samuel Bradburn by Thomas William Blanshard,

published in 1870. Signed by Blanshard inside the front cover.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Published memoirs
Keywords
Description Published "Memoirs of the late Samuel Bradburn" (1816).
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Printed Bible
Keywords Methodism (Sierra Leone)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--

West Africa
Description Printed King James Bible (1862) owned by the Wesleyan minister Thomas
William Blanshard.
Printed King James Bible (1862) presented to Blanshard by the young men of
the Wilberforce Wesleyan Mission, Sierra Leone, upon the occasion of his
leaving Sierra Leone to return to England, March 1863.
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Sermons (Sierra Leone)
Date of Material c.1857-c.1861
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--West Africa# Sermons--1850-

99# Methodism (Sierra Leone)
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister Thomas William

Blanshard, several of them while he was a missionary in Sierra Leone.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 359.1
Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Ms poetry book
Date of Material September 1858
Keywords Poetry--19th century# Colleges--Richmond
Description Memoranda book containing manuscript poems by a number of authors, copied

by Blanshard while a student at Richmond College, September 1858.
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Printed Polyglot bible

Description Printed polyglot bible presented to Blanshard on his ordination as a Wesleyan

missionary (West Africa, Sierra Leone) at Carver Street Chapel in Sheffield, 22
December 1859. Signed by Samuel Waddy, Elijah Hoole, George Osborne and
William Arthur.
Notes
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Title Anne Blanshard:(WM) (1871-1968) Published hymnal
Date of Material July 1861
Keywords Hymns--Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description Printed "A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists".
Presented in July 1861 to Mrs Fletcher by her brother the Wesleyan
missionary Thomas William Blanshard and then presented by Fletcher to her
relation Miss Anne Blanshard in 1898.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 376-378
Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Printed local histories
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Shotley Bridge
Description 3 copies of a printed "Sketch of the history of Methodism in the Shotley

Bridge circuit" by Thomas William Blanshard (1872).
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Notebook,Richmond
Description Manuscript notebook of Thomas William Blanshard containing comments

praising Richmond College written by his fellow students.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(WM) Richmond,Group photograph of students
Description Group portrait photograph of students at Richmond College.
Notes
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Title Castleford:(WM) Centenary history
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Castleford
Description Printed "Wesleyan Methodism in Castleford 1815-1915".
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Ordination certificate
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations
Description Certificate of ordination of the Wesleyan missionary Thomas William Blanshard.
Notes
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Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Physical memorabilia
Keywords Artifacts--Bradburn, Samuel
Description Night cap and button hook belonging to the Wesleyan minister Samuel
Bradburn. The itemst were presented by his neice to his biographer Thomas
William Blanshard (1834-1878) and eventually came into the possession of
Blanshard’s grandaughter.
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Personal papers

Description Miscellaneous papers regarding the Wesleyan missionary Thomas William

Blanshard (West Africa, Sierra Leone)
The papers include the following:

- photographs of Blanshard
- letters
- printed handbills advertising lectures by Blanshard
Notes
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Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--West Africa# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Circuit plans--Sierra Leone,1860#
Sermons--1850-99# Methodism (Sierra Leone)
Description Papers of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William Blanshard, 1858-1941
The papers include the following:

- printed handbills advertising events at Wesleyan churches in Leith (1866) and
Tollerton (1879)
- Personal letters c.1862-c.1871
- invitation to the wedding of Reverend Charles Marks and Susanna Hardings in
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1862
- Manuscript sermon(?) preached in 1867
- draft chapter 1 to Blanshard’s intended biography of the evangelical Anglican
minister Rowland Hill
- circuit plan of the Aberdeen and Wilberforce circuit (Sierra Leone) 1860
- Manuscript list of candidates for the Wesleyan ministry 1858
- printed letter sent by E. White Jansen from Culion, Philippines, 1941
- printed commemorative item for the Easingwold Wesleyan Chapel centenary
celebration, 1884
Notes
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Keywords Sermons--1850-99# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1831-80#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--West Africa# Slavery and
Abolition# Methodism (Sierra Leone)
Description Personal papers of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William Blanshard, 1858-
1900 (missionary, West Africa, Sierra Leone).
Papers include the following:

- printed illustrated brochure inviting contributions to the "Wesleyan
Methodist Twentieth Century Fund" 1900
- letter 1871
- letter of confirmation that Blanshard had been accepted by Conference as a
candidate for the Wesleyan ministry 1858
- Manuscript ticket of admission of Blanshard to sittings of the Manchester
Conference 1859
- Manuscript sermon
- Manuscript note to the effect that the "Clara Windsor" (presumably a slaving
ship) was captaured by HSS "Espoir" and brought to Sierra Leone in January
1861 and that "my boy was sent to Wilberforce [mission station] on the 1st
April 1861"
- printed invitation to Blanshard to attend the wedding of Moses Henry Davies
and Louisa Matilda Jenkins February 1862
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Family papers
Keywords Methodism (Sierra Leone)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--

West Africa
Description Papers of the family of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William Blanshard
(1834-1878).
The papers include:

- letters c.1915-1971
- printed handbill advertising Blanshard’s life of Samuel Bradburn
- Order of service for the opening of Westminster Central Hall 1912
- Order of service at Westminster Central Hall 1913
- 2 copies of Blanshard’s printed lecture on courtship and marriage 1873
Notes
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Keywords Poetry--19th century# Band of Hope
Description Papers of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William Blanshard.
Papers include the following:

- Manuscript verse
- Printed circular regarding the sustentation fund for the Leeds district 1876
- Letters
- Draft speech(?) on the occasion of the Band of Hope demonstration at
Newcastle 1871
- Memorium card for Blanshard 1878
Notes
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Title Rowland Hill:(CE) (1744-1833) Advertisement for a service
Keywords Church of England--Evangelicalism
Description Advertisement for a service conducted by the Anglican evangelical Rowland

Hill.
This is an exceptionally interesting and unusual item. It is in the format and

style of an advertisment for a secular play or other form of mass
entertainment.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 363a
Title Castleford:Gazette and District Advertiser
Keywords Newspapers--19th century
Description Newspaper - The Castleford Gazette & District Advertiser.
Notes
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Title Missions:(WM) Missionary Society printed circular
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society--19th century# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Foreign Missions
Description Printed circular of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.
Notes
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Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Portrait photograph
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Foreign Missions--West Africa# Methodism (Sierra Leone
Description Portrait photograph of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William Blanshard

(missionary, Sierra Leone).
Notes
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Title Henry Reed:The Pioneer Hymn book
Description The Pioneer Hymn Book (c.1870) compiled by Henry Reed.
Notes
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Title Joseph Preston:(PM) (1803-96) Sermons etc
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit accounts# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Primitive Methodist Church (Great
Britain)--Sermons# Sermons--1792-1849# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Papers of Joseph Preston (1803-1896): Primitive Methodist minister as

follows:
598.1 Notebook containing manuscript sermons, 30 September 1828
598.2 Notebook containing a manuscript sermon on Jeremiah 7:23, n.d.
598.3 Manuscript autobiography of Joseph Preston, written down c.1892
598.4 Manuscript accounts compiled by Preston during his time in the

following circuits: Hopton Bank, Cwm, Salisbury, Witney and Brinkworth,
1828-1842
598.5 manuscript accounts compiled by Preston during his time in the

following circuits: Redruth, Pontypool, Frome and Bristol, 1842-1855
598.6 Primitive Methodist circuit plans for 1812 (commemorative

reproduction of the original plan) and Burland (1824)
598.7 4 letters from Preston to Mr Percy, 1894-1895, and a copy of Preston’s

will and related papers, 1894
598.8 Class tickets and Love Feast admission tickets signed by Joseph Preston
and a burial card in Preston’s memory 1823-1896
Notes
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Title Mary Porteous:(PM) (c.1783-1861) Printed biography
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Women preachers# Women and

religion# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Xerox copy of "The Life and Labours of Mrs Mary Porteous, late of Durham,
who for fourteen years was a travelling preacher, and twenty-two years a local
preacher in the Primitive Methodist Connexion" by Reverend John Lightfoot
(London: R. Davies, [Primitive Methodist] Conference Office, 1862).
Notes
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Title Synod agendas:(MCGB)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Synods
Description Synod agendas 1966-1969, 1975 (incomplete).
Notes 3 boxes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Robert Dall,1788 etc
Date of Material 11 October 1788
Keywords
Description Letter of John Wesley to Robert Dall, 11 October 1788 and acceptance of Dall
into the itinerancy (signed by JW) dated 5 August 1788.
Notes
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Title Robert Dall:(WM) (1745-1828) Personal papers
Description
Papers of the Methodist preacher Robert Dall (1745-1828)
1. Receipt for £1, 1765
2. Letter, with verse, from Alexander Crumble to Dall, 1776
3. Dinner invitation from Lady Darcy Maxwell to Dall, n.d.
4. Letter from Lady Darcy Maxwell to Dall, 1796
5. Testimonial concerning Dall’s honest upbringing and virtuous character,

1779
6. Receipt for money received from Robert Dall for an inscription on his
tombstone, 1828
7. Discharge of a financial obligation for £50 of Robert Dall to John Brown,

1785
8. Indenture of apprenticeship between James and John Dicks, merchants of

Dundee, and Robert Dall, 1760
Notes
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Title Robert Dall:(WM) (1745-1828) Family papers

Description Papers of the family of the preacher Robert Dall (1745-1828) - 3 letters and 3
class tickets.
Notes
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Title Robert Dall:(WM) (1745-1828) Memoir
Keywords Women and religion# Sermons--1850-99# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Manuscript notebook of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Law.
Contains an account by the 82 year old preacher Robert Dall (1745-1828) (in
Law’s handwriting) of his life, together with notes on sermons heard by Law in
1863.
Notes
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Title Elizabeth Law:(WM) (fl.1853) Notebook
Keywords Women and religion# Sermons--1850-99
Description Manuscript notebook of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Law (fl.1853) - contains notes on

sermons heard by Lizzie Law in 1853.
Notes
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Title Probationers’ Committee:(UM) Minutes
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# United Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Probationers Committee
Description Minutes of the United Methodist Probationers Committee relating to the oversight of
probationary ministers, including discipline and ministerial progress.
Notes
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Title Timperley House Trust:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Timperley House Trust# Timperley House

Trust# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Timperley House Trust# Methodist
Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Supernumary# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Clergy--Supernumary
Description Minutes of Timperley House Trust.
Timperley House Trust was established through the generosity of Mrs Mary
Lomas of 5 Victoria Grove, Heaton Chapel, Stockport to provide housing for
supernumary ministers at 21 and 23 South Drive, Timperley, Cheshire.
Notes
Title William Allen:(WM) (d.1866) Sermon register,1860-62
Keywords Sermons--1850-99# Diaries and Journals--1851-99
Description Manuscript diary/sermon register of the Wesleyan minister William Allen,

1860-1862 constituting a record of Allen’s ministry while stationed in Portsmouth.
Notes
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Title Herbert Parkes:(WM) (1853-1951) Family papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class tickets--1860-1900# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Class tickets--1900-1932# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class
meetings# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Sunday Schools# Sunday schools--
Great Britain
Description Papers of the lay Wesleyan Herbert Parkes (1853-1951) and other members of
his family
1. 20 class tickets issued to members of the Parkes family 1874-1932
2. Class book containing printed regulations 1882
3. Manuscript talk on Sunday school work c.1890
Notes
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Title Witney and Faringdon:(WM) Copy baptism register
Keywords
Description Transcript of the baptism register of Witney and Faringdon Methodist Chapel
1884-1951 (former Wesleyan Methodist).
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Xerox copy diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John
Description Xerox copy of John Wesley’s diary 1736-1737
"Headrix copy" of John Wesley’s diary 1 May 1736-11 February 1737. The
original is at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Notes Shelf reference MAR 216F 44
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Title George Beesley Austin:(WM) (1856-1936) Papers
Keywords World War 1--Methodist roll of honour--1915-16# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--War dead--1915-16# Colleges--Didsbury# Sermons--1850-99#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Photographs
Description Papers of the Wesleyan minister George Beesley Austin (1856-1936)
The collection contains the following items -

- tract on the hymn "Abide with me"
- jubilee number of the Methodist Expisitor 1936
- "Gems" by Austin extracted from the Methodist Expositor
- book reviews
- Methodist Expositor 1937
- Our Prayer for our Holiday
- Wesleyan Sunday School prayer
- memorial notice for Austin from the Methodist Expositor 1936
- obituary notices for Austin
- Withington (Manchester) manuscript Magazine Summer 1887
- Islington (Birmingham) Sunday School Old Scholars and Teachers Association
Magazine 1913
- Methodist Conference roll of honour for Wesleyan Methodist soldiers and
sailors killed in action between the Conference of 1915 and July 1916 (includes
Captain T. C. M. Austin, son of George Beesley Austin)
- Didsbury College list of students 1882-1883
- advertisement for a lecture by Austin, 1916
- Manuscript sermons(?) by Austin while a student at Didsbury on "The
Threefold Conquest" and the "Loneliness of Christ"
- document of appreciation for Austin’s preaching during his year at Haigh
Street Wesleyan Church in Stoke Newington
- letter of appreciation for Austin’s ministry in Leytonstone 1893
- printed material regarding centenary meetings for the Missionary Society
1913
- newcuttings containing reviews of Austin’s published works 1904 and 1912
- obituary for Austin from the Methodist Recorder and minutes of Conference
1937
- seating plan and menu card for a dinner in honour of the prime minister
Lloyd George 1920
- bundle of correspondence
- photographs, principally portraits of Austin
Notes Shelf reference MAR 216E 30a
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Title Methodist Summer School Fellowship:(MCGB) Printed material
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Methodist Summer School Fellowship#

Methodist Summer School Fellowship
Description Printed material relating to the Methodist Summer School Fellowship 1935-
1942
The collection includes a wide variety of Methodist publications, primarily

tracts, but also including lists of members (1935) and magazines of the Fellowship, 1935-42.
Notes
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Title Bowden:(WM) Chapel sale
Date of Material 3 June 1874
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Sale of redundant premises
Description Legal consent by George T. Perks, President of the Wesleyan Conference, to

the sale of Bowden Chapel and school room, Cheshire, on the grounds that the
property was redundant for Methodist purposes.
Notes Shelf reference MAR 216e. 7
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Title Trustees for Church Purposes:(UM) Accounts and report
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Trustees for Methodist Church

purposes
Description Trustees for United Methodist Church Purposes 1937 - accounts and report
for submission to the Secretary of Conference.
Notes Shelf reference MAR 216E. 6
Access Restrictions
Title William Maclardie Bunting:(WM) (1805-66) Family Bible
Keywords
Description
Family Bible belonging to the Wesleyan minister William Maclardie Bunting
(1805-1866), son of the noted minister Jabez Bunting (1779-1858).
King James Bible (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1825). Inscribed as follows:
"To William Maclardie Bunting and Harriet Bunting. This Holy Bible is
affectionately presented on the day of their marriage April 30th 1829" by
Jabez Bunting and his wife Sarah.
Notes
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Title John Bennett:(WM/Ind) (1714-1759) Xerox copies of papers
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1700-50
Description Xerox copies of papers relating to the Wesleyan preacher John Bennett (1714-
1759)
The copy papers include the following:

- fragment of Bennett’s journal 1746-1747
- letter from an unidentified correspondent to Bennett c.1755
- letter from Bennett to the Society stewards in Bristol 1749
Notes Copies of material held at Drew University Library, Madison, New Jersey, USA.
The collection was purchased in 1929 from Reverend Norman Bennett, Vicar
of Crewkerne by Ezra Tipple, President of Drew University.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5451 (DDTh 9)
Title Schools:(WM) Southport,Trinity Hall, Papers
Keywords Schools--Trinity Hall
Description Miscellaneous papers relating to Trinity Hall School in Southport c.1900-1980

including news cuttings and letters relating to the school closure, photographs
of the school and its pupils (many are named on the back), receipts for fees
paid to the school by parents, and draft pages from the printed Memories of
Trinity Hall School.
Notes
Reference Code MA 5552 (ref. DDX 6/1-2)
Title Schools:(MCGB) Kingswood School Magazine
Keywords Schools--Kingswood# Periodicals--Kingswood School
Description Kingswood School magazines.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 5553 (Ref. DDX 8/1-3)
Title Home and Foreign Missions Department:(UMC) Annual reports
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Home & Foreign missions
Description Annual reports of the United Methodist Home and Foreign Missions.
Notes
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Title Sunday Schools:(UMC) Magazines
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sunday Schools# Sunday schools--

Great Britain# Periodicals--United Methodist Church (Great Britain)
Description United Methodist Church Sunday School Magazines.
Notes
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Title Overseas Churches:India,South India Churchman Magazine
Keywords Church in Southern India--Periodicals# Periodicals--India
Description ‘The South India Churchman’ - Magazine of the Churches in Southern India.
Notes
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Title London:(MCGB) Deptford,Mission magazine
Keywords Periodicals--Methodist Church (Great Britain)--London (Deptford)# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Periodicals--London (Deptford Mission)
Description Deptford Mission Magazine.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 5534 (Ref. DDX 12/1-16
Title Birmingham:(MCGB) Central Mission papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Birmingham (Mission)# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Periodicals--Birmingham (Mission)
Description Birmingham Central Mission papers as follows:
1. Annual Reports 1966, 1968-1971, 1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1979-1981
2. Anniversary issues of ‘Mission’ - the quarterly magazine of the Birmningham

Central Mission 1983-1985
3. ‘50 Glorious Years’ - published history of the Birmingham Central Mission by

Maldwyn Edwards (1953)
4. Order of service and notes giving details of the Birmingham Central Mission
re-opening celebrations 1970
Notes
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Reference Code MA 5529 (ref. DDX 13)
Title London (City Road):(WM) Engraving of opening service
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John# Engravings--London (City Road)# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--London (City Road)
Description Framed 19th century engraving of John Wesley preaching at the opening
service of London’s City Road Chapel, 1778 (unknown artist and engraver).
Notes
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Reference Code MA 5535 (Ref, DDX 14/1-3)
Title Nottingham:(MCGB) Central Mission papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Nottingham (Mission)
Description Papers of Nottingham Central Mission as follows:
- Extract from the Synod minutes 1985
- Annual reports and programme of the Mission 1984-1985
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5541 (Ref. DDX 15)
Title Circuit plans:(PM) Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1860-1932
Description Ashby-de-la-Zouch circuit plan (Primitive Methodist).
Notes
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Title Thomas Overton:(WM) (1833-1935) 100th birthday celebration
Keywords
Description Message of congratulation from Bishop Street Circuit in Leicester to Reverend

Thomas Overton on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Notes
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Title Herbert Derry Osborn and Margaret Francis Osborn:Catalogue of
Keywords
Description Catalogue of papers concerning the families of Herbert Derry Osborn and
Margaret Francis Osborn.
Notes
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Title James Windrow Sweetman:(WM) (1891-1966) Journal (Pakistan)
Keywords
Description Typescript journal of a tour of Pakistan made by the Methodist minister and
missionary James Windrow Sweetman (1891-1966).
Notes
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Title Photographs:(WM) Methodist historic sites
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--General# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Photographs--General
Description Photographs of Methodist historic sites taken in about 1906
Photographs of a large number of sites with a Wesley or early Methodist

connection - see the DDX catalogue for more details.
Notes
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Title Reverend Suter:(fl.1902-07) Papers re politics
Keywords
Description Papers re Reverend Suter and the Liberal party
1. Letter from the Liberal politician Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) to

Reverend Suter concerning the formation of a Liberal Association in Rutland
and the adoption of Mr H. Pearson as a parliamentary candidate 1904
2. Letter from Mr H. Pearson to Reverend Suter thanking him for his support
during the recent unsuccessful campaign to win the Rutland seat in Parliament
1906
3. Election leaflet favouring Mr H. Pearson for the Rutland seat 1906
4. Letter from the Secretary to Mr Herbert Henry Asquith Chancellor of the

Exchequer to Reverend Suter accepting the presidency of the Liberal
Association in Rutland 1906
5. Poem by Jack Jones favouring Mr H. Pearson for the Rutland seat 1906
6. Election poster favouring Mr H. Pearson for the Rutland seat 1906
7. Papers re Noncormist protests concerning the Education Act of 1902.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 5948 (ref. DDX 1)
Title Epworth House Publishing Company:(MCGB) Deeds etc
Keywords Publishing# Epworth House Publishing Company# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Book Room# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Publishing# Methodist
Publishing House# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Publishing
Description Deeds and associated material relating to the Epworth House Publishing
Company and related concerns
DDX/1/1/-
Deeds of the Wesleyan Book Room,City Road,London,1790-1964
See DDX/1/4- for papers re staff
DDX/1/1/1
Copy deed of the Revd.John Wesley,admitted to probate as a
testamentary document,conveying to several named trustees,all his
books,pamphlets,and his copyright,in trust for the "People called
Methodists"
5 Oct.1790.
loc.Box 1
DDX/1/1/2-3
Duplicates of DDX/1/1/1
DDX/1/1/4
(1) Trustees appointed by John Wesley,to administer his
collection of books
(2) George Whitfield of City Road,London
Copy conveyance to (2),of the John Wesley Collection of books,and
pamphlets,in trust for the Methodist Conference
Consideration;œ5
8 Nov.1791.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/5-6
Duplicates of DDX/1/1/4
DDX/1/1/7
Extracts from "The Arminian Magazine",re the trusts governing
John Wesley’s copyright,including a legal opinion re the validity
of John Wesley’s deed of 5 Oct.1790
1792.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/8
(1) George Whitfield of City Road,London,Preacher
(2) Several named Wesleyan Preachers
(3) Robert Carr Brackenbury of Raithby Hall,
Lincolnshire,gent-member of the Wesleyan Conference
Copy grant to (2),of the Book Room in trust,with an option for a
further conveyance to (3),at the request of the Wesleyan
Conference
Consideration;Nominal
31 Jul.1805.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/9
Duplicate of DDX/1/1/8
DDX/1/1/10
(1) Trustees of the Wesleyan Conference
(2) Several named Wesleyan Ministers
Assignment to (2),of the Book Room in trust
2 Aug.1824.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/11
DDX/1/1/12
(3) Revd.George Cubitt of City Road,Middlesex
Conveyance to (3),of the Book Room in trust,with an option for a
further conveyance to (2) upon request
2 Mar.1846.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/13
DDX/1/1/14
(1) Revd.John.S.Stamp of City Road,London,Wesleyan Minister
12 Mar.1849.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/15
(1) Trustees of,the Wesleyan Conference
Copy assignment to (2),of the Book Room in trust
11 Aug.1860.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/16
DDX/1/1/17
Appointment of (2),as trustees of the Book Room
28 Oct.1876.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/18
28 Oct.1876.
loc,Box 1.
DDX/1/1/19
8 Mar.1889.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/20
Conveyance to (2),of the Book Room in trust
23 Nov.1889
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/21
Extract from the minutes of the Wesleyan Church
Conferences,1900-1905,re the future management of the Book Room
1900-1905.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/22
Copy legal opinion,re the status of the Book Room,following the
Methodist Church Union Act of 1929 (Gard,Lyell,& Co,Solicitors of
Gresham Street,London)
1932.
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/1/23
Schedule of documents,re the Book Room,and the Grant Tatham
Trust,1789-1964
n.d (c1964).
loc.Box 1.
DDX/1/2/-
Deeds of Epworth House,City Road,London,1861-1983
DDX/1/2/1
(1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
Agreement for the lease by (2),of premises at 27 City Road,24 and
25 Windmill Street,and 2 and 8 Castle Street,London,as shown on
the accompanying plan
Term;40 years
Rent;œ350 p.a
27 Mar.1861.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/2
(1) Revd.John Farrar of Woodhouse Grove,Yorkshire,and
Revd.Frederick.J.Jobson of Highbury Place,Middlesex,Wesleyan
Ministers
Draft assignment to (2),of the residue of a 40 year
lease,transacted 27 Nov.1862 of premises on City Road,Windmill
Street,and Castle Street,Finsbury,Middlesex
Term;25 years
Rent;œ350 p.a
1877.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/3
(2) Henry.W.Storey of City Road,London,Regalia manufacturer
Lease to (2),of a residential flat at 29-35 City Road,London
Term;21 years
Consideration;œ80 p.a
20 Jun.1894.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/4
Draft appointment of (2),as trustees of property in Castle
Street,and City Road,London,following a declaration of trust of
19 Dec.1902
1929.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/5
(1) The Methodist Publishing House
(2) Sargood,Son and Ewen ltd of Wellington,New Zealand
Agreement for the lease by (2),of a suite of rooms on the 4th
floor of Epworth House,as shown on the accompanying plan
Term;1 year
Rent;œ550
25 Feb.1941
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/6
(1) Trustees of the Methodist Publishing House
(2) John,Son and Watts ltd,of Epworth Street London
Underlease by (2),of part of the 4th floor of 2-4,Epworth
Street,London
Term;7 years
Rent;œ360 p.a
18 May.1948.
loc.box 2.
DDX/1/2/7
(1) Messrs Fowlie,Reid and Willis ltd,of Epworth House
Surrender to (2),of the underlease of offices at Epworth House
citing an underlease of 10 May.1949
25 Mar.1953
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/8
(2) Binney and Son ltd,of City Road,London
Underlease of a suite of rooms on the ground floor of Epworth
House,as shown on the attached plan
Term;14 years
Rent;œ1600 p.a during the first 7 years,and œ1800 thereafter
23 Oct.1956.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/9
(2) Faire Bros and Co ltd,of Rutland Street
Leicester,Leicestershire
Underlease to (2),of a room on the 1st floor of Epworth House,as
shown on the attached plan
Term;7 years
Rent;œ300 p.a
24 Oct.1963.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/10
(2) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) ltd
Underlease to (2),of rooms in the basement,and on the 2nd,3rd,and
4th floors of Epworth House,as shown on the attached plan
Term;14 years
Rent;œ14300 p.a for the first 7 years,and an unspecified amount
thereafter
31 May.1968.
See also DDX/1/2/14
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/11
(2) George Willis and Sons (Holdings) ltd of City Road,London
Underlease to (2),of rooms in Epworth House,as shown on the
attached plan
Term;13 years
Rent;œ2600 p.a until Mar.1975,and an unspecified amount
thereafter
15 Jul.1969.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/12
(2) 120 group ltd of 120 Moorgate,London
Underlease to (2),of rooms on the 5th,and 6th floors of Epworth
Term;14 years
Rent;œ15000 p.a,for the first 7 years,and an unspecified amount
thereafter
4 Feb.1970.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/13
(2) City Group ltd (formerly 120 Group ltd),City Road,London
Underlease to (2),of basement accommodation at Epworth House,as
shown on attached plan
Term;14 years
Rent;œ875 p.a for the first 7 years,and an unspecified amount
thereafter
24 Apr.1970.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/14
(1) Trustees of the Methodist Connexional Funds (Registered)
(2) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) ltd,City Road,London
Deed of variation,modifying the conditions of tenancy,by (2) of
suites of rooms or offices at Epworth House,citing an underlease
of 31 May.1968
29 May.1971.
See also DDX/1/2/10
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/15
(1) Trustees of the Methodist Connexional Funds (Registered)
(2) Inchcape and Cape ltd
Draft underlease to (2),of rooms on the ground floor of Epworth
Term;21 years
Rent;œ2500 for the first year,and œ40000 p.a thereafter
1971.
Loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/16
(1) Trustees for the Methodist Connexional Funds (Registered)
(2) Dominion Securities Corporation.Harris and Partners ltd of
Finsbury Square,London
Underlease to (2),of storage room in the basement at Epworth
Term;4 years
Rent;œ900 p.a
16 Jun.1975.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/17
(2) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) ltd of Epworth House
Underlease to (2),of rooms on the 1st floor of Epworth House,as
Term;7 years
Rent;œ19000 p.a
1 Jul.1975.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/18
(2) Messrs Hope Agar and Co
Underlease to (2),of storage room in the basement of Epworth
Term;2 years
Rent;œ1360 p.a
31 Dec.1975
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/19
(2) Messrs Oswald,Hickson Collier and Co
Underlease to (2),of a room in Epworth House,as shown on the
attached plan
Term;5 years
Rent;œ1500 for the first year,and œ1750 p.a thereafter
31 Dec.1975.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/20
(2) Messrs Hope Agar and Co of Epworth House
Underlease to (2),of rooms on the 1st floor,and in the basement
of Epworth House,as shown on attached plan
Term;5 years
Rent;œ20710 p.a
24 Nov.1977.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/21
(1) City Group ltd of Epworth House
(2) Pointerware (UK) ltd of Epworth House
Sub-underlease to (2),of rooms on the 5th floor of Epworth
Term;4 years
Rent;1 Peppercorn for the first year,and œ15500 p.a thereafter
15 Apr.1980.
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/22
(2) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) ltd of Epworth House
Underlease to (2),of rooms in the basement of Epworth House,as
Term;1 year
Rent;œ7500
16 Mar.1981.
Loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/23
(1) Commercial Administration ltd
(2) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) ltd
Copy assignment to (2),of the residue of an unspecified term of
tenancy,in a room on the 1st floor of Epworth House,originally
leased on 31 Dec.1975
21 May.1982.
See also DDX/1/2/24
loc.Box 2.
DDX/1/2/24
(1) George Wills and Sons (Holdings) PLC
Surrender to (2),of a lease of rooms on the 1st floor,and storage
space in the basement of Epworth House,originally leased on 21
May.1982
22 Aug.1983.
See also DDX/1/2/23
loc.Box 2.
Section 3 DEEDS OF THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN BOOK ROOM,26

PATERNOSTER ROW,LONDON,1888-1920
DDX/1/3/1
(1) Trustees of the will of John Rock esq
(2) Revd.Frederick.W.Bourne of 26 Paternoster Row,and
Revd.Alexander Trengove of Eltham,Kent,Bible Christian Ministers
Lease to (2),of 26 Paternoster Row,as shown on the attached plan
Term;26 years
Rent;œ240 p.a
19 Apr.1888
See also DDX/1/3/2-3
loc.Box 3.
DDX/1/3/2
(1) Revd.Frederick.W.Bourne of Paternoster Row,and
Revd.Alexander Trengove of Eltham,Kent,Bible Christian Ministers
Assignment to (2),of the residue of a 21 year lease of 26
Paternoster Row,originally granted on 19 Apr.1888
Rent;œ240 p.a
4 Sep.1897
See also DDX/1/3/1,3
loc Box 3.
DDX/1/3/3
(1) Revd.Charles.H.kelley of City Road,London,Wesleyan
Minister,and Book Room Steward
(2) Revd.Frederick.W.Bourne,and Revd.Alexander Trengove of
Eltham,Kent,Bible Christian Ministers
Lease to (2),of 26 Paternoster Row
Notes
Reference Code MA 5951 (ref.DDX 2)
Title Leeds:(PM) Circuit plan, 2nd circuit
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1860-1932
Description Circuit plan of the Leeds 2nd Primitive Methodist circuit 1884.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5940 (ref. DDTh 8)
Title Schools:Southport,Trinity Hall, Scrap book
Keywords Schools--Trinity Hall
Description Copy scrap book relating to Trinity Hall Wesleyan Methodist School in
Southport.
Notes Formerly catalogued as DDX 3
Access Restrictions
Title Benjamin Gundry:(WM) (b.1809) Biography
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Typescript life of the Wesleyan local preacher Benjamin Gundry of Cornwall.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5947 (ref.DDX 5/1-2
Title Conference:(MCGB) Autographs,1955; Class leaders minutes (WM)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class leaders committee# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Conference 1955
Description Conference autographs c.1955 and minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist class
leaders committee 1904-1922.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Armed Forces Board:(MCGB) Official papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Armed Forces Board# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Armed Forces Board# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Outreach to armed forces# Armed forces (Great Britain)
Description Papers of the Methodist Church Armed Forces Board, 1856-1980
Box 1
Minutes of the Royal Navy and Army sub-committee, October 1896 – April
1904 (volume)
Minutes of the Royal Navy and Army board, September 1904 – May 1911
(volume)
Box 2
Minutes of the Royal Navy and Army board, November 1911 – January 1918
(volume)
Minutes of the Royal Navy and Army board (with Royal Air Force after 1918),
January 1918 – January 1925 (volume)
Box 3
Minutes of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board, March 1925 –
October 1932 (volume)
Minutes of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board, November 1932
– January 1945 (volume)
Box 4
Minutes of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board, May 1945 –
February 1955 (volume)
Minutes of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board, May 1955 –
April 1969 (volume)
RWA Cash book, January 1896 – October 1907 (volume)
Box 5
RWA Cash book, October 1907 – May 1915 (volume)
J.H.B. Cash book, May 1915 – August 1918 (volume)
J.H.B. Cash book, August 1918 – December 1932 (volume)
RWA Ledger No. 1, June 1894 – December 1908 (volume)
Box 6
RWA Ledger No. 2, January 1909 – January 1919 (volume)
Minutes of the Bordon Soldiers’ Home Committee of Management and
Committee of Trustees, September 1904 – December 1938 (volume)
Minutes of the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust, April 1916 – December
1965 (volume)
Minutes of the Shorncliffe Home, Shorncliffe Camp, November 1906 – July
1917 (volume)
Particulars of workers employed by the Navy, Army and Royal Air Force
Board in Wesley Houses and Soldiers’ Homes, c.1944 – c.1976 (volume)
Visitors’ book of the Connaught Home, Malta, March 1908 – December 1971
(volume)
Box 7
Minutes of the Primitive Methodist Special Army Committee and Army
Committee, October 1914 – July 1924: Army and Navy Committee, June
1925: United Navy, Army and Royal Air Force Committee, July 1926 – April
1931 (volume)
Minutes of the Naval Co-ordinating Committee, December 1943 – November
1955 (volume)
Minutes of the Standing Committee on Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes, January
1912 – March 1926 (volume)
Minutes of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes Management Committee, May
1926 – April 1957 (volume)
Box 8
Manuscript list of members of the Armed Forces belonging to the Wesleyan
Methodist Church killed in World War 1 (MA 8030) (loose bundle)
Service particulars of Territorial Army chaplains, c.1948 – c.1955 (volume)
Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board register of attendance, 1932-
1980 (volume)
Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force board cash book, January 1916 –
September 1919 (volume)
Minutes of the Salisbury Plain Trust, March 1916 – January 1965 (volume)
Box 9
Annual membership returns of chaplaincies in India arranged by circuit/station,
1920-1937 (volume)
Financial accounts and associated papers of the Port Said (Egypt) Wesleyan
Sailors’ Rest and Soldiers’ Home, 1923-1952 (bundle of loose papers)
Administrative files relating to the Port Said (Egypt) Wesleyan Sailors’ Rest
and Soldiers’ Home, including title deeds, correspondence and associated papers,
1914-1939 (2 files)
Box 10
Administrative files relating to the Port Said (Egypt) Wesleyan Sailors’ Rest
and Soldiers’ Home, including correspondence and associated papers, 1936-
1941, 1945-1951 (3 files)
Minutes of the Salisbury Plain Trust – Hamilton Manse, Tidworth, 1921-1926
(volume)
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Wesleyan chaplaincy, garrison church and
associated premises at Tidworth, Salisbury Plain, including correspondence,
building plans and financial statements, 1899-1938 (bundle of loose papers)
Box 11
Papers concerned with the Queen Victoria Memorial [Wesleyan] Soldiers’
Home in Woolwich, including:
- Trustees minutes, June 1906 – April 1954 (volume)
- Administrative files containing official correspondence, title deeds, financial
papers, building plans and other documents concerning the following subjects:
general administration, grants of money paid by the War Office to support the
work, collaboration between the chaplaincy and the circuit and the eventual
amalgamation of the armed forces work with the activities of the local church,
1888 – 1955
Box 12
Correspondence and associated papers re the bank account of the Tidworth
Garrison chaplaincy, 1966 – 1971 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers containing details of ministers authorised
to perform marriages in Tidworth, 1953-1964 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers re premises owned or administered by
the chaplaincies at Shorncliffe and Tidworth, 1958 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, re the finances of
Floriana Church on Malta, 1971-1978 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including minutes, re meetings of the
Shorncliffe Trustees, 1955-1958 (file)
File labelled “Old documents” and containing miscellaneous papers re
chaplaincies in Aldershot, Devonport, Portsmouth, Shorncliffe, Bordon,
Chatham, Caterham, Woolwich, Tidworth and Bulford, c.1920-c.1965 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including minutes, of the Tidworth
(Salisbury Plain) Trust, 1947-1965 (2 files)
Connaught Home Malta – staff wages book, arranged by individual name,
January 1951-January 1972 (volume)
Connaught Home Malta – Cash books recording income from accommodation
and canteen sales and expenditure, March 1963-December 1971 (2 volumes)
Connaught Home Malta – Stock book, January 1969-December 1971 (volume)
Connaught Home Malta – Cash purchases book, January 1970-January 1972

(volume)
Connaught Home Malta – Credit purchases book, January 1970-February 1972
(volume)
Box 13
Correspondence and associated papers, including plans, re property owned or
administered by the chaplaincy in Gibraltar, 1953-1956 and 1967-1969 (2
files)
Correspondence and associated papers, including policy documents, re insurance
taken out on property owned or administered by the chaplaincy in Gibraltar,
1925-1974 (file)
General correspondence re the chaplaincy in Aldershot, 1940-1959 (file)
Box 14
Correspondence and associated papers, including plans, statistical returns and
accounts, re property owned or administered by the chaplaincy in
Trincomallee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the work of the chaplaincy, 1891-1959
(2 files)
Title deeds re property owned or administered by the chaplaincy in Pirbright
and Ewshot, 1906 and 1923 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including lists of deeds, re property
owned or administered by the chaplaincy in Portsmouth, 1951-1958 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers re the chaplaincy in Rosyth and
Queensferry, 1925-1951 (file)
Title deeds, plans and insurance policies re the Old Brompton Garrison Church
in Chatham, 1888-1933 (bundle)
Box 15
Correspondence and associated papers re Swilly Lodge (part of the work in
Portsmouth and Devonport), 1951-1961 (file)
Papers re the Chatham Trust, including lists of trustees, insurance policies and
accounts, 1925-1933 (file)
Marriage certificates, written permissions to marry and associated papers re
marriages solemnized by the Wesleyan Garrison Church in Baghdad, Iraq, 1921-
1922 (bundle)
Trust deeds and related papers re Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, 1907-1942
(bundle)
Correspondence and associated papers re Wesley House, Hanover, Germany,
1947-1958 (bundle)
Box 16
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, building
specifications, and insurance documents, re Soldiers’ Homes in Aldershot (other
than North Camp and Grosvenor Road), 1902-1918 (file)
File labeled “Bits and Pieces” and containing miscellaneous papers re Methodist
chaplaincy work in Aldershot, including photographs, list of historical facts,
printed reports, list of title deeds and extracts from minutes, 1856-c.1944 (file)
File labeled “History – document – letters. Gros Road, North Camp” and
containing miscellaneous papers re Methodist chaplaincy work at Grosvenor
Road and North Camp in Aldershot, including correspondence, copy trust
papers, title deeds, application to build a minister’s house, extracts from the
minutes of the Management Committee and an estimate of building costs,
c.1880-c.1912 (file)
File labeled “Aldershot extracts 1856” and containing miscellaneous copy
papers and extracts from records held by the Armed Forces Board relating to
Aldershot, 1856-1932 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including orders of service, relating to
North Camp Methodist Church, Aldershot, 1966-1969 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including minutes of the Aldershot
Methodist Military Trust and Minutes of the Soldiers’ Home Management
Committee, relating to Aldershot, 1966-1970 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including balance sheets, relating to
chaplaincy work in Woolmer, Ewshot and Deepcut, Aldershot, Bordon and
Longmoor, c.1903-c.1906 (bundle)
Correspondence and associated papers, relating to chaplaincy work at Deepcut,
1905 (bundle)
Box 17
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, lists of trustees,
minutes (of the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust and Grosvenor Road sub-
committee), re chaplaincy work in Aldershot, 1859-1970 (4 files)
Box 18
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, lists of trustees,
minutes (of the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust, Soldiers’ Home
management committee), report on properties in Grosvenor Road etc, re
chaplaincy work in Aldershot, 1966-1979 (4 files)
Box 19
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, property
inventories, insurance documents, lists of trustees, building plans, re chaplaincy
work in Aldershot, 1901-1953 (5 files)
Box 20
Correspondence and associated papers, including annual membership returns, re
chaplaincy work at Wesley House in Berlin, with particular regard to the
ministry of Reverend Dr Henry Bentley, 1964-1975 (2 files)
Correspondence and associated papers re the chaplaincy at Aldershot, 1896-
1936 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including policy documents, re insurance
on Methodist property associated with the Aldershot chaplaincy, 1966-1974
(file)
Correspondence and associated papers re hire/rental of churches for work
connected with the Aldershot chaplaincy, 1931-1969
Annual published accounts of the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust, year
ending 31 August 1977 (booklet)
General correspondence re the Aldershot chaplaincy, 1931-1934 (file)
Box 21
Correspondence and associated papers, re the financial accounts associated with
the chaplaincy work at Caterham, 1936 -1956 (2 files)
General correspondence re chaplaincy work at Caterham, 1952 -1954 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including lists of trustees, trust deeds,
title deeds, extracts from minutes and accounts, re the Chatham Sailors and
Soldiers Homes, 1890-1927 (file)
General correspondence and associated papers, including accounts, re
chaplaincy work at Chatham, 1926-1934, 1949 -1957 (2 files)
Box 22
General correspondence and associated papers, including news cuttings, re
chaplaincy work at Chatham, 1935-1943, 1947-1957 (2 files)
Correspondence and associated papers, re the financial accounts associated with
the chaplaincy work at Chatham, 1929 -1953 (file)
General correspondence re chaplaincy work at Caterham, 1946 -1963 (file)
Box 23
Correspondence and associated papers, re chaplaincy work at the Connaught
Home in Malta, with particular regard to the work of Charles and Maria Pace,
1965-1971 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re chaplaincy work on Malta, with
particular regard to the ministry of Reverend Ian Thompson RN, 1972-1974
(file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including accounts of the Connaught
Home, re the implications of independence for the chaplaincy work on Malta,
1963-1969 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including minutes and accounts, re the
Aldershot Methodist Military Trust, 1972-1974 (file)
Box 24
Insurance policies and associated papers re Floriana Church and Connaught
Home, Malta, 1954-1969 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re insurance policies connected with
Floriana Church and Connaught Home, Malta, 1968-1973 (2 files)
Legal documents concerning property matters, such as terms of tenure,
encroachments and charitable status, concerning Floriana Church, Malta, 1879-
1971 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including building plans, re Floriana
Church and Connaught Home, Malta, 1949-1961 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, including draft legal agreements and
estimates for building work, re Floriana Church, Connaught Home and
Margherita Garrison Church, Malta, 1925-1931 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re the organ installed in Floriana
Church, Malta, 1949-1972 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re Floriana Church and Connaught
Home, Malta, 1972-1978 (file)
Box 25
Correspondence and associated papers, re property matters connected with the
Floriana Church, Margherita Hill and Connaught Home, Malta, 1914-1924,
1943-1948 (2 files)
General correspondence and associated papers, re the Floriana Church and
Connaught Home, Malta, 1962-1964, 1972-1978 (2 files)
File containing items of “historic interest” relating to the Connaught Home in
Malta including: visitors book 1967-1968, advertising material and booking
forms 1970-1971 and two rubber stamps (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re the effects of independence on the
Correspondence and associated papers, re financial accounts connected with the
Floriana Church and Connaught Home, Malta, 1971-1973 (file)
Box 26
Connaught Centre, Malta – monthly statements of account (Malta copy),
April 1966 – January/February 1972 (parcel)
Connaught Centre, Malta - renovations account, consisting of cash book,
analysis of money received in and paid out by the Armed Forces Board Office
in London and analysis of all receipts in Malta, 1969-1972 (parcel)
Connaught Centre, Malta - renovations account, consisting of all supporting
vouchers and receipts etc, 1969-1971 (parcel)
Connaught Centre, Malta – Youth club cash book, 1970-1972 (volume)
Connaught Centre, Malta – main accounts including monthly statements,
supporting vouchers, receipts, cash receipt books, paying-in books and
telephone receipts, 1968-1972 (file)
Box 27
General correspondence and associated papers, including annual reports,
historical notes, membership statistics and financial papers, re chaplaincy work
on Malta, c.1882-1913 (file)
Correspondence and associated papers, re property matters connected with the
Correspondence and associated papers re the proposal for a union church,
1972-1974 (file)
Box 28
“History of the Armed Forces Board” – containing lists of significant dates
1756-1975, copies of significant documents and extracts from minutes of
several committees (file)
“Naval History” – containing printed Home Mission Department reports of
visits to Mediterranean naval chaplaincies, extracts from minutes of several
committees, copies of significant documents and typescript chaplains’
regulations (file)
Methodist Army Chaplaincy Background – miscellaneous papers concerning
the historical background to Methodist work with the army (file)
“Gibraltar History” – containing background information re history of the
Notes
Title Wesleyan Methodist Magazine: (WM)
Keywords
Description Wesleyan Methodist Magazine.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title F. W. Lewis:Printed - Gems:Methodist quotes, poems and sayings
Keywords
Description Printed volume entitled "Gems" - Methodist quotes, poems and sayings etc"
compiled by F. W. Lewis.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Printed catalogue of Methodist books for sale:(WM)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Publishing# Publishing
Description "Catalogue of Books, for the year 1805, published by the late Rev. Mr Wesley,
and others. Sold at the New Chapel, City Road, London and at Methodist
Preaching Houses in Town and Country."
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5972 (Ref.DDX 27/2)
Title Foreign Missions:(WM) India,Bangalore
Date of Material July 1857
Keywords Methodism (India)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--India
Description Periodical article concerning the Wesleyan Mission in Bangalore, India (from
the magazine "Wesleyan Juvenile Offering July 1857."
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Colleges:(MCGB) Headingley,Photographs
Keywords Colleges--Headingley
Description Photographs of Headingley College taken by the Methodist minister Geoffrey

Litherland (1911-91) while he was a student there 1934-1937.
Notes See DDX catalogue in the reading room for an item-level description
Access Restrictions
Title Financial Accounts:(WM) Hull,Manor Alley Chapel
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Hull (Manor Alley Chapel)
Description Hull Society (Manor Alley Chapel) Steward’s accounts.
Notes Presented to the Methodist Archives at the request of, and in memory of,
Reverend Reginald Loten, formerly Chairman of the Hull District
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5980 (Ref. DDX 28/34)
Title Geoffrey Litherland:(WM) (1911-91) Sermon register
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Sermons--1933-2000
Description Sermon register of the Methodist minister Geoffrey Litherland (1930-1991).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5996-6000 (Ref. DDX 30)
Title Circuit plans:(MCGB) Manchester (Great Western Street)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans# Circuit plans--Methodist

Description Circuit plans of Manchester Great Western Street Circuit 1934, 1938, 1942 and 1945.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 5970 (Ref.DDX 31)
Title Francis Hubert Coles:(WM) (1905-90) Lecture notes
Description Lecture notes taken by Francis Hubert Coles (1905-1990) while a student at
Headingley Wesleyan Methodist ministerial training college, Leeds.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Circuit plans and directories:(MCGB) Dorking and Horsham
Keywords Circuit plans--Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Circuit plans
Description Circuit plans and directories of the Dorking and Horsham circuit.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Foreign Missions:(WM) Foreign Field Magazine
Date of Material April 1914
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--General# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Periodicals--Foreign Missions# Periodicals--Wesleyan Methodist
Church (Great Britain)--Foreign Missions
Description Foreign Field Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Magazine.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Mary Porteous:(WM) (c.1783-1861) Printed biography
Keywords
Description Xerox copy of "The Life of Mary Porteous" by John Lightfoot.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Newton:(CE) (1725-1807) Books re West Indian slavery
Keywords Slavery & Abolition# Church of England--Clergy# Church of England--

Evangelicalism#
Church of England--Foreign Missions# Church of England--Slavery &
Abolition# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Slavery & Abolition#
Description Printed material regarding John Newton and West Indian slavery
1. Published "Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, sometime a slave trader in

Africa, as narrated through letters written to Rev. Haweis" (London: 1813)
2. Published "The Religious Instruction of Slaves in the West India Colonies

advocated and defended" - sermon preached before the Wesleyan Methodist
Missionary Society by Richard Watson at City Road Chapel in London 1824
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Clarke:(WM) (1845-1922) Biographical details
Date of Material 19th-20th
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers# Local Preachers#

Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Typescript biographical details of shipwright and local preacher John Clarke
(1845-1922) of Burton near Pembroke.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title James Rasberry:1814-1902) Biographical details etc
Keywords
Description Xerox copies of news cuttings, biographical details and photographs relating to
the family of James Rasberry (1814-1902) of Gayton in Norfolk.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(WM) Newcastle,Photograph of delegates,1901
Description Group photograph of delegates to the Wesleyan Conference, Newcastle.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title London:(WM) Wesleyan Centenary Hall and Epworth House sale
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (Wesley Centenary Hall)# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--London (City Road, Epworth House)
Description Sale particulars for Wesleyan Centenary Hall, London in May 1887 and
Epworth House, City Road London, c.1950.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Magazines:(WM) Joyful News,1958-63
Keywords
Description Joyful News magazine.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title George Coles:(1791-1858) Copy journal (USA)
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1801-50# Emigration--19th century
Description Typescript copy of the journal of George Coles (1791-1858) formerly of

Buckinghamshire, who emigrated to the USA in 1818 (with a modern
typescript commentary on the journal).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Liverpool:(WM) Papers re Wesleyan Methodism,1813-1931
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Liverpool
Description Papers re Liverpool Wesleyan Methodism 1813-1931
See DDX catalogue for an item list
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 7098-7099 (Ref.DDX 47)
Title Colin Rowe (fl.1990):(MCGB) Diary etc
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1900-2009#
Description Papers of Methodist minister Colin Rowe
1. Papers and correspondence concerning Rowe’s work as a member of the

committee for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the conversion of
John Wesley 1988
2. Diary of Colin Rowe 1991-1992
Notes
Reference Code MA 8007-8008 (Ref. DDX 48)
Title Pen and Camera Club of Methodism:Papers
Keywords Pen & Camera Club of Methodism
Description Papers of the Pen and Camera Club of Methodism 1990-1992.
Notes See DDX list for an itemised description
Reference Code MA 8021-8022 (Ref.DDX 49)
Title Pacifism:(MCGB) Printed statement (Billington)
Date of Material
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Pacifism #Pacifism
Description "The Basis of Pacifist Conviction" by Billington; "I am Persuaded: A

Methodist statement of the Christian Pacifist Cause."
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Newbiggin:(WM) Chapel and School conveyance
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Newbiggin
Description Conveyance of land at Newbiggin in Cumberland for the purpose of erecting a

Methodist chapel and school.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Sunday School Committee:(PM) Minutes
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sunday School committee#

Sunday schools--Great Britain
Description Minutes of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School Committee, and associated
sub-committees including the Executive.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Colleges:(WM) Didsbury,Photographs of staff and students
Keywords Colleges--Didsbury
Description Didsbury College photographs of staff and students
Notes For an itemised list see in the DDX catalogue (reading room)
Access Restrictions
Title Geoffrey Litherland:(MCGB) (1911-91) Notes on comparative religion
Keywords
Description Notes on comparative religion by the Methodist minister Geoffrey Litherland

(1911-91).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Colleges:(WM) Didsbury,Copy register of students
Description Xerox pages from the Didsbury College register.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 7066-7067 (Ref. DDX 55
Title Saltash,Callington and Gunnerslake circuits:(MCGB) Service sheets
Keywords
Description Orders of service from Saltash, Callington and Gunnerslake circuits.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MCGB) 250th anniversary of Aldersgate,1988
Keywords Conversion--Methodism# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference 1988
Description File of papers concerning the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the
Aldersgate experience at the Conference of 1988.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Scotland:(MCGB) Scotland
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans
Description Circuit plans for the Scottish district.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MCGB) Voting record (President/Vice-President)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference--Voting records
Description Record of voting in Conference for the posts of President and Vice-President.
Notes
Title Conference:(MCGB) Letter Book
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference--Letter book
Description Conference letter book.
Notes
Title Conference:(MCGB) Connexional Membership returns
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Membership returns
Description Connexional membership returns.
Notes Originally accessioned as MA 9400 and then reaccessioned in 2003.
Access Restrictions
Title Conference Office:(MCGB) Correspondence re marriage registers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference Office# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Marriage registers
Description Correspondence relating to the deposit of Methodist marriage registers.
Correspondence between several Methodist bodies, including the Conference

Office and the Methodist Archives and Research Centre, with several
government agencies, including Somerset House and the General Register Office
relating to the deposit of marriage registers.
Notes Previously accessioned as MA 9401 in January 1997 and then re-accessioned in

January 2003
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Social policy:(WM/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Temperance# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Social justice# Social justice--Great Britain# Temperance & religion--
Great Britain# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.
Description Records of Methodist social policy and interaction
Incorporating the archives of the Temperance and Social Welfare Department,

Department of Christian Citizenship, Department of Social Responsibility.
See also MA 9865
Box 1
British Council of Churches general correspondence and associated papers 1964

(file)
Temperance Council of the Christian Churches general correspondence and

associated papers 1964 (file)
Working party on social and political responsibility general correspondence

and associated papers 1963 (file)
Wyndham Place Trust general correspondence and associated papers 1960-

1962 (file)
Social studies (Handsworth College course) general correspondence and

associated papers 1958-1960 (file)
Church of England Board of Social Responsibility general correspondence and

associated papers 1960-1964 (file)
Suicide - correspondence and associated papers 1960-1961 (file)
South Africa - correspondence and associated papers 1960-1963 (file)
Television - correspondence and associated papers 1960-1964 (file)
Box 2
Unity (newspaper) - correspondence and associated papers 1963 (file)
Synod resolutions on social matters - correspondence and associated papers

1961 (file)
Tape recordings - correspondence and associated papers 1957-1959 (file)

Pamphlets printed or received by the Department of Christian Citizenship
- “A Working Faith for a Working World” – Is there one? (in preparation for
the conference of Methodist workers in agriculture, industry and the
professions 1953)
- Bundle of leaflets opposing capital punishment printed by a number of
sources. C.1947
United Nations Association Pathfinder Series 1947:

- Hunger is the Enemy
- Unesco’s Task
- Arms and the Atom
- The Veto
Rotterdam – What next? (published by the Council of Churches Commission

on International Friendship and Social Responsibility c.1950)
National Peace Council Peace Pamphlets series

- Allied Peace Aims (1944)
- Economic Revolution (1941)
- New model for Europe (1945)
- Spiritual Basis for Peace (1941)
- Peace by Compulsion (1944)
- Russia and the West: Policy for Britain (1947)
- Democracy and Peace (1945)
- UN Charter (1945)
- Future of International Government (1941)
- What is democracy (1946)
- Working Peace System (1946)
- Through Chaos to Community (1944)
- Renewal of Civilization (1943)
- Britain and Russia: The Future (1942)
- Towards World Government: The role of Britain (1946)
- Crisis of Culture (1947)
- The Atom Bomb and Education (1947)
- Welfare and Peace (1945)
- The Third Challenge (1945)
“The Quiver” – illustrated magazine for Sunday and General Reading 1896
(printed volume)
Income and expenditure account of the Methodist Relief Fund 25 October

1968-14 May 1969 (manuscript volume)
Account book containing lists of investments, capital account and income tax
reclaims c.1925 – c.1958 (Wesleyan Temperance and Social Welfare
Department manuscript volume)
Staff insurance and salaries book 1961-1963 (manuscript volume)
Box 3
Minutes of the Wesleyan Temperance Standing committee 1921-1932

(manuscript volume)
Methodist Relief Fund – payment accounts 1954-1960 (manuscript volume)
Bristol office petty cash account 1939-c.1960 (manuscript volume)
General account of the Department for Christian Citizenship, including special

campaigns, printing costs, circuit contributions and society contributions etc
c.1943 – c.1963 (manuscript volume)
Minutes of the International and Industrial Relations Standing committee

1931-1932 (manuscript volume)
Box 4
Receipts/Cash book 1958-1967 (manuscript volume)
Portsmouth District Treasurer’s account book recording receipts and

remittances of money for the support of the Temperance and Social Welfare
Department 1932-1956 (manuscript volume)
Oxford and Gloucester District Treasurer’s account book recording receipts and
remittances of money for the support of the Temperance and Social Welfare
Department 1932-1955 (manuscript volume)
Account book recording sales of publications 1922-1929 (manuscript volume)
“A New Kind of Building”: Script and Guide c.1960 (typescript)
Methodist Relief Fund income and expenditure account 1958-1960 (manuscript

volume)
Box 5
General Accounts c.1950-c.1961 (manuscript volume)
Account of presidential campaign subscriptions and donations 1940-1963

(manuscript volume)
Account of monies forwarded to inter-church aid and refugee service and to the
Missionary Society for China relief 1938-1956 (manuscript volume)
Minutes of the Sunday Questions Standing Committee (manuscript volume)
Parcel of papers concerning the staff pension scheme c.1968
Attendance lists of the several committees and sub-committees 1932-1959
Box 6
Correspondence concerning legacies left to the Wesleyan Temperance and
Social Welfare Department c.1924 – c.1956 (box file)
3 tape recordings (2 untitled and one called “Devil’s Advocate”) c.1950
Box 7
Receipts/Cash book 1951-1958 (manuscript volume)
Agenda, minutes and associated documents of the DSR Board 1993-1996

(binders)
Correspondence re the accounts of the DSR 1990-1994 (folder)
Minutes of the International Relief and Development Affairs Committee

1988-1990 (folder)
Correspondence and associated papers of the “Health and Healing

Development Group” 1989-1990 (folder)
Correspondence, printed material and associated papers re the 1992

Conference statement on “family, the single person and marriage” 1991-1992
(folder)
Box 8
Papers concerning the “Human Sexuality” report presented to the 1982

Conference consisting of correspondence, printed material, statements,
critiques, reports/statements (draft and final) and papers of working parties and
sub-committees. The papers are divided into four files and date between 1979
and 1982.
Box 9
Correspondence, printed material, minutes, reports and associated papers

relating to the “Committee of the Churches for evidence and action in relation
to the Royal Commission on Gambling” 1950-1960 (folder)
Correspondence, minutes and associated papers of the “Churches’ Council on

Gambling” 1965-1966 (bundle)
Correspondence with Epworth Press 1952-1965 (bundle)
Correspondence with Edinburgh House Press 1958-1962 (bundle)
Correspondence, minutes and associated papers of the Council of Christian and

Jews 1962-1964 (bundle)
Box 10
“Common Ground” magazine, Autumn 1961 (printed periodical)
“The Psychology of Persecution and Prejudice” by David Stafford Clark

(printed lecture issued by the Council of Christians and Jews, 1960)
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers of the Council of Christians and

Jews, 1962-1963 and 1965 (bundles)
Minutes, sub-committee papers (especially the Administrative Committee),

correspondence and associated papers of the British Council of Churches,
1965-1967 (bundle)
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers of the Church Council on

Gambling, 1957-1965 (bundle)
General correspondence of the Department of Christian Citizenship, 1965-

1966 (3 bundles)
Box 11

1966 (bundle)
Reports, minutes and associated papers of the British Council of Churches and
associated working parties, 1965-1967 (bundle)
Minutes, resolutions and printed material etc of the Freedom from Hunger
campaign, 1964-1965 (file)
Minutes, letters, printed material etc of the Social Responsibility department of

the British Council of Churches, 1965 (file)
Box 12

1966 (file)
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers of the Free Church Federal

Council, 1963-1965 (bundle)
Minutes, correspondence and printed material etc of the International

department of the British Council of Churches, 1965 (file)
Minutes, correspondence and printed material of the Joint Overseas Christian

Committee, 1953, 1961-1963 (file)
Box 13
Minutes of the Committee of Management of the Christian Pacifist Forestry

and Land Units Ltd 1940-1949 (file)
Minutes of the annual general meeting of the Christian Pacifist Forestry and
Land Units Ltd 1944-1947 (file)
Newsletters and associated papers of the Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land
Units Ltd 1941-1947 (file)
Minutes, letters and associated papers of the British Committee of the World
Methodist Council 1956-1965 (file)
Letters, articles and associated papers connected with the meetings of the
World Council of Churches 1968-1970 (file)
Minutes of the Restrictions Committee of the Central Control Board (Liquor

Traffic) 1919 (file)
Box 14


Traffic) 1916-1918 (file)
Minutes of the Public House Committee of the Central Control Board (Liquor
Papers of the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) concerning the sale of
“light beer” 1916-1917 (file)
Reports, letters and associated papers of the Central Control Board (Liquor
Traffic) 1916-1917 (file)
Published statement of the assets and liabilities arising from the acquisition and
direct control of licensed premises by the Central Control Board (Liquor
Traffic) and presented to Parliament on 31 March 1918 (file)
Box 15
Minutes, letters and associated papers of the Fund for Human Need sub-
committee 1973-1974 (file)
Letters concerning the Fund for Human Need 1968-1973 (file)
Letters and associated papers concerning the work of the Fund for Human Need
in India and Pakistan 1970-1971 (file)
Letters and associated papers concerning the Kaima project in Nigeria assisted
by the Fund for Human Need 1963-1972 (file)
Letters and associated papers concerning the Community and Race Relations
Unit of the British Council of Churches 1972-1974 (file)
Letters and associated papers concerning the Community Development Group

of the Lay Training Committee of the Division of Ministries 1973-1974 (file)
Box 16
Letters concerned with the work of the Methodist Relief Fund 1972-1973 (file)
Letters concerned with cases of personal distress alleviated by the Methodist

Relief Fund 1973-1974 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Colon, Panama 1969-
1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Nigeria/Biafra 1969-

1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Rhodesia 1972-1973

(file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Kenya 1971-1972 (file)
Minutes and associated papers of the Methodist Missionary Society Central

Committee 1972-1974 (file)
Box 17
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Methodist Relief Fund 1972-1975 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Africa 1970-1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in British Honduras 1969-
1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Yemen, Burma, Fiji and
Tonga 1972-1974 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in India and Ceylon 1968-
1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in Haiti 1968-1973 (file)
Letters concerned with Methodist Relief Fund work in the West Indies 1970-
1973 (file)
Letters concerning miscellaneous grants made by the Methodist Relief Fund

1970-1973 (file)
Letters, draft statements and associated papers produced by the working party
on euthanasia 1973-1974 (file)
Minutes, printed material and associated papers connected with the Methodist
Peace Fellowship 1939-1949 (file)
Box 18
Administrative file containing the following:
- Correspondence from the government in response to Conference resolutions
on social questions, 1991
- Minutes, letters and associated papers of the Family, Healing and Personal
Concerns committee, 1992-1996
- Correspondence and associated papers in response to the Report on Human
Sexuality, 1989-1991
- Correspondence and associated papers in response to the Statement on the
Family Single Person and Marriage, 1989-1991
Administrative file containing the following:

- Minutes of the General Purposes committee, 1988-1995
- Minutes of the President’s Council, 1986-1994
- Minutes of the Division of Social Responsibility Board meeting, 1992-1995
Folder of papers concerning legacies to the Home Mission Department,

including copy wills and associated papers, c.1929-c.1979
Box 19
Administrative files containing letters and associated papers concerning

Division of Social Responsibility support for the following international and
UK national projects:
- Iran: British Red Cross relief aid, December 1993
- Israel: Association for Civil Rights in Israel, September-November 1993
- Israel: AHLADAF, July 1991
- Israel: Friendship’s Way Jewish-Arab Association for the Child and the
Family, July-
December 1993
- Israel: Haifa Rape Crisis Centre, October 1992-October 1993
- Israel: Open House, August 1992-January 1993
- Jamaica: Bluefield Project, November-December 1993
- Jamiaca: Boys Town, July-December 1993
- Jamiaca: Operation Friendship, March-July 1993
- Kakuma: Seedcorn Enterprises, July-December 1993
- Lebanon: World Council of Churches Destruction Situation Report, August
1993
- Lebanon: Association Najdeh, July-September 1993
- Madagascar: Berkeley Reforestation Trust, June 1993
- Malawi: World Council of Churches Mozambican refugees, March-August
1993
- [Turkey]: Middle East Council of Churches, December 1993
- Mozambique: World Council of Churches Relief and Rehabilitation, January-
April 1993
- [Various]: World Council of Churches, March 1993
- Nepal: Narjarkot Permaculture Farm, June-December 1993
- Nicaragua: Floods, May 1992-September 1993
- Peru: Cholera, December 1993
- Peru: Orphanage (Brian and Betty Atwell), April-December 1993
- Personal distress: Revd and Mrs Cardew, May-December 1993
- Philippines: Kanlungan Sa Er-ma Ministry Inc., March 1993
- Philippines: National Council of Churches, November 1992-July 1993
- Romania: Hospice Casa Sperantei, March-June 1993
- Romania: Hawkesley Christian Romania Trust, November 1993
- South Africa: Central Methodist Mission, August-September 1993
- South Africa: British Defence and Aid Fund, November-December 1993
- South Africa: Bishop Simeon Trust, June 1993
- South Africa: Evangelical Theological House of Studies, May-August 1993
- South Africa: Kathorus Community Advice Bureau, March-June 1993
- South Africa: The Family Institute, October 1992-October 1993
- South Africa: Natal Relief and Rehabilitation, March-August 1993
- Sierra Leone: EDRA Consultancy, August-December 1993
- Solomon Islands: UK Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, June
1992-September 1993
- Somalia: British Red Cross, May-July 1993
- Sri Lanka: Navajeevanam Fellowship, February 1990-November 1993
- Sri Lanka: World Council of Churches, September 1993
- Sudan: World Council of Churches, December 1992-August 1993
- UK: Eyes Campaign against Child Exploitation, January 1993
- UK: Friends of the Earth, September 1993
- UK: International Broadcasting Trust, March-June 1993
- UK: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, December 1992-December
1993
- UK: Greenpeace, November 1992-January 1993
- UK: KEEP, December 1992-January 1993
- UK: Mission alongside the Poor programme, March 1992-Autumn 1993
Box 20
Administrative files containing letters and associated papers concerning

Division of Social Responsibility support for the following UK national
projects:
- UK: Medical Foundation – The Supporter, May 1993
- UK: Miscellaneous, April 1991-December 1993
- UK: Multi-racial Projects Fund, February 1990-July 1993
- UK: New Economics Foundation, June 1992-June 1993
- UK: National Peace Council, January 1993
- UK: Northern Refugee Centre, July 1993
- UK: PARTISANS (Invoices), January-May 1993
- UK: Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund, April-December 1993
- UK: Philippine Resource Centre, May-November 1993
- UK: Returned Volunteer Action, January 1992-June 1993
- UK: Survival International Charitable Trust, October 1992-September 1993
- UK: TAPOL, August 1992-July 1993
- UK: Water Aid, December 1990-Spring 1993
- UK: World Disarmament Campaign, July-September 1993
- UK: World Development Movement, March 1992-December 1993
- UK: World of Islam Festival Trust, July-August 1993
- UK: Work with Refugees (Stanley Platt), January-June 1993
Administrative folders containing letters and associated papers concerning the

relationship between the Division of Social Responsibility and the following
organizations and bodies:
- Baptist Union, 1995
- Christian Aid, 1987-1991
- Church Action for the Disabled, 1987-1993
- Church Action on Poverty, 1989-1996
- Church of England Board for Social Responsibility, 1991-1995
- Eurocitizen Action Service, 1989-1990
- Family Policy Study Centre, 1991-1995
- Free Church Federal Council, 1990-1993
- Methodist Church in Ireland, 1991-1995
- Movement for Christian Democracy, 1990
- National Council for Voluntary Organizations (Personal and Family Interest
Group), 1988-1995
- Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, 1992
- United Reformed Church, 1993-1995
Box 21

- Action of Churches together in Scotland, 1990-1992
- Churches Council for Health and Healing, 1990-1995
- Churches together in England, 1992-1993
- Churches together in Wales, 1992
- Community Work Reference Group, 1991-1992
- Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland (CCBI) Assembly, 1989-1993
- Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland (CCBI) Social Responsibility
Consultation, 1993-1995
- Other Christian Organizations, 1990-1995

Division of Social Responsibility’s response to the following issues:
- AIDS, 1987-1995
- AIDS/HIV Consultation, 1992-1995
- Trans-sexuality, c.1978-c.1987
Box 22

- AIDS support group, 1989-1993
- European Affairs committee, 1987-1995
- European affairs, 1991-1995
- World Methodist Council (British committee), 1987-1995
- World Methodist Council, 1986-1995
- World Methodism and world affairs (mainly relating to World Methodist
Council), 1992-1994
- World Methodist Council with particular regard to Singapore, 1990-1991
Box 23
Two files of correspondence and associated papers, including reports, printed

material and printed notes from the 1986 Scottish Convention of Women,
arising from the working party on the “Community of Women and Men”,
1986
Minutes of the Communications and Publications sub-committee of the DSR,

1990-1995
Minutes and associated papers, including reports and printed material, of the
DSR International Relief and Development Affairs Committee and the
Education sub-committee, 1995-1996
Minutes of the DSR World Development Education Committee and the

Education sub-committee of the International Relief and Development Affairs
Committee, 1982-1995
Box 24
“Harvest Pack” – printed material produced by the DSR for use in local
churches, 1989
“Working for One World- new tape/slide set on world development”, parts 1
and 2, together with files of associated supporting material, 1984-1986
Box 25
Four files of supporting paperwork associated with the “Working for One
World- new tape/slide set on world development”, c.1983
“Harvest Pack 1988 – Making peace with the planet” – printed material
produced by the DSR for use in local churches, 1988
File of papers concerned with the “Harvest booklet”, 1989
File of “additions and amendments to the names and addresses of members of

the World development network” c.1983
Box 26
File of correspondence and associated papers, including minutes and reports,

concerning the work of the British Council of Churches “Programme for
Combating Racism Review Committee”, 1972-1976
File of correspondence and associated papers, including reports and papers

written in response, concerning the work of the Abortion Working Party,
1975
File of correspondence and associated papers, including reports and working

papers, concerning the work of the Family Life Standing Committee, with
regard to aborton, 1975-1976
Envelope containing photograph blocks, containing images of Edward Rogers,

General Secretary of the Christian Citizenship Department, c.1960
Box 27
Volume containing minutes of the following committees: Moral Welfare

Standing Committee, 1973-1982; Family Life Standing Committee, 1973-
1982; Family, Healing and Personal Concerns Committee, 1982-1992
Two files of correspondence and associated papers, including copies of UK

government papers and news cuttings, concerning the response of Methodism
to the issue of phosphate mining on Ocean island and the effects on the native
Banaban people, 1967-1968
Box 28
Printed annual reports of the Christian Citizenship Department, 1957-1972

and 1975
Envelope containing publicity photographs of Edward Rogers, General
Secretary of the Christian Citizenship Department, c.1960
Division of Social Responsibility office files as follows:
Notes
Title Evangelism & Home Mission:(WM/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Evangelism# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Home Mission# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Evangelism# Wesleyan
Methodist Church--Home Mission
Description Records of Evangelism and Home Mission (MA 9863A)
See also MA 9865A for box 12
Box 1
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers of the Church in Industry

Committee and related bodies such as the Council of Management for Industrial
Mission, c.1968-c.1990 (box file)
Minutes and associated papers, including course details and programmes, of the
Luton College Industrial Mission, 1968-1974 (file)
Printed report of a Commission on Luton Industrial College and Mission

Circuit, sent to the College governors and Home Mission Division Board, June
1989
Minutes and associated papers of the City Centre Committee (formerly the
Central Missions Committee), 1970-1990 (box file)
Box 2
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers of the Inner City and Urban
Housing Estate Committee (formerly the Church in the Inner City Committee
and the Inner City Committee), 1974-1990 (box file)
Index cards arranged by circuit (incomplete?) containing the names and dates
of appointment of evangelists and lay pastors, with notes re financial support,
c.1928-1949 (bundle)
Correspondence and associated papers, including press cuttings, re industrial

mission, with particular regard to Luton Industrial College, c.1990 (2 bundles)
Society and Industrial Papers (Diocese and District of Bristol, 1986)
Starting the Work – Basic Manual for Industrial Chaplains (Churches

Consortium on Industrial Mission, 1982)
Guidelines on the task, organisation, appointments and continuity of industrial

mission (Churches Consortium on Industrial Mission, 1985)
Report of a conference on urban mission (Rotterdam Urban Mission, 1983)
Annual Report of the Churches’ Industrial Group, Birmingham (1988)
Specialist Ministries Survey – 1st Synod Report (Diocese of London, 1985)
People, Society, Justice, Peace – reflections on a visit to the German

Democratic Republic by a delegation from South Hampshire Industrial Mission
representing Church work in urban and industrial mission in Great Britain (May
1986)
Box 3
Parcel of papers on the “Rural Church” including the following:

- Notes on a consultation on “Rural Ecumenism”, 1978
- Executive report of the Conference committee on “The Church in Rural
Life”, January 1970
- Ts paper on “Training and the Small Church”, [c.1970]
- Leaflet entitled A Simple Introduction to Church Growth by Jeffrey Harris
(HOME MISSION DEPARTMENT, c.1980)
- “Bringing Men to Faith in Christ” – paper presented to a Conference on
Making Christians in Contemporary Society held at the University of Keele,
April 1968
- “Christian Conversion Today” – paper presented to a Conference on Making
Christians in Contemporary Society held at the University of Keele, April
1968
- A Memorandum on the East End of the South Bank, SE London Mission
Circuit by David Clark (May 1968)
- Industrial Relations and the Common Market – Report on the Bentveld
Conference by George Howarth (HOME MISSION DEPARTMENT, 1967)
- Christian Experience Today by Graham Slater (HOME MISSION
DEPARTMENT, 1970)
- Some Notes on Christian Thoughts and Metaphysics Today by David Pailin
(HOME MISSION DEPARTMENT, 1969)
- Mission and the Death of God – study paper on the talk about the “Death of
God” theology and the mission of the Church by Richard Jones and Anthony
Wesson (HOME MISSION DEPARTMENT, 1968)
File of papers documenting the activities of the “City and Town-centre Review
Group”, including minutes, letters and printed material (including histories of
individual Central Missions and the movement as a whole), c.1986-c.1990
File containing “Central Mission Statistics” including figures for City Centre
Church membership, average congregations and average weekly offerings
broken down by town and city. Also includes comments on circumstances
affecting each church and financial solvency, c.1964-c.1986
More Home Truths – Home Mission Department Annual Review (1987)
Box 4
Occasional printed papers of the HOME MISSION DEPARTMENT as follows:
1. Counting to some purpose by Jeffrey Harris in association with Peter Jarvis

(1979)
2. A New Beginning by Jeffrey Harris (1979)
3. The Church and Community Service Orders by Hedley Lyddon (1979)
4. Mission in Rural Communities by John Clarke (1978)
5. The Church in the Council Housing Estate by Jeffrey Harris and Peter Jarvis
(c.1977)
6. Partnership in Black and White by Roswith Gerloff and others (1977)
7. Working with People – examples of community development (c.1975)
8. Renewal in the Inner city by Clifford Hall (c.1977)
9. Second Homes and the Church, with special reference to rural Wales (1976)
10. Youth and the Rural Church (1975)

11. Concern for the Inner city by Jeffrey Harris (c.1971)
12. Seven Years After – Selly Oak Methodist Church (c.1974)
13. Rallies and their Relevance Today by Paul Lang (c.1970)
14. “Bringing Men to Faith in Christ” – paper presented to a Conference on
April 1968
15. “Christian Conversion Today” – paper presented to a Conference on
April 1968
16. Handbook and Programme of the Conference on Making Christians in
Contemporary Society held at the University of Keele, April 1968
17. Evangelism Today ed. by Leslie Davison (1969)
18. Family Count by Bernard Jones (1970)
19. Methodist Work in New Towns and New Areas by Sinclair Walker (1970)
20. I was in Prison by J. Arthur Hayles (1969)
21. By all Means – 105th annual report of the Home Mission Department,
1960
22. Sharing in God’s Mission – A Programme for a Living Church, 1985
23. What it means to me – Personal Visions of a Living Church edited by
David Bridge (1970)
Parcel of papers concerning the work of the Welsh-English Border

Commission to 1968
Parcel of ground plans, architectural drawings and maps showing demographic

change relating to Methodist properties, particularly mission buildings, in
Birmingham, Bradford, Deal, Hull, London Whitechapel, London Wandsworth
(Annesley House), Peterborough and Southampton, late 20th century
Box 5
Typescript annual reports of the Selby Coalfield Industrial Chaplaincy, 1983-

1984
Typescript report of the review body and recommendations for the future of
the work of the Selby Coalfield Industrial chaplaincy, December 1984
Typescript chaplains report of the Scottish Churches Industrial Mission Team,

1989
Typescript report complied for the Church and Industry Committee on the
church in East Kilbride, November 1989
Typescript report and associated papers on mission and ministry in

Birmingham, 1989-1991
Typescript report and associated papers on industrial mission in Leicestershire,
with particular regard to the North-East Leicestershire Coalfield project, 1987
Typescript specialist ministries survey – 2nd synod report of the Diocese of

London, 1986
Printed newsletter of the Friends of Luton Industrial College (Issue 7,

March/April 1990)
Typescript “CROP” – A Study in doing Theology by John Forster, 1984
Typescript South Hampshire Industrial Mission annual report, 1986
Typescript report of a visit to the Nantes Mission Populaire Evangelique in

France (South Hampshire Industrial Mission, 1987)
Typescript Sheffield Industrial Mission annual report, 1987
Typescript final report of the working party on Central South Durham

(Teeside Industrial Mission, 1987)
Parcel of papers including correspondence and financial papers, concerning the

work of Ray Smith with the Birmingham Industrial Mission, 1979-1987
Parcel of papers including annual reports and performance appraisals,

concerning the work of Ray Smith with the Birmingham Industrial Mission,
1983-1986
Parcel of papers, including minutes and reports, of the Kent Agricultural

Chaplaincy Group, 1978-1981
Parcel of completed questionnaires re the relevance and importance of

industrial mission, c.1975
Box 6
1. Outreach in New Towns and New Areas (Home Mission Department, 1987)
2. Some Notes on Christian Thoughts and Metaphysics by David Pailin (Home

Mission Department, 1969)
3. Country Pattern – First report of the Church in Rural Life
Committee(Home Mission Department, 1970)
4. Team Ministry – Symposium prepared by the Team Ministries Committee
of the Methodist Church (Home Mission Department, 1972)
5. Campaign for Action: Experience in Evangelism following the new 3 phase
method (Home Mission Department, 1972)
6. Evangelism in Worship by Donald English (Home Mission Department,
1971)
7. For such times as this by Douglas S. Hubery (Home Mission Department,
1971)
8. The Theology of Power and Responsibility by Leslie Davison (Home
Mission Department, 1970)
9. Christian Experience Today by Graham Slater (Home Mission Department,
1970)
The following publications are principally printed annual reports of the Home
Mission Department as follows:
10. Concern – 103rd annual report, 1958

11. Communications – 102nd annual report, 1957
12. Unceasing Purpose – 101st annual report, 1956
13. 100 Eventful Years – 100th annual report, 1955
14. Vigil – 99th annual report, 1954
15. Open Doors – 98th annual report, 1953
16. Accent – 104th annual report, 1959
17. Advance – 97th annual report, 1952
18. Into Action – 96th annual report, 1951
19. Home Mission Fund Treasurer’s statement and annual accounts, 1984
20. To the People – 95th annual report, 1950
21. Horizons – 94th annual report, 1949
22. Focus – 93rd annual report, 1948
23. Waters to swim in – 92nd annual report, 1947
24. By all means – 105th annual report, 1960
25. Witness – 106th annual report, 1961
26. Outlook – 107th annual report, 1962
27. Changing Patterns – 108th annual report, 1963
28. Challenge – 109th annual report, 1964
29. Report 110 - annual report, 1964-1965
33. Kindle a flame – 114th annual report, 1968-1969
34. Now to Him – 115th annual report, 1971
35. Still for More – 116th annual report, 1972
36. Called to Share – 117th annual report, 1973
37. Bold to Say – 118th annual report, 1974
38. Go – 119th annual report, 1975
39. Priorities – 120th annual report, 1976
40. For ever beginning – 121st annual report, 1977
41. Nationwide – 122nd annual report, 1978
42. Living in Hope – 123rd annual report, 1979
Box 7
The following publications are principally printed annual reports of the Home
Mission Department as follows:
1. Report 125, 1981

2. What’s New? – Report 126, 1982
3. Visions of 1984, Report 128, 1984
4. Getting Across, Annual Review 129, 1985
5. Home Truths – Annual Review, 1986
6. More Home Truths – Annual Review 129, 1987
Parcel of printed papers, including an order of service, concerning the Festival

of the Open Door, held to coincide with the re-opening of City Road Chapel,
London, November 1978 (World Methodist Council)
Parcel of printed papers associated with the National Initiative in Evangelism

Conference (Introduction 1-4), February 1978
Beginning in Jerusalem, edited by Reuben Job (World Methodist Council, 1975)
Minutes and associated papers of the Joint Staff meetings of the Home Mission
Department, Methodist Church Overseas Division and Division of Social
Responsibility, 1988-1990 (ring-binder)
Manuscript book containing details of subscriptions made by named individuals

(with home addresses) to an unspecified cause – probably the work of the Home
Mission Department, 1932-1936
How to form a prayer cell by W. E. Sangster (Westminster Pamphlet No.10,

1958)
Two folders of correspondence and associated papers concerning the work of

Railton Road Methodist Church and Community Centre, London, 1964-1976
Box 8
“Confidential” report by C.W. Glover and Partners, Consulting Engineers, on

‘existing and new mechanical and electrical services’ at Queen Victoria
Seamen’s Rest at Poplar in London, June 1967
“Private and Confidential” correspondence concerning Gilkes Street Methodist

Church in Middlesborough, June 1963
Two typescript reports on a visit by American ministers to Britain, October-

November 1967
“Strictly confidential” report of the [Chapel?] Commission’s visit to Great

Yarmouth Central Hall, 13 October 1967
Notes
Title Ministerial Training & Service:(WM/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--General# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Clergy--Training# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Training#
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--General# Methodist Church (Great
Britain)--Divisions--Ministry
Description Records of Methodist ministerial training and service.
Includes records of the Division of Ministries
(See also: MA 9865)
Box 1
Records of service of lay pastors, including name and date of birth, names and
dates of birth of wives and children, year of acceptance, circuit appointments,
residential address, stipends, circuit assessments of character and ministry and
date of death, c.1920-c.1960 (volume)
Records of service of student pastors and resignations from the lay pastorate,
including name and date of birth, year of acceptance, circuit appointments,
residential address, stipends and date of resignation, c.1930-c.1960 (volume)
Record of financial contributions made by circuits for the support of lay

pastors, arranged by district and circuit and including the name of the pastor
with date of appointment, c.1947-c.1964 (volume)
Record of service of lay pastors, who subsequently entered the ministry,

including name, date of birth, circuit appointment, residential address and
stipend, c.1940-c.1970 (volume)
Box 2
Record of ministerial appointments arranged by surname, c.1954-c.1970 (2

volumes)
Record of service of lay pastors, who subsequently entered the ministry,

including name and date of birth, names and dates of birth of wives and
children, year of acceptance, circuit appointments, residential address, stipends,
and circuit assessments of character and ministry, c.1920-c.1960 (2 volumes)
Box 3
Correspondence and associated papers, including post-course assessments,
concerning post-ordination further training courses for Methodist ministers
held at Crawshawbooth,
1969-1975 (10 files)
Box 4
Papers relating to the following probationary ministers and candidates for the
lay pastorate who entered the work in 1963, including details of college
education and ministerial training, examiners’ reports, character references,
ministerial candidature enquiry forms, nomination forms, circuit reports on
probationers and associated correspondence:
Arthur David Sanders
Douglas Frank Savill
Alan Saxby
Clive Scott
John Siddons
Bryan Smith
Cecil Havelock Smith
Charles Henry Smith
Paul Snell
Peter Stevens
Kenneth Edward Street
Box 5
Michael John Allen

Peter Aston Robert Allan Austin
Donald Charles Langley Barber
John James Joseph Barrett
Roger Stuart Bidnell
John David Bland
George William Brewer
Francis William Britten
Keith John Burton
Glyn Gordon Collins
Robin Cooper
Peter Finch Curry
Brian Anthony Dent
Anton Hilary Dowell
Ronald John Dyer
Box 6
Huw Derryck Evans
Donald William Elworthy
Leslie Edwards
George Wallace Edwards
Donald McNaughton Eadie
Robert Davies
Elliott Davidson
Dereck Hubert Alfred Davidson
Brian Dann
David Reginald Copestoke
Ronald William Dale
Keith Murray Cribbin
Sydney Frederick Cook
Nigel Thomas Collinson
Michael John Collings
Claud Clifford
Alexander Graham Clark
John Chilton
Box 7
Leonard Arthur Childs

David Geoffrey Albert Calvert
Martin Victor Caldwell
Michael George Brown
Allan Bowes
David Gerald Bostock
Malcolm John Beech
Norman John Baker
David Frank Baker
John Martin Bailey
Box 8
Notes
Reference Code TALIS
Title Conference:(WM) Published minutes (annotated)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference
Description "Minutes of some late conversations between the Reverend Mr John Wesley
and others" (several copies published in different places between 1781 and
1796 and bound together).
Several manuscript pages have been inserted in the 1790 Conference

proceedings duplicating printed pages that have been ripped out. The
annotations appear contemporary with the date of publication, but there is no
indication as to their author.
Notes
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Reference Code Miscellaneous
Title Albert Edward Greensmith:(UM) (1877-1955) Photograph
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# United Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Foreign missions--Sierra Leone# Methodism (Sierra Leone)
Description Black and white photograph of a group of children and adults in Sierra Leone,
members of the congregation led by the United Methodist missonary Albert
Edward Greensmith, who served in the colony between 1900 and 1920.
Greensmith is at the centre of the back row standing next to another unnamed
missionary colleague.
Notes
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Reference Code Sermons
Title John Denton:(WM) (1766-1851) Ms sermons
Date of Material 1792 - 99
Description Bundle of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan preacher John Denton.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letters (copies)
Keywords
Description Copies of autograph manuscript letters written by John Wesley. The letters
consist of xerox and photographic copies and are often annotated with
publication details and the location (if known) of the autograph manuscript.
The letters are addressed to the following correspondents in alphabetical order:
Box 1
- William Allwood, 11 January 1775
- Francis Asbury, 31 October 1784
- Hannah Ball, 24 December 1768
- Samuel Bardsley, 30 January 1780, 24 May 1782, 25 March 1787
- Jane Barton, 5 November 1770
- Joseph Benson, 7 November 1768, undated
- Ebenezer Blackwell, 14 August 1748
- Ann Bolton, 12 July 1768, 12 January 1769, 1 July 1772, 13 May 1774, 2
January 1781, 11 March 1781, 9 September 1781, 5 January 1783, 1 April
1784
- Richard Bourke, 12 May 1770
- Robert Carr Brackenbury, 24 February 1779, 4 January 1780, 8 May 1780, 5
November 1780, 12 August 1781, 19 November 1781, 4 January 1783, 25
February 1785, 23 July 1785, 26 September 1785, 14 March 1786, 16
February 1787, 20 October 1787, 17 December 1787, 7 November 1788, 15
September 1789, 24 February 1790, 13 September 1790, 7 December 1790
- Samuel Bradburn, 27 June 1787
- John Bredin, 17 January 1776, 19 June 1780, 8 July 1782
- Jeremiah Brettell, 22 January 1780
- Benjamin Chappel, 4 June 1787
- Walter Churchey, 18 October 1777
- Copy printed circular letter sent, probably, to all the preachers, 24 November
1767
- Alexander Clark, 19 May 1772
- Thomas Coke, 5 September 1789
- Brian Bury Collins, 14 January 1780, 27 January 1780, 1 August 1780, 11
March 1784
- Ezekiel Cooper, 1 February 1791
- James Copeland, 14 May 1786
- Joseph Cownley, 20 September 1746, 12 April 1750, 18 September 1750, 3
October 1751, 14 December 1751, 17 February 1753, 17 September 1755, 23
April 1757, 14 February 1789, 10 October 1789
- James Creighton, 29 September 1779
- John Cricket, 10 February 1783
- Sarah Crosby, 12 September 1766
- Jonathan Crowther, 10 May 1789
- Reverend Thomas Davenport, 2 December 1781, 23 December [1782]
- Charles Delamotte, 11 February 1779
- Peard Dickenson, 15 January 1785, 26 April 1789 (also includes on the same
copy, a letter from John Fletcher to John Wesley, 29 March 1785)
- Susanna Dickenson, 5 August 1776
- Robert Dodsley, 12 December 1744
- Henry Eames, 3 August 1772
- John Ellison, 4 November 1783
- Matthew Errington, 16 October 1769
- Ambrose Eyre, 3 November 1721
- Mr Ferguson, 7 September 1779
- Mrs Ferguson, 12 June 1783
- Ann Foard, 29 September 1764, 4 February 1769, undated (Thursday
morning)
- Jane Freeman, 28 May 1776, 20 May 1789
- Samuel Furley, 30 March 1754, 10 May 1755, 8 March 1757, 28 July 1758,
21 November 1759, 19 June 1760, 4 September 1760, 9 December 1760, 8
September 1761, 14 December 1761, 9 July 1766
- Peter Garforth, 9 August 1783, 9 April 1790
- Freeborn Garrettson, 26 June 1785, 30 September 1786, 30 November 1786,
16 July 1787, 24 January 1789, 15 July 1789, 3 February 1790
- John Gaulter, 10 February 1791
- Miss Gibbes, 7 April 1783, 25 April 1783, 19 May 1783, 10 June 1783, 16
August 1783, 28 April 1784, 3 July 1784, 1 August 1784, 2 October 1784, 14
January 1785, [11/13 May 1785], 17 July 1785, 30 August 1785
- George Gidley, 4 July 1778
- David Gordon[?], 15 March 1789
- Ellen Gretton, 22 June 1782
Box 2
- Mr Hall junior, 7 July 1789
- Thomas Hanson, 4 January 1772, 9 November 1782, 30 July 1785, 8
October 1785
- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 8 January 1764, 9 August 1768, 15
September 1776
- James Hervey, 21 November 1738, 20 March 1739, 25 October 1739
- Jennie Hilton, 23 July 1768, 2 February 1769
- George Holden, 28 February 1789
- William Holmes, 13 January 1787, 10 February 1790
- Christopher Hopper, 1 February 1777
- William Horne, 27 April 1748
- Miss Ingram, 29 April 1789
- Mary Jones, 18 June 1745, 4 August 1746, 12 February 1748, 22 December
1748, 7 November 1749, 24 July 1787
- Robert Jones, 27 August 1784
- Susanna Knapp, 24 April 1788, 19 February 1791
- John Knox, 20 July 1765
- Alexander Knox, 6 June 1775, 10 August 1776, 20 September 1776, 5
December 1776, 20 May 1777, 2 December 1777, 20 December 1778, 25
January 1779, 4 June 1779, 3 September 1781, 30 July 1782, 22 October
1782, 2 December 1782, 10 February 1783, 5 April 1783, 23 April 1783, 3
May 1783, 7 December 1783, 18 March 1784, 26 September 1784, 19 Mrch
1785, 6 May 1785, 8 December 1785, 23 April 1787, 16 May 1787, 4 June
1789, 26 July 1790
- Richard Libby, 4 January 1768
- John Liden, 16 November 1769, 30 November 1769
- Matthew Lowes, 25 January 1762, 26 February 1771
- Ann Loxdale, 15 December 1781, 10 June 1783, 8 October 1785
- Thomas McGeary, 25 September 1786, 15 February 1787
- Matthew Lowes, 30 July 1773
- John Mason, 27 October 1789
- Thomas Morrell, 4 February 1790
- Penelope Newman, 1 February 1775
- William Orpe, 18 September 1766, 16 December 1766, 2 September 1767
- Elizabeth Padbury, 10 January 1783
- William Palmer, 3 December 1786, 17 September 1790
- John Philiipps, 20 January 1736
- Joseph Pilmore, 27 March 1771
- Thomas Rankin, 21 September 1764
- Lord Rawdon, 18 May 1760
- Reverend Read, 27 October 1739
- Matthew Ridley, 26 October 1745
- Elizabeth Ritchie, 12 November 1776
- Jasper Robinson, 17 October 1790
- Richard Rodda, 23 January 1783, 24 October 1789
- Hester Ann Roe, 16 September 1776, 17 January 1782
- Granville Sharp, 11 October 1787
- Mary Stokes, 4 April 1771, 26 December 1771
Notes
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Reference Code Wesley and early Methodist
Title Jonathan Crowther:(WM) (1759-1824) Ms autobiography
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Manuscript autobiography of the Wesleyan preacher Jonathan Crowther

covering his life and ministry from birth until approximately 1809.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms sermons
Keywords Sermons--Wesley, Charles
Description Manuscript autograph sermon texts by Charles Wesley as follows:
1977/608/1
1 Kings 18:21
1977/608/2
Psalms 126:7
1977/608/3
John 4:41
1977/608/4
Matthew 6:22-23
1977/608/5
Luke 16:8
1977/608/6
John 13:7
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley sermons (MA
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms sermons (xerox)
Description
Bundle of xerox copies of the following Charles Wesley manuscript sermons
written in Byrom’s shorthand system:
-Titus 3:8
- John 8:1 (drafts 1-2)
- Luke 18:7 (drafts 1-2)
- 1 John 3:14
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy letters
Keywords
Description Copy letters written by John Wesley. Many of the letters are 19th century
transcripts, with some xerox copies of originals, 18th century manuscript
copies (possibly office copies?) and 20th century typescript items.. The letters
are addressed to the following correspondents in alphabetical order:
- Thomas Barnabas, 25 March 1785
- Miss Bishop, 10 October 1778
- Ebenezer Blackwell, 1751-67 (11 letters)
- Ebenezer Blackwell, 27 June 1753
- Ann Bolton, 25 July 1775
- Robert Carr Brackenbury, 10 June 1784
- Samuel Bradburn, 10 October 1779; 8 September 1778
- Abraham Brames, 18 October 1776 (this is an original 18th century printed
circular letter, with the address of Abraham Brames written on the back, but
not in John Wesley’s hand)
- John Broadbent, 21 January 1791
- Alexander Clark, 25 April 1771; 26 November 1771; 29 June 1772; 13
October 1776; 8 August, 1777, 10 October 1777
- Brian Bury Collins, 25 March 1780
- Thomas Coke, 17 May 1786
- John Fletcher, 20 March 1768 (manuscript copy, with what appears to be a
John Wesley annotation on the top)
- John Fry, 1 January 1791
- John Gardner, 21 December 1785
- Thomas Gibson, 28 May 1789
- Thomas Goodday, 6 July 1759
- Martha (Patty) Hall, 29 May 1789
- John Hampson, undated
- Selina Hastings (Lady Huntingdon), 8 January, 1764; 6 September 1766; 9
March 1769; 15 September 1776; 13 August 1779
- James Hutton, 14 November 1741 (manuscript copy, possibly in the hand of
Charles Wesley, and almost certainly containing a Charles Wesley annotation
on the dorse)
- Soame Jenkyns, 9 September 1776
- Ann Knapp, 22 August 1781
- James Mann, 27 February 1789
- John Mason, 1 October 1769; 12 January 1788; 13 January 1790
- Lady Darcy Maxwell, 16 May 1764; 17 Augusst 1764 (manuscript copies,
possibly with a line of John Wesley’s handwriting on the top)
- William Mears, 15 August 1790
- Henry Moore, 7 October 1749
- Penelope Newman, 23 September 1773
- Francis Okeley, 4 October 1758
- Ann Parker, 21 January 1784
- William Pitt, 6 September 1784 (manuscript copy, with possibly a John
Wesley annotation on the dorse)
- The printer of the Public Advertiser, 21 January 1780
- Elizabeth Ritchie, 1780; 30 September 1783
- Richard Rodda, 9 September 1782
- Hester Ann Roe, 7 January 1782
- Joseph Taylor, 21 August 1790
- Mr Thompson senior, undated
- Widow Burgoine, 7 February 1756
- Anonymous, 16 December 1772; 10 October 1788
- John Valton, 24 December 1776
- William Varty, 2 May 1790
- Ann Waterhouse, 5 July 1790
- William Wilberforce, 26 February 1791 (manuscript copy in the hand of
Thomas Coke)
- William Wogan, 28 March 1737
- Mrs Woodhouse, 26 May 1772
- Anonymous female correspondent, 7 September 1736
- Anonymous, 24 July 1790
- Parcel of typescript letters sent by Wesley to Alexander Knox, 20 July 1765
- 26 July 1790 (51 letters)
- Bundle of typescript letters sent by Wesley to various correspondents and
subsequently formed part of the Dodsworth Bequest
- Bundle of research notes on unpublished letters of John Wesley by the
Methodist historian W. L. Doughty (containing some copy letters of John
Wesley)
- Typescript list of letters by John Wesley, with accompanying letter by Frank
Baker, 30 April 1963
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Lamplough 5.1.0
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Ms letters from various correspondents
Keywords
Description 2 boxes of manuscript letters to John Wesley (often containing his

annotations) from the following correspondents:
1977/610/1
William Atkinson, 20 November 1753
1977/610/2-4
Cornelius Bayley, 28 October 1776; December 1776; 29 May 1780
1977/610/5-7
John Bennet, 22 October 1748; 25 April 1749 (original manuscript and a 19th
century transcript of the same by Eliza Telitha Tooth, 1841
1977/610/8
John Berridge, 22 November 1760
1977/610/9-11
Ebenezer Blackwell, 14 August 1739; undated (x2)
1977/610/12-13
Samuel Bradburn, 3 June 1786
1977/610/14-16
John Bray, 18 November 1738; 5 December 1738; 11 May 1739
1977/610/17-18
William Briggs, 22 November 1742; 5 April 1750
1977/610/19-21
Thomas Broughton, 20 November 1734; 15 April 1735; 27 November 1735
1977/610/22
John Brownfield, 25 December 1740
1977/610/23-27
Miss S. Burdock, 4 June 1739; June 1739 (x2); 23 June 1739; 9 August 1739
1977/610/28-29
John Burnside, 16 May 1738; 25 August 1738
1977/610/30-32
John Burton, 18 September 1735; 8 September 1735; 28 September 1735
1977/610/33
Ann Bolton, 18 August 1786 (19th century transcript)
1977/610/34
Mr W. Chapman, 3 September 1736
1977/610/35
Thomas Carlill, 26 March 1782[?]
1977/610/36-41
John Clayton, 1 August 1732; 5 September 1732; July 1733; 10 September
1733; 2 August 1734 (19th century transcript); 1 May 1738
1977/610/42-43
Alexander Coates, 14 July 1761; 29 September 1761
1977/610/44
John Crook, 24 July 1776
1977/610/45-46
- John Curtis to Mr Price, 8 November 1749 with follow-on letters from J.
Gough to John Curtis and a manuscript copy letter from John Wesley to John
Curtis, 17 August 1749)
- John Curtis to Giles Halliday, 7 September 1752
1977/610/47
Timothy Cutler, 22 August 1737
1977/610/48-50
Thomas Coke, 15 December 1779; 9 August 1784; 25 January 1790
1977/61/51
Charles Delamotte, 23 February 1737
1977/610/52
William Delamotte, 25 June 1739
1977/610/53
Philip Doddridge, 15 March 1746
1977/610/54
Mrs Delany, 28 August 1730
1977/610/55
Jonathan Edmonds, 8 October 1739
1977/610/56
Reverend Dr Edwards of Ipswich, 30 October 1767
1977/610/57
Thomas Eden, 25 July 1773
1977/610/58
Edward Evans, 4 December 1770
1977/610/59
William Fish, 25 November 1738
1977/610/60
Dr S. Fisher, 20 June 1785
1977/610/61
John Fletcher, 18 March 1774
1977/610/62
N. G., 8 March 1727
1977/610/63
Georgia Trustees (signed by the Secretary, Benjamin Martyn), 15 June 1737
1977/610/64 (and 64a)-66

John Gambold, 23 January 1738; 27 January 1738; 15 April 1740 (and an
autograph poem by Gambold, the first line of which is "Zion, thou city of our
God"
1977/610/67
Mary Graville (Selima), 1 December 1731
1977/610/68
John Henderson, 25 March 1772
1977/610/69-71
John Haime, 6 March 1745 (manuscript and typescript copy); 1 June 1778;
portrait engraving of John Haime
1977/610/72-76
James Hervey, 21 August 1739 (xerox copy); 8 August 1747; 29 June 1754;
portrait engraving of James Hervey
1977/610/77
John Hutchings, 6 February 1738
1977/610/78
Howell Harris, 1 February 1740
1977/610/79-80
Joseph Humphries, 17 January 1741; 26 February 1741
1977/610/81-83
James Hutton, 3 September 1736; 23 November 1738; 4 March 1740
1977/610/84-88
Benjamin Ingham, 30 November 1734; 17 June 1735; 19 October 1737; 20
February 1740 and 3 October 1740
1977/610/89
Mr Jason, 1 July 1740
1977/610/90
Abraham Jones, 12 December 1742
1977/610/91
Robert Kirkham, 20 February 1727
1977/610/92
C. Kinchin, 9 October 1739
1977/610/93
Reverend J. D. Koker, 11 December 1742
1977/610/94
William Law, 19 May 1738
1977/610/95
John Lewis, 5 October 1747
1977/610/96
Matthew Mayer, 24 January 1776
1977/610/97-100
Richard Morgan, 25 November 1732; 17 February 1733; 22 November 1733;
27 November 1735
1977/610/101
William Morgan, 5 February 1730
1977/610/102
Robert Martin, 12 October 1759
1977/610/103
John Nelson, [16 July 1746] (19th century transcript by Thomas Marriott)
1977/610/104
James Edward Oglethorpe, 16 March 1736
1977/610/105-106
William Oxlee, 9 May 1738; 13 April 1739
1977/610/107
Francis Okeley, 9 October 1762
1977/610/108-110
Henry Piers, 27 July 1740; 2 September 1740; 27 March 1753
1977/610/111
Joshua Read, 11 September 1739
1977/610/112
Mr Von Reck, 28 June/9 July 1737
1977/610/113
Thomas Rutherford, 30 November 1776
1977/610/114
Walter Sellon, 20 July 1760
1977/610/115
Reverend H. Sherman, 10 January 1728
1977/610/116
William Smith, 6 February 1734
1977/610/117
Sir John Thorold, 24 May 1736
1977/610/118
William Tucker, 27 July 1747
1977/610/119
Henry Tucker, May 1753
1977/610/120
Henry Venn, 21 March 1754
1977/610/121
James Vernon, 18 November 1735
1977/610/122
Samuel Wathen, 28 September 1739
1977/610/123
Sarah Wesley junior, 23 September 1788
1977/610/124-133
George Whitefield, 1 April 1735; 2 September 1736; 15 April 1737; 22 March
1739; 3 April 1739; 26 June 1739; 2 July 1739; 25 September 1740; 11 March
1742; 11 November 1761
1977/610/134
Samuel Walker, 16 August 1756
1977/610/135
William Welsh, 28 May 1743
1977/610/136
John Welsh, 17 May 1740
1977/610/137
John Whitelamb, 30 June 1731
1977/610/138
Francis Wrigley, 11 July 1788
1977/610/139-140
Thomas Wride, 3 February 1777; 1 May 1779
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms letter from Rev. C. Hall
Date of Material 17 July 1742
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from Reverend C. Hall to Charles Wesley (with Charles
Wesley annotation).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms letter from Lady Mary Manners
Date of Material 7 November 1772
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from Lady Mary Manners (former Miss Mary Degges), wife
of Lord Robert Manners, to Charles Wesley (annotated by Wesley).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letters (main sequence)
Keywords
Description Manuscript autograph letters written by John Wesley to the following

correspondents:
Box 1
MAM JW 1/1A
Anonymous, 14 June 1788 (for accession details see under MA 2005/010)
MAM JW 1/1B
Reverend Thomas Adam, 31 October 1755 (contained in a folder with several
portrait engravings)
MAM JW 1.1.
Mr Alexander, 21 November 1783
MAM JW 1.2
John Atlay, 26 May 1781
MAM JW 1.3
John Atlay, 13 April 1782
MA 8547
John Atlay, 3 September 1783 (for accession details see under MA 1992/018)
MAM JW 1.4
John Atlay, 4 September 1788
MAM JW 1.5
Charles Atmore, 12 July 1783
MAM JW 1.6
Charles Atmore, 20 October 1787
MAM JW 1.7
Charles Atmore, 13 March 1788
MAM JW 1.8
Charles Atmore, 24 March 1790
MAM JW 1.9
Sarah Baker, 30 July 1785
MAM JW 1.10
Hannah Ball, 28 January 1768
MAM JW 1.11
Hannah Ball, 4 October 1771
MAM JW 1.12
Hannah Ball, 9 December 1771
MAM JW 1.13
Hannah Ball, 23 May 1773
MAM JW 1.14
Hannah Ball, 1 September 1773
MAM JW 1.15
Hannah Ball, 28 November 1774
MAM JW 1.16
MAM JW 1.17
MAM JW 1.18
Hannah Ball, 12 July 1781
MAM JW 1.19
Hannah Ball, 13 April 1786
MAM JW 1.20
Samuel Bardsley, 29 January 1773
MAM JW 1.21
Samuel Bardsley, 14 February 1778
MAM JW 1.22
Samuel Bardsley, 25 January 1782
MAM JW 1.23
Jane Barton, 9 April 1769
MAM JW 1.24
Jane Barton, 6 August 1769
MAM JW 1.25
Jane Barton, 5 March 1770
MAM JW 1.26
Jane Barton, 30 December 1774
MAM JW 1.27
Jane Barton, 28 October 1777
MAM JW 1.28
Jane Barton, 13 November 1778
MAM JW 1.29
Missing since 1989
MAM JW 1.30
Jane Barton, 9 November 1779
MAM JW 1.31
John Bennet, 20 December 1746
MAM JW 1.32
John Bennet, 7 December 1749
MAM JW 1.33
John Bennet, 9 February 1750
MAM JW 1.34
Joseph Benson, 22 December 1768
MAM JW 1.35
Joseph Benson, 2 January 1769
MAM JW 1.36
Joseph Benson, 27 May 1769
MAM JW 1.37
Joseph Benson, 7 August 1769
MAM JW 1.38
MAM JW 1.39
Joseph Benson, 5 October 1770
MAM JW 1.40
Joseph Benson, 16 March 1771
MAM JW 1.41
MAM JW 1.42
Joseph Benson, 8 January 1774
MAM JW 1.43
Joseph Benson, 1 November 1774
MAM JW 1.44
Joseph Benson, 17 November 1774
MAM JW 1.45
Joseph Benson, 18 February 1775
MAM JW 1.46
Joseph Benson, 12 March 1775
MAM JW 1.47
Joseph Benson, 10 April 1775
MAM JW 1.48
Miss Bishop, 7 February 1778
MAM JW 1.49
Jane Bisson, 21 October 1783
MAM JW 1.50
Jane Bisson, 8 September 1787
MAM JW 1.51
Jane Bisson, 17 December 1787
MAM JW 1.52
Jane Bisson, 20 February 1788
MAM JW 1.53
Ebenezer Blackwell, 23 August 1739
MAM JW 1.54
Ebenezer Blackwell, 14 May 1747
MAM JW 1.55
Ebenezer Blackwell, 15 March 1748
MAM JW 1.56
Ebenezer Blackwell, 4 February 1751
MAM JW 1.57
MAM JW 1.58
Ebenezer Blackwell, 7 April 1751
MAM JW 1.59
Ebenezer Blackwell, 28 May 1753
MAM JW 1.60
Ebenezer Blackwell, 29 April 1755
MAM JW 1.61
Ebenezer Blackwell, 12 September 1755
MAM JW 1.62
MAM JW 1.63
MAM JW 1.64
MAM JW 1.65
Unallocated reference number
MAM JW 1.66
Ann Bolton, 7 June 1768
MAM JW 1.67
Ann Bolton, 4 February 1769
MAM JW 1.68
MAM JW 1.69
MAM JW 1.70
Ann Bolton, 16 November 1770
MAM JW 1.71
Ann Bolton, 15 April 1771
MAM JW 1.72
Ann Bolton, 25 August 1771
MAM JW 1.73
Ann Bolton, 16 September 1771
MAM JW 1.74
MAM JW 1.75
MAM JW 1.76
MAM JW 1.77
Ann Bolton, 7 July 1773
MAM JW 1.78
Ann Bolton, 12 December 1773
MAM JW 1.79
MAM JW 1.80
Ann Bolton, 1 October 1774
MAM JW 1.81
MAM JW 1.82
Ann Bolton, 10 January 1775
MAM JW 1.83
Ann Bolton, 25 July 1775
MAM JW 1.84
MAM JW 1.85
MAM JW 1.86
Ann Bolton, 28 May 1776
MAM JW 1.87
Ann Bolton, 24 April 1777
MAM JW 1.88
MAM JW 1.89
MAM JW 1.90
Ann Bolton, 14 January 1780
MAM JW 1.91
MAM JW 1.92
MAM JW 1.93
Ann Bolton, 8 March 1782
MAM JW 1.94
MAM JW 1.95
MAM JW 1.96
Ann Bolton, 28 March 1785
MAM JW 1.97
MAM JW 1.98
MAM JW 1.99
MA 2003/008 (accession reference MA9891)

Ann Bolton, 1 August 1789 (for depositor details see under MA 2003/008)
MAM JW 1.100
Mrs Booth, 29 May 1761
MAM JW 1.101
Mary Bosanquet (Mrs Mary Fletcher), 13 June 1771
MAM JW 1.102
Mary Bosanquet (Mary Fletcher), 15 November 1775
MAM JW 1.103
Gilbert Boyce, 22 May 1750
MAM JW 1.104
Gilbert Boyce, 17 October 1750
MAM JW 1.105
Robert Carr Brackenbury, 9 July 1781
MAM JW 1.106
Robert Carr Brackenbury, 9 March 1782
MAM JW 1.107
Robert Carr Brackenbury, 18 January 1786
MAM JW 1.108
Elizabeth Bradburn (Betsy Bradburn), 30 Ocrober 1782
MAM JW 1.109
Samuel Bradburn, 29 April 1776
MA 1977/399
Samuel Bradburn (xerox copy letter), 8 September 1778 (for depositor details
see under MA 1977/399)
MAM JW 1.110
Samuel Bradburn, 19 June 1779
MAM JW 1.111
Samuel Bradburn, 29 December 1779
MAM JW 1.112
MAM JW 1.113
MAM JW 1.114
Samuel Bradburn, 10 July 1787
MAM JW 1.115
Samuel Bradburn, 17 July 1787
MAM JW 1.116
Samuel Bradburn, 6 May 1789
MAM JW 1.117
Samuel Bradburn (xerox copy), 7 June 1782
Box 2
MAM JW.2.1
John Bredin, 10 February 1776
MAM JW.2.2
John Bredin, 13 May 1776
MAM JW.2.3
John Bredin, 17 July 1777
MAM JW.2.4
John Bredin, 23 December 1777
MAM JW.2.5
John Bredin, 6 April 1782
MAM JW.2.6
John Bredin, 10 April 1782
MAM JW.2.7
Jeremiah Brettel, 26 June 1781
MAM JW.2.8
Jeremiah Brettel, 30 September 1783
MAM JW.2.9
Jeremiah Brettel, 24 December 1784
MAM JW.2.10
Samuel Brewster, 22 February 1750
MAM JW.2.11
Elizabeth Briggs, 14 April 1771
MAM JW.2.12
Elizabeth Briggs, [7 August 1786]
MAM JW.2.13
Elizabeth Briggs, 24 September 1786
MAM JW.2.14
Mrs Brisco, 10 May 1786
MAM JW.2.15
Thomas Brisco, 12 March 1782
MAM JW.2.16
John Broadbent, 2 June 1784
MAM JW.2.17
Thomas Broadbent, 29 January 1791
MAM JW.2.18
Dr Brown, [1768]
MAM JW.2.19
Isaac Brown, 7 October 1787
MAM JW.2.20
Joseph Burgess, 22 August 1790
MAM JW 2.21
Thomas Carlill, 13 May 1777
MAM JW 2.22
Thomas Carlill, 13 June 1779
MAM JW 2.23
Thomas Carlill, 6 June 1780
MAM JW 2.24
Thomas Carlill, 30 April 1786
MAM JW 2.25
Thomas Carlill, 21 October 1786
MAM JW 2.26
Mr Carne, 1 October 1780
MAM JW 2.27
Richard Canley, 24 and 30 November 1767
MAM JW 2.28
Martha Chapman, 25 May 1782
MAM JW 2.29
Martha Chapman, 3 November 1784
MAM JW 2.30
Mrs Christian, 25 April 1783
MAM JW 2.31
Mrs Christian, 17 July 1785
MAM JW 2.32
William Church, 13 October 1778
MAM JW 2.33
William Church, 3 August 1779
MAM JW 2.34
William Church, 28 September 1779
MAM JW 2.35
William Church, 12 November 1779
MAM JW 2.36
William Church, 6 January 1780
MAM JW 2.37
William Church, 12 March 1780
MAM JW 2.38
Walter Churchey, 29 Novermber 1770
MAM JW 2.39
Walter Churchey, 25 February 1774
MAM JW 2.40
Walter Churchey, 15 May 1774
MAM JW 2.41
Walter Churchey, 6 December 1785
MAM JW 2.42
Walter Churchey, 14 June 1788
MAM JW 2.43
Walter Churchey, 22 July 1788
MAM JW 2.44
Walter Churchey, [18 February 1789]
MAM JW 2.45
Walter Churchey, 4 May 1789
MAM JW 2.46
Alexander Clark, 12 January 1773
MAM JW 2.47
Alexander Clark, 9 September 1777
MAM JW 2.48
MAM JW 2.49
Adam Clarke, 21 February 1786
MA 1994/02
Adam Clarke, 26 March 1787 (for depositor details see under MA 1994/022)
MAM JW 2.50
Jane Cock (also referred to as Jeanie), 20 May 1788
MAM JW 2.51
Jane Cock, 27 December 1788
MAM JW 2.52
Mrs Colbeck, 12 October 1780
MAM JW 2.53
Brian Bury Collins, 12 June 1780
MAM JW 2.54
Brian Bury Collins, 25 June 1780
MAM JW 2.55
Brian Bury Collins, 3 January 1781
MAM JW 2.56
Agnes Collinson, 18 January 1790
MAM JW 2.57
Sophia Cooke, 21 June 1786
MAM JW 2.57A
Thomas Cooper, 31 March 1786 (for depositor details see under MA
1977/101)
MAM JW 2.58
Robert Costerdine, 18 February 1769
MAM JW 2.59
Robert Costerdine, 18 January 1772
MAM JW 2.60
Robert Costerdine, 20 October 1775
MAM JW 2.61
Robert Costerdine, 26 March 1776
MAM JW 2.62
Robert Costerdine, 7 April 1776
MAM JW 2.63
Robert Costerdine, 4 September 1785
MAM JW 2.64
Mr Coussens, 25 February 1785
MAM JW 2.65
Roger Crane, 9 April 1785
MAM JW 2.66
James Creighton, 24 May 1773
MAM JW 2.67
James Creighton, 26 February 1779
MAM JW 2.67A
James Creighton, 19 August 1790 (for depositor details see MA 1977/614)
MAM JW 2/67B
Sarah Crosby, 18 March 1769
MAM JW 2/68
Sarah Crosby, 26 October 1770
MA 9943
Sarah Crosby, 9 December 1778 (for despositor details, see MA 2007/005)
MAM JW 2/70
Sarah Crosby, 13 November 1788
MAM JW 2/71
James Currie, 15 September 1787
MAM JW 2/72
James Currie, 19 February 1788
MAM JW 2/73
Mrs Cursham, 14 February 1787
MAM JW 2/74
Peggy Dale, 5 July 1765
MAM JW 2/75
Peggy Dale, 8 December 1765
MAM JW 2/76
Peggy Dale, 4 May 1767
MAM JW 2/77
Peggy Dale, 30 January 1768
MAM JW 2/78
Peggy Dale, 17 November 1769
MA 3180
Robert Dall, 11 October 1788 (for depositor details, see under MA 1982/001)
MAM JW 2.79
Robert Dall, 28 January 1789
MAM JW 2.80
Richard Davenport, 23 October 1749
MAM JW 2.81
Mr Davenport, 19 January 1782
MAM JW 2.82
Peard Dickinson, 6 May 1787
MAM JW 2.83
Peard Dickinson, 2 April 1790
MAM JW 2.84
Peard Dickinson, 12 June 1790
MAM JW 2.85
Mr Dobson, 21 February 1786
MAM JW 2.86
Jonathan Edmondson, 1 September 1790
MAM JW 2.87
Matthew Errington, 8 January 1757
MAM JW 2.88
Matthew Errington, 30 May 1764
MAM JW 2.89
John Evan, 19 July 1783
MAM JW 2.90
John Fenwick, 25 December 1767
MAM JW 2.91
John Fletcher, [postmarked 12 February - written on the bottom of a letter of
Walter Churchey to John Wesley, dated 14 January 1771]
MAM JW 2.92
John Fletcher, 28 February 1766
MAM JW 2.93
John Fletcher, 21 July 1773
MAM JW 2.94
John Fletcher, 1 October 1773
MAM JW 2.95
Gap in the sequence
MAM JW 2.96
John Fletcher, 3 April 1785
MAM JW 2.97
Mary Fletcher, 31 December 1785
MAM JW 2.98
Samuel Furly, 2 September 1758 (for depositor details, see MA 1977/397)
Box 3
MAM JW 3.1
Ann Foard, 3 June 1763
MAM JW 3.2
Miss Ford, 12 October 1764
MAM JW 3.3
Miss Ford, 7 June 1772
MAM JW 3.4
Ambrose Foley, 26 February 1782
MAM JW 3.5
Ambrose Foley, 24 February 1783
MAM JW 3.6
Reverend Dr Thomas Ford, 10 Augusy 1776
MAM JW 3.7
Jane Freeman, 2 March 1764
MAM JW 3.8
James Freeman, 19 August 1770
MAM JW 3.9
Jane Freeman, 8 July 1787
MAM JW 3.10
Jane Freeman, 13 June 1788
MAM JW 3.11
Friends in Trowbridge, 3 March 1790
MAM JW 3.12
Samuel Furley, 7 December 1754
MAM JW 3.13
Samuel Furley, 30 January 1755
MAM JW 3.14
Samuel Furley, 25 September 1755
MAM JW 3.15
Samuel Furley, 18 February 1756
MAM JW 3.16
Samuel Furley, 24 March 1757
MA 9196
Samuel Furley, 14 October 1757 (for depositor details, see under MA
1995/020)
MAM JW 3.17
Samuel Furley, 8 April 1758
MAM JW 3.18
Samuel Furley, 2 February 1761
MAM JW 3.19
Samuel Furley, 29 June 1761
MAM JW 3.20
Samuel Furley, 25 January 1762
MAM JW 3.21
Samuel Furley, 20 March 1762
MAM JW 3.22
Samuel Furley, 21 May 1762
MAM JW 3.23
Samuel Furley, 20 December 1762
MAM JW 3.24
John Furz, 25 June 1769
MAM JW 3.25
Mrs Gallatin, 19 July 1750
MAM JW 3.26
Lady Frances Gardiner, 2 November 1763
MAM JW 3.27
George Gidley, 18 January 1776
MAM JW 3.28
Mr Gillespie, 9 November 1753
MAM JW 3.29
Jeremiah G[ilpin], 29 December 1790
MAM JW 3.30
Joshua Gilpin, 30 September 1787
MA 1998/015
Charles Glascot, 11 May 1764 (for depositor details, see under MA 1998/015)
MAM JW 3.31
David Gordon, 29 October 1787
MAM JW 3.32
David Gordon, 29 February 1788
MA 4250
Miss Gratton, 23 July 1784 (xerox copy of the manuscript - for depositor
details, see MA 1985/002)
MA9042
Thomas Greathead, 22 January 1791 (for depositor details, see under MA
1993/012)
MAM JW 3.33
Unallocated reference
MAM JW 3.34
Thomas Greathead, 22 January 1791 (photographic copy of MA 9042)
MAM JW 3.35
Miss Gratton, 19 November 1781
MAM JW 3.36
Walter Griffith, 9 January 1788
MAM JW 3.37
Martha Hall, 24 April 1776
MAM JW 3.38
Westley Hall, 18 August 1743
MAM JW 3.39
Westley Hall, 22 December 1747
MAM JW 3.40
Howell Harris, 28 February 1748
MAM JW 3.41
John Heald, 24 November 1767 (printed circular letter addressed by hand to
Heald)
MAM JW 3.42
John Heald, 18 October 1776 (printed circular letter addressed by hand to
Heald)
MAM JW 3.43
John Heald, 10 October 1787
MAM JW 3.44
Jonathan Hearn, 16 June 1782
MAM JW 3.44A
James Hervey, 8 August 1739
MAM JW 3.45
Jane Hilton, 25 June 1768
MAM JW 3.46
Jane Hilton, 30 September 1768
MAM JW 3.47
Jane Hilton, 8 October 1768
MAM JW 3.48
George Holder, 15 September 1787
MAM JW 3.49
George Holder, 8 November 1790
MAM JW 3.50
William Holmes, 23 February 1787
MAM JW 3.51
William Holmes, 18 February 1788
MAM JW 3.52
Christopher Hopper, 24 March 1761
MAM JW 3.53
MAM JW 3.54
Christopher Hopper, 17 December 1765
MAM JW 3.55
Christopher Hopper, 9 October 1767
MAM JW 3.56
Christopher Hopper, 9 January 1768
MAM JW 3.57
MAM JW 3.58
MAM JW 3.59
MAM JW 3.60
Christopher Hopper, 6 January 1770
MAM JW 3.61
Christopher Hopper, 12 November 1773
MAM JW 3.62
Christopher Hopper, 25 July 1774
MAM JW 3.63
MAM JW 3.64
Christopher Hopper, 7 February 1776
MAM JW 3.65
MAM JW 3.66
Mrs Howton, 3 October 1783
MAM JW 3.67
Mrs Howton, 5 August 1787
MAM JW 3.68
Mr Humphreys, 27 April 1741
MA 9761
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 25 October 1766 (for depositor
details, see under MA 2002/003)
MAM JW 3.69
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 14 August 1771 (this does not look
like John Wesley’s handwriting - possibly an ammanuensis?)
MAM JW 3.70
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 16 September 1773
MAM JW 3.71
Richard Ireland, 25 April 1777
MAM JW 3.72
Mrs Johnston, 14 February 1778
MAM JW 3.73
John Johnson, 15 October 1758 (dated by a manuscript annotation)
MAM JW 3.73A
[Mary Jones], 24 July 1787 (photographic copy - original manuscript at
Glamorgan County Record Office)
MAM JW 3.73B
Robert Jones, 27 August 1784 (photographic copy - original manuscript at
Glamorgan County Record Office)
MAM JW 3.74
Arthur Keene, 21 June 1784
MAM JW 3.75
Arthur Keene, 17 February 1785
MAM JW 3.76
Arthur Keene, 31 July 1785
MAM JW 3.77
Arthur Keene, 3 March 1787
MAM JW 3.78
Arthur Keene, 25 December 1787
MAM JW 3.79
Arthur Keene, 8 August 1788
MAM JW 3.80
Arthur Keene, 31 March 1789
MAM JW 3.81
John King, 21 April 1787
MAM JW 3.82
Susanna Knapp, 23 October 1777
MAM JW 3.83
James Knox, 30 May 1765
MAM JW 3.84
William Law, 26 June 1734
MAM JW 3.85
MAM JW 3.86
MAM JW 3.87
Dr Leslie, 16 June 1787
MAM JW 3.88
David Melville, Earl of Levin, 9 May 1786
MAM JW 3.89
Samuel Levick, 2 January 1768
MAM JW 3.90
MAM JW 3.91
MAM JW 3.92
Mary Lewis, 28 July 1775
MAM JW 3.93
Samuel Lloyd, 23 December 1753
MAM JW 3.94
Samuel Lloyd, 20 March 1755
MAM JW 3.95
Richard Locke, 14 September 1770
MAM JW 3.96
Richard Locke, 19 September 1785
MAM JW 3.97
MAM JW 3.98
Matthew Lowes, 30 October 1761
MAM JW 3.99
Matthew Lowes, 11 March 1762
MAM JW 3.100
Matthew Lowes, 13 October 1770
MAM JW 3.101
Ann Loxdale, 9 December 1783
Box 4
MAM JW 4.1
Duncan McAllum, 20 January 1789
MAM JW 4.2
James McDonald, 23 October 1790
MAM JW 4.3
James McDonald, 18 January 1791
MAM JW 4.4
Sarah Mallet, 21 February 1789
MAM JW 4.5
Sarah Mallet, 3 August 1789
MAM JW 4.6
Mrs Marston, 16 March 1770
MAM JW 4.7
John Mason, 8 August 1772
MAM JW 4.8
John Mason, 7 March 1783
MAM JW 4.9
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 22 June 1766
MAM JW 4.10
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 8 July 1766
MAM JW 4.11
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 7 May 1767
MAM JW 4.12
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 9 September 1768
MAM JW 4.13
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 30 November 1769
MAM JW 4.14
Lady Darcy Maxwell, 26 February 1771
MAM JW 4.15
William Mears, 15 August 1790
MA 9762
Matthew Mayer, 13 December 1783 (for depositor details see MA 2002/04)
MAM JW 4.16
Peter Mill, 20 December 1788
MAM JW 4.17
Samuel Mitchell, 17 December 1786
MAM JW 4.18
Emma Moon, 2 March 1773
MAM JW 4.19
Emma Moon, 22 February 1786
MAM JW 4.20
Miss Morgan, undated
MAM JW 4.21
James Morgan, 3 September 1768
MAM JW 4.22
Thomas Newall, 7 May 1764
MAM JW 4.23
Penelope Newman, 12 August 1774
MAM JW 4.24
Penelope Newman, 1 February 1775
MAM JW 4.25
Penelope Newman, 24 April 1777
MA 9047
Penelope Newman, 2 August 1778 (for depositor details, see MA 1993/013)
MAM JW 4.26
Penelope Newman, 31 July 1780
MAM JW 4.27
James Oddie, 15 December 1767
MAM JW 4.28
James Oddie, 12 January 1768
MAM JW 4.29
James Oddie, 14 February 1768
MA 9932
John Oglivie, 24 July 1787 (xerox copy letter - for depositor details, see under
MA 2006/004)
MAM JW 4.30
Thomas Olivers, 25 April 1761
MAM JW 4.31
William Orpe, 14 December 1765
MAM JW 4.32
William Orpe, 17 December 1766
MAM JW 4.33
Elizabeth Padbury, 10 February 1779
MAM JW 4.34
Elizabeth Padbury, 1 August 1783
MAM JW 4.35
Mary Parker, 21 January 1784
MAM JW 4.36
Frances Pawson, 26 November 1785
MAM JW 4.37
Frances Pawson, 16 November 1789
MAM JW 4.38
William Percival, 17 February 1787
MAM JW 4.39
Charles Perronet, 28 December 1774
MAM JW 4.40
Joseph Pescod, 13 January 1788
MAM JW 4.41
Mr Powell, 18 December 1777
MAM JW 4.42
John Pritchard, 16 January 1756
MAM JW 4.43
Jonathan Pritchard, 22 June 1774
MAM JW 4.44
Thomas Rankin, 9 February 1765
MAM JW 4.45
Thomas Rankin, 9 March 1765
MAM JW 4.46
Thomas Rankin, 23 January 1766
MAM JW 4.47
Thomas Rankin, 4 December 1773
MAM JW 4.48
Thomas Rankin, 21 February 1774
MAM JW 4.49
Thomas Rankin, 29 May 1780
MAM JW 4.50
Lady Elizabeth Rawdon (daughter of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon),
21 July 1758
MAM JW 4.51
James Riddall, 17 December 1787
MAM JW 4.52
Thomas Roberts, 23 October 1790
MAM JW 4.53
George Robinson, 4 August 1777
MAM JW 4.54
George Robinson, 24 February 1779
MAM JW 4.55
George Robinson, 25 March 1780
MAM JW 4.56
George Robinson, 22 May 1770
MAM JW 4.57
Richard Rodda, 11 March 1785
MAM JW 4.58
Richard Rodda, 23 September 1785
MAM JW 4.59
Richard Rodda, 29 September 1785
MAM JW 4.60
William Roots, 2 January 1786
MAM JW 4.61
Elizabeth Rose, 29 July 1789
MAM JW 4.62
Thomas Rutherford, 6 December 1776
MAM JW 4.63
Sarah Ryan, 4 November 1758
MAM JW 4.64
William Shepherd, 20 December 1786
MAM JW 4.65
William Simpson, 14 February 1769
MAM JW 4.66
Mrs S. Skinner, 12 January 1789
MAM JW 4.67
Mrs Smyth, 15 October 1777
MAM JW 4.68
Samuel Sparrow, 2 July 1772
MAM JW 4.69
Samuel Sparrow, 28 December 1773
MAM JW 4.70
Edward Spencer, 13 September 1769
MA 9730
Mary Stokes, 4 April 1771 (see under MA 2001/002 for depositor details)
MAM JW 4.71
William Strahan, 21 February 1780
MAM JW 4.72
MAM JW 4.73
Joseph Sutliffe, 13 February 1789
MAM JW 4.74
Alexander Suter, 3 October 1784
MAM JW 4.75
Alexander Suter, 24 November 1787
MAM JW 4.76
Alexander Suter, 3 Ocrober 1789
Box 5
MAM JW 5.1
Thomas Taylor, 4 March 1789
MAM JW 5.2
Thomas Taylor, 9 September 1782
MAM JW 5.3
Joseph Taylor, 24 September 1782
MAM JW 5.4
Joseph Taylor, 19 October 1782
MAM JW 5.5
Joseph Taylor, 15 January 1783
MAM JW 5.6
Joseph Taylor, 25 February 1783
MAM JW 5.7
Joseph Taylor, 26 April 1783
MAM JW 5.8
Joseph Taylor, 5 June 1783
MAM JW 5.9
Joseph Taylor, 24 December 1783
MAM JW 5.10
Joseph Taylor, 12 January 1784
MAM JW 5.11
Joseph Taylor, 30 August 1784
MAM JW 5.12
Joseph Taylor, 7 April 1785
MAM JW 5.13
Joseph Taylor, 16 November 1788
MAM JW 5.14
Joseph Taylor, 13 February 1789
MAM JW 5.15
Ann Taylor, [8 March 1787]
MAM JW 5.16
Richard Terry, 24 April 1767
MAM JW 5.16A
William Thom, 30 September 1780 (originally accessioned as MA 1977/398)
MA 5854/1
Joseph Thompson, 18 July 1772 (19th century manuscript copy - for
depositor details, see under MA 1990/008)
MA 5854/2
Joseph Thompson, 5 June 1782 (19th century manuscript copy - for depositor
details, see under MA 1990/008)
MA 5854/3
David Leslie-Melville (Earl of Leven), 9 May 1786 (19th century manuscript
copy - for depositor details, see under MA 1990/008)
MAM JW 5.17
Samuel Tooth, 23 May 1782
MAM JW 5.18
William Torrie, 19 January 1791
MAM JW 5.19
William Tunney, 29 January 1780
MAM JW 5.1.20
Mrs Turner, 18 September 1772
MAM JW 5.1.21
Isaac Twycross, 26 November 1771
MAM JW 5.1.22
Isaac Twycross, 28 December 1771
MAM JW 5.1.23
John Valton, 12 November 1771
MAM JW 5.1.24
John Valton, 23 February 1773
MAM JW 5.1.25
John Valton, 18 September 1773
MAM JW 5.1.26
John Valton, 20 October 1773 (for depositor details, see under MA 1980/004)
MAM JW 5.1.27
John Valton, 20 November 1775
MAM JW 5.1.27A
John Valton, 24 December 1776
MAM JW 5.1.28
John Valton, 21 April 1780
MAM JW 5.1.29
MAM JW 5.1.30
MAM JW 5.1.31
John Valton, 16 January 1783
MAM JW 5.1.32
John Valton, 6 January 1784
MAM JW 5.1.33
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code John Wesley letter collection
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Ann Bolton
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to Miss Ann Bolton.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to James Creighton
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to James Creighton.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Samuel Furley & anonymous

correspondent
Keywords
Description
MA 9196
Manuscript letter from John Wesley to Samuel Furley, 14 October 1757
MA 9197
Manuscript letter from John Wesley to unnamed correspondent, 6 August 1759
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy letter to Miss Gratton, 29 July 1784
Keywords
Description Xerox copy of a manuscript letter from John Wesley to Miss Gratton, 29 July
1784.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Thomas Greathead
Date of Material 22 January 1791
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from John Wesley to Thomas Greathead, 22 January 1791,
with an accompanying manuscript letter from Thomas Greathead (grandson of
the addressee) concerning the provenance of the letter, 27 October 1839.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Selina Hastings
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from John Wesley to Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Matthew Mayer
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to Matthew Mayer.
Notes
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Reference Code John Wesley letter collection
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Penelope Newman
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to Penelope Newman.
Notes
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Reference Code Wesley letters
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Miss Stokes
Date of Material 4 April 1771
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to Miss Stokes.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Three 19th cent. copy letters, 1772-86
Keywords
Description MA 5854/1
John Wesley to Joseph Thompson, 18 July 1772 (19th century manuscript
copy)
MA 5854/2
John Wesley to Joseph Thompson, 5 June 1782 (19th century manuscript
copy)
MA 5854/3
Notes
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Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735) Ms treatise on prayer
Keywords Spirituality--18th century--Devotional writings
Description Theological manuscript treatise on prayer by Samuel Wesley ( 1662-1735),

Rector of Epworth, and father of John and Charles Wesley.
Notes Purchased at auction
Access Restrictions
Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735) Ms sermon
Keywords Sermons--Wesley, Samuel
Description Manuscript sermon by Samuel Wesley, Rector of Epworth.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Samuel Wesley:(CE/RC) (1766-1837) Letter to Sarah Wesley senior
Keywords
Description Letter of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) to his mother Sarah Wesley.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Samuel Wesley:(CE/RC) (1766-1837) Letter to Charles Wesley junior
Keywords
Description Letter of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) to his brother Charles Wesley junior.
Notes
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Title Armed Forces Board:(WM/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Armed Forces Board# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Armed Forces Board# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Outreach to armed forces# Armed forces (Great Britain)
Description Papers of the Armed Forces Board (additional deposit)
Box 1
Service records of Methodist (Wesleyan) chaplains, arranged alphabetically by
surname c.1914-c.1920 (manuscript volume)
Minutes of the following Armed Forces Board committees:
- Finance and Emergency 1957-1978
- Selections and Appointments 1924-1978
(binder)
Photographs showing chaplaincy work and other aspects of Methodist outreach

to the armed forces, such as visits made by the President of Conference.
Subjects include training and overseas work in Germany and Malta c.1970-
c.1990 (loose items and folders)
Box 2
Army chaplains’ handbook (published by the Ministry of Defence 1972 –

classified restricted)
Typescript list of Methodist commissioned chaplains, arranged by individual

armed service and alphabetically by surname 1 September 1977
Naval chaplains handbook (Royal Navy)
Random selection of orders of service and associated material intended for use
in a number of armed forces establishments including Aldershot, Catterick,
Bovington, Bromley, Farnborough, Windsor, Portsmouth, Broseley, Korea and
Hohne (Germany) c.1955-c.1980 (folder)
Random selection of printed and typescript leaflets, pamphlets, devotional,

instructional and educational material aimed at a wide cross-section of armed
forces and civilian audiences c.1960-c.1980
Box 3
Administrative folders containing letters and associated material on pastoral

matters dating from the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. The files relate
to individuals and are arranged by surname as follows:
A. (file reference 17/1) K. (file reference 17/11) T. (file

reference 17/20)
B. (file reference 17/2) L. (file reference 17/12) U. (file
reference 17/21)
C. (file reference 17/3) M. (file reference 17/13) V. (file
reference 17/22)
D. (file reference 17/4) N. (file reference 17/14) W. (file
reference 17/23)
E. (file reference 17/5) O. (file reference 17/15) Y-Z. (file
reference 17/24)
F. (file reference 17/6) P. (file reference 17/16)
G. (file reference 17/7) Q. (file reference 17/17)
H. (file reference 17/8) R. (file reference 17/18)
J (file reference 17/10) S. (file reference 17/19)
Administrative folders containing letters and associated material on a wide

range of administrative matters dating from the 1980s and the first half of the
1990s. The files are arranged by original reference and file title as follows:
14/9 Minutes of Conference

14/10 Membership – common membership certificate
18/4 Tri-service chaplaincy retreats and conferences
19/5 Publicity
20/3 Response to Dr English – typescript report on the work of chaplains
1990
22/1 Schedules
22/2 Synods: Attendance, directories etc
22/9 Special services – forms of
22/12 Lay staff – contracts
42/1 Homosexuality
Box 4
Administrative folders containing letters and associated material on a wide

range of administrative matters dating from the 1980s and the first half of the
1990s. The files are arranged by original reference and file title as follows:
2/11 Armed Forces Board minutes 1981-1989

2/14 Armed Forces Board report for inclusion in the Conference agenda
2/15 History
2/17 Appointment of the Armed Forces Board Secretary
2/18 Grants for upkeep of buildings
3/2 Commendations of new members
3/4 RN/RAF/Army representatives at Conference
3/7 Minutes of the Finance and Emergency Committee 1981-1991
3/8 Christians abroad
8/1 Reports for the Armed Forces Board
8/6 History – theses etc
10/1 Irish Conference and Home Missions
13/1 RN/Army/RAF local preachers
14/1 Methodist Peace Fellowship
14/2 Prospective candidates for the ministry
14/4 Methodist Publishing House
14/5 Methodist Recorder
14/6 Mission to Institutions
14/11 Military service and the Christian booklet
14/12 Methodism in Europe and London list
15/1 National Children’s Home
15/2 Newspaper cuttings
15/3 New Methodist ministers and college leaders – introductory letter etc
16/2 Obituaries of ex-chaplains
Boxes 5-6
Files of letters concerning individual members of the armed forces and their
families who had become members of the Methodist Church. The letters
mainly concern transfers from one station and church to another together with
some pastoral matters. The files are arranged alphabetically by surname and
cover the period c.1980 to c.1995.
In each box is a list of the individual files arranged by surname and file
reference.
Box 7
Files of letters concerning individual members of the armed forces and their
families who had become members of the Methodist Church. The letters
mainly concern transfers from one station and church to another together with
some pastoral matters. The files are arranged alphabetically by surname and
cover the period c.1980 to c.1995.
In the box is a list of the individual files arranged by surname and file reference.
File of administrative letters and associated papers concerning the chaplain

Revd. Selwyn Black c.1990 (file reference 201/6)
File of letters and associated papers concerning the medical inspection form
and potential candidates c.1990 (file reference 230/2)
File of armed forces board circular letters to chaplains c.1988-1995 (file

reference 32/19)
File of letters regarding chaplains’ assistants c.1984-c/1991 (file reference

232/9)
File of letters and associated papers regarding the disposal of a house owned by
the Forces Committee and occupied by Joseph and Augusta Tomlinson 1981-
1997 (file reference 2/3)
Several files containing blank administrative forms
Box 8
Administrative files containing correspondence, minutes and other associated

papers as follows:
Army Advisory Board general correspondence 1965-1974 (file reference

missing)
Air Training Corp 1978-86 (file reference 1/1)
Army Advisory panel on chaplaincy matters 1984-90 (file reference 1/3)
Methodist Church Forces Board secretaries c.1970-c.1990 (file reference 2/1)
Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force Board emergency committee 1980-
1988 (file reference 2/6)
Air Training Corp chaplains 1980-1988 (file reference 280-281)
Territorial Army chaplains general file c.1980-c.1990 (file reference 300/1)
Territorial Army chaplaincy file – Reverend David Kinch c.1981-c.1988 (file
reference 301/1)
Letters sent to members of the Methodist Church registered on the
membership roll at the Forces Board office 1990-1995 (file reference 350/1)
Correspondence re new members of the Church serving in the armed forces
1992-1995 (file reference 350/3)
Transfers and removals of membership of the Church 1991-1994 (file
reference 350/4)
Catterick – history (file reference 480/1)
Catterick – shared church 1973-1982 (file reference 480/2)
Catterick – memorial window, St Aidan’s Church 1982-1984 (file reference
480/3
Catterick – insurance 1973-1975 (file reference 480/4)
Catterick – church services 1979-1980 (file reference 480/5)
Catterick – links with Richmond circuit 1961-1975 (file reference 480/6)
Catterick – church anniversary 1976-1978 (file reference 480/7
Port Said – proceeds of sale 1981-1987 (file reference 555/1)
Typescript copy of deed of conveyance of trust of the Aldershot Wesleyan

Chapel 8 September 1859
Printed article by C. R. Gilbert entitled Closure of the Garrison Methodist

Church at Aldershot: A brief review of its history and significance (1970)
Box 9
Administrative files containing correspondence, minutes and other associated

papers as follows:
Chaplains – war-time history (file reference 232/12)

Chaplains – women 1985-1986 (file reference 232/13)
Combined Cadet Force district lists (file reference 250/1)
Gibraltar – church work c.1990 (file reference 252/10)
Gibraltar Wesley House – background (file reference 453/1)
Gibraltar – history (file reference 457/1)
Gibraltar – Management advisory committee 1982-1986 (file reference 469/2)
Gibraltar – trustees’ legal position c.1989 (file reference 469/2)

Gibraltar – news cuttings re the bicentenary of Methodism 1969 (no file
reference)
Deposit of archives at the John Rylands Library (no file reference)
Booklet and programme re “mid-service clergy course” held at St George’s

House, Windsor Castle 1985
Typescript report on the work of Methodist chaplains in the armed forces,

produced by Robert McLeish (independent consultant), August 1990
Typescript notes on the concerns expressed by the chaplains on the proposed

new appointment of the secretary of the Armed Forces Board 1988
Correspondence and associated papers, including financial papers and a printed

example of a model deed for establishing the trusts of Soldiers and Sailors
Homes, regarding the work of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force
Board, 1967-1972 (file)
Minutes of the trustees, committee of management and bazaar sub-committee

of the the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home (Connaught Home) 1901-35
Box 10
Files of letters arranged by surname and file reference concerning individual

members of the armed forces and their families who had become members of
the Methodist Church. The letters mainly concern transfers from one station
and church to another together with some pastoral matters c.1980 to c.1995.

chaplains and lay workers associated with the armed forces work. The letters
mainly concern administration c.1985 to c.1996.
Box 11-13

members of the armed forces and their families who had become members of
the Methodist Church. The letters mainly concern transfers from one station
and church to another together with some pastoral matters c.1980 to c.1995.
Box 14
Envelopes of photographs of activities and churches relating to the work with

the armed forces and labeled as follows:
- Aden c.1965
- Aden 1965-69
- Belgium – Antwerp c.1950
- Bermuda c.1910
- China – Hankow war memorial
- China – Hong Kong c.1950
- Cyprus 1965
- Egypt general 1950-1953
- Egypt – Alexandria c.1945
- Egypt – El Tehaq c.1950
- Egypt – Fayid 1952-1955
- Egypt – Heliopolis 1945
- Egypt – Ismaliya 1947
- Egypt - Port Said 1950
- Fiji – see under UK, Bagshot
- Gambia n.d.
- Germany (general) c.1950
- Germany - Bad Oeynhausen, Dusseldorf and Hamburg c.1950
- Germany – Iserlohn 1946
- Germany - Lemgo c.1950
- Greece – Athens c.1950
- India – Lucknow c.1910
- Ireland – Curragh camp, Wesleyan Soldiers’ Home n.d.
- Israel – Jerusalem c.1950
- Italy – Genoa 1945
- Korea general 1954
- Libya – Tripoli 1948
- Singapore 1964
- Singapore, RAF Changi 1962
- UK – chaplains’ assistants: Sisters Joyce Clark, Eileen Furniss and Gertrude
Harmes 1955
- UK - naval establishments: RNAS Brawdy, HMS Daedalus, HMS Excellent,
RNAS Lossiemouth, HMS Neptune and HMS Simbang
- UK - Wesley Houses: Tidworth, Woolwich, Cranwell, Sheffield canteen and
Rosyth c.1945-c.1960
- UK - Aldershot 1950
- UK – Bagshot, Fijians 1962
- UK - Catterick c.1950
- UK - Cliff College n.d.
- UK – Hull, Holderness House 1914
- UK - Netheravon c.1960
- UK – Portsmouth, Duchess of Albany’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home 1950
- UK – Shorncliffe 1958
- UK – Shotley and Holbrook 1938
Box 15
Miscellaneous papers consisting of photographs, draft articles and news cuttings

relating probably to publicity for the work with the armed forces c.1970-
c.1990 (with a few earlier photographs from World War 2).
Box 16
“The 20th century Life” – typescript autobiography of Revd. J. H. Winn

Haswell (RAF retired) c.1955 (3 volumes)
Service details of Methodist chaplains who retired between 1933 and 1953 (2
volumes)
Box 17
Service details of Methodist chaplains who retired between 1954 and 1977
(volume)
Articles from the Methodist Recorder reporting on Methodist work with the
armed forces 1953-1961 (scrapbook)
Baptism register covering baptisms solemnized in the garrison of South-West

district of Southern Command (Bovington camp), according to the rites of the
Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church and the U.B. Churches 1955-1968
(volume)
Register of services at the Blackdown garrison Methodist church 1954-1971

(volume)
“Setting the Church to Work” – Study and Resources book for Anglicans in the
Royal Navy, by John Metters (printed volume 1987)
Vocational training courses offered by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in Hong
Kong (printed advertisement c.1950)
“Patterns of Ministry” – Personal account of the contribution made by the

Church of Scotland and the Free Churches to Church in the Royal Navy, by A.
Douglas Spear (typescript document 1977)
Papers re the work of the committee on Chaplaincy services, including

correspondence and miscellaneous papers 1974-1977 (folder)
Box 18
News cuttings reporting Methodist activities with the armed forces 1961-1978
(3 scrapbooks)
Envelope of papers labeled ‘Malta’ and containing the following:

- correspondence re Methodist work with the armed forces in Malta c.1988
- photographs of churches c.1960
- printed register of World War 1 dead buried on Malta (1930)
- papers re the work of the group “British Christians in Continental Europe”
c.1973
- letters, news cuttings etc re the closure of the Floriana Methodist Church on
Malta 1972-1973
- Letters and other administrative papers re the ministry on Malta of Revd.
N.C. Parsons 1972
- Letters etc re the work of the Methodist Missionary Society on Malta 1972-
1987
Register of baptisms solemnized by the Methodist chaplains department (Revd.

J. H. Barker) 1943-1946 and the baptisms of children of civilians stationed
with the British Army of the Rhine and in Cyprus etc 1954-1971 (volume)
“Loose Minute” [memorandum] concerning a case of homosexuality in the

armed forces 1987 (envelope marked staff in confidence) – CLOSED TO
PUBLIC ACCESS
Letters re the closure of the Tidworth garrison Methodist church 1985 (folder)
Printed pamphlet re the re-opening and re-dedication of the Grosvenor Road

Methodist Church in Aldershot 1954
Printed “Instructions for the guidance of chaplains” (War Office 1961 –

classified restricted)
Printed articles in “HM Reviews” re chaplaincy work 1969-1986 (folder)
Photographs of the procession accompanying the coffin of the “Unknown

Soldier” 1920 (folder)
“Patterns of Ministry” – Personal account of the contribution made by the

Church of Scotland and the Free Churches to Church in the Royal Navy, by A.
Douglas Spear (typescript document 1977)
Papers of the “Officers and Airmen and Aircrew Personnel committee” re

appointment of women ministers as Church of Scotland and Free Church
chaplains in the RAF 1989 (folder)
Box 18
Magazine of the Aldershot and Farnham Wesleyan circuit March 1911
Legal and business correspondence and other papers, including plans and a copy
title deed, relating to the Wesley Hall, Grosvenor Road, Aldershot 1986 (title
deed dated 1893) (file)
35th annual report of the Wesleyan Soldiers’ Homes, Aldershot 1911-1912
Legal and business correspondence and other papers re the sale of the
Grosvenor Road Church and Wesley Hall, Aldershot, by the Aldershot
Methodist Military Trust 1982-1989 (file)
Legal and administrative papers re the development of Methodist property on

Grosvenor Road, Aldershot, owned by the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust
1987 (file)
Legal correspondence and associated papers created by the Methodist Church

Property Division and Aldershot Methodist Military Trust, re Methodist
property on Grosvenor Road, Aldershot 1986-1987 (file)
Article on Grosvenor Road Methodist Church in Aldershot, published in the

Chaplain’s Journal January 1990 (file)
Business letters to and from Rentokil Ltd re repair work carried out on Wesley
Hall apartments, Lychford Road, Farnborough 1983 (file)
Draft typescript report on the structural condition of the Grosvenor Road

Church and Wesley Hall: Grosvenor Road and Queens Road, Aldershot (Pantkin
and Bradbury, Chartered Architects) April 1984
Administrative letters re property in Barrack Road, Grosvenor Road and Stone

Street, Aldershot, owned by the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust 1987-1988
(file)
Box 20
Article – Closure of the Garrison Methodist Church in Aldershot: A brief

review of its history and significance by Revd. C.R.W. Gilbert
Business letters and other papers re conservation of the Grosvenor Road

Church property owned by the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust 1980-1988
(file reference 506/5)
Yearly accounts and supporting financial records of the Aldershot Methodist

Military Trust 1970-1989 (file reference 500/1)
Report concerning Aldershot Methodist Military Trust 1978 (file reference

506/4)
Letters and other papers concerning the history of and background information
concerning the Aldershot Methodist Military Trust 1856-1978 (2 files)
Box 21-22
Large number of individual slide presentations on aspects of Methodist work

with the armed forces. Many are untitled and the others are labeled as follows:
- Army
- Bagshot
- Bible
- C.T.
- Chaplains training
- Christmas service 1970
- Encounter with conflict
- Forces Board
- Gibraltar
- Junior character training
- Loyalty
- Malta
- Methodism in Great Britain from John Wesley to the present
- Navy
- Para [Paratroop Regiment]
- Pastor
- RAF miscellaneous
- School
- Worship and school
- Youth Club
Three rolls of photographic negatives entitled “Navy”
Cine-film entitled “Peter Bailey” and labelled “for the army”
Box 23
Scrap-book of press cuttings re armed forces work, 1978-1984
Large collection of miscellaneous publicity material, including photographs and

chaplains’ recruiting literature, c.1990
Photographs of the armed forces work in Gibraltar, c.1910
Box 24
Large collection of photographs illustrating aspects of Methodist work with the

armed forces, including items associated with specific named chaplains and s,
c.1970-c.1990
Published Guide for Church of Scotland and Free Churches RAF Chaplains,
1978
Published Royal Navy Chaplains Manual (BR 439), 1981
Notes
Title Alfred Raymond George:(MCGB) (1912-1998) Personal papers
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1900-2009# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Scholarship# Theology & Doctrine# Biblical studies# Methodist Church (Great
Britain)--Conference# Ecumenism--20th century
Description
Papers of Alfred Raymond George (1912-1998) - President of Conference,
educator and international scholar
Box 1
Diaries mainly recording appointments: 1928, 1930-1971, 1973-1998
Undated memoranda book containing manuscript notes on religion and history.
Box 2
Photographs divided into subject folders as follows:
- places
- college
- portrait (pre-1955)
- portrait (post-1955)
- family and friends (pre-1955)
- family and friends (post-1955)
- official/ministerial
Letters and miscellaneous papers divided into subject folders as follows:

- Letters to and from friends
- Official/semi-official correspondence
- Newscuttings
- Family letters
- Miscellaneous
Box 3
Ts draft, with manuscript amendments, of ARG’s “Introduction to the Sunday
Service of 1784”
File of research material and notes regarding liturgy, including ARG’s ts article
on “Common Prayer in the Free Churches” and official government documents
concerning solemnisation of marriages and copies of relevant legislation,
c.1963
File of research material and notes regarding liturgy and homiletics, with
particular regard to ARG’s involvement in the teaching of the Diploma of
Theology course, c.1967
File of ts research material concerning Methodist organisation, with regard to
ARG’s involvement in the teaching of the C.P.D [?? Preachers’ Diploma?],
n.d.
File of ts material regarding ARG’s publications on a large number of subjects
including the lectionary, the Sunday Service, changes in worship etc, c.1967-
c.1970
File marked “Proofs” containing research material and notes on a number of
scriptural and theological themes, n.d.
Box 4
2 files of research/lecture notes and associated papers, including correspondence
concerning publications, draft reviews and articles etc c.1970-c.1990
File of research/lecture notes and associated papers on liturgy c.1977-c.1980
File marked ‘PR Reality’ containing research/lecture notes and associated
papers on theology n.d.
File marked ‘BHT’ containing research/lecture notes and associated papers on
biblical criticism n.d.
Box 5
Undated files of research/lecture notes and associated papers on the following
broad subjects:
- spirituality
- renewal
- Trinity and Incarnation
- Canon and interpretation
- Church administration
File of research/lecture notes etc on a wide range of subject c.1970-c.1990
Box 6
Envelope containing the following personal documents:
- ARG’s certificate of baptism into the Ryecroft Methodist Church,
Gloucester 6 September 1933
- ARG’s certificate of residence at Balliol College, Oxford 1931-1935
- Statement of ARG’s matriculation as a student of Balliol College, Oxford 13
October 1931 (written in Latin)
- ARG’s certificate of study at Phillips University, Marburg, Germany 1
December 1937
Envelope containing correspondence re ARG’s editorial work on the John
Wesley Works project c.1985-c.1990
Bundle of loose papers, including correspondence, articles and research notes
c.1980-c.1990
Box file marked ‘personal archive’ containing correspondence, academic
papers, minutes and associated papers of the Executive of the Faith and Order
Committee etc c.1970-c.1980
Box 7
Box file marked ‘President’ containing correspondence and associated papers
concerning ARG’s year as President of the Conference 1975
Box file containing photographs of ARG taken during his year as President of
the Conference and tape recordings of services 1975
Box 8
Box file of letters and associated papers concerning a wide range of topic,
including the Faith and Order Committee and the new Methodist service book
1974-1975
Box file of press cuttings reporting ARG’s official visits as President of the
Methodist Conference, together with papers of the Faith and Order Committee
with particular regard to liturgical revisions 1975-1978
Box 9
Box file containing press cuttings, note books and printed material relating to
ARG’s interest in Germany and visits to that country 1937-1950
Box file of miscellaneous papers including material relating to the Wesley
Historical Society, British Council of Churches and the World Council of
Churches Commission on Faith and Order, together with printed material
regarding liturgy and research/lecture notes c.1963-1995
Box 10
Folder of research/lecture notes on theology n.d.
Copy of the Bible presented to ARG on the occasion of his ordination at the
Sheffield Conference of 1940. Signed by the President of Conference Henry
Bett and the Secretary Edwin Finch
Communion set in a carry case
Set of clerical preaching bands
Group photograph of college staff and students(?) c.1940
Service sheet for the memorial service for ARG held at Wesley College Bristol
14 October 1998
Printed copy of “Eucharistic Prayer of Hippolytus: Text for Consultation”
(Washington: 1983)
Envelope containing portrait photographs of ARG c.1995
Box 11
Box file containing the following:
- 3 school exercise books containing essays by ARG written during his time as
a scholar at the Crypt School in Gloucester 1927 and 1930
- Exercise book containing ARG’s notes on theology while a student at
Phillips University in Marburg, Germany 1937
- Envelope containing family photographs c.1935
- Envelope marked ‘miscellaneous’ containing a small collection of foreign
coins, a letter sent by one of ARG’s friends from an army camp during World
War 2 and portrait photographs of ARG c.1950 and 1967
- Envelope containing the following items relating to ARG’s schooldays at
the Crypt School in Gloucester: printed lists of staff and scholars 1923-1931,
concert programmes c.1930, speech day programmes 1925,1931 and the
programme of the Old Cryptians Club annual dinner 1932
- Copy of the “Christian Advocate” (ARG pictured on the front cover) 15
August 1963
- Group photograph of delegates to the Faith and Order Conference in
Montreal Canada 1963
- Text of an address given at Chichester n.d.
- Copy of “The Expository Times” containing ARG’s article on ‘The Unity
of the New Testament: The Doctrine of the Church’ 1946/47
- Text of an address given by ARG as Conference President during his official
visit to Whirlow Grange Sheffield January 1976
- Printed papers of Conference including copies of the Daily Record and
papers of the Connexional Examination Committee 1963-1980
Box 12
Box file containing miscellaneous correspondence and note books on academic
and publishing subjects, telephone/address book and household documents such
as gas servicing agreements c.1960-c.1990
Box file containing miscellaneous papers including research notes,
correspondence re academic and publishing matters, with particular regard to a
new lectionary c.1980-c.1990
Box 13
Box file containing semi-official and personal correspondence on a range of
matters c.1955-c.1990
- orders of service for the enthronement of a number of Archbishops and
Bishops from the Anglican and Catholic Churches c.1970-c.1990
- miscellaneous notes on liturgical matters c.1950-c.1970
- paper by ARG on “Church Membership” 1945
- report on Junior Membership compiled by the Manchester 2nd District 1944
- paper on the “Significance of Mysticism for Christian Philosophy” c.1945
- lecture/research notes on liturgy and Christian tradition
Box 14
Box file containing the following papers that appear to relate mainly to ARG’s
involvement with the Free Church Council:
- photographs of ARG c.1970-c.1990
- press cuttings
- greetings cards, including one signed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
- correspondence
- papers re ARG’s luncheon with the Queen 1976
Box 15
Box file containing material re ARG’s time at Headingley College, Leeds,
including correspondence and class attendance lists 1968-1969
Box file of correspondence and associated papers arising from ARG’s work as a
member of the Faith and Order Committee c.1974-c.1975
Box 16
Box file of research/lecture notes on a range of subject including liturgy,
ecumenical co-operation, church membership and Anglican-Methodist
conversations n.d.
Copy of the “Epworth Review” January 1997 containing a profile of ARG
written by John A. Newton
Exercise book containing essays written by ARG while a student at Balliol
College, Oxford 1936
Box 17
Folder of minutes of evidence, parliamentary debates etc concerning the
Methodist Church Bill 1976-1977
Box file of papers arising from the work of the World Council of Churches
Commission on Faith and Order 1959-1962
Box file containing papers arising from ARG’s editorial involvement with the
John Wesley Works project 1972-1978
Box 18
- ARG’s article on ‘Church Membership’
- Miscellaneous papers on church membership
- Papers relating to the work of the Church Membership committee 1948
- Minutes of the Connexional Church Membership committee 1948
- Paper by Revd. T. D. Meadley – “The Pattern of the Christian Life in the
New Testament”
- Returns of church membership sent to ARG in his capacity as Secretary of
the Church Membership Committee 1955-1956
- Leeds District May Synod agenda 1956
Box file containing ARG’s lecture/research notes n.d.
Box file of papers concerning the Oxford Institute of Methodist Studies
c.1965-c.1973
Notebook containing shorthand n.d.
Notebooks listing services conducted by ARG in chapels in and around Leeds,
with texts from which he preached 1941-1957
Box 19
Box file of photographs arranged in folders as follows:
- personal/family/college/ministerial c.1912-1945
- personal/family/college/ministerial 1945-1970
- personal/family/college/ministerial 1970-c.1990
- Places
- Postcards sent home by ARG during his tour of Europe and photographs
taken during the same July 1938
Folder of miscellaneous documents including correspondence and press cuttings
c.1950-c.1968
2 box files of ARG’s lecture/research notes theology, ecclesiology and liturgy
n.d.
Folder of letters concerning academic matters and lecture/research notes on
spirituality and the Reformation c.1980
Folder of papers concerning the Free Church Council 1990-1992
Folder of papers concerning the British Council of Churches 1984
Folder of papers concerning the Methodist Church Ecumenical Committee
1984
Folder containing ARG’s curriculum vitae and ARG’s obituary from the Times
newspaper July 15 1998
Box 20
Folder containing biographical notes on Dr J. H. Rigg (Carter 1993)
Folder containing papers relating to the Charles Wesley Society 1993
Folder containing papers relating to the Society for Liturgical Study 1991-1992
Folder containing papers relating to the Oxford Institute of Methodist Studies

1992
Folder containing letters of condolence sent to ARG on the death of his
housekeeper and close friend Hilda Eastwood 1983
Folder containing a letter to ARG from the politician Denis Healey 1990
Folder containing an untitled report on the nature of the Christian Church
c.1990
Presentation by Stuart Burgess to the Nomination Committee for the
appointment of Secretary of the 1998 Conference 20 February 1997
Folder containing a list of registrants for the World Methodist Consultation on
Liturgy and Worship c.1980
Folder containing a confidential draft report on informal conversations
between the Church of England and the Methodist Church 1995
Annual report of the Methodist Church Property Division 1983
Folder containing Conference Daily Record 1981-1982
Folder containing papers relating to the Wesley Historical Society conference
1991
Folder containing ARG’s research/lecture notes on Creeds n.d.
Commemorative medal struck for the American Methodist Bicentennial 1984
Folder containing a list of texts anticipating and relating to the Methodist

preaching service prior to 1900, compiled by Norman Wallwork 1983
Folder containing a BCC proposal for a programme on Central America c.1984
Folder containing the report of the 3rd Conference of the Christian

Association of Business Executives on the ‘Creation of wealth’ 1980
Folder containing a copy of Ministry to the People of God – a preface to
amended report to Conference c.1987
Papers of the Liturgical Society 1987
Folder containing miscellaneous newscuttings c.1982
Folder containing lecture notes on the Trinity n.d.
File of ARG’s lecture/research notes on Christian worship n.d.
2 file of ARG’s miscellaneous lecture/research notes n.d.
File of ARG’s lecture/research notes on liturgy n.d.
Folder containing ARG’s memorial address for Walter David Stacey n.d.
Folder containing papers relating to the Bristol Theological Society
Folder containing papers of the Law and Polity Committee regarding a
disciplinary case May 1993 (CLOSED)
Folder containing Kenneth Carvaley’s application for a teaching appointment
1994
Folder containing the 5th draft report on the informal conversations between
the Methodist Church and the Church of England entitled “Commitment to
Mission and Unity” 1994 (CLOSED)
Folder containing papers relating to the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship
1994
Folder containing papers relating to the new Methodist Hymn book 1980
Folder containing papers relating to the Western Region Faith and Order
Commission’s work on extended membership in local ecumenical projects
c.1990
Box 21
Article entitled “The Gospel Hour” by Paul Perry n.d.
Connexional Examination Committee list of ministerial candidates 1981
Daily Record of Conference 1983
4 folders of personal letters – many are damaged c.1930-c.1940
Blue notebook containing lecture/research notes n.d.
Red notebook containing lists of dates and jottings on academic matters 1954-
1955
Collection of cassette tapes consisting mainly of recordings of hymns together
with recordings of ARG’s 80th birthday celebrations etc
Box 22
Bundle of articles/papers delivered mainly but not exclusively at the Oxford
Institutes as follows:
- Future of Methodist Theological Traditions (Cannon)
- Life with a Theological Orientation (Marquardt)
- John Wesley and the Rights of Conscience (English)
- Wesleyan Tradition and the Poor in a Canadian Context (Wells)
- Significance of the Hermeneutical Context for Theological Methodology: A
European Perspective (Kristiansen)
- Leitmotifs of a Pan-African Theology: God’s path and Pan-Africa (Young)
- An Act of Worship: Theme – the God of Life (Tevaraji)

- Untitled paper on early Methodist ‘happy deaths’ (anon)
- Ethical and Pastoral Reflection from the Third World on the 500th
Anniversary of the European Invasion of Abya Yala (Araya)
- Sanctification, Society and the Poor (Gibbins?)
- Anointed to Preach: Speaking of Sin in the midst of Grace (Chapp)
- Third World Consultation – Introduction to the 1992 Oxford Institute
- A Community of Support, Growth, Training in Responsibility and
Leadership (Josgrilberg)
- Proclaiming Christ in all his Offices: Priest, Prophet and Potentate
(Watson)
- Good News to the Poor: Methodist Experience after Wesley (Dayton)
- Wesley and the Poor: Agenda for Wesleyans (Jennings)
- John Wesley and his “Jewish Parishioners”: Jewish-Christian relationships in
Savannah, Georgia 1736-1737 (English)
- Practical Piety or Lettered Learning: Objections to Methodist Ministerial
Training in colleges in the early 19th century (WHS Lecture 1995)
- A Wesleyan perspective on “Confessing the Apostolic Faith” (Maddox)
- Methodists in search of consensus (Outler)
- A renewed three-fold ministry? (Moede)
- The settlement of North America (Smith)
- Schisms and their healing in American Methodism (Brockwell)
- Ecclesiology of major holiness and Pentecostal Churches who see
themselves in the Wesleyan tradition (Starkey)
- Wesley as “People’s theological second thoughts” – A polemic (Turner)
- Ecclesiology and Sacraments in the ecumenical context (McCreary)
- Ecclesial sensibilities in 19th century American Methodism (Richey)
- Communo Sanctorum (Allman)
- Elements in Wesley’s message that attract and empower the poor (Roesler)
- Experimental religion – John Wesley’s approach to theology and ministry
to the poor (Thorsen)
- Some reflections on the Church’s authoritative teaching on social questions
(Bonino)
- Methodist interaction with other Churches (Wallwork)
- Call to Ministry: Ordination and Conference membership (Hall)
- Ecclesiology in an Ecumenical Context: Impressions from West Africa
(Oduyoye)
- Rise of the Methodist Societies: An Introduction (Gibbins)
- Who is God? (Shaw)
- World as original Sacrament (Runyon)
- Towards the common expression of the Apostolic faith today (Gassman)
- Pluralism – Relationship of theology to religious studies (Hastings)
- British Methodism as ‘Sending Churches’ (Clutterbuck)
- Wesleyan resources for a contemporary theology of the poor (Maddox)
- Methodist contribution to eccesiology (Carter)
- The covenant service … (Lusty)
- The Sunday Service of the Methodists (ARG)
- Glib opposition overcome: Michael Ramsey and Gordon Rupp (unnamed
author)
- Church and praise in the hymnody of the Wesleys (Carter)
- Separation from the Church of England (Waterfield)
- Methodist participation in the modern liturgical movement and in
sacramental revival (ARG)
- Meaning of church membership (Hall)
- Future of the Catholic-Methodist relationship (unnamed author)
- John Wesley’s understanding of the theological distinction between
“essentials” and “opinions” (unnamed author)
- Methodist and Roman Catholic approaches to Christian ethics: A
comparative study (Maguire)
- The Imitatio Christi and the Great Commandment: Virtue and obligation in
Wesley’s
ministry with the poor (Heitzenrater)
2 folders containing papers re the Convocation on Theological Education at
the World Methodist Conference, including copies of presentations 1986
Folder containing papers re the World Methodist Conference in Honolulu 1981
Folder containing papers re Oxford Institute 1992

Folder containing draft reports 2 and 3 of the informal conversations between
the Methodist Church and the Church of England entitled “Commitment to
Mission and Unity” 1995 (CLOSED)
Folder containing papers re the Bristol Theological Society 1996
Folder containing the report to Conference concerning freemasonry n.d.
Folder containing papers re the conference of the World Methodist Historical
Society and Wesley Historical Society 1996
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence 1992-1998
Bundle of Conference reports on ministerial candidates 1990-1995
Bundle of miscellaneous papers c.1990-c.1998
Box 23
Folder containing class/group photographs from the Oxford Institute and from
ARG’s time at Hartley Victoria College in Manchester 1955-1977
Scrapbook containing news cuttings and photographs relating to ARG’s
presidential year 1977
Folder containing a report by the Board for Mission and Unity entitled The
Covenant: An Assessment” c.1980
2 folders containing research/lecture notes regarding liturgy c.1970
Folder containing research/lecture notes regarding Holy Spirit and Trinity n.d.
Folder containing research/lecture notes regarding Salvation n.d.
Folder containing research/lecture notes regarding worship and liturgy n.d.
Folder containing research/lecture notes regarding the lectionary n.d.
Folder containing lecture notes taken down by ARG during his time as a student
at Oxford c.1932
Folder containing correspondence and associated papers regarding ARG’s
involvement with the ecumenical movement 1977-1982
Folder containing administrative papers regarding ARG’s teaching duties at
Wesley College Bristol 1987-1991
Folder containing photostats of documents regarding ARG’s work on the
Sunday Service of the Methodists n.d.
Folder containing research notes arising from ARG’s work on the Sunday
Service of the Methodists n.d.
Folder containing papers arising from ARG’s contribution to the Dictionary of
British Methodism 1997
Folder containing papers arising from ARG’s contribution to the John Wesley’s
Works project n.d.
File of papers relating research undertaken by Stuart Bell 1988
Folder containing administrative papers regarding the Elsie Briggs Trust 1988-
1998
Folder containing research notes arising from ARG’s involvement with the
Faith and Order Committee 1992-1997
Notebook containing ARG’s teaching and preaching appointments 1958-1998
Folder containing ARG’s expired passports

Folder containing personal papers, including ARG’s parents’ birth certificates
and marriage certificate, ARG’s birth certificate and his mother’s will c.1876-
c.1930
Box 24
File labelled “This is your Life: A, Raymond George” containing letters of good
will on ARG’s 80th birthday 1992-1993
Roll of class photographs from the Crypt School, Gloucester 1928 and 1931
Box labelled “Manchester” containing letters of congratulation on ARG’s
election as President of Conference 1974
Scrap book of news cuttings and photographs relating to ARG’s year as
Conference President 1974-1975
File of lecture/research notes on the history of philosophy 1979-1980
File of lecture/research notes on the person of Christ n.d.
File of lecture/research notes on church history n.d.
File of lecture/research notes on the work of Christ n.d.
File of lecture/research notes on theology n.d.
2 medals from World War 1
Medal commemorating the bicentennial of American Methodism 1984
Rosary
Box 25
File of papers concerning the work of the [Roman Catholic] National
Liturgical Commission, including lists of members, discussion papers and papers
relating to conferences 1968-1982
Bundle of miscellaneous papers, many of which appear to relate to dialogue
between the Methodist Church and the Roman Catholic Church c.1973
File of papers relating to dialogue between the Methodist Church and the
Roman Catholic Church c.1976-c.1980
File of papers relating to the work of the Commission of the Covenanted
Churches 1979-1981
File of papers, including draft reports, relating to Methodist attitudes to alcohol
c.1983
File of papers relating to miscellaneous administration at Wesley College
Bristol c.1961-c.1980
Roman Catholic Church c.1982
File of papers relating to the work of the Roman Catholic-Methodist Church
International Commission 1982-1985
File of papers relating to the “Gilmore course” (leading to the Inter-diocesan
certificate) 1977
Roman Catholic Church 1965-1980
Notes
Title Divisional Treasurers:(MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Finance# Methodist Church (Great Britain)-

-Senior Divisional Treasurers committee
Description Minutes, correspondence, notices and financial papers of the committee of

Senior Divisional Treasurers (files and one volume).
Notes
Title Overseas Division:(MCGB) Miscellaneous committee papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Divisions--Overseas
Description Methodist Church Overseas Division
Loose bundle of minutes and associated papers of the following MCOD

committees: European Affairs, World Church Education, General Purposes,
Central, Joint Executive and Overseas Executive.
Notes
Title Home Mission and Evangelism:(MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Evangelism# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Home Mission
Description Records of Home Mission and evangelism
See MA 9863 for boxes 1-11
Box 12
Minutes of the Board of the Home Mission Department, 1988-1990 (volume)
Notes
Title Ministerial Training and Service:(MCGB) Administrative
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Divisions--Ministry# Colleges--Wesley

House Cambridge
Description Papers of ministerial training and service.
(See also: MA 9863 for boxes 1-8)
Box 9
Ring-binder containing minutes and financial papers relating to the work of the
Executive committee of the Division of Ministries, 1981-1985
Ring-binder containing minutes and correspondence etc relating to the Division

of Ministries, with particular regard to ministerial training, 1969-1974
Box 10
Ring-binder containing financial papers, reports and statistics etc relating to

the work of the following sections of the Division of Ministries, 1979-1985:
- Nominations
- Finance
- Candidates
- Training
- Further training
- Other appointments
- Local preachers
- Church membership
- Methodist Study Centre
- Women’s Fellowship
- Wesley Guild
- Drama
- Wesley Deaconess Order
- Development and Training
- Music Society
Ring-binder containing papers of the Division of Ministries Board and

Executive committee, including minutes, financial papers, reports and statistics
etc, 1983-1986
Ring-binder containing minutes of the Advisory Committee on Ministerial

Appointments, October 1985-February 1993
Ring-binder containing minutes of the trustees of Wesley House Cambridge,

with additional papers, including the John Newton Davies Trust Deed and
regulations for the government of Wesley House, 1976
Box 11
Large loose bundle of Division of Ministries Executive Committee minutes and

associated papers, 1988-1996
Minutes of Ministerial Training Committee, and associated papers, including

accounts and reports, 1981-1985 (volume)
Minutes of Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, and associated

papers including reports, 1978-1988 (volume)
Box 12
Large loose bundle of minutes and associated papers of the Ministerial Training
Committee, 1985-1993
Large loose bundle of minutes of the Pastoral Care Committee, 1991-1999
Minutes of the Advisory Committee on Ministerial Appointments, 1970-1985

(volume)
Box 13
Minutes, and associated papers including reports to Conference, of the Division

of Ministries Board and Executive committee, 1973-1983 (3 volumes)
Box 14
Details of “Students Removed” from either local preachers training or

ministerial training (the details are ambiguous). Information includes name,
date of birth, home address, level of education, occupation and tutors’ report,
1958-1959 and 1982-1984 (2 volumes)
Folder of examination papers for the Local Preachers’ Exam, 1983
2 folders of course papers and related material relating to the Local Preachers’
Diploma, c.1976-c.1985
Box 15
2 large loose bundles of minutes, and associated papers, of the Division of

Ministries Board, 1986-1993
2 large loose bundles of minutes, and associated papers, of the Division of

Ministries Executive committee, 1985-1988, 1993-1996
Box 16
Folder of examination results relating to the Local Preachers Diploma, 1962-

1983
2 loose bundles of examination results relating to the Local Preachers Diploma,
1940-1989
Box 17
Administrative files relating to the Methodist Study Centre/Open Learning

Centre as follows:
- Joan Wragg (tutor), 1985-1994
- Clifford Hardy (tutor), 1985-1992
- William Ream (tutor), 1979-1985
- Brynmor Salmon (tutor), 1976-1990
- Marjorie Watson (tutor), 1981-1985
- Course on Psalms examiner: Revd. Champley), 1981-1992
- Examination results sheets, 1984-1989
- Alfred Lamb prize (Old Testament), 1968-1996
- Isabel Adams prize (New Testament), 1984-1995
- Examination papers, c.1980
- New Testament theology, 1977
- New Testament (Hebrews), 1975
Bundle of Local Preachers Diploma results, 1979-1989
Box 18
Bundles of papers re Methodist Study Centre courses, including the Local

Preachers’ Diploma and the Certificate in Continuing Education, c.1960-
c.1977
Box 19
Minutes of General Ministerial Training Committee, 1946-81 (3 volumes)
Notes
Title Conference:(WM) Photograph of delegates (named)

Church--Conference--Lay representation# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Photographs--Conference
Description Photograph of delegates to the Wesleyan Conference of 1878 - the first at

which lay delegates were admitted. Key to names is included.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MCGB) Photograph of delegates
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Photographs# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Conference 1937
Description Group photograph of delegates to the Methodist Conference of 1937 held in

Bradford.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Photograph:(MCGB) Group photograph
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Photographs--General
Description Group photograph of a group of Methodists, including J. H. Rodda, Chairman

of the Sheffield district.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title 1988 Celebration Steering Committee:(MCGB) Minutes etc
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Alderstage Commemoration Steering

Committee# Conversion--Church of England# Conversion--Methodism
Description Loose papers, including minutes, of the 1988 Steering Committee, set up to
arrange the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Aldersgate.
Notes
Title Social Policy:(WM/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Divisions--Social responsibility# Social

justice--Great Britain# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Temperance &
Social Welfare committee# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Wesleyan Methodist
Union for Social Service
Description
Records of Methodist social policy and interaction incorporating the archives
of the Temperance and Social Welfare Department, Department of Christian
Citizenship, Department of Social Responsibility.
See also MA 9863 for boxes 1-40
Box 41
Box file of minutes of the Urban Mission Committee, 1991-1996
Box file of minutes and associated papers of the Mission alongside the Poor
Programme, 1993-1996
Box 42
Printed books as follows:

- English Life and Leisure by Seebohm Rowntree and Lavers (Longmans 1951)
– copy from the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
- Communism, Christian and Marxist by Wood (Beckly Lecture 1935, Epworth
Press)
- Poverty and Progress by Seebohm Rowntree (Longmans 1941) – copy from
the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
- Games and Gamesters of the Restoration edited by Hartmann (Routledge,
1930) – copy from the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
- The White Man’s Burden by Paton (Social Service Lecture, Epworth Press,
1939)
- Gaming, Betting and Lotteries by Fellows (Solicitors’ Law Stationery Society,
1935) – copy from the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
- Published bulletin of the National Anti-Gambling League, 1891-1919 (3
volumes)
Box 43
Minutes of the Political, Social and Economic Policy Committee, 1982-1996

(volume)

- 1. Christianity and Human Relations in Industry by Schuster (Beckly Social
Services Lecture, Epworth Press, 1951)
- 2. The Churches and Democracy by Lindsay (Beckly Lecture, Epworth Press,
1934)
- 3. World Loyalty: Being a Study of the Spiritual Pilgrimage towards World
Order by Garnett (Beckly Lecture, Epworth Press, 1928)
- 4. Marriage Failures and Children by Mullins (Beckly Social Service Lecture,
Epworth Press, 1951)
- 5. Religion in Planned Society by Urwin (Beckly Lecture, Epworth Press,
1942)
- 6. One Increasing Purpose by Edwards (Beckly Lecture, Epworth Press, 1947)
- 7. Synopsis of the First Three Gospels by Huck (Blackwell, 1957)

- 8. The Fatal Effects of Gambling by Charles Heckethorn (Thomas Kelly,
1824)
Box 44
2 bundles of general DSR correspondence, 1969-1974
Box 45
Box 46
Box 47
Bundle of DSR correspondence, with particular reference to the Fund for

Human Need, 1971-1973
Bundle of DSR correspondence, with particular reference to the Methodist

Relief Fund, c.1970-1973
Box 48

1. Poverty: A Study of Town Life by Seebohm Rowntree (1906) – copy from
the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
2. Social Science and the Christian by Kenneth Greet (Beckly Pamphlet 5,
1960)
3. The Principles of Penal Reform by Leslie Davison (Beckly Pamphlet 6,
1960)
4. Houses and Homes: A New Social Factor by E. Benson Perkins (Beckly
Occasional Paper, 1956)
5. The Refugee Problem in the Middle East by Henry Carter (Beckly
Occasional Paper 1, 1949)
6. Public Ownership of the Liquor Trade by Arthur Greenwood (1920)
7. Voluntary Action by Lord Beveridge (c.1946) – copy from the library of
Reverend Benson-Perkins
8. The English Temperance Movement: A Study in Objectives by Henry Carter
(Beckly Lecture, 1932)
9. Betting and Gambling: A National Evil by Seebohm Rowntree (1905) –
copy from the library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
10. The Christian Church and the Prisoner in English Experience by Edward
Harvey (Beckly Lecture, 1941)
11. Religion and Politics by Christopher Addison (Beckly Lecture, 1931)
12. A History of English Lotteries by John Ashton (1893) – copy from the
library of Reverend Benson-Perkins
13. Betting Facts by E. Benson Perkins (1925)
14. Henry Tate by Tom Jones (1960)
15. Ethics and Economics of Family Endowment by Eleanor Rathbone (Beckly
Lecture, 1927)
16. The Social Teaching of the Church by W. R. Inge (Beckly Lecture, 1930)
Box 49
Temperance and Social Welfare committee minutes, 1932-44 (2 volumes)
Box 50
Temperance and Social Welfare committee minutes, 1944-51 (volume)
Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Service London Centre – Executive
Notes
Title General Secretaries and Finance:(MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Finance# Methodist Church (Great Britain)-

-General Secretaries meeting
Description Financial papers and General Secretaries’ meetings
Box 1
Loose bundle of letters and associated papers, including reports and notes of
meetings, regarding “unitary finance”, 1994
Folder of minutes and associated papers regarding General Secretaries’
meetings, 1986-1996
Notes
Title Douglas Wollen:(MCGB) (1909-98) Papers (additional deposit)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--General# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Clergy--Photographs# Poetry--20th century# Women and religion
Description (2 archive boxes) - Further archival material re. to Rev Douglas Wollen (1909-
98); papers of Mrs Winifred Wollen (nee Waterman) (1915-1987).
I. Douglas Wollen archive addition (2 archive boxes):
a) typescript of autobiographical poems, etc; b) miscellaneous printed items

incl. Gallery notes, articles in Wesley’s Chapel newsletter; c) drafts &
typescripts of articles; d) letters (some handwritten from 1940s); e)
photographs (incl. photo with Margaret Thatcher).
II. Winifred Wollen archive:
Archival material relating to Mrs Winifred Wollen (nee Waterman) (1915-87).

Comprises: a) typescripts of typed chapters of unpublished book on life as a
Methodist minister’s wife, under pseudonym of Mary Jensen; b) miscellaneous
drafts and versions and copies of typed chapters of the above; c) unidentified
drafts, probably for the above book or stand-alone articles, talks etc; d)
miscellaneous articles, essays, radio talks (Women’s Hour), etc; e) letters (sent
and received), 1938-76; copiers of letters from Winifred Wollen to her
daughter Barbara Edwards -- ACCESS TO THIS MATERIAL IS RESTRICTED;
f) handwritten texts, copies of articles, etc; g) miscellaneous articles and diaries
(fragmentary), 1950s, early 1960s; h) poems.
Deposited by Roger Wollen (son), June/July 2008.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title J. A. Hurd Bartley:(WM) (fl.1901) Papers etc
Keywords
Description Miscellaneous items re. to J.A. Hurd Bartley
J.A. Hurd Bartley material comprises:
a) Copy of prize-winning Fernley essay, 1901 (student at Didsbury College);

b) his annotated copy of the ‘Theological Reformer’ (Glasgow, 1888); c)
scrapbook compiled by B.A.H. Bartley incl. cuttings from Wesleyan Methodist
press, facsimile letters, class tickets, autographs of Presidents of Conference,
notes & documents compiled or collected by James Everett.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Henry Adams:(WM) (1847-1923) Diaries
Keywords Colleges--Richmond# Diaries & Journals--1851-99# Diaries & Journals--1900-

2009
Description Two manuscript diaries of the Wesleyan minister Henry Adams - 1872-73
(student at Richmond College) and later during his circuit ministry 1885-1915.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Publishing House:Minutes and stock catalogues
Keywords Methodist Publishing House# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Publishing
Description Methodist Publishing House Archive (MPH):

4 ledger volumes of minute books & catalogues, as follows:
Book Committee minute book, 1949-64

Book committee minute book 1964-69
Trustee’s minute book, 1934-70
Catalogue of books issued by MPH.
Notes
Title Methodist German Mission:Copy Year books
Keywords
Description Methodist German Mission (London): - Photocopies of two Year Books.

Deposited by Pamela Jones.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Munsey Turner:(MCGB) (late 20th cent.) Papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Scholarship
Description Deposit from Rev. John Munsey Turner. Personal papers comprising:
1) MA thesis University of Bristol (1957) - ‘Methodism & Anglicanism,

1791-1850’.
2) Notes on Pilgrimage to Herrnhut, 1988.
3) Correspondence, 1979-91.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Publishing House:Minutes and stock catalogues
Keywords Methodist Publishing House# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Publishing
Description 4 ledger volumes of minutes, and catalogue comprising:

Book committee minutes, 1949-64
Book committee minutes, 1964-69
Catalogue of books issued by MPH, n.d
MPH Trustee’s Minute Book, 1936-70.
Notes
Title Headway Magazine:Minutes and other papers
Keywords Periodicals--Headway Magazine
Description Six boxes of Executive Minutes (1974- ), reports and correspondence re on

‘Human Sexuality Debate, 1993-2007’, and re to ‘Headway’, [magazine of an
Methodist Evangelical pressure group].
Notes
Title Local Preachers Department:(MCGB) Examination papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers# Local Preachers
Description Local Preachers’ examination papers, 1942-70.
Methodist Church Local preachers’ Dept: Connexional Examinations for Local

Preachers on trial: - OT Exam paper (Sept 1942); Homiletics Exam paper +
list of successful candidates (March 1943); Christian Doctrine exam paper + list
of successful candidates (Sept 1943).
Local Preachers Diploma Papers: - OT Mock exam paper; NT exam paper

(April 1966); Christian Doctrine exam paper (April 1969); Church History
exam paper (April 1970).
Notes
Title James Dale Brocklehurst:(WM) (d.1874) Commonplace book
Keywords Art# Poetry--19th century
Description Manuscript commonplace book containing poetical musings and hymns, with
art work drawings, by and in hand of the James Dale Brocklehurst (Wesleyan
Methodist minister 1841-74).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Early Methodist papers:(WM) Atherton deposit
Keywords Women and religion# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--

Jamaica# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class tickets--1760-1820# Class
Description 1. "The New Jamaica Almanack and Register" (Kingston, 1790). Inscribed
‘Queen Street, Old Harbour, December 29th 1789’ with some additional
manuscript annotations at the back of the volume
2. Autograph letter of John Wesley to Ann Cutler, 15 April 1790 (with

typescript copy)
3. Letter of Frank Baker to Mr G. Stanley Weddle regarding item 2, 18 January

1956
4. Photographic copy of a letter of John Wesley to anon., 7 July 1789
5. Miscellaneous 20th century notes re Susanna Wesley
6. Class ticket of Mary Emett, December 1782
7. Cutting from the Methodist Recorder re John Wesley and women preachers,
2 July 1992
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Floyd:(WMA) (fl.1836-55) Diary etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Association# Diaries & Journals--1801-50# Diaries &

Journals--1851-99# Wesleyan Methodist Association--Assembly
Description Manuscript religious commonplace book belonging to Charles floyd, member of

the Wesleyan Methodist Asssociation, living in London, and son of Charles
Floyd, pottery manufacturer of Burton-on-Trent (1780-1837). The
manuscript (280 pp) comprises diary entries with references to WMA
meetings, medical recipes, sermon notes and a newspaper cutting re to John
Wesley, plus an admission ticket for Floyd to the WMA assembly, 1844. The
book covers the period 2 Sept 1836-1st Sept 1855.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Bedford:(WM) (1810-79) Letters and news cuttings
Keywords
Description News cuttings relating to John Bedford (President of Conference 1867)

together with letters to Bedford, mainly from correspondents in the North of England.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Tunstall:(PM) District Missionary Committee
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--District papers# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign missions
Description Tunstall Primitive Methodist District Missionary Committee Book.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Colleges/Schools:Photographs from several instututions
Keywords Colleges--Handsworth# Colleges--Headingley# Colleges--Didsbury# Schools--

Kingswood
Description Miscellaneous photos of groups at Kingswood, Didsbury College, Headingly

College, etc., mainly 1930s. Part of collection of late Rev. Dr C.L. Mitton of
Handsworth College.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Keeling family:(WM) Papers
Quantity of Material 0.5 linear metres
Keywords
Description Letters and associated papers relating to the Keeling family.
Notes Procured through the agency of the Wesley Historical Society
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Family)
"Manuscript Family".
The first hymn in the volume is "A morning hymn", the first line of which is
"Jesu, Thy light again we view".
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Charles Wesley notebooks box 2
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Shorthand)
Description Hymnbook containing hymns and other documents written in shorthand in the
hand of Charles Wesley and labelled "Manuscript Shorthand".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Fish)
"Manuscript Fish".
The first hymn in the volume is "Psalm II", the first line of which is
"On the Lord, my soul is stayed".
Notes Bears a bookplate of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Former

reference C38.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms shorthand
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook containing shorthand copies of letters (and possibly

other documents) in Charles Wesley’s hand, many of which are undated, but
others are dated between 1716 and 1745.
The notebook needs more detailed examination to ascertain how many of

these are Charles Wesley letters and what documents are by other people but
have been transcribed by Wesley.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms shorthand
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook entitled "Ground Rents, Accounts, Franks etc Rev[erend]
C[harles] Wesley". The notebook has had most of the pages ripped out in the
past, so that only the boards remain on which are noted shorthand copies of
letters in Charles Wesley’s hand, which appear to be dated 1748/49.
The notebook needs more detailed examination in order to decipher the

shorthand.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Six)
"Manuscript Six". Most of the pages have been ripped out in the past, leaving
several pages of text, including shorthand.
The contents page lists the first hymn (no longer present in the volume) as
"Hymns for a backslider". The first page that survives is page 21 which
contains parts of the hymn titled ""Ah whither, or to whom" the first line of
the third stanza of which is "Tis there my soul shall rest".
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Copy hymn - The American War etc
Description Facsimile of a manuscript poem by Charles Wesley entitled "The American

War under the conduct of Sir W. H." The first line reads "The Americans we all
allow".
Notes Taken from an original formerly at Richmond College
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 516.36
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Xerox family letters
Keywords
Description Paper bound volume containing xerox copies of the following manuscript
letters deposited at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York:
- Charles Wesley junior to Sarah Wesley junior, 23 March no year
- Charles Wesley junior to Thomas Jackson, 6 November 1814
- Charles Wesley to Robert Windsor, 17 April 1785
- Charles Wesley to William Russell, undated
- Charles Wesley to William Russell, September no year.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) News cutting re his hymns
Description News cutting from "The Observer Review" containing an article by Herbert W.
White entitled "A little help from his friend for Wesley" on the subject of the
hymn "Hark how all the welkin rings" and including a colour photograph of the
famous carol.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms John)
"Manuscript John".
The first hymn in the volume is "John I", the first line of which is
"In the beginning was the word, & the word".
Notes Formerly in the Conference Office Library. Former reference C20
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Mark)
"Manuscript Mark".
The first hymn in the volume is "S[t] Mark I", the first line of which is
"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus".
Notes Formerly in the Conference Office Library. Former reference C18
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Luke)
"Manuscript Luke".
The first hymn in the volume is "S[t] Luke I", the first line of which is
"They were both righteous before God".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Scriptural hymns)
"Manuscript Scriptural Hymns".
The first hymn in the volume is "Genesis", the first line of which is
"A thousand secret checks within".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Matthew)
"Manuscript Matthew".
The first hymn in the volume is "S[t] Matthew I", the first line of which is
"The book (let all bow down and read".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Death)
"Manuscript Death".
The first hymn in the volume is "Hymn XLI", the first line of which is
"Justly then mightst in helpless age".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) 19th cent. copy hymns (Ms Matthew)
Description Hymnbook containing 19th century copy hymns labelled "Manuscript

Matthew".
The first hymn in the volume is "S[t] Matthew I", the first line of which is
"The book (let all bow down and read".
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) 19th cent. copy hymns (Miscellaneous)
Description Hymnbook containing 19th century copy hymns labelled "Extracts from
Unpublished Poems by the Reverend Charles Wesley (the eminent Methodist)
copied from manuscripts perused by a Wesleyan minister".
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Printed Hymns on the Trinity (1767)
Description Published copy of "Hymns on the Trinity" by Charles Wesley (Bristol: William
Pine, 1767). Annotated inside the back cover - ‘EM’.
Notes Very poor condition. Presented to the Museum of Methodist Antiquities in the
early 20th century.
Access Restrictions
Title Edward Young:(1683-1765) Night Thoughts (1743) - annotated
Description Published copy of "The Complaint: or night-thoughts on life, death and

immortality" (Nights 1 to 9 with separate dedications to public figures at the
head of each ‘Night’) by Edward Young (London, 1743).
Annotated inside the front cover by Charles Wesley - ‘Sally Hardwick’s The
gift of her Father’. Also inside the front cover, are 19th century annotations by
J. G. Wright regarding the Hardwick family and their connection with Charles Wesley.
Notes The bookplate of Philip Hardwick (d.1871) is inside the front cover; he was the
grandson of Thomas and Sarah Hardwick. No reported copy of this edition in ESTC.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Blue folder 1)
Description Contents of a blue folder labelled "Charles Wesley’s Poems and Sermons I" and
containing the following sub-sections (note the contents of the folder have
been removed and placed into acid-free envelopes):
1977/583/1
Paper bound notebook containing manuscript hymns by Charles Wesley
entitled "American War R. D." The first hymn has the title "The American
War under the conduct of Sir W. H." The first line reads "The Americans we all
allow"
(former reference A)
1977/583/2
Loose sheets (paginated 1-5) containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley
entitled "The testimony of the American Royalists 1783". The first line of
the first stanza reads "Outcasts of men, by all forsook"c(former reference B)
1977/583/3
entitled "On a declaration of Lord C- that the conquest of America by fire and
sword is not to be accomplished." The first line of the first stanza reads "True
is the patriotic word" (former reference C)
1977/583/4
Paper bound notebook containing manuscript hymns by Charles Wesley on the
occasion of his courtship of Sarah Gwynne junior. The first hymn has the the
first line "All good, all-wise, almightly Lord" (also known as manuscript
Courtship)
(former reference D)
1977/583/5
Paper bound notebook containing manuscript hymns by Charles Wesley and in
the hand of his wife Sally entitled "Hymns by C. Wesley, copied by Mrs
Wesley."The first hymn has the title "A hymn for a woman drawing near the
time of her travail." The first line reads "Full of trembling expectation"
(former reference F)
1977/583/6
Loose sheets (paginated 5-17) containing manuscript hymns by Charles Wesley
entitled "Written in Handel’s Lessons." The first line of the first stanza reads
"Here all the mystic powers of sound" (former reference G)
1977/583/7
entitled "Malefactors" The title of the first hymn is "First - Hymn for a
condemned malefactor", the first line of the first stanza reads "Suffered a few
hours to live" (former reference H)
1977/583/8
entitled "Hymns to preachers extraordinary" The first line of the first stanza
reads "Arise, thou jealous God, Arise" (former reference I)
1977/583/9
Loose sheets (paginated 1-11) containing a manuscript hymn by Charles
Wesley entitled "Hymn to the Rev[eren]d -" The first line of the first stanza
reads "Your little [unreadable word], and sage advice" (former reference J)
1977/583/10
entitled "Hymns for the Methodist Preachers" The first line of the first stanza
reads "Grant God, who never dost pass by" (former reference K)
1977/583/11
entitled "Hymns for the Preachers" The first line of the first stanza reads "O
thou, who didst out of this dust".
1977/583/12
Bound notebook (paginated 3-21) containing manuscript hymns by Charles
Wesley and labelled as follows on the front cover: "By the Rev[eren]d
C[harles] Wesley - Verses on his son Samuel on being made acquainted he had
embraced the Roman Catholic religion." The first line of the first stanza reads
"To save his wondering soul from sin" (former reference L)
1977/583/13
Loose sheet containing manuscript hymns in the hand of Charles Wesley. The
first is entitled "I. Written in 1782 by an American in New York, 1782". The
first line of the first stanza reads "And is our final doom decried?" (former
reference N)
1977/583/14
Loose sheets containing manuscript hymns by Charles Wesley on the War of
American Independence (paginated 6-23). The first has the title "On a late
vote February 22 1782". The first line of the first stanza reads "How furiously
now do the patriots strive" (former reference O)
1977/583/15
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "On the death
of Mr [Ebenezer] Blackwell, Sunday April 21 1782". The first line of the first
stanza reads "Happy the follower of his Lord" (former reference I P i)
1977/583/16
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "On the death
of Prudence Box, January 9 1777". The first line of the first stanza reads "He’s
come! - to set the prisoner free" (former reference I P ii)
1977/583/17
Loose sheets containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "On the death
of Mrs Hannah Dewal". The first line of the first stanza reads "Farewell, thou
best of friends, farewell" (former reference I P iii)
1977/583/18
Loose sheets containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "On the death
of Colonel Gallatin". The first line of the first stanza reads "In the mansions of
the blest" (former reference I P iv)
1977/583/19
Wesley "On the death of Mrs Mary Horton, May 2 1785 aged 34 years, a
month & 11 days"". The first line of the first stanza reads "It is the Lord
whose will is done" (former reference I P v)
1977/583/20
Wesley "On the death of John Mathews"". The first line of the first stanza
reads "Blessing & thanks & power & praise" (former reference I P vi)
977/583/21
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "To Miss
Ludlow". The first line of the first stanza reads "Ah! What shall I say" (former
reference I P vii)
1977/583/22
"On the death of Dr Middleton December 16 1760". The first line of the first
stanza reads "Glory to the Redeemer give" (former reference I P viii)
1977/583/23
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "For the mother
of a young man in the smallpox". The first line of the first stanza reads "Jesus,
regard a mother’s sighs" (former reference I P ix)
1977/583/24
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "For Miss B.".
The first line of the first stanza reads "Lord, in whom I fain would trust"
(former reference I P x)
1977/583/25
"The prayer of one seeking the truth". The first line of the first stanza reads
"O thou that dost in darkness shine" (former reference I P xi)
1977/583/26
"Written on Miss Nelly Durbin July 1786 when forming an attachment
contrary to her father’s wish". The first line of the first stanza reads "Jesus, we
thy promise claim" (former reference I P xii)
1977/583/27
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "Party loyalty
written in the year 1780". The first line of the first stanza reads "The First and
Second George were wise" (former reference I P xiii)
1977/583/28
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley on the funeral
of Mrs Butts (no formal title). The first line of the first stanza reads "Most
gentle of all the soft kind" (former reference I P xiv)
1977/583/29
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "At sending a
son to school". The first line of the first stanza reads "Jesus to thee my child I
bring" (former reference I P xv)
1977/583/30
Two loose sheets containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "Hymns on
the translation of Mrs E[lizabeth] Blackwell March 27 1772". The first line of
the first stanza reads "God of all power, and truth, and love" (former reference
I (g) xxix)
1977/583/30a
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley - the first line of
the first stanza reads "Why do the lawless great conspire"
1977/583/31
Loose sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley "Written August
1 1779". The first line of the first stanza reads "God of all grace and patience
hear" (former reference s t)
1977/583/32
Bundle of loose sheets containing the following manuscript Charles Wesley
poems:
- On the Death of W. Hitchens (2 pp)
- On Dan 9:9
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Hunmanby Hall School:(WM) Archives
Keywords Schools--Hunmanby Hall
Description The Records of Hunmanby Hall School, 1928 1992
DDHS/1/ . RECORDS CONCERNING PUPILS
DDHS/1/1 Personal Files (the dates signify dates of leaving the

school)
A O 1975 1980 D G 1987 1990

Shelf 315 (d) Shelf 355 (b)
Q R 1977 1984 H M 1987 1990

Shelf 315 (d) Shelf 356 (d)
I P 1980 1984 N S 1987 1990

Shelf 315 (d) Shelf 355 (a)
S T 1980 1984 T Z 1987 1990

Shelf 315 (d) Shelf 355 (a)
A C 1987 1990
Shelf 315 (a)
DDHS/1/2 5 The School Council
1/2 Minute book

Oct.1947 Dec.1959
1/3 Minutes (draft?) and notes on procedures

Mar.1947 Feb.1950
1/4 Minutes
Oct.1975 May.1980
1/5 Minutes
Sept.1980 Jun.1991
1/6 Folder containing records of examination entries and results

1942 1979
1/7 9 Folders containing information on scholarships, careers,
and progression to higher education
n.d
1/10 Folder containing letters from Molly _ , to Revd and Mrs

Saunders in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
1936 1938
1/11 Folder of general information on the house system

n.d
1/12 Folder of examination forms and results relating to

Methodist boarding schools.
1931 c1966
1/13 14 Scrap books containing material gathered by pupils on

current affairs in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslavakia, with
particular emphasis on foreign affairs and the rise of fascism.
c1938
1/15 16 Calendars illustrated by the pupils.

1987 1989
DDHS/2/ RECORDS CONCERNING STAFF
2/1 Three boxes of correspondence concerning the appointment of

members of teaching and domestic staff, including copies of
testimonials
1927 1957
2/2 Folder containing staff CVs

c1940 c1960
2/2A Box of personal files

c1970 c1990
DDHS/2/3 2/6 Records concerning retirement of members of staff
2/3 Book containing goodwill messages from head girls 1928 1955,
to Miss Hargreaves
1955
2/4 Exercise book containing notes on the arrangements for the

presentation of Miss Hargreaves’s retirement gift
1955
2/5 Illuminated programme of the presentation of Miss

Hargreaves’s retirement gift
1955
2/6 Folder of papers concerning the retirement of Miss Bray

1979
DDHS/3/
FINANCIAL RECORDS
3/1 Financial statements

1929 1955
3/2 Cash book containing details of gifts of money to the school.

Oct.1935 1968
3/3 Bundle of miscellaneous receipts

1951 1958
3/4 9 Bursar’s petty cash account books.

Apr.1956 Apr.1964
3/10 School cash book, containing details of the bursar’s, and

headmistress’s accounts, and the secretary’s petty cash account.
Apr.1954 Mar.1955
3/11 19 Bursar’s bank account books (also containing details of

the headmistress’s account).
Apr.1955 Mar.1964
3/20 21 Staff salaries books.

Apr.1954 c1960
3/22 Staff salaries book.

Apr.1967 Mar.1973
3/23 26 Copy pay sheet account books.

Apr.1958 Oct.1964
3/27 Folder of income and expenditure accounts and projections.

1988 1990
3/28 List of subsribers to the Frances Hargreaves Chapel fund.

1955
3/29 Box of correspondence and other papers re the Hunmanby Hall

appeal.
1970
3/30 Folder of papers re the Golden Jubilee and its associated

appeal, including minutes and details of grant making bodies.
1978
DDHS/4/
PHOTOGRAPHS
DDHS/4/1 12
Group portraits of staff and pupils
4/1 n.d (c1945) 4/7 1973

4/2 n.d (c1950) 4/8 n.d (c1975)
4/3 1955 4/8A 1976
4/9 1978
4/4 n.d (c1958) 4/10 1984
4/4a 1960 4/11 1987
4/5 1965 4/12 1990
4/6 1971
Loc;Photograph box 1, except 4/4a and 4/10 4/12, which are loose
on top of the box
DDHS/4/ Three boxes of loose photographs and scrap books covering

every aspect of school life, and arranged into bundles according
to activity eg sport, school buildings, speech days etc
1928 1990
DDHS/4/ Framed and outsize photographs.
DDHS/4/ Presentation of a gift to Admiral Mitford by his tenents

(2 copies).
26 Jan 1867.
Photograph box 2
DDHS/4/ Miss Darby, Mr Bennet, and Miss Lucy Owslem.

n.d
Photograph box 2
DDHS/4/ School pageant.

n.d
Photograph box 2
DDHS/4/ Aerial photograph of the school.

n.d
Photograph box 2
DDHS/4/ The bazaar.

1933
Photograph box 2
DDHS/4/ School group of staff and pupils.

1928 1929.
Photograph box 2
DDHS/5
MAGAZINES
The Crestbearer and its successor publication the Flamebearer,
and the Javelin (the magazine of the Old Girls’ Association)
1928 1990
DDHS/6
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
6/1 Headmistress’s reports.

1955 1970,1977 1978
6/2 6 Minutes and associated papers.

1979 1991
DDHS/7
CLASS REGISTERS
7/1 3 Three boxes of class registers.

1982 1991
DDHS/8
NEWS CUTTINGS
8/1 7 Scrap books

c1928 1991
DDHS/9
ARCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DRAWINGS
9/1 2 Proposed completion of the west wing and science block.

1930
9/3 East elevation showing the library etc.

1930
9/4 5 Proposed elevation to the north wing.

1964
9/6 Sixth form development.

n.d
9/7 Plans of the ground, first and second floors.

1956
9/8 Architect’s drawing of the south wing.

n.d
DDHS/10
OPEN AND SPEECH DAYS

10/1 File re the open day.
Nov.1988
10/2 File re the open day.

1988 1990
10/3 4 Files re the open day.

1973 1991
10/5 File re the speech day.

1961 1990
DDHS/11
HUNMANBY METHODIST CHURCH
11/1 2 File of papers re the appeal for funds.

1955,1957
11/3 File of plans for the furnishings and architect’s estimates.

1956 1957
11/4 Brochure outlining the plans for the new Hunmanby Methodist
Church and Sunday School.
c1955
DDHS/12
OLD GIRLS ASSOCIATION
12/1 Constitution.
1960
12/2 Members names and addresses.

Oct.1973
12/3 Cook book.

Apr.1974
DDHS/13
OUTSIDE EDUCATION BODIES
Box of minutes and associated papers of the Methodist Board of

Education, Association of Independent and Direct Grant Schools,
Association of Headmistresses of Boarding Schools, and the
Association of Headmistresses.
1949 1960
DDHS/14
PRINTED MATERIEL
14/1 9 The school prospectus.
c1948 1989
14/10 Introduction to the Methodist Church and its Boarding

Schools.
1986
14/11 Sixth form prospectus

n.d
14/12 13 The Story of Hunmanby (2 copies).

1975
14/14 Leaflet publicising the Historical Commemorative

Exhibition.
Jun.1978
14/15 Golden Jubilee booklet

1978
DDHS/15
MISCELLANEOUS
15/1 Text of the housewarming inaugeration

24 Nov.1928
15/2 Vistors book

1928 c1990
Notes
Reference Code MAR 228E.7
Title Temperance:(WM) Lumbutts (Todmorden) Band of Hope
Keywords Band of Hope# Temperance and religion--Great Britain# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Temperance
Description Minute book of the Lumbutts (near Todmorden, West Yorkshire) Band of Hope.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAR228E.1-4
Title Colleges:(MCGB) Richmond,Old Students Association
Description Papers of Richmond College Old Students’ Association, including circular

letters, membership lists, Newsletters, Minutes of the Association and papers
re the Annual Meetings/Re-unions.
Notes Deposited through William Leary and the Property Division in Oldham
Street, Manchester
Reference Code N/A
Title Conference:(WM) Photograph of delegates

Church--Photographs--Clergy
Description Black and white group photograph taken at the Wesleyan Conference.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAR 228.E9-10
Title Hull:(PM) Circuit accounts and papers of Quarterly meeting
Description Account books of the Hull Primitive Methodist Circuit 1819-1837. Also
includes the minutes of the Quarterly meeting 1819-1820 (2 volumes).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Illustrations:(WM) New chapels
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Photographs# Photographs--Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Chapels
Description 1. Manuscript list of illustrations of Wesleyan Methodist "new chapels", with

page references to an unspecified publication, which is not the Methodist
Magazine, 1857-1941
2. Bundle of Wesleyan chapel photographs, early 20th century
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Financial Accounts:(WM) Joseph Rank Special Fund,Grants etc
Keywords Joseph Rank Special Fund
Description Notebook containing list of sponsors of the Joseph Rank Special Fund and the
Methodist projects that had received grants.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Ernest Benson Perkins:(WM) (1881-1974) Personal papers
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1900-2009# Sermons--1933-2000# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Birmingham (Mission)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Birmingham (Mission)# Epworth Old Rectory# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Nottingham (Mission)
Description Papers of Ernest Benson Perkins (1881-1974), President of Conference in

1948.
Box 1
1/1 Folder labelled “Central Hall” and containing notes on a number of

subjects, including several essays on theological matters c.1908-c.1923
1/2 Folder labelled “Methodist Preaching Houses and the Law” and
containing the following:
- Conveyance of Epworth Rectory by the Bishop of Lincoln to Revd. William
Russell Shearer etc 31 December 1954
- Papers relating to the management of Epworth Old Rectory by the trustees,
including agendas, reports of the Local Committee of Management,
correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous printed items such as the service
sheet for the opening and dedication of the Rectory 1958-1971
1/3 Diary/memoranda book, containing details of appointments and daily

activities etc 1961-1964
1/4 Sermon register containing details of leadership of services and texts

preached during Perkins’ time in the Wakefield circuit, 1913-1917
1/5 Notebook containing notes on scripture (possibly sermon notes) c.1960
1/6 Photograph album presented to Benson Perkins on the occasion of his

presidential visit to Machynlleth, 1949
1/7 Folder of miscellaneous official papers, including an invitation to the

opening of Asbury cottage, celebration booklet for the 200th anniversary of
Newbiggin Chapel and an invitation to the annual award banquet held by the
trustees of St George’s Church in Philadelphia etc, 1959-1964
1/8 Typescript address “What are we to do about Gambling?” c.1937
1/9 Typescript report of the visit of British clergy to Germany as guests of

the German National Council of the World Alliance, August 1929
1/10 Sermon register containing texts preached during Perkins’ time at the
Birmingham Central Mission and subsequent visits to the Birmingham district,
1925-1967
1/11 File containing typescript addresses/articles delivered by Perkins on a
range of subjects including temperance, laughing and crying, world Methodism
etc, c.1955-c.1965
1/12 File containing text of a “broadcast sermon” by Perkins, together with

miscellaneous notes, n.d.
1/13 Bundle of miscellaneous notes, n.d.
Box 2
2/1 Diary/memoranda book covering visits to Europe, 1947-1960
2/2 Diary/memoranda book covering visits to the USA and Canada, 1947-
1961
2/3 Memoranda book containing notes on diverse subjects and material

relating to foreign visits c.1948-c.1960
2/4 Diary/memoranda book covering foreign visits made prior to 1947
Nottingham Central Mission and at the Temperance and Social Welfare
Department, 1916-1925
Jersey circuit (English) and Handsworth College, 1903-1907
2/7 Memoranda book containing notes on diverse biblical, social and literary
themes, c.1930
Box 3
3/1 File containing cuttings from newspapers and some official letters
relating to temperance, 1917-1918
3/2 File containing a typescript article on “Christian Principles involved in

Gambling”, January 1940
3/3 File containing typescript lectures on Methodism and ecumenism, ethics,

unity and theology, n.d.
3/4 File containing papers relating to hymns, including notes for the Wesley
Hymn Festival and lectures on “The Music of our Faith” and “The Abiding
Value of the Wesley Hymns”, c.1950
3/5 File of papers relating to Epworth Old Rectory, including minutes and
associated papers of the Local Management Committee and documents relating
to the trustees, 1966-1973
3/6 File of miscellaneous papers, including items relating to temperance and

lecture notes, n.d.
Box 4
4/1 Published handbook on Ghana, 1957
4/2 Bundle of miscellaneous notes, n.d.
4/3 File containing press reviews of Perkins’ published works and associated
correspondence, 1954-1967
4/4 File containing papers relating to Wesley Seminary in Washington,

including correspondence and printed material, c.1959-c.1968
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code M9640-4
Title Mutual Aid Homes (MAH):(MCGB) Official papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers# Local Preachers# Local

Preachers’ Mutual Aid Association# Mutual Aid Homes
Description
Mutual Aid Homes was established as part of the Local Preachers Mutual Aid
Association to provide residential care places for elderly Methodist and
Wesleyan Reform Union local preachers and their dependents.
Box 1
9640 Minutes of the General Meeting of the Mutual Aid Homes, 15 October
1966 - 2 June 1973
9641 Minutes of the Management Committee and Policy Committee of the

MAH, 13 June 1973 - 14 April 1984
Box 2
9642 MAH accounts, containing details of receipts from members, 1979-

1980
9643-44 Volume containing legacies to the MAH, 1935-1981

Notes
Title 1988 Celebration Steering Committee:(MCGB) Minutes etc

Committee# Conversion--Church of England# Conversion--Methodism
Description 250th Aldersgate commemorations: British 1988 Steering committee papers,

including correspondence and minutes.
Notes
Reference Code N/A
Title Miscellaneous Scripture notes:20th cent.
Description Bundle of miscellaneous 20th century bible notes.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Somerset:Local Methodist printed material
Date of Material
Keywords
Description Collection of news cuttings and printed material, including chapel

histories, relating to Methodism in Somerset
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Wesley letters
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to John Valton
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to John Valton.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code DDWes 3
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letters to Charles Wesley
Keywords
Description Manuscript letters from John Wesley to his brother Charles Wesley as follows:
DDWes 3/1
7 July 1738
DDWes 3/2
25 June 1739
DDWes 3/3
21 September 1739
DDWes 3/4
21 April 1741
DDWes 3/5
17 May 1742
DDWes 3/6
23 April 1745
DDWes 3/7
22 September 1745
DDWes 3/8
20 June 1755
DDWes 3/9
23 June 1755
DDWes 3/10
28 June 1755
DDWes 3/11
16 July 1755
DDWes 3/12
23 June 1760
DDWes 3/13
21 September 1760
DDWes 3/14
28 September 1760
DDWes 3/15
8 September 1761
DDWes 3/16
26 December 1761
DDWes 3/17
5 January 1762
DDWes 3/18
11 December 1762
DDWes 3/19
23 December 1762
DDWes 3/20
8 February 1763
DDWes 3/21
26 February 1763
DDWes 3/22
6 March 1763
DDWes 3/23
1 March 1764
DDWes 3/24
25 May 1764
DDWes 3/25
To the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol, 20 December 1764 (copy? sent to
Charles Wesley)
DDWes 3/26
31 December 1764
DDWes 3/27
28 February 1766
DDWes 3/28
27 June 1766
DDWes 3/29
9 July 1766
DDWes 3/30
27 January 1767
DDWes 3/31
12 February 1767
DDWes 3/32
21 June 1767
DDWes 3/33
15 January 1768
DDWes 3/34
14 May 1768
DDWes 3/35
14 June 1768
DDWes 3/36
17 December 1768
DDWes 3/37
3 August 1771
DDWes 3/38
25 March 1772
DDWes 3/39
26 April 1772
DDWes 3/40
10 July 1772
DDWes 3/41
4 November 1772
DDWes 3/42
6 May 1774
DDWes 3/43
2 June 1775
DDWes 3/44
31 July 1775
DDWes 3/45
4 August 1775
DDWes 3/46
10 August 1775
DDWes 3/47
19 October 1775
DDWes 3/48
Gap in the sequence
DDWes 3/49
28 October 1775
DDWes 3/50
3 November 1775
DDWes 3/51
8 June 1780
DDWes 3/52
28 May 1782
DDWes 3/53
25 April 1783
DDWes 3/54
2 May 1783
DDWes 3/55
11 April 1785
DDWes 3/56
12 May 1785
DDWes 3/57
2 June 1785
DDWes 3/58
19 June 1785
DDWes 3/59
23 June 1785
DDWes 3/60
13 September 1785
DDWes 3/61
Notes
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Reference Code Wesley collection (DDWes 5)
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letters to various correspondents
Keywords
Description Bound folio of manuscript letters from John Wesley to the following
correspondents:
DDWes 5/1
Martha Hall, 15 September 1756
DDWes 5/2
Martha Hall, 14 June 1761
DDWes 5/3
Martha Hall, 6 October 1768
DDWes 5/4
DDWes 5/5
Martha Hall, 15 May 1779
DDWes 5/6
Sarah Wesley Junior, 15 November 1780
DDWes 5/7
Sarah Wesley Junior, 31 March 1781
DDWes 5/8
Sarah Wesley Junior, 12 April 1781
DDWes 5/9
DDWes 5/10
Sarah Wesley Junior, 17 July 1781
DDWes 5/11
Sarah Wesley Junior, 4 August 1781
DDWes 5/12
Charles Wesley Junior, 4 August 1781
DDWes 5/13
Sarah Wesley Junior, 8 September 1781
DDWes 5/14
Martha Hall, 15 September 1781
DDWes 5/15
DDWes 5/16
Sarah Wesley Junior, 7 March 1788
DDWes 5/17
Charles Wesley Junior, 16 March 1788
DDWes 5/18
Samuel Wesley, 18 March 1788
DDWes 5/19
Sarah Wesley Senior, 4 April 1788
DDWes 5/20
Sarah Wesley Senior, 21 April 1788
DDWes 5/21
Sarah Wesley Junior, 29 May 1788
DDWes 5/22
DDWes 5/23
DDWes 5/24
Sarah Wesley Senior, 21 December 1788
DDWes 5/25
Sarah Wesley Junior, 28 April 1790
DDWes 5/26
Sarah Wesley Junior, 18 August 1790
DDWes 5/27
Martha Hall, 24 June [no year]
DDWes 5/28
Martha Hall, 9 May 1755
DDWes 5/29
Samuel Furly, 4 December 1756
DDWes 5/30
John Mason, 6 August 1768
DDWes 5/31
Stewards of the Foundery, 6 August 1768
DDWes 5/32
John Mason, 15 November 1768
DDWes 5/33
John Mason, 26 January 1772
DDWes 5/34
Mr Lock, 28 May 1773
DDWes 5/35
John Mason, 10 January 1774
DDWes 5/36
Alexander Hume, 22 September 1775
DDWes 5/37
John Mason, 21 November 1776
DDWes 5/38
[John Mason or Thomas Carlill], November 1779
DDWes 5/39
Abraham Brames, 12 December 1779
DDWes 5/40
Benjamin Chappel, 27 November 1783
DDWes 5/41
John Valton, 13 September 1783
DDWes 5/42
Henry Moore, 12 May 1788
DDWes 5/43
Thomas Coke, 16 May 1788
DDWes 5/44
George Flamanck, 7 June 1789
DDWes 5/45
Richard Bunt, 21 July 1789
DDWes 5/46
Elizabeth Baker, 29 October 1789
DDWes 5/47
Jane Cock, 6 June 1790
DDWes 5/48
Joshua Keighley, 20 May 1787 (with a letter concerning provenance from
John Keighley to Reverend C. H. Kelley, 7 February 1897)
DDWes 5/49
Mary Bosanquet, 16 August 1767
DDWes 5/50
Mary Bosanquet, 11 December 1768
DDWes 5/51
DDWes 5/52
Mary Bosanquet, 15 January 1770
DDWes 5/53
Mary Bosanquet, 26 March 1770
DDWes 5/54
Mary Bosanquet, 4 March 1772
DDWes 5/55
Mary Bosanquet, 17 July 1773
DDWes 5/56
Mary Bosanquet, 17 November 1773
DDWes 5/57
Mary Bosanquet, 29 May 1775
DDWes 5/58
Mary Bosanquet, 9 February 1774
DDWes 5/59
Mary Bosanquet, 23 February 1778
DDWes 5/60
Mary Bosanquet, 5 August 1780
DDWes 5/61
DDWes 5/62
John Fletcher, 24 November 1783
DDWes 5/63
Mary Fletcher, 15 September 1785
DDWes 5/64
Mary Fletcher, 22 October 1785
DDWes 5/65
Mary Fletcher, 13 January 1786
DDWes 5/66
Mary Fletcher, 9 December 1786
Notes
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Title Methodist Medical and Dental Fellowship:Papers
Keywords Methodist Medical & Dental Fellowship
Description
Correspondence, financial papers and newsletters of the Methodist Medical and
Dental Fellowship.
Notes
Title Isaac Bradnock:(WM) (1774-1833) Diary (West Indies)
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1801-50# Methodism (West Indies)# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Foreign Missions--West Indies
Description Manuscript diary of the preacher and missionary Isaac Bradnock (1774-1833).
Incomplete document that appears to cover the dates October 1801 to March
1808 and May 1809 to June 1810. The volume covers much of
Bradnock’s ministry in the West Indies.
Notes
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Title Albert Collins and Donald Soper:(MCGB) Personal papers
Keywords
Description Correspondence and photographs relating to Methodist ministers, Revd Albert

Collins and Revd Donald Soper, 1949-93.
Notes
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Copy family letters
Keywords
Description Photocopies of four letters, two from Charles Wesley senior (1707-88) to his
wife Sarah, and two from Charles Wesley junior (1757-1834).
Notes
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Title Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge:(MCGB) (1913-2003) Personal papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Scholarship
Description Fragments from papers of Oliver Beckerlegge, prominent 20th Methodist

minister and scholar.
Notes
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Title Thomas Lord:(MCGB) Mount Pleasant booklets
Keywords
Description Collection of ‘Mount Pleasant’ illustrated booklets, designed by the late

Thomas Lord, of Rossendale Methodist church, 1940s (mainly wartime).
Notes
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Title John Hawkins:(f.1782) Copy letters to William Langshawe
Keywords
Description Photocopies of two letters, John Hawkins to William Langshawe.
Notes
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Title Fox Family:(WM) Scrapbook
Keywords
Description An album listing preachers, sermon texts and collections, with crayon
illustrations, probably compiled by Thomas Fox, brother of Jackson Wilmot
Fox of Kingston Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Notes
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Reference Code UMCSB
Title Superannuation and Beneficent Society:(UM) Papers
Date of Material 19th cent-1986
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Superannuation & Beneficent

Society# United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Supernumary
Description
Administrative papers of the United Methodist Church Superannuation and
Beneficent Society, 19th cent. - 1986
Box 1
1. Large –scale map of Methodist Churches and sites in the Greater London
area (compiled from information provided by ministers of the London circuits)
1955
2. Photograph of Southfields Central Hall, London, pasted onto a greetings

card signed by members of the congregation and sent to Cyril and Irene
Wainwright in appreciation of their years of ministry at Southfields, 1986. The
folder also contains a photograph of the opening ceremony of a Methodist
site (Southfields?) c.1950.
3. Group photograph of students and tutors outside of an unnamed Methodist

college building c.1920
4. Manuscript register of deeds and parcels of other papers relating to the

UMCSB and deposited in the strong room at the Sheffield branch of the
Midland bank c.1910-c.1960 (volume)
5. Minutes, financial statements and associated papers relating to the annual

meetings of the UMCSB c.1977-c.1985 (ring-binder)
6. Bundle of certificates of births, marriages and deaths arranged by the

surnames of members of the UMCSB. The certificates were necessary to prove
rights to membership privileges and relate to ministers and their wives 20th
century
Box 2
1.Manuscript register of members and wives (indexed by surname). Information

includes the names of members and their wives, dates of births, date of
marriage, years in society membership, date of superannuation and dates of
death c.1810-c.1980 (volume)
2. Duplicate of 1.
3.Petty cash book 1957-1974 (volume)
4. Cash book relating to Mrs Moore’s bequest 1933-1965 (volume)
5. Folder containing notices of marriages of members. Information includes

names of the minister and his wife with their dates of birth and marriage and
whether this was a first or subsequent marriage 20th cent.
Box 3
1. Minutes and financial statements of the Annual General meeting and

Management committee and its sub-committee 1930-1959 (volume)
2. Minutes and financial statements of the Annual General meeting and

Management committee and its sub-committee 1960-1976 (volume)
3. Record of payments made to supernumaries and widows 1945-1952

(volume)
4. Record of payments made to supernumaries and widows 1952-1961

(volume)
5. Record of allowances and quarterly payments made to supernumaries and

widows 1961-1970 (volume)
6. Record of quarterly payments made to supernumaries and widows 1970-

1980 (volume)
7. Record of quarterly payments made to supernumaries and widows 1980-

1986 (volume)
Box 4
1. Revenue account and balance sheet 1941-1950 (volume)
2. Revenue account 1950-1960 (volume)
5. Accounts of the Thornley Home of Rest in Scarborough 1941-1958,

together with the accounts of the Bennett Fund (special beneficent fund) 1941-
1961 (volume)
6. Accounts of the Thornley Home of Rest in Scarborough 1958-1986 (volume)
7. Dividend and interest account of the UMSB and the Thornley Home of
Rest in Scarborough 1953-1963 (volume)
8. Record of holiday bookings at the Thornley Home of Rest in Scarborough

1977-1983 (volume)
9. Presentation trowel used by Cyril Wainwright in laying the foundation

stone of Fleet Methodist Church in Hampshire 1971
Notes No entry found in the accession register and an assumption has been made that
the collection was deposited in 1986 or soon after, probably by Cyril
Wainwright.
Title Thomas Russell:(PM) (1806-89) Personal papers

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Personal papers of the Primitive Methodist itinerant Thomas Russell (1806-
1889).
Comprises letters written by other Primitive Methodists including Hugh Bourne

and James Bourne, circuit accounts compiled by Russell 1843-1874,
"Manuscript "Life, times and reminiscences of James Bourne" by Russell and
Russell’s Manuscript reminiscences of his ministry as a PM itinerant 1858.
Notes
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Title William Francis Lofthouse:(WM) (1871-1965) Papers
Description Papers relating to William Francis Lofthouse (1871-1965), including letters

written to Lofthouse and reminiscences of him written after his death collected
by Reverend Thackray Eddy.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 3100/3103
Title John Henry Sanders:(WM) (1871-1963) Personal papers
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Diaries and Journals--1900-2009# Sermons--

1850-99#
Sermons--1900-1932# Sermons--1933-2000# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Finance#
Description The personal papers of John Henry Sanders (1871-1963), Wesleyan minister.
Box 1
1/1 Diary, 1895-1901
1/2-8 Diaries, 1902-1908
Box 2
2/1-7 Diaries, 1909-1915
Box 3
3/1-7 Diaries, 1916-1922
Box 4
4/1-7 Diaries, 1923-1929
Box 5
5/1-5 Diaries, 1930-1934
Box 6
6/1-5 Diaries, 1935-1939
Box 7
7/1-5 Diaries, 1940-1944
Box 8
8/1-7 Diaries, 1945-1951
Box 9
9/1-5 Diaries, 1952-1956
Box 10
10/1- Diaries, 1957-1962
Box 11
11/1 Diary, 1963
11/2 Sermon register, recording texts of sermons preached and the date,
1895-1904
1904-1913
1913-1927
1927-1961
11/6 Notebook containing details of topics discussed at class meetings, with
the venue and date, 1907-1924
11/7 Notebook containing financial income, arranged by chapel and source
(eg collections), 1924-1941
Notes
Title Photographs:(WM) Miscellaneous chapels and ministers
Keywords Photographs--Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels# Photographs--Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Clergy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--
Photographs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Photographs
Description Large collection of photogaphs of Wesleyan chapels and ministers.
Notes
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Title Methodist Church Music Society:Library catalogue
Keywords Methodist Church Music Society# Music--20th century
Description Typescript catalogue of the library of the Methodist Church Music Society,
which collection is deposited at Wesley College, Bristol, 1986.
Notes
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Title Methodist oral history project:Papers
Keywords
Description 3 files of papers concening tapes connected with Methodist oral history
deposited with the National Sound Archive, 1989-89.
Notes
Reference Code
Title Newspapers:Full text
Description 8 full text 18th century newspapers containing references to the Wesleys or
early Methodism.
1. Lloyd’s Evening Chronicle and British Chronicle, 5 January 1761

2. The London Chronicle, 6 June 1769
3. The Edinburgh Advertiser, 29 December 1769
4. Bingley’s Weekly Journal or The Universal Gazette, 10 November 1770
5. The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 19 January 1786
6. The London Chronicle, 23-26 September 1786
7. The London Chronicle, 3 October 1786
8. The Morning Post, 20 Deceber 1793
Notes
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Title Nicholas Trevelyan Wills:(MCGB) (1932-97) Personal papers
Keywords
Description Papers collected by the Methodist minister Tren Wills during his circuit
ministry, including local histories, photographs, anniversary booklets, service
sheets and press cuttings.
Envelopes containing papers relating to the following chapels and circuits:
1. Ely, 1920-84
2. Melksham Forest (Calne circuit), 1938
3. Trinity and Ixworth (Bury St Edmunds circuit), 1888-1988
4. Little Cressingham (Watton circuit), Baptism certificate for Mary Ann
Crow, 1853
5. Clifton (York circuit) and Otley, 1805-1975
6. St Buryan and St Blazey Gate, Cornwall, 1747-1980
7. Gospel Ash, Womborne and Trinity (Wolverhampton circuit), 1863-1980
8. Wednesbury, 1862-1968
9. Watton (Primitive Methodist), 1812-1926
10. Portrait engraving of Reverend Robert Eaglen (b.1815)
11. Tickets of membership for the Band of Hope, Ely (Primitive and Wesleyan
Methodist), c.1910
12. Record of the ministry of the Wesleyan minister William Palmer (1757-
1819)
13. Miscellaneous circuit plans relating mainly to Watton circuit (Primitive
and Wesleyan Methodist), 1821-1933
14. Methodist postcards
15. Andover circuit, 1996
16. 19th century printed material (handed to Dr Peter Nockles for processing
as printed books, March 2006).
Notes
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Title Colleges:(MCGB) Headingley,Student autograph book
Description Headingley College (WM) students’ autograph book (some with portrait
photographs).
Notes
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Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Personal papers and books
Keywords
Description Personal papers and books owned by the Wesleyan minister Adam Clarke
(?1760-1832) and members of his family, 1698-1843.
1. "Pocket bible" (London, 1698), formerly in the possession of Adam Clarke

et al (annotated). MA 9243.
2. "Hebrew and Greek New Testament" (Amsterdam, 1717), formerly in the
possession of Adam Clarke (annotated). MA 9242.
3. "A concise view of the the succession of sacred literature" by Adam Clarke
(London, 1807), formerly in the possession of John Yeardley (annotated)
MA9240
4. "Adam Clarke portrayed" by James Everett, volume 1 (London, 1843)
5. Bundle of correspondence from members of Adam Clarke’s family, with a
portrait engraving of the Wesleyan minister Thomas Roberts aged 31, 1841-
51. MA9244
6. Bundle of letters as follows: Adam Clarke to the Wesleyan minister John
Lewis, 1825; John Barratt to Adam Clarke, 1812; Adam Clarke to his wife
Mary (2 items), 1832.
7. 6 portrait engravings of Adam Clarke, c.1830. MA9245
8. News cutting re Adam Clarke’s connection with Denham Chapel and
covering letters re the deposit of the papers, 1956
9. Letter of John Wesley to Adam Clarke, 26 March 1787 (Placed in Wesley
collection (JWL) in alphabetical surname order, MA 1977/613).
10. 3 class tickets in the name of Mary, wife of Adam Clarke, 1816-35; cutting
from the Sunday Times retrospectively reporting the death 90 years before of
Adam Clarke, 1922. MA9238
11. Letter of Adam Clarke to an unnamed correspondent, 12 July 1815
(inscribed as being presented by the Misses Bagshawe of Sheffield). MA9237
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Manuscript minutes
Date of Material 1-3 August 1745
Description Manuscript notebook containing the minutes of the Methodist Conference held
at the New Room in Bristol, 1-3 August 1745 (unknown contemporary hand).
Notes
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Reference Code Miscellaneous box 60
Title Allan Percy Plowman:(MCGB) (b.1882) Sermon register
Keywords Sermons--1933-2000# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers
Description Manuscript sermon preacher compiled by the local preacher Allan Percy
Plowman (b.1882).
Notes
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Title Foreign Missions:(WM) South Africa,Photograph of ministers
Keywords Methodism (South Africa)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--

South Africa--Photograph
Description Black and white group photograph of the Wesleyan missionaries Benjamin and
William Impey of the Armshaw and Perksdale circuit in South Africa, together
with named Black ministers/preachers.
Notes
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Title James Ingham:(PM) (b.1796) Printed biography by John Simpson
Keywords
Description "James Ingham: A biography" by John Simpson (London, 1865).
Notes
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Title Luke Hoult Wiseman:(WM) (1822-75) Letter to John Finch
Keywords
Description Letter from the Wesleyan minister Luke Holt Wiseman to John Finch.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Papers,1724-90
Keywords Holy Club# Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Conference 1742-60# Sermons--Wesley, John# Hymns# Wesleyan Methodist
Church--Dublin# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Ordination
Description Papers of John Wesley - sermons, letter-books, journals, diaries and note
books, 1724-1790
JW III.I Scripture notes compiled by John Wesley and other members of the
Holy Club during their time in Oxford, c.1730
JW III.II Letter book containing letters received by Wesley from members of

his family, 1724-1729
JW III.III Diary and various lists, March 16 1725-February 19 1727 and

accounts, 1725
JW III.IV Journal, September 8 1736-December 19 1737
JW III.V Account of the Sophia Hopkey affair, March 1736-1737
JW III.VI The following are bound together:

- Printed copy of A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (4th ed. 1748)
- Printed copy of An Extract of the Rev. John Wesley’s Journal, Sept.3 1741
to Oct. 27 1743 (1749)
- Manuscript Conference minutes, November 16 1749, May 22 1755, 12
August 1758
JW III.VII Loose drafts of letters and entries from the journal (16 pieces)
JW III.VIII Sermons, letters and notes on the Gospels, n.d.
JW III.IX Sermon register containing s of where sermons were preached by

John Wesley; miscellaneous poetry in an 18th century hand (not John Wesley)
JW III.X Diary, 1 December 1782-16 July 1790; Accounts, 7 December

1782-July 1790
JW III.XI Xerox copy of John Wesley’s last diary
JW III.XII ‘Two remarkable stories’, 1756 and 1758
JW III.XIII Extract from the Georgia diary, c.1737
JW III.XIV List of names, addresses and occupations of members of the

Dublin Methodist society, c.1770-c.1775
JW IV.I Journal, 13 September 1736-7 December 1736
JW IV.II Journal, March 1736-14 December 1737
JW IV.III Printed copy of Conference Minutes (doctrinal), 1749 (inscribed by

John Wesley and presented to John Bennett, March 1751)
JW V.I Sale catalogue of a printed collection containing copies of John

Wesley’s works and Sarah Wesley’s hymnbook, 1867
JW V.II Embroidered pocket book presented by John Wesley to Miss Mary

Trueman ‘on her approaching marriage…as a token of the giver’s affectionate
regard, John Wesley, 6 April 1788’
JW V.III Charles Wesley’s epigram; letters written by Charles Wesley to

several correspondents at the time of the American ordinations 1784-1786
JW VI.I-XI Loose John Wesley sermons as follows:

- Matthew 6.33
- Amos 3.6
- Mathew 6.10
- Isaiah 1.21
- Genesis 1.27
- II Corinthians 2.17
- Funeral sermon of John Griffiths
- II Corinthians 3.17
- Matthew 13.33
- Fragment of a treatise on dissimulation
Notes Probably originally part of the Lamplough collection
Access Restrictions
Title District:(WM) Southampton,Local preachers department
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Southampton# Wesleyan Methodist Church--District papers# Methodist
Church (Great Britain)--District papers# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Southampton# Local Preachers
Description Papers of the Connexional Local Preachers Department in its relations with
the Southampton district, 1850, 1970-1976.
LP 1 Financial papers of the Local Preachers committee of the

Southampton district, including receipts, correspondence and remittance forms
relating to district contributions to the connexional Local Preachers
department, 1971-1973







LP 9 Certificate of John Flatman’s membership of the LPMA, 1850
Notes
Title LPMA and MAH:(WM) Papers
Keywords Local Preachers’ Mutual Aid Association
Description Records of the Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association and the Mutual Aid
Homes, 1889-1985.
Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association (LPMA) (MA 1555-1570), including

the papers of the Mutual Aid Homes.
Box 1
1/1 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, May 1889 –June 1914
(MA 1557)
1/2 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, June 1915 –June 1934
(MA 1557)
1/3 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, June 1935 – June 1956
(MA 1557)
Box 2
2/1 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, June 1957 –June 1985
(MA 9789)
2/2 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, 1949; Executive

committee, 1947 - 1949; Advisory committee, 1948 and Sub-committee
officers, 1949 (MA 1557)
2/3 Minutes of the Aggregate meeting of the LPMA, 1961 (MA 1557)
Box 3
3/1 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, March 1890 – December
1898 (MA 1556)
3/2 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, January 1899 – August
1902 (MA 1556)
3/3 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, September 1902 – July
1905 (MA 1556)
3/4 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, August 1905 – May 1908
(MA 1556)
Box 4
4/1 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, June 1908 – September
1911 (MA 1556)
4/2 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, October 1911 – March
1915 (MA 1556)
4/3 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, April 1915 – May 1922
(MA 1556)
Box 5
5/1 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, June 1922 –December
1931 (MA 1556)
5/2 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, January 1932 –April
1938 (MA 1556)
5/3 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, June 1938 – March 1946
(MA 1556)
5/4 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, April 1946 – October
1951 (MA 1556)
5/5 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, December 1951 –

September 1958 (MA 1556)
5/6 Minutes of the General committee of the LPMA, December 1958 –

October 1966 (MA 1556)
5/7 Minutes of the Rules Revision committee, February 1957 – May 1962 (MA
1558)
Box 6 and 6a
6/1 Aggregate committee minutes, December 1966 – April 1981 (MA 9790)
6/2 Office Sub-committee minutes, July 1914 – June 1922 (MA 1559)
6/3/1 – 79 LPMA printed handbooks for use at the annual aggregate meetings,
containing details of special worship events, lists of officers and order of
proceedings, 1880, 1883, 1885-87, 1889, 1891-93, 1896-1911, 1913-1962
and 1964-69
Box 7
7/1/1-199 LPMA handbooks printed in connection with the visit of the

General committee of the Association to the various Methodist districts,
containing details of special worship events and order of proceedings, 1931-
1968
7/2 Printed copy of the LPMA annual report for 1960 (MA 1561)
Box 8
8/1 Minutes of the Mutual Aid Homes Executive committee, February 1948 –
September 1956 (MA 1564)
8/2 Minutes of the Mutual Aid Homes Executive committee, December 1956 –
April 1963 (MA 1564)
8/3 Minutes of the Mutual Aid Homes Executive committee, 7 June 1963 – 4
October 1975 (MA 1564)
Box 9
9/1 Minutes of the Mutual Aid Homes Management committee, 21 April 1964
- 10 May 1973 (MA 1567)
9/2 Register of members of the Mutual Aid Homes Limited, c.1945 – 1965
(MA 1565)
9/3 Minutes of the members of the Mutual Aid Homes Limited, 14 February
1948 – 14 July 1966 (MA 1566)
9/4 Register of stocks owned by the Mutual Aid Homes Limited, c.1902 –
c.1967 (MA 1568)
9/5 Register of investments owned by the Mutual Aid Homes Limited, 1935 -
1958 (MA 1568)
Box 10
10/1 Register of dividends paid to the Mutual Aid Homes Limited, 1958 - 1963
(MA 1568)
10/2 Folder of correspondence concerning Barleythorpe Hall, Oakham (a
residential home operated by the Mutual Aid Homes Limited), 1959 (MA
1569)
10/3 Minutes of the Barleythorpe Hall Executive committee, 10 July 1959 –
17 April 1962 (MA 1570)
10/4 Minutes of the Barleythorpe Hall Executive committee, 10 July 1962 –
17 November 1969 (MA 1570)
10/5 Minutes of the Office sub-committee, April 1923 – April 1960 (MA
1560)
Notes
Title LPMA:(MCGB) Committee papers
Keywords Local Preachers’ Mutual Aid Association
Description Local Preachers’ Mutual Aid Association
6/1 Aggregate committee minutes, December 1966 – April 1981 (MA 9790)
Notes
Title Schools and Colleges:(WM/MCGB) Institutional papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Schools# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Education committee# Schools# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Education#
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Schools# Methodist Church (Great Britain)-
-Education committee#
Description Institutional records of Wesleyan Methodist and Methodist schools and

colleges
Box 1
Wesleyan education committee minutes, 1838-47, 1864-66
Wesleyan education committee reports, 1845-1860, 1866, 1868, 1872-78
Box 2
Wesleyan education committee reports, 1880-89, 1891-94, 1900-12, 1916-
23, 1925-26, 1929-30
Box 3
Wesleyan education committee reports, 1930-32
Methodist education reports, 1936, 1939-58, 1960-61, 1964-65
Box 4
Methodist education committee minutes and accounts, 1944-61
Methodist secondary education trustees - securities and deeds, 1903-41
Box 5
Conference Schools Management committee minutes and accounts, 1944-61
Trinity Hall School National Insurance and Salaries book, 1961-70
Trinity Hall School transactions of governors, 1954-70
Trinity Hall School fees register, 1965-69
Trinity Hall School petty cash book, 1968-69
Box 6
Trinity Hall School minutes, accounts and correspondence, 1944-70
Box 7
Wesleyan Secondary Education register of bonds, 1926-29
Methodist Education committee register of bonds, 1933-35, 1935-47
Methodist Residential schools register of bonds and index, 1933-47
Custodian Trustees Secondary Schools bonds, 1933-37
Wesleyan Education committee alterations, 1903-04
Box 8
Laybourn working party minutes and papers, 1969-72
Box 9
Working party on schools visits insurance, 1971
Box 10
Hunmanby Hall committee minutes, 1981-91
Roehampton Institute of Higher Education - instruments of government and
general papers, 1975-81
Ashville College constitution, 1966
Kent College Canterbury cash book, 1952-78
Queen’s College Taunton ledger, 1933-48
Box 11
Wesleyan Conference minutes and miscellaneous papers, 1886
Penzance Wesleyan Girls School Association cash book and journal, 1919-39
Wesleyan Conference agenda, 1889
Box 12
West Cornwall school closure minutes, 1969
Box 13
Culford School ledger, 1935-79
Farrington’s School cash book, 1949-78
Box 14
Culford School cash book, 1935-79
Box 15
Hunmanby Hall School cash book, 1928-78
Hunmanby Hall School ledger, 1928-32
Box 16
Hunmanby Hall School ledger, 1934-40, 1950-77
Wesleyan secondary education committee minutes, 1880-91, 1898-1903
Box 17
Canterbury Kent College cash book, 1937-39, 1943-52
Canterbury Kent College (and West Cornwall School) ledger, 1921-67
Box 18
Kent College Pembury cash book, 1941-59
Queen’s College Taunton cash book, 1929-63
Box 19
Truro School cash books, 1936-69
Box 20
Methodist Education committee ledgers, 1937-62
Wesleyan Methodist Secondary Education Trustees cash book, 1929-60
Wesleyan Methodist Secondary Education Trustees ledger, 1929-60
Box 21
Wesleyan Education committee cash books, 1884-95, 1923-37
Wesleyan Education committee ledger, 1912-22
Westminster College and Southlands College Trustees books, 1921-32
Box 22
Wesleyan Education committee cash book, 1896-1911
Wesleyan Education committee ledgers, 1896-1932
Box 23
Minutes of Hunmanby Hall School, 1928-53, 1955-67, 1983-91
Minutes of Hunmanby Hall School Finance committee, 1967-70
Box 24
Wesleyan Education committee fund ledger, 1868-83
Kent College, Pembury cash book, 1959-78
Kent College, Pembury ledger, 1941-42
Methodist Education committee fund ledger, 1940-42
Box 25
Wesleyan Secondary Schools ledger, 1904
Wesleyan Secondary Schools cash book, 1904
Woodhouse Grove School ledger, 1921-40
Methodist Residential Schools journal, 1951-61
Box 26
Wesleyan Secondary Education Trustees ledger, 1923-29
Wesleyan Secondary Education Trustees cash book, 1923-29
Shebbear College Lake deeds etc notebook
Methodist Education committee Pension Fund contributions ledgers, 1954-75
Methodist Education committee ledger, 1939-51
Methodist Secondary Education Trustees debentures, 1940-45
Box 27
East Anglian School cash books, 1946-72
East Anglian School ledgers, 1944-67
Box 28
East Anglian Girls School ledger, 1935-44
East Anglian Girls School cash books, 1935-46
West Cornwall School ledger. 1952-68
Box 29
West Cornwall School cash books, 1939-69
West Cornwall School ledger, 1939-45
Box 30
West Cornwall School fees ledgers, 1939-48
Edgehill College cash book, 1950-78
Edgehill College ledger, 1950-77
Box 31
Funds ledgers, 1935-83
Miscellaneous grants ledger 1946-58
Box 32
Methodist Education committee minutes, 1932-43
Methodist Secondary Education Trustees stocks/bonds ledgers, 1931-40, 1945-
81
Methodist Secondary Education Trustees register/index ledger, 1937-40
Notes
Reference Code 9928
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to anon
Date of Material 14 June 1788
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to anonymous.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code PLP 65/9/1-24
Title Samuel Edward Keeble:(WM) (1853-1946) Papers
Keywords
Description Letters, photographs and other documents connected with Samuel Edward
Keeble (1853-1946).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA Kee
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Industrial Relations# Social justice--Great

Britain# Sigma Club
Description Papers of the Wesleyan minister Samuel Edward Keeble (1853-1946)
MA Kee 1
Notebook containing Keeble’s analysis of 4 books - History of the Canon of
the New Testament (Brook Foss Westcott), Social Statics (Herbert Spencer),
Law of the Constitution (Albert Venn Dicey) and Das Kapital (Karl Marx).
This appears to be based on study carried out between 1879 and 1889.
MA Kee 2-3
Notebooks containing extracts from books read by Keeble, c.1900
MA Kee 4/1-12
Folder of xerox copy cuttings from the Methodist Weekly, 1901-02
MA Kee 5/1-24
Folder of letters written by or to Henry Carter (1874-1951) together with
associated papers concerning the General Strike of 1926
MA Kee 6/1-18
Folder of xerox copy publications of the Sigma Club and xerox copy letters
concerning the club - written mainly to Henry Carter, 1912
MA Kee 7/1-29
Folder of xerox copy letters written to Keeble (originals are located at PLP
65.9.3), 1912-44
MA Kee 8/1-35
Handlist by Michael Edwards of letters from Keeble to Walter Tripp and xerox
copy letters from Keeble to Tripp, 1935-42
MA Kee 9/1-28
Letters from Keeble to Crofton Gane, 1936-46; letter from Jessie Keeble to
Gane, 1950
MA Kee 10/1-2
Handlist by Michael Edwards of letters from Keeble to Joyce Himsworth and
xerox copies of the said letters, 1924-46
MA Kee 11/1-4
Xerox copy letters from Keeble to Joseph Himsworth, 1945-46; Notes on
Keeble’s life by Joseph Himsworth; copy of Keeble’s obituary from the
Methodist Recorder 1946
MA Kee 12/1-4
Recollections of Keeble’s time in Maidstone by M. Wilson Horswill; Article on
Keeble by Maldwin Edwards and published in the London Quarterly and Holborn
Review, 1946; xerox copy letter from Vernon Bartlett to Mr Brazell, 1925;
Brunswick Old Scholars Association newsletter
Notes Previous reference - MAR 220
Access Restrictions
Reference Code DDCW 1/95
Title Charles Wesley (1707-88):Copy letter to Selina Hastings
Keywords
Description Typescript copy letter of Charles Wesley to the Countess of Huntingdon.
Notes Transcribed by Donald Bullen from a manuscript original held at the United
Methodist Church Archives, Drew University, NewJjersey, USA.
Access Restrictions
Title Itinerant Preachers Friendly Society:(PM) Annual reports
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly
Description Printed annual reports of the Primitive Methodist Itinerant Preachers’ Friendly
Society 1847-54, 1856-58, 1866, 1868, 1871-72, 1874-84, 1887, 1889-94.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Archive and History Committee:(MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Archives--Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Archives--Wesleyan Methodist

Church (Great Britain)# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Archives and
History Committee# Colleges--Richmond--Library# Methodist Archives and
Research Centre
Description
MA 9188 File of correspondence and associated papers re the re-housing of the
MARC, 1975
MA 9189 File of correspondence re the Richmond College Library, 1971-72
MA 9190 File of correspondence and xerox copies of 19th century

correspondence re W. G. Bishop and the Bible Society, 1973
MA 9191 File of xerox copies of 19th century correspondence
MA 9192 File of minutes, correspondence and associated papers re the

Methodist collections at Hartley Victoria College, Manchester, 1972-73
MA 9193 File of correspondence and associated papers re the loan of John

Wesley’s diaries to Richard P. Heitzenrater, 1976-81
MA 9194 Tyepescript valuation of the collections of the MARC for insurance

purposes (Christie, Manson and Woods), 1970
MA 9195 File of correspondence and associated papers re the valuation of

Methodist books, c.1971-72
MA 9196 File of correspondence and associated papers re the installation of a

commemorative plaque at Aldersgate, London, 1926-74
MA 9197 File of correspondence and associated papers re John Wesley’s

library, c.1985-c.1986
MA 9198 File of correspondence, minutes and associated papers re the

transactions of the A and H committee executive, 1975-76
MA 9199 Article by Richard Heitzenrater on "The Oxford Diaries and the First
Rise of Methodism" (published in Methodist History).
MA 9200 File of correspondence and associated papers re the Simon Harrison

printed collection (including a rough list of the collection), 1975-76
MA 9201 Box of unlabelled slides and two films - "Operation Rescue" and
"The Man for the Job"
Notes
Title John Harris:(WM) (1835-1907) Notebooks
Keywords Memoranda books--19th century# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--
Description 2 manuscript notebooks of the Wesleyan minister John Harris containing notes
from scripture and other miscellaneous jottings. Internal evidence indicates
that the notebooks were at least partially completed while Harris was stationed
in Settle.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Archive and History Committee:(MCGB) Enquiry records etc
Keywords Archives--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Archives# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Archives and History
Committee# Methodist Archives and Research Centre
Description MA 5365 Journal of enquiries consiting of reader’s name, date of visit and
research interest, January 1955 - December 1961
MA 5366 Journal of enquiries consiting of reader’s name, date of visit and

research interest, September 1967-December 1973
MA 5367 Vistor’s book, containing names of visitors to the MARC, address

and date of visit, September 1962 - July 1977
MA 5368 Register of ‘removals’ from the MARC, consisting of details of the

collection or item removed, together with the reason for the removal and the
place/institution to where it was removed, September 1976 - Jul y 1977.
Notes
Title Financial Accounts:(MCGB) Archive and History Committee
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Archives and History Committee
Description Manuscript financial accounts of the Archive and History Committee (2

volumes).
Notes Previous reference MAM P8b
Title Archive and History Committee:(MCGB) Correspondence
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Archives and History Committee
Description 34 boxes of correspondence relating to the work of the Archive & History
committee. Arranged alphabetically by surname, 1962-76
Notes
Title Thomas Cordeaux:(WM) (1762-1847) Letter to George John Stevenson
Keywords Publishing# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Book Room# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Publishing
Description Xerox copy letter of Thomas Cordeaux (fl.1844) to George John Stevenson
(1818-88) re printing of Methodist publications (Cordeaux was the book room
printer based at City Road, London, from 1810).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Strangers Friend Society:(Dublin) Printed rules
Keywords Strangers Friend Society--Dublin
Description Printed rules of the Dublin branch of the Strangers Friend Society, originally
established by Adam Clarke in 1790 (Dublin: 1903, reprinted 1933).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Mrs Allen:(WM) (fl.1899) Authorization to preach
Keywords Local Preachers# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers# Women and

religion
Description 1. Authorization by the Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers’ committee for

Mrs Allen of Gateshead on Tyne to preach, 1899.
2. Printed notice containing a devotional passage, c.1900.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Walter H. Armstrong:(WM) 1873-1949) Personal papers
Description Papers relating to the Wesleyan minister Walter H. Armstrong (1873-1949),

who served as President of Conference in 1941-42. Consists of formal
photographs, correspondence and a presentation cigarette case.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Chichester:(WM) Circuit plan and directory
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1861-1932# Circuit plans--

Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description Chichester circuit (WM): Circuit plan and directory, January - March.1901.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(PM) Agenda
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference
Description Primitive Methodist Church: Conference agenda.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Foreign Missions:(PM) West Africa report to Conference
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference# Primitive Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Foreign missions# Primitive Methodist Church (Great
Britain)--Foreign missions--West Africa# Methodism (West Africa)
Description Report to the Primitive Methodist Conference of the deputation to the West
African missions.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Frank Henry Cumbers:(WM) (1905-91) Diaries & sermon registers
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1900-2009# Sermons--1900-1932# Sermons--1933-2000
Description
Diaries: 1916, 1951-1961, 1970-1976, 1984, 1986-1987, 1989, 1991.
Sermon registers: 1926-1967.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Foreign Missions:(MCGB) West Africa report to Conference
Keywords Methodism (West Africa)
Description Printed report of the Inter-district Conference of the Methodist Church in

West Africa.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Wallasey:(MCGB) Circuit plans and miscellaneous papers

Description Wallasey circuit plans, 1979-84 and printed "The Duties of Wesleyan
Stewards" by Edward Workman (1883).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Letter to John Crook
Keywords
Description Letter of Adam Clarke (1760-1832) in Manchester to the Wesleyan minister

John Crook in Dewsbury.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to John Atlay
Date of Material 3 September 1783
Keywords
Description Letter of John Wesley to the Wesleyan preacher John Atlay.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Union:Newscuttings and miscellaneous papers
Description Scrapbook containing news cuttings, letters and official papers re Methodist
union with particular regard to opposition to the scheme.
Notes Previous reference - MAB M1936
Title Archive and History Committee: Administrative files
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Archives & History Committee# Archives--

Methodist Church (Great Britain)
Description Administrative files of the Archive and History Committee as follows:
MA 9132 - Archives Executive committee minutes and related papers, 1975-

77
MA 9133 - Archives and History Committee minutes and related papers, 1961-
80
MA 9134 - Future of Archives Centre () - correspondence, memoranda and

related papers, 1973-78
MA 9137 - Correspondence, 1962-80
MA 9138 - Archives Advisory Committee minutes and related papers,

including material relating to the closure of the Methodist Archives Centre in
London and re to Manchester c.1972-76.
Notes
Title 1988 Steering Committee:(MCGB) Aldersgate commemoration

Committee# Conversion--Methodism
Description Administrative file documenting the work of the 1988 (Aldersgate

commemoration) Steering committee, containing minutes, correspondence and
associated papers.
Notes
Title Wesley Historical Society:Centenary celebrations
Keywords Wesley Historical Society--Centenary
Description Administrative file documenting preparations for the Wesley Historical Society
centenary celebrations, including correspondence, minutes, newscuttings and
associated papers.
Notes
Title Printed (miscellaneous);Hymn sheets, booklets and magazines
Keywords Colleges--Cliff
Description Miscellaneous printed material including hymns sheets (early 20th cent.)
printed anniversary booklet from Cliff College (1951) and a copy of the
Arminian Magazine (July 1797).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title World Methodist Historic Society;Correspondence
Keywords World Methodist Historical Society
Description Correspondence file of the World Methodist Historic Society, consisting of

correspondence between the British Secretary (Dr John Vickers) and the
General Secretary (John Ness).
Notes
Title William Marshall:(1805-c.86) Typescript autobiography
Description Typescript copy of the autobiography of William Marshall (1805-c.1886),

with covering correspondence, 1981.
William Marshall (1805-c.1886) was a Devon-born sea captain engaged in the

transatlantic cargo and passenger trade. His first command was in 1830 and he
retired from the sea in 1869. Marshall was converted to Methodism in about
1831 and became very well-known for making his vessels centres of evangelism
and the holding of revivalist services wherever possible. In 1849 he was
presented with a silver goblet by the St Patrick Society of Quebec for taking his
ship into considerable danger to save the lives of 129 passengers stranded on a
ice floe east of the St Lawrence after the sinking of the emigrant ship Hannah.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MCGB) List of ministerial candidates
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Admission to the ministry
Description Typescript list of candidates for the ministry presented to Conference, includes
examination marks, occupations, lists of votes for and against acceptance and
home address.
Notes
Title Margaret Beckerlegge:(MCGB) Letters (Rhodesia)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign Missions--Rhodesia# Women &

religion# Methodism (Rhodesia)
Description Correspondence of Margaret Beckerlegge (lay missionary in Rhodesia from

1943 to c.1970).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Oliver Beckerlegge:(MCGB) (1913-2003) Letters re Dr Scott Lidgett
Keywords
Description Letters to Oliver Beckerlegge from a number of correspondents re Dr John

Scott Lidgett (1854-1953).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Oliver Beckerlegge:(MCGB) (1913-2003) Letters
Keywords
Description Correspondence to Oliver Beckerlegge (1913-2003) re the issue of ‘separated

Chairmen.’
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Westminster Laymen’s Oxford Conference:(MCGB) Programme
Keywords
Description Programme of the Westminster Laymen’s Oxford Conference.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Douglas Pursey Blatherwick:(MCGB) (1909-73) Conference address
Description Text of an address given by Douglas Pursey Blatherwick (1909-73), Vice-

President of the Methodist Conference to the Representative session of the
Conference.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Taylor:(WM) (c.1870-1956) Diary
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1851-99# Colleges--Westminster
Description Typescript copy diary of John Taylor (c.1870-1956) while a student at

Westminster College, 1895-97, edited by Mr D. W. Crompton (principal of
Westminster College, 1969-81).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Printed "24 Scenes in the Life and Death of the Wesley Family".
Keywords
Description Printed copy of "24 Scenes in the Life and Death of the Wesley Family"
c.1850, showing engravings of scenes from the lives of the Wesley family.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Edmund Sykes Lamplough:(WM) (1860-1940) Papers re bequest of

Wesleyana
Keywords
Description Letters and associated papers re the bequest of Wesleyana to the Methodist
Church made by Edmund Sykes Lamplough (1860-1940), including a list of the
collection.
Notes
Title J. Cornelius Wright:(WM) (1838-1912) Lectures
Keywords
Description Xerox copies of advertisements for lectures to be given by the Wesleyan

minister J. Cornelius Wright (1838-1912).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Vincent Van Gogh:(1853-90) Articles re his faith and Methodist links
Keywords Art--Vincent Van Gogh
Description 2 articles by the Methodist minister George Edward Lawrence (1903-84) re the
religious faith of the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) and his
Methodist connections.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Circuit Plans:(PM/MCGB) Miscellaneous circuits
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1820-1860#

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans# Methodism (Wales)# Circuit
plans--Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1820-1860# Circuit plans-
-Methodist Church (Great Britain)
Description Circuit plans: Chippenham (PM) 1839; Aldershot (PM) 1927; Brynmawr and
Tredegar 1947; Grays 1948; Menai Bridge 1961.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Davison:(PM) (1799-1884) Letter from Missionary Committee
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Missionary committee# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign missions--Canada# Methodism
(Canada)
Description Letter from the Primitive Methodist Missionary Committee to the PM

minister John Davison (1799-1884) re his willingness to go to Canada as a missionary.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Circuit plans:(WM) Miscellaneous
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Circuit plans--1861-1932# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--1820-1860# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--1861-1932
Description 10 Canterbury circuit plans (WM); 1837, 1839-40, 1842-1845

2 Ely circuit plans (WM); 1858-9
1 Bury St Edmunds circuit plan (WM), 1886
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Francis Wolf
Keywords
Description Letter of John Wesley to Francis Wolf.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Colleges:(MCGB) Hartley Victoria,Student/staff photographs
Keywords Colleges--Hartley Victoria
Description 2 photographs relating to Hartley Victoria College - one of the students’

football team and the other, a formal group photograph of the staff.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Greenhill:(WM) Church copy building committee minutes
Keywords
Description Typescript copy of the Building Committee minutes of the Greenhill

Methodist Church.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Thomas Coke:(WM) (1747-1814) Copy letter to Mr Blunt
Keywords
Description Xerox copy letter from Thomas Coke to Mr Blunt.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(CE/WM) (1757-1834) Copy letter to Mary Tooth
Keywords
Description Xerox copy letter from the musician Charles Wesley (1757-1834) to Miss Mary Tooth.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title James Wood:(WM) (1751-1840) Copy portrait engraving etc
Keywords Engravings--Clergy
Description Xerox copy portrait engraving and specimen of the handwriting of the
Wesleyan itinerant James Wood (1751-1840)
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Augustine Birrell:(fl.1926) Letter to Charles Halden(?)
Keywords
Description Letter from Augustine Birrell to Charles Holden(?) re John Wesley.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Urban Church project:(CE/MCGB) Administrative papers
Keywords Church of England--Relations--Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Ecumenism-

-20th century
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Relations--Church of England# Methodist
Church (Great Britain)--Urban Church project# Social justice--Great Britain
Description Typescript papers re the Anglican-Methodist Urban Church project.
Individual papers and reports as follows:
- Let My People Grow (Workpaper No. 1)
- Facing the Future - report submitted to Billericay Methodist Church, 1980
- Divide and Conquer (Workpaper No. 2)
- Change or Decay
- Report No. 10, 1979
- Long Range Planning and the Church
- Towards a Church Unbound - a diagnostic approach
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title James Thomas East:(WM) (1860-1937) Papers concerning life of
Keywords
Description Correspondence and news cuttings re the Wesleyan minister James Thomas
East (1860-1937), author of the hymn "Wise men seeking Jesus" (No 862
Methodist Hymn Book).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Methodist Church Music Society:Operation Goldhawk papers
Keywords Methodist Music Society# Music--20th century# Hymns--Methodist Church of

Great Britain
Description Correspondence and associated papers re Operation Goldhawk - a project of the

Methodist Music Society aimed at tape-recording material relating to the
Methodist Hymn Book of 1934 in order to preserve a record of "singing
Methodism."
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title British Association of Sound Collections:Newsletter
Keywords
Description British Association of Sound Collections: Newsletter.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Williams School of Church Music:Appeal for funds
Keywords Music--20th century# Williams School of Church Music# Schools--Williams

School of Church Music
Description Letters appealing for funds for the Williams School of Church Music.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title London (City Road):(WM) Class lists
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class lists# Wesleyan Methodist Church--London

(City Road)
Description Lists of members of John Turner’s class, 1801, 1805-06. The blank forms were
printed at London’s City Road, so the assumption is that the class met at City
Road Wesleyan Chapel.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Russell Race:(WM) (1848-80) Research papers
Keywords Methodism (China)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--China
Description Typescript research correspondence concerning the life and ministry of Joseph
Russell Race (1848-80) Wesleyan missionary to China. The correspondence
was entered into by Race’s grandson Steven Race while working on a biography
of his grandfather.
Notes See: The Two Worlds of Joseph Race, by Steve Race (Souvenir Press, 1988)
Access Restrictions
Title William Johnson:(WM) (1856-1949) His daughters’ reminiscences
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Family
Description Typescript memoirs entitled "Daughters of the Manse" compiled by Winifred

Campbell (d.1986) and her sister Irene Johnson (d.1987), daughters of the
Wesleyan minister William Johnson (1856-1949).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Morecambe:(MCGB) Papers re local secession
Keywords Free Methodist Church# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Secessions
Description Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and associated papers regarding the

secession of a minister and laity from the Morecambe and Heysham Methodist
circuit to form the Free Methodist Church in Morecambe.
Notes
Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Copy letter to USA ministers
Date of Material 6 February 1832
Keywords Methodist Episcopal Church--General
Description Xerox copy letter from the Wesleyan minister Adam Clarke (1760?-1832) to
Messrs Emory, Waugh, Bang and Hall etc of the American Methodist Church.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MA 9685-MARC 2450
Title Arthur Marcus Ward:(WM) (1906-78) "The Christian Democrat"
Keywords
Description Printed copy of "The Christian Democrat" by Arthur Marcus Ward (Christian
Literature Society for India, 1941).
Notes Submitted for cataloguing in the printed collections, February 2006
Access Restrictions
Title Walter Yeomans:(PM) (1888-1967) Preaching appointments
Description Manuscript notebook containing dates of Yeomans’ preaching appointments

and the texts from which he preached.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Walter Yeomans:(PM) (1888-1967) Preaching appointments
Description Manuscript notebook containing dates and locations of Yeomans’ preaching

appointments and the texts from which he preached.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Arthur Marcus Ward:(WM) (1906-78) Scrapbook
Keywords Memoranda books--20th century# Colleges--Richmond
Description Manuscript scrapbook containing poetry and cuttings from magazines.

Annotated as having been started while Ward was a tutor at Richmond College.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Pawson:(WM) (1737-1806) Letter to William Eden
Date of Material May 1769
Keywords
Description Letter of the Wesleyan preacher John Pawson (1737-1806) to William Eden.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Lerwick:(WM) Copy circuit plan
Keywords Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1820-1860#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1820-1860
Description Xerox copy of a circuit plan: Lerwick (WM).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Carmarthan:(WM) Copy circuit plans
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1861-1932# Circuit plans--

Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1861-1932# Methodism (Wales)
Description Circuit plans (xerox copies): Carmarthan.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(WM) Copy President’s letter re Wesleyan reform
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Wesleyan Reform movement# Wesleyan Reform

movement
Description Xerox copy of a printed letter and declaration issued by the President of the
Wesleyan Conference regarding the reform controversy, together with a list of
the Wesleyan ministers who had signed the declaration.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Copy circuit plans:(WM) Miscellaneous Devon circuits
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Circuit plans--1861-1932# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--1820-1860# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--1861-1932
Description Xerox copies of circuit plans for the following WM circuits: Ashburton 1845-
46 and1877; South Devon Mission 1903.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Henry Lowe Herod:(PM) (1867-1944) Sermon register/notes
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sermons
Description Manuscript sermon register and miscellaneous notes compiled by the Primitive
Methodist minister Henry Lowe Herod (1867-1944).
Notes
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Title Henry Lowe Herod:(PM) (1867-1944) Sermon notes
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sermons
Description Manuscript sermon notes compiled by the PM minister Henry Lowe Herod
(1867-1944).
Notes
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Title Arthur Samuel Peake:(PM) (1865-1929) Lecture notes
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Scholarship# Biblical studies#

Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Theology
Description Printed/manuscript lecture notes delivered by the noted PM biblical scholar

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929).
Notes
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Description 7 full text original 18th century newspapers containing references of a

Methodist interest
1. The London Chronicle, 8 January 1761

2. The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 7 March 1772
3. The Craftsman; or, Say’s Weekly Journal, 11 August 1787
4. The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 6 March 1788
5. The Craftsman; or, Say’s Weekly Journal, 8 May 1790
6. The Caledonian Mercury, 7 March 1791
7. The Craftsman; or, Say’s Weekly Journal, 12 March 1791
Notes
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Title Joseph Henry Howe:(PM) (1900-65) Article re Methodist union
Description Typescript article by the former Primitive Methodist minister Joseph Henry
Howe (1900-65) entitled "[Methodist] Union at Work in District Councils:
Impressions of a First Synod in the New Methodism" (September 1932).
Notes
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Title Emily Howe (nee Herod):(PM) (b.1899): Reminiscenses
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Clergy--family
Description Typescript memoir of her first ten years by Emily Howe (b.1899), daughter of
the Primitive Methodist minister Henry Lowe Herod (1867-1944).
Notes
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Title Colleges:(PM) Hartley Victoria, Disciplinary committee papers
Description Papers relating to disipline at Hartley Victoria College, retained by the

Primitive Methodist minister Henry Lowe Herod (1867-1944), Secretary of
the College Committee.
1. Manuscript minutes of the Hartley Victoria College disciplinary committee,

24 August 1905 - 20 March 1913
2. Letters concerning student discipline at Hartley Victoria College in

Manchester, 1905-13
Notes
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Title Division of Social Responsibility:(MCGB) Printed material
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Divisions--Social responsibility# Social

justice--Great Britain
Description Printed leaflets and a calendar published by the Division of Social Resposibility.
Notes
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Title Durham:(WM) Notes concerning early Methodist history
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Durham
Description Notes concerning the early history of Wesleyan Methodism in Durham,

extracted by Mr J. V. Major from the Durham Chronicle.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Cradock Glascot
Keywords
Description Letter of John Wesley to Cradock Glascot.
Notes
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Title Mary Lenton:(MCGB) (1913-98) Papers and articles
Keywords Women & religion# Local Preachers# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local
Preachers# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Presidents Council
Description Papers and articles of Mary Lenton (1913-98), Vice-President of the

Methodist Conference in 1978.
1/1 Local Preachers long service certificate awarded to Mary Lenton for forty
years service as a local preacher, September 1974
1/2 Folder containing the following:

- printed "Ready for Tomorrow" - handbook on the Women’s Fellowship
theme for 1976-78 (part III was written by Mary Lenton).
- printed "The Family Church, The Church as a Family, The Family in the
Church" - Vice-President’s address to the 1978 Methodist Conference by Mary
Lenton
- Cutting from the Methodist Recorder entitled "Pattern for the Future - Mary
Lenton on some thoughts on restructuring", 7 October 1971
- Cutting from the Methodist Recorder entitled "Twinned churches take a fresh
look at worship" - reporting the visit of Mary Lenton to the Whalley Range
Methodist Church, Manchester, 1979
1/3 Minutes of the meetings of the President’s Council, 13 September 1971 - 2

April 1974
1/4 Minutes of the meetings of the President’s Council, 19 September 1974 -

24 April 1980
Notes
Title President’s Council:(MCGB) Minutes
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Presidents Council
Description Minutes of the meetings of the President’s Council, 13 September 1971 - 24

April 1980.
Notes
Title Mary Lyth:(WM) (1781-1860) Personal papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--York# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit

plans--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class tickets--1760-1820#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class tickets--1820-1860# Women & religion
Description Scrapbook containing papers relating to Mary Lyth (1781-1860) (daughter of

the Wesleyan preacher Richard Burdsall) and the York Wesleyan society.
The collection includes:

- handbills relating to overseas missions and the election to parliament of
William Wilberforce, 1807-16
- printed hymnsheets used by the York society, 1823
- York circuit plans1809-58
- Female prayer leaders circuit plan (York), 1821
- class tickets, 1794-1860
- miscellaneous
Notes
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Title London (Poplar):(MCGB) Seaman’s mission annual reports
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--London (Poplar Seaman’s Mission)
Description Printed annual reports of the Seaman’s mission, Poplar, London, 1951, 1953-54.
Notes
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Title Parliamentary papers:Report on Seamen’s’ welfare in port
Keywords
Description Printed report of the committee of the Ministry of Labour into the question of
seaman’s welfare in ports.
Notes
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Title Albert Lee Fillingham:(WM) (1871-1906) Family and personal papers

Church--Ordinations# Ordination# Hymns--Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description 1. Bible presented to the Wesleyan minister Albert Lee Fillingham (1871-
1906) on the occasion of his ordination at the Leeds Conference, 2 August
1897. Signed by the Conference President and Secretary
2. Printed Wesleyan Methodist hymnal of 1923 (inscribed "To Hannah with

love from Sid,1923).
3. Bible presented to Victor Fillingham by his friends at Clarence Street,

Newcastle on Tyne, East End Mission, 1903
4. Bible presented by Albert Lee Fillingham to his wife Annie on their wedding
day, 11 August 1897
Notes
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Title Thomas Wild:(WM) (1839-1907) Extracts from family papers
Keywords
Description Extracts from papers relating to the family of Thomas Wild.
Notes
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Title Sunday Schools:(PM) Printed reading book
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sunday Schools# Sunday schools--

Great Britain
Description Printed "Second Reading Book for Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools"
(London, c.1900) containing extracts from the scriptures.
Notes
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Title Catechisms:(WM) Printed Catechisms
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Catechisms
Description Printed "The Catechisms of the Wesleyan Methodists - compiled and

published by order of the Conference for the use of the families and schools
connected with that body" (London: Conference Office, c.1890).
Notes
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Title Donald Ryan:Welcome service sheet
Keywords
Description Service sheet for the service of welcome for the induction of Reverend Donald
Ryan as the Chairman of the North Wales District.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(PM) Hartley Victoria,Photographs
Keywords Colleges--Hartley
Description Photograph album relating to student life at Hartley Primitive Methodist

ministerial training College in Manchester during the time there of the student
minister William Wharton Ion (1903-88).
Notes
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Title Liverpool:(WM) Methodism and Gladys Aylward (1902-70)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Liverpool# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Liverpool# Methodism (China)
Description Miscellaneous printed material relating to mainly to Methodiism in Liverpool

and surrounding area, and the China missionary Gladys Aylward (1902-70).
1. Liverpool Crosby circuit plan, January - April 1953

2. Methodist Guild printed syllabus (Moor Lane Methodist Church, Liverpool),
c.1950
3. Brochure re the history of Blundellsands Methodist Church, 1891-1941
4. 2 copies of the souvenir handbook celebrating the 21st anniversary of Moor
Lane Methodist Church, Liverpool Great Crosby circuit, 1933-54
5. Brochure re the diamond jubilee of the Blundellsands Methodist Church,
1891-1951
6. Brochure containing details of services and other meetings at Blundellsands
Methodist Church, in association with the Methodist Conference held in
Liverpool, July 1949
7. Short history of Blundellsands Methodist Church, together with an appeal to
clear the building find debt, 1861-1963
8. Printed "The Life Story of Gladys Aylward (1902-70)"
9. Memorial issue of the "Good Hope Magazine" devoted to Gladys Aylward,
1970
10. Service sheet for the memorial service held at Westminster Central Hall
for Gladys Aylward, 1970
11. Printed "Island Base - History of the Methodist Church in Gambia 1821-
1969" by Barbara Prickett (added to printed collections)
12. Printed "The Word from the Wilderness and other devotional meditations"
by William Motson (1994) (added to printed collections)
Notes
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Title Frank Henry Cumbers:(1905-91) Printed material (military use)
Keywords Armed forces (Great Britain)
Description Booklets by Frank Cumbers for use by Methodists in the armed forces:
Advice from a Padre, My Faith - A book of devotions for those in the services.
Notes
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Title Birmingham:(MNC) Xerox copy circuit plan
Keywords Methodist New Connexion--Circuit plans# Circuit plans--Methodist New

Connexion
Description Xerox copy circuit plan for the Birmingham circuit (MNC).
Notes
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Title Sunday Schools:(WMA) Selly Oak,Copy Sunday School Teachers’
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Association--Sunday Schools# Sunday schools--Great

Britain
Description Xerox copy plan for the teachers of the Selly Oak Sunday School (Wesleyan
Methodist Association).
Notes
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Title William Huntington:Printed "The Naked Bow of God"
Keywords
Description Printed "The Naked Bow of God; or, A visible display of the judgements of God
on the enemies of truth" by William Huntington (London: 1787).
Notes
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Title Printed: Address to the Religious Public re instruction of youth
Description Printed "Address to the Religious Public on the great importance of the
instruction of youth in the principles of the Gospel, by a society lately
established for the sole purpose of promoting that great object" (London:
c.1800).
Notes
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Reference Code MA 8853-8878 (sermons box 11)
Title Robert Hopkin:(MCGB) (b.1904) Copy autobiography etc
Keywords Local Preachers# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers#

Sermons--1933-2000# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Copy autobiography of the local preacher Robert Hopkin of Burslem

(Staffordshire) and Thirsk (Yorkshire), together with manuscript notebooks
documenting his preaching and praying ministry, 1928-1972
- 2 Preaching diaries (A and B)

- 1 notebook containing manuscript prayers
- 21 notebooks containing sermons.
- 1 notebook containing Hopkin’s notes on books
- I xerox copy of Hopkin’s autobiography, 1964
Notes
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Title Robert Kerry:(1881-1910) Printed Temperance poetry (1917)
Keywords Poetry--20th century# Temperance & religion--Great Britain# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Temperance
Description Printed copy of "The Hurn Temperance Reciter: A collection of poems

written by Robert Kerry (1881-1910), the blind poet of Hurn Road, Holbeach.
Lincolnshire" (Holbeach, 1917).
Notes
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Title Walter Samuel Hickman:(PM) (b.1902) Local preachers’ papers
Keywords Local Preachers# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers
Description Answers by the Primitive Methodist local preacher Walter Samuel Hickman
(b.1902) to questions set as part of the Local Preachers examinations.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy letter to John Ogilvie
Keywords
Description Xerox copy letter of John Wesley (1703-91) to the Wesleyan preacher John
Ogilvie (d.1839).
Notes
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Reference Code MAW Ms 72.8
Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Family letters
Keywords
Description Scrapbook containing manuscript letters by the Wesleyan minister Adam

Clarke and his circle of family and friends, 1787-1841
The scrabook contains letters of Adam Clarke to the following correspndents:
- Miss Cook, 19 March, 23 March 1787; 14 October (no year)

- Mrs Clarke, 17 February and 20 February 1789; 12 September 1805
- Mr Johnson, 27 October 1805
- Samuel Bardsley, 19 October 1814
- Anonymous, 7 October (indistinct year)
- James Everett, 9 March 1818; 8 February 1819; 16 March, 22 April and 5
December 1821; 16 September 1823; 11 March and 25 May 1824; 9 June and
28 September 1827; March, 16 May, 13 August and 21 October 1828; 23
January, 14 April, 25 July and 24 August 1829; 13 April, 13 May, 22 May, 23
June and 4 July 1830
- William Bramwell, 22 April 1818
- James Miller, 22 May 1823
- Daniel Isaac, 5 February 1826
- Mary Clarke, 10 September 1829; 29 April 1830
- Mrs Smith, 14 March 1830; 29 July 1832
-Thomas Marriott, 18 December 1828; 12 January and 25 December 1829; 18
February 1830
- Miss Beet, 7 May 1832
- Joseph Entwisle, 9 February 1826
Also, the following letters:

- Mary Clarke to Adam Clarke, 24 July 1830
- Mary Clarke to James Everett, 24 August 1831
- Samuel[?] Clarke to James Everett, 17 December and 29 December 1830; 27
September, 28 September, 5 October, 16 October and 23 December 1832; 15
January, 26 April and 1 May 1833
- Mary Anne Smith to James Everett, November and 15 November, 15
December, 18 December 1830; 14 July 1831
- Richard Waddy to Adam Clarke, 13 January 1829
- Thomas Marriott to James Everett, 28 August 1830; 31 October 1831; 12
March 1833; 16 February and 14 May 1836; 8 August 1839; 16 August and 5
November 1841
- Richard Hand to David Yates, 21 December 1795
- John Wesley to Samuel Wesley (1766-1837), 18 March 1788 (19th century
copy letter)
Notes Originally part of the James Everett collection.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAWS Ms 456
Title Conference:(WM) Presidents’ portraits and newscuttings etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--Presidents
Description Scrapbook containing engravings, newscuttings, biographical articles and

associated material relating to Presidents of the Wesleyan Conference.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P12c
Title Conference:(WM) Presidents’ portraits and letters etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Clergy--General
Description Scrapbook containing letters, biographical notices, portrait engravings and

associated material relating to the Presidents of the Wesleyan Conference,
1791-1870. Includes autograph letter of John Wesley to James Barry, 30 April
1776, a copy letter of Charles Wesley and material relating to John and Mary Fletcher.
Notes
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Title Alexander Kilham:(WM/MNC) (1762-98) Letter etc
Date of Material 16 September
Keywords Genealogy--Kilham family# Methodist New Connexion# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Controversies
Description Scrapbook containing an autograph letter of Alexander Kilham to the

Wesleyan ministers William Bramwell, Henry Longden and William E. Miller,
16 September 1797. Also contains typescript notes re Kilham’s life and a
catalogue of printed works written by Kilham or about him, together with a
sketch of Kilham’s family tree
Notes
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Title Vincent Perronet:(CE) (1693-1785) Letters and sermons etc
Keywords Sermons--1735-91# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Folder containing letters and other papers of the Anglican minister Vincent
Perronet and other members of his family
1. Notebook containing a manuscript sermon (formerly in the possession of

Thomas Clulow, 1861)
2. Notebook containing a manuscript account entitled "Some remarkable

events in the life of a certain person, who is now (1781) in the 88th year of his
age" - appears to be an autobiographical account by Perronet written in the
3rd person
3. Manuscript account entitled "Some remarkable events in the life of a person,

who we shall call Eusebius"
4. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his son William Perronet, 9 December (no

year)
5. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his son Charles Perronet,18 June 1773
6. 19th century manuscript copy letter of Vincent Perronet to Walter

Sellon,24 May 1752

Sellon,24 February 1752

Sellon,24 December 1752
9. Transcription in the hand of Vincent Perronet of the epitaph on his wife

Charity’s grave, 1763
10. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his daughter, who Perronet affectionately

addresses as "Maidy", 18 April 1769
11. Letter of Vincent Perronet to Gidley Howden, undated
12. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his grandaughter Sophia Briggs, 10 June 1781
13. Letter of Vincent Perronet to Thomas Broughton, 21 April 1749
14. Two portrait engravings of Vincent Perronet (one is a silhouette), 18th

cent.
15. Letter of Vincent Perronet to John Fletcher, 24 June 1778

16. Letter of Vincent Perronet to Charles Wesley, 6 July 1763
17. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his son William Perronet, 11 February 1763
18. Letter of Vincent Perronet to John Fletcher, 23 September 1778
19. Letter of Vincent Perronet to anon., 7 February 1747
20. Letter of Vincent Perronet to his grandaughter Cherry Briggs, 16 January

1780
21. Letter of Irene Nancarrow to Vincent Perronet, undated
22. Photographic copies of family letters of Vincent Perronet
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P4c
Title John Hearnshaw:((WM) (1818-1909) Sermon register and notes etc
Description Bound manuscript volume containing a register of sermon texts preached by

the Wesleyan preacher John Hearnshaw from 1836 to 1898, together with
sermon notes.
Notes
Access Restrictions Poor physical condition - do not issue without consulting the archivist.
Title Charles Wesley:(CE/WM) (1757-1834) Diaries
Keywords Diaries and Journals--Wesley, Charles (1757-1834)# Music--18th century#

Music--19th century
Description Diaries of Charles Wesley the musician (1757-1834) as follows:
1. 1796
2. 1799
3. 1806
4. 1811
Notes
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Reference Code 253B
Title William Warburton:(CE) (1698-1779) Ms "The true Methodist"
Keywords Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)#

Church of England--Anti-Methodism# Church of England--Episcopacy#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Anti-Methodism
Description Manuscript treatise by William Warburton entitled "The True Methodist or

Christian in earnest." This was written in opposition to the evangelicals and is
critical of the nature and character of Methodism. Although this
substantial piece (205 leaves) was obviously intended for publication, it was
never in fact published.
Warburton was an Anglican minister, who published extensively on the

relationship between Church and State and on theology and doctrine. He was a
very capable controversialist, who authored an attack on the Methodists in
1762 entitled "The doctrine of Grace." Warburton was appointed Bishop of
Gloucester in 1759.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Alexander Mather:(WM) (1733-1800) Letters
Keywords
Description Scrapbook containing manuscript letters written by the Wesleyan minister

Alexander Mather to the following correspondents: William Marriott (52
items); Richard Rodda (2 items); Mr Tatham (1 item). Also contains notes re
Mather’s correspondence collection.
Notes
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Title Vincent Perronet:(CE) (1693-1785) Letters etc
Keywords Sermons--1735-91# Poetry--18th century
Description Scrapbook of letters etc of Vincent Perronet and other members of his family,
1749-82
The scrapbook contains the following letters:
- Vincent Perronet to Charles Wesley, 1749-82 (20 items)
- Vincent Perronet to Charles Perronet, 18 June 1773
- Charles Perronet to Sophia Briggs, 12 February 1776
- Charles Perronet to anon., 22 May 1750
- Charles Perronet to his nephew, undated
- Charles Perronet to Miss Johnson, 1 March 1775
- Charles Perronet to anon., 22 April 1781
- Damaris Perronet to anon., undated
- Damaris Perronet to Betsy Briggs, 20 October 1768
- Damaris Perronet to Betsy Briggs, 1766
- Damaris Perronet to Miss Briggs, 3 May 1765
- Damaris Perronet to John Fletcher, 9 November 1777
- Damaris Perronet to Miss Briggs, 31 May 1770
- Damaris Perronet to anon., 18 January 1769
- Damaris Perronet to Miss Briggs, 23 February 1765
- William Perronet to Charles Wesley, 30 March 1780
- William Perronet to Charles Wesley, 13 December 1763
- William Perronet to Sarah Wesley, 27 April 1757
- William Perronet to Sarah Wesley, 19 December, no year
- William Perronet to Mr J. Briggs junior, 2 October 1781

- William Perronet to anon., 30 March 1780
- William Perronet to Vincent Perronet, 22 January 1781
- John Perronet to Betsy [Briggs], undated
- John Perronet to one of his brothers, 6 February 1763
- John Perronet to Vincent Perronet, 31 October, no year
- John Fletcher to Vincent Perronet, 4 July 1780 (with a letter from William
Perronet to Vincent Perronet, 4 July 1780)
- Account of the secret exbedition against the Tale[?] of Rhe, 1757
- Fragments of hymns attributed to Henry Perronet
- Sermon notes in the hand of Charles Perronet, 13 August 1775
- Ode by Edward Perronet on the occasion of the 77th birthday of his father
Vincent Perronet, 1769
- Ode by Edward Perronet on the death of his father Vincent Perronet, 1785
Notes
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Title Foreign Missions:(WM) Jamaica (Joseph Benson’s letter book)
Keywords Slavery & Abolition# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the State
(British)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Slavery & Abolition# Race &
Religion# Methodism (West Indies)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign
Missions--Jamaica
Description This letter book contains copy correspondence relating in particular to the
issue of religious toleration in Jamaica with especial regard to the rights of
missionaries to evangelize slaves.
Bound manuscript volume containing the following copy letters:

- Joseph Butterworth to Joseph Benson, 6 July 1803
- Thomas Allan to the Secretary of State for War, 29 June 1803
- Thomas Allan to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade and
Foreign Plantations, 14 March 1804
- Joseph Butterworth to John Reeves, 13 March 1804
- Joseph Butterworth to Sir William Scott etc., 14 March 1804
- Joseph Butterworth to the Bishop of London, 15 March 1804
- Andrew Fuller to Revd. Owen, Chaplain to the Bishop of London, 17 March
1804
- Baptist ministers to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade and
Foreign Plantations, 7 April 1804
- Wesleyan Committee to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade
and Foreign Plantations, 13 April 1804
- Thomas Allan to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade and
- [Thomas Allan?] to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade and
- Joseph Butterworth to the Lords of the Privy Council Committee for Trade
and Foreign Plantations, 1 June 1804 (marked as "not sent"
- Preachers etc of the London City Road circuit to "dear brethren", 17
February 1806
- Thomas Rutherford to Preachers etc of the London City Road circuit, 14
March 1806
- Draft report of the Education Committee (Ireland), [1806]
- Thomas Coke to the Lord Chancellor (Vincent Erskine), 24 September 1806
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Letters
Keywords Sermons--1735-91# Poetry--18th century# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Clergy--Engravings# Engravings--Clergy
Description Scrapbook containing manuscript letters and associated papers of the Wesleyan
minister Samuel Bradburn and members of his family
The scrapbook contains the following letters and associated documents:
- Samuel Bradburn to John Pritchard, 3 February 1783, 26 February 1784, 30

April 1784, 30 April 1784, 10 May 1796, 17 March 1798
- Samuel Bradburn to Joseph Benson, 5 February 1800
- Samuel Bradburn to Thomas Coke, [c.1779]
- Samuel Bradburn to a Socinian minister, [March 1805]
- Extracts of letters from Samuel Bradburn to J. Reynolds
- Extract of a letter from Samuel Bradburn to Mrs John Pritchard, 3 February
1783
- George Bradburn to his sister [Maria?], 17 January 1799
- Eliza Bradburn to her sister [Maria?], 4 July 1840
- Sermons by Samuel Bradburn (including one in Latin)
- Notes on sermons by Samuel Bradburn
- Samuel Bradburn’s notes on how to make for a profitable quarterly meeting
- Certificate attesting that Samuel Bradburn had been a preacher for 29 years
- Extempore verses spoken by Samuel Bradburn as President of the Wesleyan
Conference, 1799
- Sketches of 39 sermons by Samuel Bradburn (written by Maria Bradburn)
- Note by Samuel Bradburn to Mr Henshaw concerning George Thompson,
preacher and physician in Worcestershire
- Maria Bradburn’s reminiscenses of her father Samuel
- Manuscript verse in memory of Samuel Bradburn by his brother Richard
- Manuscript ode addressed to Samuel Bradburn, signed "Probus jun."
- Printed text of verses entitled "A real scene" concerning Maria Bradburn and
James Alexander at Kingswood
- "Reminiscenses of Scenes and Acts" by Sophia Cooke Bradburn referring to
her husband Samuel Bradburn at Mount Pleasant Chapel in Liverpool,1813
- Portrait engravings of Samuel Bradburn
- Portrait engraving of John Wesley, with Samuel Bradburn’s annotation
- Copy epitaph for Maria Bradburn
- Epitaph on the tombstone of Betsy Bradburn, 1786
- Typescript article on Samuel Bradburn "The Demosthanes of Methodism" by
W. L. Wright, together with correspondence concerning its publication in the
Methodist Recorder
- Anonymous printed article regarding Samuel Bradburn
- Newscuttings re Samuel Bradburn
- Anonymous manuscript article on Samuel Bradburn
- Typescript list of Samuel Bradburn’s stations
- List of the Bradburn items in the Lamplough collection
- Autograph of Samuel Bradburn
Notes
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Title Southlands College:(WM) Archives
Keywords Colleges--Southlands
Description Southlands was founded by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1872 as a

training college for women. In 1965 Southlands became co-educational and in
1975 joined with Digby Stuart College (Roman Catholic), Whitelands College
(Anglican) and the Froebel Institute (Humanist), to form the Roehampton
Institute. In 2000 the Roehampton Institute became the University of Surrey
(Roehampton) within the Federal University of Surrey. On 1 August 2004
Roehampton was granted full independence as Roehampton University.
Throughout all these changes Southlands has retained its distinctive identity and Methodist
ethos.
The Southlands collection consists of minutes and associated papers of the

following college bodies
Box 1 - Academic Board, 1966-92
Box 2 - Finance and General Purposes committee, 1985-86
Box 3 - Board of Governors, undated
Box 5 - Miscellaneous, undated
Box 6 - Miscellaneous, 1970-90
Box 7 - Board of Governors, 1976-79
Notes
Reference Code N/A
Title Schools:(WM) Kingswood & Woodhouse Grove, Financial papers
Keywords Schools--Kingswood# Schools--Woodhouse Grove
Description The collection consists of the following:
- Five boxes of loose papers relating mainly to Woodhouse Grove School, but
with some Kingswood material. The papers consist of financial records
including accounts, invoices, cheque book stubbs and receipts, c.1860-c.1878
- Bound volume of subscriptions by named Wesleyan ministers towards the

expenses of Kingswood School, 1844-63
- Two bound volumes of miscellaneous receipts and invoices. It is not

particularly clear what Methodist institution the contents relate to, but it is
probably Woodhouse Grove, c.1850 - c.1860
- Two bound cash books containing itemised circuit financial contributions

towards the costs of running Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove Schools. The
entries list individual chapels arranged by district and circuit, 1865-78.
Notes
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Reference Code Conference
Title Conference:(WM) Archives
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference archives
Description The Conference was the policy-making body of the Wesleyan Church and from
its voting body of one hundred senior preachers ("the Legal Hundred") was
elected a President and Secretary of Conference on an annual basis.
The monopoly of legislative power enjoyed by the Conference and the lack of
lay representation was the cause of many of the secessions which took place
during the first half of the 19th century. These resulted in the creation of
separate Methodist denominations, all of which tended to have the same basic
structure but with greater lay involvement in the decision-making process. The
Wesleyans held out against lay representation in the Conference until 1877-78.
The Wesleyan Church remained the strongest Methodist denomination in

terms of membership and geographical distribution. At the time of union in
1932 the Wesleyans had 500,000 members.
The Wesleyan Conference archive contains the following papers:
Conference Journal
1784-1932 (manuscript/printed volumes)
& index 1890-1916 (3 volumes)
Conference Daily Record MAW Ms 608-609

1837-49 (2 manuscript volumes)
Conference Daily Record MAW Ms 610-39

Wesleyan Methodist Church MAW Ms 584-594
1865-1932 (manuscript/printed volumes)
Conference Reports
1868, 1870, 1872, 1894, 1896
1904-10 (12 printed volumes)
Conference Reports
1916, 1925-26, 1927-28 (3 printed volumes)
Conference letter books MAW Ms 576-578

1804-49, 1849-77, 1878-1965
(3 manuscript volumes)
Conference Memoranda book MAW Ms 638
Custody of Connexional documents MAW Ms 664

Committee minutes 1881-1912
(manuscript volume)
Register of Connexional documents MAW Ms 673

late 19th cent. (manuscript volume)
Register of preachers on trial MAW Ms 574, 578

1803-31, 1838-59
1832-34 & 1840-49 (3 manuscript volumes)
Register of Ministerial candidates MAW Ms 702-03 GB 20 364 (d)

1861-70, 1871-88 (2 manuscript volumes)
Register of ministerial candidates MAW Ms 667

Northern Section
Register of ministerial candidates MAW Ms 701

Southern Section
Presidents’ List &

lists of Ministers on Supply
Wesleyan Methodist Church 1888-1931
(manuscript volume)
Applications to build chapels

1842-46, 1846-50 (2 manuscript volumes)
Enrolled chapel deeds

Vistors Book
Allan Library 1886-97 (manuscript volume)
Book Loan record MAW Ms 679

Allan Library 1891-94
(manuscript volume)
Home Missionary Committee MAW Ms 671

Minutes 1859-62 (manuscript volume)
Worn out Ministers & Widows Fund MAW Ms 692 GB 26 364 (d)
Committee Minutes 1845 (ms volume)
London Quarterly Review Company MAW Ms 680

Committee Minutes 1862-97
(ms volume)
London Ministers’ Meeting MAW Ms 575

Committee Minutes 1865-80, 1892-1904
(2 ms volumes)
Todmorden Society MAM P7a

Wesleyan Methodist Church Special Items Box 1
Minutes/Accounts 1748-65
(ms volume)
Todmorden Society MAM P7a

Membership roll 1822-28
(ms volume)
Accounts Register
Preachers’ Friend Society 1799-1809
(ms volume)
Sunday School Committee MAM P7b

Minutes 1851-69 (ms volume)
Thanksgiving Fund MAW Ms 582

(ms volume)
Methodist bureau for Transfer MAW Ms 660

of Church Membership
Committee mminutes 1907-16
(ms volume)
Necessitous Local Preachers Fund MAW Ms 583

Committee minutes 1888-91 (ms volume)
Thanksgiving Fund MAW Ms 639

(ms volume)
Benevolent Fund MAW Ms 670

(ms volume)
Connexional Fund
(ms volume)
Committee of Prvileges
Minutes 1910-31
(ms volume)
Compulsory Supernumaryship Committee

Book of Offices MAW Ms 685

(ms volume)
Methodist Union Committee

Minutes 1919-21
(ms volume)
Dr Coke’s Trust Fund MAW Ms 688

Trustees’ minutes 1826-49
(ms volume)
Methodist Union Committee

Minutes 1913-32 (4 volumes)
Fellowship of the Kingdom

Misc. papers MAW Ms 38

Itinerant Preachers Annuitant Society
1847-57 (1 box)

Admission of layment to Conference
1875-76 (1 box)

Extension of ministerial term,
Ireland 1915 (1 box)
Historical documents MAW Ms 77

Conferences 18th/19th cent.
(1 box)

Crosse & Broomfield appeal 1870
(1 box)
Bishops Stortford discipline case
1897 (1 box)

Gregory Mantle Discipline case
1912 (1 box)
Conference MAW Ms 50-56

Private papers (discipline)
1907,1910,1911-19,1922, 1924-25,
1927-29 (7 boxes)
District Synod minutes MAW Ms 427-433

1929-32 (7 volumes)
Hull Christian Ministers Fraternal

Salford Methodist Clothing Society

Portsmouth District
Foreign Missions Committee 1885-1942
(1 volume)
Whitby and Darlington District

Chapel sub-committee minutes 1872-90
(1 volume)
York Methodist Society

Minutes and accounts 1804-30
(ms volume)
Middlesborough & Darlington District

Finance Committee minutes 1892-1902
(ms volume)
Middlesborough & Darlington District

Missionary Society Women’s work minutes
1931-48 (ms volume)
Whitby & Darlington District

Chapels built, 1848-50
(ms volume)
Whitby & Darlington District

Home Mission & Chapel Committee minutes
1904-32 (2 ms volumes)
Middlesborough District
Home Mission & Chapel Committee minutes
1904-25 (ms volume)
Darlington District
Papers re union 1932
Notes
Title Conference:(UMFC) Archives
Keywords United Methodist Free Church--Conference archive
Description The UMFC Conference was established on the basis of full lay representation in
the Conference (known as the Annual Assembly), minimal centralization and a
considerable measure of local autonomy for circuits and districts.
A paper itemised list of the Conference archive is available in the Rylands

reading room, but the collection can be summarised as follows:
Annual Assembly minutes, 1857-1907

Connexional committee minutes, 1894-1903
Preachers’ Children fund membership register, late 19th cent.
Preachers’ Children fund Management committee minutes, 1892-1910
Preachers’ Children fund financial papers (ledger, cash book etc). 1897-1910
Superannuation and beneficent fund financial papers (including details of
annuities, cash books and circuit contributions) 1862-1911
20th century fund ledger, 1906-35.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MNC) Archive
Keywords Methodist New Connexion--Beneficent society# Methodist New Connexion--

Conference archives#
Description The MNC Conference consisted of equal numbers of lay and ministerial
representatives elected by individual circuits. The powers
of Conference were in most other respects similar to that of the parent
Wesleyan Methodist body.
A paper itemized list of the Conference archive is available in the Rylands

reading room, but the collection can be summarized as follows:
Conference journal, 1797-1907

Conference minutes, 1797-1907
Register of trustees’ appointments, 1893-1910
Preachers’ certificates, 1839-84
Index to preachers and circuits, 1817
Minutes and/or other associated papers of the following Conference bodies:

Annual Committee to Conference, 1818-62, 1877-1909
Missionary Committee, 1824-35
London Association, 1888-1906
Beneficent Society, 1815-27, 1849-1911
Extension Fund, 1900-03
Paternal Fund, 1801-21, 1838-1928
Distressed circuits, 1838-55
Ex MNC valuation, 1899/1900
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Book Room:(WM) Archives
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Book Room--Archives
Description Book Room Committee MAW Ms 691

Minutes 1797-1808
Book Room accounts 1791-1808

(manuscript volume)
Book Room Committee MAW Ms 640-648

Minutes 1797-1932
Book Room Committee MAW Ms 693

Letter book 1839-55
(manuscript volume)
Book Room Committee MAW Ms 682, 686

Finance minutes 1890-95, 1910-11

Premises & Staff minutes

Trustees minutes 1888-89
(manuscript volume)

Publishing minutes 1910-11
(manuscript volume)
Book Room Committee

Dr Jobson’s private minutes 1864-67
(manuscript volume)
Tract Committee MAW Ms 672,677

Minutes 1822-66 (2 volumes)
1904 Hymn Book Committee MAW Ms 657
Editorial & Music Sub-committee MAW Ms 663

1932 Hymn Book Committee MAW Ms 658

Wesley Press Limited MAW Ms 581

Joint Methodist Publishing Company MAW Ms 674

Copyright Permissions MAW Ms 573

School Hymns - Music
Letters 1886-99 (manuscript volume)

School Hymns - Words
Letters 1869-87 (Manuscript volume)
Copyright Permissions MAW Manuscript 570

Chapel Hymns - Music
Letters 1873-1901 (ms volume)

Chapel Hymns - Words
Letters 1888-89 (ms volume)
1932 Tune Book Committee MAW Ms 661

London Quarterly Company MAW Ms 681

List of shareholders 1891-92
Book Room
Index to pre-publication manuscripts
19th cent. (ms volume)
Book Room
Presentation folder given
to Charles Kelly on his
retirement, 1907
Book Room
Investigation 1909-10
(Envelope of papers)
Wesleyan Theological Institute

Account book 1834-74 (ms volume)
Joint Methodist Publishing Company MAW Ms 26

Financial papers 1909-18 (1 box).
Notes
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Title Conference:(UMC) Conference archive
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference archive# United

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Supernumary# Circuit plans--United
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1907-32# United Methodist Church (Great
Britain)--Circuit plans--1907-32
Description A paper itemized list of the Conference archive is available in the Rylands
reading room, but the collection consists of minutes and/or asociated papers
(includong financial records) of the following Conference bodies and associated
committees:
Conference journals, 1907-32
Conference Daily Record, 1908-32
Methodist Union committee, 1902-07
Circuit plans directory, 1907 (comprehensive collection of circuit plans from
all the circuits)
General Connexional committee, 1907-33
Book committee, 1907-36
Probationers committee, 1911-32
Local preachers committee, 1928-32
Superannuation and Beneficent fund, 1907-31
Finance Board, 1909-33
Magnet press, 1907-36
Assessed funds, 1912-30
Connexional trustees, 1932-39
Stock register, 1933
New Areas fund, ? - 1933
Chapel Loan fund, 1922-35
Mission Debt, 1912-14
Sick Benefit Society, 1922-30
Equalization fund, 1911-37
Extension fund, 1901-55
Reserve fund, 1911-20
Guarantee fund, 1910-33
Auxiliary fund, 1910
Chapel relief fund, 1909-39
Notes
Title Conference:(PM] Conference archive
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference--Archives# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign missions# Methodism (Australia)#
Methodism (New Zealand)# Primitive Methodist Church (United States)#
reading room, but the collection consists of minutes and/or associated papers
(including financial records) of the following Conference bodies and associated
committees:
Deed poll, 1830
Model deed, 1864
Papers re Philadelphia mission (USA), c.1830
Publishing House correspondence, c.1920-c.1930
General Committee, 1841-1933
Missionary committee (home), 1874-80
Probationers examination committee, 1903-24
Local preachers examination results, 1928-33
Book committee minutes, 1805-1932 (considerable gaps)
Book Room, 1836-89
Stationing committee, 1920-24
Holborn Hall committee, 1900-34
Conference miscellaneous committee, 1926-32
Legal Defence committee, 1909-12
Local Preachers Central Training committee, 1904-32
Conference finance committee, 1926-32
Hymnal supplemental committee, 1910-20
Methodist union committee, 1917-32
Superannuated ministers, widows and orphans fund committee, 1880-85, 1903-
33
Council of Christian endeavour, 1900-11
Itinerant preachers friendly society, 1841-90
Itinerant preachers friendly society Colonial district Assembly cash book and
minutes (Australia and New Zealand), 1881-1906
Probationers’ committee, 1870-1900
Conference ledger, 1863-74
Mission ledger, 1856-60
Auxiliary fund, 1932-38
Equalization fund, 1899-1932
Consolidation fund, 1903-19
Ministers’ Group Insurance, 1921-36
Conference delegates travelling expenses, 1919-33
Connexional fund, 1910-42
Local Preachers aid fund, 1929-32
Chapel Aid Association, 1930-32
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(MCGB) Archive
Date of Material 1932-date
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Conference--Archives# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Archives and History Committee# Methodism--Union#
Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Disciplinary papers# Youth organizations--
Boy Scouts
reading room, but the collection consists of minutes and/or associated papers
(including financial records) of the following Conference bodies and associated
committees:
Conference agenda, 1940-66
Conference daily record, 1933-36, 1947-59
Deed of union, 1932
Model deed, 1932
Presidential correspondence from Lord Donald Soper’s presidential year, 1952-
54
Anglican-Methodist conversations, 1963-68
Conference office papers (closed for 75 years from July 1998)
Connexional nominations committee, 1933-71
Commemoration fund, 1932-36
Finance committee (PM funds), 1933-42
Colleges executive committee, 1932-38
Evidence given at the Departmental Enquiry committee, 1936-37
Association of Methodist Scouters, 1948-62
District Chairmen’s meetings, 1960-68
Joint declaration, 1927
Wesley bicentenary, 1938
John Scott Lidgett symposium, 1957
Presentation folder given to Eric Baker on his retirement, c.1972
Thomas Tiplady scrapbooks, 1962
Connexional funds correspondence, 1934-42
Circuit levy ledgers, 1930-38
Ministers group insurance ledger, 1936-37
Ministers Residence and Income Tax liability papers, 1933-34
General Purposes and Connexional Funds income and expenditure, 1934-42
Archives and History committee accounts, 1961-71
Papers regarding the following legal/disciplinary cases:

Carter v Hill, 1938
Reed v Cattermole, 1934-38
Edgar v Soper and Kay v Baker, 1956
Notes
Title Book Room:(MCGB) Papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Book Room# Publishing# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Periodicals--New Methodist Magazine# Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--Hymn book committee# Hymns--Methodist Church of Great
Britain
Description A paper itemized list of the Book Room archive is available in the Rylands
reading room (part of the Conference catalogue). The collection consists of
the minutes and/or associated papers (including financial records) of the Book
Room and associated institutions as follows:
Book Room minutes, 1933-62

Emergency and Executive sub-committee, 1948-49
Book Room property papers, undated
Wartime operation papers, 1939-45
Epworth House correspondence re prperty lease, 1939-40
New Methodist Magazine papers re closure of the magazine, 1969-70
Hymn book committee, 1934.
Notes
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Blue folder-Psalms)
Description Contents of a blue folder labeled "Psalms of Charles Wesley" and containing
papers, which are probably in the hand of the Wesleyan historian and minister William Myles
(1756-1828). The papers appear to have been compiled as part of the preparations for a new
edition of Charles Wesley’s hymns (note the contents of the folder have been removed and
placed into acid-free envelopes):
1977/593/1
Loose sheets (paginated 1-7) containing manuscript copies of hymns by
Charles Wesley entitled "Hymns on the expected invasion 1759". The first
line of the first stanza reads "Let God, the mighty God’
1977/593/2
Loose sheets containing textual notes on Charles Wesley’s hymns (written in
the context of the possibility of publishing a new edition of the hymns). The
papers include a transcription of the following letter: Sarah Wesley junior to
Joseph Benson, 3 February 1814
1977/593/3
Loose sheets (paginated 1-35) containing manuscript copies of hymns by
Charles Wesley entitled "The Psalms by Charles Wesley, M. A. late student of
Christ Church Oxford - taken from what he published while living; and from his
manuscripts which were printed in the Methodist Magazine, since his death,
placed in regular order". The first hymn is entitled Psalm 1.lines 6-8 and the
opening line of the first stanza reads "Blest be the man, and known but he’
1977/593/4
Two printed articles from the Methodist Magazine, September 1814:
- The Providence of God asserted (continuation of an article)
- Short account of Mrs Catherine Myles of Limerick, Ireland, by her son the
Wesleyan minister William Myles.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Blue folder - Psalms & Hymns
Description Contents of a blue folder labelled "Poems and Hymns by Ch[arles] Wesley" and
containing the following sub-sections (note the contents of the folder have
been removed and placed into acid-free envelopes):
1977/594/1
entitled "Hymns for John Henderson" The first hymn/poem has the title
"Epitaph" The first line reads "A meek and lowly follower of the lamb"
(former reference iii f)
1977/594/2
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley, the first line of which
reads: "Thou God of faithful mercies, hear" (former reference iii a)
1977/594/3
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley entitled "Let not my
heart be inclined to any evil thing", the first line of which reads: "Father, my
wretched heart I find" (former reference iii a 2)
1977/594/4
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley entitled "For -", the
first line of which reads: "Called forth to earn my daily bread" (former
reference iii a 3)
1977/594/5
entitled "The Protestant Association June 1780". The first hymn/poem has
the title "Canto 1" The first line reads "Arms, & the good old cause I sing"
(former reference 4 iii a)
1977/594/6
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley entitled "Sung for the
Rev[eren]d John] W[esley] at the society in Bristol, Sunday December 5
1779", the first line of which reads: "Jesus thy hated servant own" (former
reference iii a 3) (see also 1977/594/10)
1977/594/7
reads: "Father of all, the prayer attend" (former reference 5 iii a)
1977/594/8
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley entitled "Isai Even to
hoar hairs I will bear, & I will carry & I will deliver yourm Saviour", the first
line of which reads: "Thou hast, hoary hair" (former reference 6 iii a)
1977/594/9
reads: "Head of thy Church, conflicting here"
1977/594/10
reads: "Jesus thy hated servant own" (former reference 8) (see also
1977/594/6)
1977/594/11
reads: "We join our weak desires to their’s" (former reference 9)
1977/594/12
reads: "The eternal mind at last is known" (former reference 10)
1977/594/13
reads: "Jesus, believing in thy name" (former reference 11]
1977/594/14
Sheet containing a manuscript hymn by Charles Wesley, the title of which is
‘Acts - Him hath God exalted etc’. The first line reads: "Jesus, mighty
intercessor" (former reference 12]
1977/594/15
Two sheets labelled "Odd pieces" and containing the following manuscript
hymns by Charles Wesley:
- ‘In temptation’: First line - "Jesus, in every time and place"
- ‘For a sluggard’: First line - "A little more delicious sleep"
- ‘Hymn for the Revd Mr Wh[itefield] & Mr W[esley]’ - "Come, saviour from
above"
(former reference IIIg]
1977/594/16
Bundle of sheets containing the following manuscript poems by Charles
Wesley:
- ‘To Dr Boyce. The humble petition’: First line - "Jesus, in every time and
place"
- Unreadable title: First line - "There are, by fond Mama supplied"
- ‘Another’ - "There are, as idle gossips talk"
- ‘On a battle of cats’ - "I sing Grimalkin, brave & bold"
- ‘Epistle to Dr Ludlow’ - "To you, dear Doctor, I appeal"
- ‘Derdham Downs’ - "Alack, & alack"
(former reference IIIb]
1977/594/17
Bundle of sheets containing manuscript poems by Charles Wesley labelled
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns
Description Manuscript poem/hymn in the hand of Charles Wesley. The first line reads
"My [unreadable word] dreadful hand it is."
The manuscript is annotated in pencil - ‘CW writing’. An accompanying note

identifies the annotator as the collector R. Thursfield Smith and appears to be
suggesting that the manuscript had been in Smith’s possession, 23 October
1902.
There is an accompanying covering letter from E. Blackall in Vale Road,

Parkstone, Dorset, to John Telford, enclosing ‘two Charles W. Hymn
manuscripts, and the Boyce, and also the little book which Mr [Thursfield]
Smith says was greatly valued by John and Mary Fletcher. This book you can
have for 7s 6d.’ 8 June, 1933
[SEE ALSO 1977/596 - THESE TWO SMALL COLLECTIONS APPEAR TO

HAVE ORIGINALLY FORMED ONE COLLECTION]
Notes Former reference Lamplough 605
Access Restrictions
Title Hymns:Ms hymns by several writers
Description Two sheets containing manuscript poems/hymns possibly in the hand of Sarah
Wesley junior. None of the hymns have titles, but the authors and first lines
are as follows:
- "This God is the God we adore" - Joseph Hart (1712-68)
- "He is a God of sovereign love" - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- "Thou dear redeemer dying lamb" - John Cennick (1718-55)
- "O Lord how great’s the favour" - From "A collection of hymns" (1757) used
by George Whitefield (1714-70)
- "The Lord of Sabbath, let us praise" - Samuel Wesley junior (1690-1739)
- "Ye slaves of sin, ye [unreadable word] of hell" - unknown author
The manuscript is annotated in pencil - ‘CW writing’. An accompanying note

identifies the annotator as the collector R. Thursfield Smith and appears to be
suggesting that the manuscript had been in Smith’s possession, 23 October
1902. The note corrects Smith’s identification of CW as the author of the
manuscript and changes it to Sarah Wesley junior.
Notes Former reference Lamplough 606. SEE ALSO 1977/595 - THESE TWO
COLLECTIONS APPEAR TO HAVE ORIGINALLY FORMED ONE COLLECTION.
Access Restrictions
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms sermons
Description Manuscript autograph sermon texts (many written in Byrom’s shorthand

system) by Charles Wesley as follows:
1977/597/10
Philippians 3:13-14 - preached 21 October 1735
1977/597/2
Exodus 20: 8 - preached at Islington near London, 24 September 1738
1977/597/3
Matthew 5:20 - Preached, 1735
1977/597/4
1 Kings 18:21 - Preached at Cowes, Isle of Wight, 30 November 1735
1977/597/5
1 John 3:14
1977/597/6
Luke 18.9
1977/597/7
Titus 3:8
1977/597/8 (a-b) 2 drafts

John 8:1
1977/597/9
Romans 3:23-25
1977/597/10
Romans 3:23-24
1977/597/11
Luke 18:9
Notes
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Title Donald Rogers:(MCGB) Diaries
Description Diaries of the Methodist minister Donald Rogers.
The circuits covered comprise:

Mansfield, 1961-66
London Mission (East), 1966-68
Leytonstone and Forest Gate, 1968-71
Wisbech, 1971-75
Wisbech and Hengrave Hall Centre for Retreats and Conferences, 1975-77
Cwm and Kingstone, 1977-82
Basildon, 1982-90
Bradford, 1990-95
Stoke on Trent, 1995-99
Chichester and Bognor Regis, 1993-2002
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code District collection
Title District papers:(WM) Minutes etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--District papers
Description Minutes, schedules and associated records created by the districts of the
Wesleyan Methodist Church (arranged alphabetically under district name) as
follows (for a separate set of minutes arranged by district number, see MA
1977/606):
Aberdeen
Minutes 1824-1842
Bath
Minutes 1821-1894
Bedford
Minutes 1831-1847
Bedford and Northampton

Minutes 1836, 1847-1931
Miscellaneous administrative correspondence, 1929-1932
Chapel sub-committee minutes, 1905-1918, 1927-1931
Schedule of Trust Property, 1901, 1918-1932
Foreign Missionary Committee minutes 1919-1932
Home Mission and Chapel Committee minutes 1886-1931
Local Preachers Committee minutes 1895-1932
Local Preachers Committee minutes with specific regard to District Local
Preachers Conventions 1889-1932
Local Preachers Committee accounts 1899-1928
Birmingham
Minutes 1800-1812, 1822-1834, 1836
Birmingham and Shrewsbury

Minutes 1835-1868, 1876-1886, 1912-1932
Minutes of the Chapel sub-committee, 1926-52
Bolton
Minutes 1869-1890
Bradford
Minutes 1828-1835
Society Book 1824-1835
Bristol
Minutes 1814-1894
Bristol and Bath

Minutes 1894-1932
Cardiff and Swansea

Minutes 1875-1896, 1898-1932
Carlisle
Minutes 1801-1919, 1921-1932
Chapel Trust Schedules for the Carlisle circuit 1856-1858
Record of chapels built in the district c.1847-c.1848
Channel Islands
Minutes 1854-1932
Chester
Minutes 1800-1814
Darlington
Minutes 1827-1835
Devonport
Minutes 1839-1915
East Anglia
Minutes 1922-1932
Edinburgh
Minutes 1800-1836
Edinburgh and Aberdeen

Minutes 1867-1880
Exeter
Minutes 1814-1843, 1868-1882 and 1905-1932
Guernsey
Minutes 1808-1853
Halifax
Minutes 1800-1827, 1830-1852
Records of chapels built c.1848
Halifax and Bradford

Minutes 1852-1930
Chapel Committee minutes 1898-1913
Hull
Minutes 1816-1840, 1871-1912
Isle of Man
Minutes 1806-1882, 1896-1932
Kent
Minutes 1816-1931
Home Missionary and Chapel Committee minutes 1893-1932
Leeds
Minutes 1836, 1848-1879, 1917-1931
Lincoln
Minutes 1819-1932
Chapel Sub-Committee minutes 1865-1901
Liverpool
Minutes 1815-1833, 1836, 1861-1867, 1873-1894 and 1924
Miscellaneous papers re the Wallasey Circuit 1921, 1932
London
Minutes 1821, 1833-1842 and 1852-1866
Bundle of ‘Particulars relating to Wesleyan Methodist Trust Property’, 1861
First London
Minutes 1867-1884
Class Leaders’ Committee minutes 1904-1932
Foreign Missions Committee minutes 1925-1932
Schedules of Trust Property 1861-1867, 1878-1881, 1883-1884, 1886-1914,
1916, 1918-1919, 1925-1932
Sustentation Fund Accounts 1877-1904
Second London (1821-1830)

See under West London
Second London (from 1867)

Minutes 1867-1881, 1883-1930
Allocation of District Meeting expenses 1878-1894
Local Preachers’ Committee minutes 1885-1911
Third London
Minutes 1881-1917
West London (1821-1830)

Minutes 1822-1831
Macclesfield
Minutes 1815-1927
Chapel Committee accounts 1905-1928
Chapel Schedules 1875-1895
Manchester
Minutes 1825-1835, 1868-1929
Manchester and Bolton

Minutes 1836-1868
Newcastle
Minutes 1811-1900
Chapel Schedules 1901-1904
District Schedules 1860, 1862-1864, 1866-1889, 1891, 1894-1899
Norwich
Minutes 1800-1844, 1877-1904
Finance Committee minutes 1889-1908
Nottingham and Derby

Minutes 1794-1859, 1862-1931
Schedule of Trust Property 1910-1922
Oxford
Minutes 1800-1932
Administrative correspondence c.1932-c.1934
Class Leaders Committee minutes 1904-1931
Home Mission Joint Committee minutes 1902-1920
Portsmouth
Minutes1812-1932
Chapel and Home Committee minutes 1928-1932
Salisbury
Minutes 1800-1811
Scotland
Minutes 1892-1923
District Manuals 1905-1907, 1916-1928 and 1930-1932
District Agendas 1917-1928 and 1930-1932
Sheffield
Minutes 1816-1893, 1905-1932
Shrewsbury
Minutes 1825-1835
South Wales
Minutes 1802-1860
Swansea
Minutes 1861-1875
Notes
Reference Code District
Title District papers:(MNC) Minutes etc
Keywords Methodist New Connexion--District papers
Methodist New Connexion (arranged alphabetically under district name) as
follows:
Halifax
Minutes 1844-1892
Missionary Committee minutes 1848-1872
Hanley
Minutes 1838-1907
District Schedules 1880-1907
Nottingham
Minutes 1863-1879
Sheffield
Minutes 1844-1869, 1883-1907
District Schedule, 1880, 1886-1907
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title District papers:(PM) Minutes etc
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--District papers
Primitive Methodist Church (arranged alphabetically under district name) as
follows:
Brinkworth (designated the Brinkworth and Swindon District from 1897)

Minutes 1866-1933
Sub-district Committee minutes 1894-1916
Carlisle and Whitehaven

Minutes 1927-1932
Building Committee minutes 1885-1932
Missionary Accounts 1922-1932
Accounts for the following district funds; Sites and Loans, Missionary, African,
General, Sustentation and African Jubilee Thanksgiving, 1901-1922
Magazine Circulation book 1910-1932
East Anglia
District Ministers Association: Reports of Annual Meetings 1868-1930
Grimsby and Lincoln

Local Preachers Training Committee minutes 1904-1932
Hull
Minutes 1902-1933
District Account Books 1896-1932
Education Committee minutes 1903-1922
Leeds
District Children’s Fund Accounts 1885-1915
Lincoln and Grimsby

Minutes 1914-1932
Liverpool
Minutes 1879-1888, 1893-1932
Separation and Readmission of Officials 1894-1932
First London
Minutes 1907-1932
List of Separations c.1910-1930
Lynn and Cambridge

Minutes 1891-1933
Equalisation Fund accounts 1925-1932
Local Preachers Committee accounts 1905-1932
Missionary Committee accounts 1927-1933
Sunday School Committee accounts 1900-1933
Temperance Treasurers’ accounts 1902-1933
Manchester
Minutes 1926-1933
Equalisation Fund Account 1903-1932
Newcastle and Sunderland

Missionary Committee minutes 1888-1903, 1918-1931
Missionary Committee accounts 1908-1932
North Britain (See under Scotland)
Norwich (see also under East Anglia)

District Ministers Association: Reports of Annual Meetings 1868-1930
Portsmouth
Home Mission Sub-Committee minutes 1880-1920
Salisbury and Southampton

District Orphanage minutes 1894-1919
Scotland
Minutes 1874-1932
Administrative correspondence 1930-1932
District Secretary’s Accounts 1901-1933 (with gaps)
District Handbooks 1931-1932
Magazine Circulation book 1909-1932
Missionary Committee Secretary’s cash book 1895-1922
Missionary Convention accounts 1922-1932
Missionary Service/Convention orders of service 1924-1932
Property Schedules 1930-1932
Separations and Re-admissions 1877-1932
Stockton and Darlington

Minutes 1886- 1932
District administrative correspondence, c.1886 – c.1910
Education Vigilance Committee minutes 1898-1906
Centenary Fund accounts book 1907-1912
Readmission of Officials c.1885-c.1927
Separation of Officials c.1885-1932
West Midlands
Minutes 1902, 1933
Applications made by societies re property to the District Building Committee
c.1909
Applications by societies to the District Building Committee to sanction the
appointment of new trustees c.1913 – c.1919
Building Committee balance sheets c.1909-c.1921
Chapel Schedules 1873-1877, 1879-1883, 1885, 1888-1914, 1919-1922
(volumes), c.1895-c.1923 (loose bundles)
District Chapel Department: Bromyard debt correspondence 1905
Sunday School Committee minutes 1880-1894
Sunday School Schedules 1881-1913
Notes
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Title District papers:(WRU) Portsmouth district minutes etc
Keywords Wesleyan Reform Union--District papers
Description Minutes of the Portsmouth District of the Wesleyan Reform Union.
Notes
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Title District papers:(BC) Minutes etc
Keywords Bible Christian Church--District papers
Description Minutes and associated records created by the districts of the Bible Christian
Church (arranged alphabetically under district name) as follows:
Devonport
Chapel Books 1870-1881, 1904-1909
London
Minutes 1825-1854
Portsmouth
Minutes 1843-1866
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title District papers:(UMFC) Minutes etc
Keywords United Methodist Free Church--District papers
Description Minutes and associated records created by the districts of the United Methodist
Free Church Church (arranged alphabetically under district name) as follows:
Leeds and Bradford

Minutes 1875-1907
Lincoln
Minutes 1870-1907
Manchester
Minutes 1867-1906
Newcastle
Minutes 1866-1907
Norwich
Minutes 1866-1907
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title District papers:(UMC) Minutes etc
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--District papers
Description Minutes and associated records created by the districts of the United Methodist
Church (arranged alphabetically under district name) as follows:
Birmingham and Dudley

Minutes 1922-1932
Bristol and South Wales

Minutes 1908-1932
District Executive minutes 1925-1932
District Executive and Finance minutes 1908-1924
Halifax and Bradford

Minutes 1908-1932
Manuscript circuit directory c.1913-1925
Printed District Handbooks 1931-1932
Hanley
Minutes 1907-1932
Leeds
Minutes 1908-1932
Leicester (circuit only)

Circuit Register 1909-1932
Circuit Quarterly Meeting minutes 1908-1932
Lincoln and Norwich

Minutes 1908-1932
Portsmouth
Minutes 1908-1932
Sheffield
Minutes 1908-1932
District Schedules 1917-1926
The following United Methodist Church Records form part of the district
collection but do not relate specifically to individual districts:
Annual Schedule for Great Britain, 1927-1932
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title District papers:(MCGB) Minutes etc
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--District papers
Description Minutes and associated records created by the districts of the Methodist Church
of Great Britain (arranged alphabetically under district name) as follows (for a
separate set of minutes arranged by district number, see MA 1977/607):
Birmingham
Women’s Work Council minutes 1937-1967
Women’s Work Council Executive Committee minutes 1937-1964
Women’s Work Cash receipts 1958-1965
Women’s Work Account book 1952-1969
Bundle of minutes of Women’s Work executive and the Women’s work
Council, c.1932-76
Christian Citizenship accounts 1959-1969
Chapel sub-committee minutes, 1932-52
Bolton and Rochdale

Minutes 1932-1946, 1971-1975
Bournemouth
Minutes 1932-1944, 1946-1957
Bradford
Minutes 1931-1950
Bristol
Minutes 1932-1965, 1972-1973
Cardiff and Swansea

Minutes 1932-1965
Carlisle
Minutes 1932-1950, 1959-1966
Chester and Warrington

Minutes 1933-55
Darlington
Minutes 1957-1967
Doncaster and Barnsley

Minutes 1932-1957
Youth Council minutes 1948-1957
Chapel Committee minutes 1932-1957
Church Membership Committee minutes 1954-1957
Church Music Society minutes 1948-1954
Class Leaders Committee minutes 1932-1954
East Anglia
Minutes 1932-1968
Forest of Dean Amalgamation Scheme

Miscellaneous correspondence and associated papers 1936-1938
Hull
Minutes 1940
Isle of Man
Minutes 1932-1957
Leicester and Northampton

Minutes 1932-1970
Leicester (circuit only)

Circuit Register 1932-1939
Circuit Quarterly Meeting minutes 1932-1934
Leeds
Minutes 1931-1968
Liverpool
Minutes 1932-1963
Ecumenical sub-committee of the General Purposes Committee minutes and
associated papers 1964-1973
Miscellaneous papers re the Wallasay Circuit 1939 and 1953
London North
Minutes 1932-1957
Home Mission Committee minutes 1942-1957
London North-East
Minutes 1932-1949
Class Leaders’ Committee minutes 1932-1953
London North-West
Minutes 1932-1970
Schedule of Trust Property c.1934
London South
Minutes 1944-1957
London South East

Minutes 1932-1943
Home Mission and Chapel Affairs Committee minutes 1932-1950
London South West

Minutes 1932-1953, 1955-1976
General Purposes Committee minutes 1949-1957
Christian Citizenship Committee minutes 1957-83
File of correspondence regarding social questions, 1967-79
File of publications and other documents re social questions, such as gambling
and drugs. Includes some committee minutes, c.1970
File of agendas for meetings of the Christian Citizenship committee, 1966-71
File of miscellaneous papers re the district’s interaction with the work of the
Division of Social Responsibility, 1977-78
File of papers of the district Social Responsibility committee, c.1973-78
File of miscellaneous papers re the district’s interaction with the work of the
Division of Social Responsibility including schedules and statistical returns,
1963-73
Manchester First
Minutes 1932-1951
Manchester Second
Overseas Missionary Committee minutes 1933-1943, 1949-1950
Manchester and Salford

Minutes 1952-1956
Overseas Missionary Committee minutes 1951-1957
Middlesborough and Darlington

Minutes 1932-1957
Newcastle
Minutes 1932-1935
Youth Work Reports and Schedules 1963-1970
Nottingham
1932-1937, 1940-1956
Minor District Meeting minutes 1954 (Closed to public access)
Oxford and Gloucester

Minutes 1932-1940, 1945-1965
Administrative correspondence c.1932-c.1934
Oxford and Leicester

Minutes 1957, 1966-1976
Portsmouth
Minutes 1933-1957
Chapel and Home Committee minutes 1932-1951
Southampton
Minutes 1957-1972
Stockport
Minutes 1951-1952
Stoke on Trent and Macclesfield

Minutes 1932-1956
Sunderland and Durham

Minutes 1932-1939
Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury

Minutes 1932-1974
District Committee correspondence re chapel affairs 1934-1952
District Expenses account (circuit quotas) 1932-1934
Home Missions and Chapel Committee minutes 1933-1955
Men’s Supper Club: Accounts and membership list 1963-1970
Reverend Brian O’Gorman – miscellaneous papers re his retirement from the
district
Register of Chapels/Churches registered for the solemnisation of marriages
1932
Schedules of Day Schools 1935-1938
Schedules of Trust property 1933-1934, 1939-1941, 1943, 1951 and 1953-
1954
Schedules re Youth Work 1957 and 1973
Synod Accounts 1933-1934
Youth Council minutes 1952-1963
Youth Council accounts and correspondence, 1967-74
Youth Council petty cash accounts, 1959-69
Youth Work income and expenditure accounts, receipts and associated
financial papers such as the subscription accounts, 1965-76
Youth Work – papers re the Norman Parker presentation fund, 1974-75
Youth Work papers c.1949-c.1975
York and Whitby

Minutes 1932-1956
Christian Citizenship Committee minutes 1951-1957
General Purposes Committee minutes 1948-1955
Home Missions Committee minutes 1945-1957
Nominations Committee minutes 1950-1956
Temperance and Social Welfare Committee minutes 1944-1951
Methodist Church Records that are part of the district collection but do not
relate specifically to individual districts
Annual Schedule for Great Britain, 1945-1946
Notes
Title District papers:(WM) Minutes, 1834-1932
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--District papers
Description
In addition to the sequence of Wesleyan district papers arranged alphabetically
under the name of the district (MA1977/598), there is a second sequence
consisting exclusively of district minutes arranged by district number. The
provenance of this collection is as follows:
The Wesleyan Conference as early as 1819 stipulated that ‘representatives of

the Districts are required to bring with them, when they come to the Stationing
Committee, perfect copies of their District Minutes for the use of the clerks
and the sub-secretary’. It was not however until 1834-35 that these copies
started to survive in any large numbers and these Conference copies of district
minutes form the separate district number sequence.
From 1834-5 until union in 1932 virtually complete sets of Wesleyan minutes
survive for many years, although there are gaps and some individual districts
are missing from the sets that do exist. The surviving sequence covers the
following years: 1834-1838, 1846-1854, 1862-1874, 1899-1932.
The series is arranged on a national basis by year and district number. From the
middle of the 19th century it was a requirement that all districts use one
specific type of book to record the Conference copy of the minutes. The
district numbers in the early 1830s were as follows:
1. London
2. Bedford and Northampton
3. Kent
4. Norwich and Lynn
5. Oxford
6. Portsmouth
7. Guernsey
8. Devonport
9. Cornwall
10. Exeter
11. Bristol
12. Bath
13. First South Wales
14. Second South Wales
15. North Wales
16. Birmingham and Shrewsbury
17. Macclesfield
18. Liverpool
19. Manchester and Bolton
20. Halifax and Bradford
21. Leeds
22. Sheffield
23. Nottingham and Derby
24. Lincoln
25. Hull
26. York
27. Whitby and Darlington
28. Newcastle
29. Carlisle
30. Isle of Man
31. Edinburgh
32. Aberdeen
33. Shetland Isles
The numbers were published in the conference minutes against the district
name and were very rarely changed, although sometimes the name of the
district itself was altered e.g. Guernsey was renamed the Channel Islands District
in 1854. When the number of Wesleyan districts did increase it was in
response to subdivisions within the London district in 1867 and 1881 to create
London Districts 1, 2 and 3. As London always appeared at the head of the
district number sequence, other districts simply moved down the order, so that
the Bedford and Northampton District which had been district 2 until 1867 was
district 4 by 1882. Researchers should consult the list of districts in the
Conference minutes when matching a particular district number with a
geographical area.
Notes
Title District papers:(MCGB) Minutes, 1932-76
Description
Following Methodist union in 1932, the newly united Church continued with
the Wesleyan Methodist practice of requiring districts to deposit a copy of the
district minutes with the Conference Office. This set of district minutes now
forms a separate sequence of district material in the MARC arranged by district
number and year (in addition to the set arranged by district name - see MA
1977/605).
The number of districts in 1932 was set at 46, was reduced to 34 in 1957 and
32 in 1974. With the creation of a North Wales District in 1987, the number
was raised to 33. The district names and numbers in 2000 were as follows:
1. London North-East
2. London North-West
3. London South-West
4. London South-East
5. Birmingham
6. Bolton and Rochdale
7. Bristol
8. South Wales
9. Cumbria
10. Channel Islands
11. Chester and Stoke-on-Trent
12. Cornwall
13. Darlington
14. East Anglia
15. Isle of Man
16. Leeds
17. Lincoln and Grimsby
18. Liverpool
19. Manchester and Stockport
20. Newcastle upon Tyne
21. North Lancashire
22. Nottingham and Derby
23. Oxford and Leicester
24. Plymouth and Exeter
25. Sheffield
26. Southampton
27. West Yorkshire
28. Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury
29. York and Hull
30. Cymru
31. Scotland
32. Shetland
33. North Wales
When ordering minutes from the set arranged by district number, it is essential
that researchers quote the specific district number as well as the district name
on the request slip. Numbers are recorded in the stationing section of the
published conference minutes for each year.
Notes
Title John Coates Bowmer:(MCGB) (1911-2000) Lecture notes,1933-35, 1940
Keywords Colleges--Victoria Park# Colleges--Hartley
Description Manuscript lecture notes compiled by the Methodist minister John Coates
Bowmer during his ministerial training at Victoria and Hartley Colleges in
Manchester, and latterly in London.
1. Church History (Free Churches)

2. Systematic Theology (The Person of Christ)
3. Theology
4. Biblical and Historical Theology (The Work of Christ)
Notes
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Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ordination certificate
Keywords Ordination# Church of England--Ordinations
Description Manuscript certificate of ordination of Charles Wesley as a priest of the

Church of England.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title George Whitefield:(1714-70) Letter to John Fletcher
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of George Whitefield to John Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley.
Notes Published - Luke Tyerman, George Whitefield (1877), volume 2, page 535.
Access Restrictions
Title Napoleon Bonaparte:(1769-1821) Portrait
Keywords
Description Pencil drawing of Napoleon Bonaparte - concealed within a landscape and

labelled as having been executed in Paris and exhibited in private during
Napoleon’s reign.
Notes
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Title James Everett:(WM/UMFC) (1784-1872) Papers
Keywords
Description Key to landmarks contained in an engraving of the city of York as seen from
the study of the minister James Everett.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge:(MCGB) (1913-2003) Research notes
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Scholarship# Hymns--Wesley, Charles

(1707-88)
Description Research papers compiled by the Methodist minister and historian Dr Oliver
Aveyard Beckerlegge, principally for use in "The Unpublished Poetry of
Charles Wesley"
Box 1
1. Folder of miscellaneous correspondence, with typescript copies of poems by
Charles Wesley
2. Typescript essay on John Fletcher by George Artingstall (Eayers essay for
1950)
3-14. Folders of typescript copies of Charles Wesley poems
Box 2
1. Folder of correspondence and miscellaneous documents (including transcripts
and copies of manuscript material) concerning OB’s research interests, with
particular regard to the collection of unpublished poetry of Charles Wesley,
c.1987
2-6. Folders of typescript copies of Charles Wesley poems, including proof(?)
copies of the "Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley" (published in 3 volumes
by Kingswood Books in 1992), edited by OB and ST Kimbrough, and other
research material and correspondence connected with Charles Wesley’s poetry
Box 3
1-12. Folders of typescript copies of Charles Wesley poems, including proof(?)
copies of the "Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley" (published in 3 volumes
by Kingswood Books in 1992), edited by OB and ST Kimbrough, and other
research material and correspondence connected with Charles Wesley’s poetry.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAM JW 2/98
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Samuel Furley
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from John Wesley to Samuel Furley.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to William Thom
Date of Material 30 September
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter from John Wesley to William Thom.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley (1703-91) Xerox copy letter to Samuel Bradburn
Keywords
Description Xerox copy letter from John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Parliamentary Papers:Commonwealth Immigration bill
Keywords Parliamentary papers (Great Britain)# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Christian Citizenship Dept.# Methodist Missionary Society# Methodist Church
(Great Britain)--Immigration# Race & Religion
Description Typescript submission drafted for the attention of Parliament by the

Methodist Missionary Society and the Methodist Church Department of
Christian Citizenship expressing concern re the Commonwealth Immigration Bill.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title International affairs:(MCGB) Report re Prague Peace Conference
Date of Material October 1960
Description Typescript confidential report re the Prague Peace Conference.
Notes
Title Nehemiah Curnock:(WM) (1840-1915) Transcripts of historic
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Diaries & Journals--Wesley, John# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--London--Society membership list#
Description 3 volumes of manuscript transcriptions of historic documents by the Wesleyan

minister and historian Nehamiah Curnock
1. Autobiographical memoir of the Wesleyan itinerant Charles Atmore (1759-

1826), terminating in November 1825. Also includes Curnock’s transcripts of
manuscript correspondence of John Wesley that were in Atmore’s possession
(all are in the standard edition of Wesley’s letters), namely to the following
correspondents:
Susanna Wesley - 28 Feb 1732
Christopher Hopper - 9 October and 24 November 1767; 9 January, 29 March,
1 October and 3 December 1768; 20 November 1769; 12 November 1773; 25
July and 3 December 1774
Charles Atmore - 28 May 1782 and 24 March 1790
2. Manuscript transcript by Curnock of John Wesley’s diaries, 1 December

1782 to 31 January 1790
3. Manuscript transcript by Curnock of the following documents:

- John Wesley’s journal, 13 September 1736 to 15 December 1737
- List of members of the [London?] Society (1939 names), November 16 1745
- Letters of John Wesley to Henry Moore, 4 November 1786; 6 May, 11 May

and 17 May 1788
- Letters of John Wesley to Thomas Coke, 16 May 1788
- Letter of John Wesley to George Whitefield, March 1753
- Letter of anonymous to John Wesley, 4 October 1753
- Letter of Thomas Coke to John Wesley, 17 April 1784
- Letter of Mr Masefield to John Wesley, 19 February 1742
- Letter of Henry Piers to John Wesley, 24 May 1742
- Letter of Vincent Perronet to John Wesley, 9 July 1771
- Letter of Charles Perronet to Sister Johnson, 1 May 1775
- Letter of Vincent Perronet to John Wesley, 22 November 1777
- Letters of John Fletcher to John Wesley, 20 February and 24 June 1771 and 9
January 1776
- Letter of John Horton to John Wesley, 17 April 1772
- Letter of John Crook to John Wesley, 24 July 1776
- Personal accounts of John Wesley, 1782 to 1790
Notes Former reference Lamplough collection L592
Access Restrictions
Title James Hervey:(CE) (1714-58) Letters to John Wesley
Keywords Church of England--Evangelicalism# Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan

Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Church of England--Calvinist# Calvinism#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the Church of England
Description Manuscript volume containtaining eleven copy letters (in the hand of James
Hervey) addressed to John Wesley in answer to Wesley’s remarks on Theron
and Aspasio, published in 1755.
Notes Former reference Lamplough L593
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Ministers’ biographical notices:(WM) Collected by William Upcott
Description Scrapbook containing portrait engravings and biographical notes re Wesleyan

ministers, principally from the period 1800-1833, but with some letters and
associated papers of earlier Methodists including the Wesley brothers.
Compiled by William Upcott, 1833
The scrapbook contains the following autograph letters and associated

documents:
- Receipt in the hand of John Wesley acknowledging payment of a legacy from

the will of Dorothy Hundlebec(?),16 December 1789
- Letter from Charles Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell, 13 August [1748]
- Letter from John Fletcher to [David] Simpson, 16 May 1784
- Letter from Mary Fletcher to anon., undated
- Letter from Joseph Benson to Mrs Bulmer, 21 November 1817
Portrait engravings, frequently accompanied by biographical notes and other

"uplifting comments" (often in the handwriting of the subject at Upcott’s
request) written by and/or concerning the following ministers (many of the
notations are dated 1823 to 1832 and were probably collected at Conferences):
Thomas Coke
Joseph Benson
Samuel Drew
Adam Clarke
Jabez Bunting
James Hamilton
Richard Waddy
James Buckley
John Mason
Benjamin Clough
Walter Griffith
John Gaulter
John Brown
Thomas Marriott
Henry Moore
John Stephens
James Lynch
William Buckley Fox
John Hawtrey
Jonathan Ferguson
George Dermott
Richard Reece
John Fordred
William Henshaw
John James
Thomas Edwards
Samuel Singer
Donald MacPherson
William Toase
John Bell
William J. Shrewsbury
James Methley
Peter McOwen
Robert Newton
Joseph Entwisle
John Burdsall
Alexander Strachan
William Vevers
William Martin
Francis Truscott
John Reynolds
James Townley
James Gill
Richard Gower
William Tranter
Abraham Stead
William Atherton
Edward Oakes
James Mole
Henry De Jersey
Joseph Sutcliffe
Edmund Grindrod
James Jones
Joshua Marsden
John Hannah
Francis A. West
James Wood
Robert Wood
Robert Nicholson
Frederick Calder
Ebenezer Stewart
Robert Smith
Thomas Edwards
Robert Smith
Thomas Eastwood
Thomas Galland
Jonathan Crowther
Abraham E. Farrar
Thomas Simmonite
John Davies
Jacob Stanley
William B. Stephenson
John Hobson
William Stewart
William Fowler
William Welborne
Stephen Wilson
John Scott
John Aikenhead
John Sundius Stamp
John Rossall
Isaac Turton
Benjamin Andrews
John Shipman
George Marsden
John Kershaw
William Maclardie Bunting
William Capers (US Methodist Episcopal Church representative to the
British Conference 1828)
Jonathan Edmondson
Thomas Powell
Matthew Tobias
William Shelmerdine
William Towers
Daniel Campbell
Thomas Roberts
John Hughes Adams
William Beal
Joseph Sutcliffe (author of manuscript poem - "The Worn-out Preacher)
Titus Close
Samuel Wood
Samuel Jackson
John Farrar
John Beecham
Thomas Stead
John Partis Haswell
James Everett
George Douglas
Thomas Savage
Hugh Hughes
Thomas Robinson
John Smedley (author of manuscript poem - "The Missionary’s Return")
William Radcliffe (enclosed Manx version of "O for a heart to praise")
John Hughes
John Mortier
David McNichol
John Williams
Robert Alder
Thomas Waugh
James Rosser
Wilson Brailsford
Samuel Trueman
Richard Greenwood
James Mowat
George Cubitt
John S. Stamp
Richard Watson
John Bicknell
Elijah Hoole
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Bible Commentary,1755
Keywords Church of England--Anti-Methodism# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Anti-

Methodism# Biblical studies# Church of England--Calvinist# Calvinism
Description "Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament" by John Wesley (London,
printed by Bowyer, 1755). Manuscript annotations by the Calvinist Anglican
evangelical and hymnwriter Augustus Toplady (1740-78) (author of "Rock of
Ages).
Toplady’s opinion of Wesley’s scholarship is clearly stated in his annotation to

the preface:
"Happy had it been for Mr Wesley if only unlearned men had read this horrid
commentary for then he could not have been detected in his mistranslations"
Also includes 20th century research notes in a separate archive envelope in this
same
Notes Former reference Lamplough collection 53
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAM P12C
Title Ministers’ letters etc:(WM) Compiled by Charles E. Wansborough
Description Scrapbook of letters and autographs of Wesleyan ministers collected by the

Wesleyan minister Charles Edward Wansborough (1847-1908)
The scrapbook includes hundreds of autograph letters written principally by

Wesleyan ministers in the second half of the 19th century (see list of contents
in the front of the volume). It includes the following manuscripts of specific
and special value:
- Letter from Mary Fletcher to Alexander Suter,30 June 1792
- Letter from Charles Perronet to Samuel Furley (with an annotation by John
Wesley),undated
- Manuscript verse in the hand of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) being a copy of
his father Charles Wesley’s poem on the death of George Whitefield. Dated 16
September 1828, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91):Letters collected by George Mather (d.1888)
Keywords Women and religion# Deathbeds--Wesley, John# Wesleyan Methodist Church-

-Foreign Missions--General# Poetry--18th century# Biblical studies# Sermons--
1735-91
Description Scrapbook containing letters etc collected by the Weleyan minister George
Mather (d.1888) - signed by Mather inside the cover and dated Southport,
1886. The letters are mainly John Wesley autographs but with other Wesleyan
preachers/minsters as well.
The scrapbook contains the following autograph letters and associated papers:
- Printed cartoon from Punch magazine showing a Wesleyan Methodist maid

rejecting the advances of Dr Pusey, 29 August 1868
- Printed leaflet giving an official Methodist account of the death of John
Wesley - based on the experiences of Elizabeth Ritchie, 8 March 1791
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,6 October 1775 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,12 October 1771
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,12 July 1773 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,18 August(?) 1775
- Printed circular sent immediately after the death of John Wesley instructing
preachers to remain in their stations until Conference - also contains a
manuscript note addressed by anonymous (possibly Elizabeth Ritchie) to Mary
Fletcher, 2 March 1791
- John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn,16 January 1781
- John Wesley to Mary Fletcher,12 July 1782 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to Mary Fletcher,7 August 1786
- John Wesley to Mary Fletcher,6 September 1786
- John Wesley to Mary Fletcher,9 January 1788
- John Wesley to John Valton,31 October 1788 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to Mary Bosanquet, undated (refers to Sarah Ryan, who died in
1768)
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,26 February 1774 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,22 March 1775 (19th century copy - see
below for the autograph manuscript)
- John Wesley to Mrs Jones,22 August 1759 (19th century copy- see below for
the autograph manuscript))
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,1 June 1776 (19th century copy)
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,22 March 1775
- John Wesley to John Fletcher,22 May 1768
- John Wesley to John Bredin,20 February 1782
- John Wesley to Mrs Jones,22 August 1759
- Charles Wesley to Sarah Ryan, 25 December (no year)
- Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) to [Miss Harrington],4 November 1826
- Poem on "Mathew 19:17" by Charles Wesley
- Poem on "Mathew 9" by Charles Wesley
- Facsimile of a printed broadsheet setting out "A Plan of the Society for the
Establishment of Missions among the Heathens" - annotated by Thomas
Coke,6 January 1784
- Bible notes by John Fletcher
- Mary Fletcher to anonymous,8 November 1810
- Joseph Butterworth to Mary Tooth,24 July 1823
- Mary Townley to Dr Townley,April 1829
- Elizabeth Ritchie to Mary Fletcher,27 December 1800
- Lady Darcy Maxwell to anonymous,16 November 1767
- John Rogers to George Mather,18 July 1860
- Text of the first sermon preached by Samuel Bradburn,7 February 1773
- License by the Quarter Sessions of Mary Fletcher’s house in Madeley as a
Methodist chapel,16 July 1811
- Scripture cards with annotations by John Fletcher
- Portrait engraving of Mary Fletcher
- Adam Clarke to Samuel Thompson,12 November 1829
- Poem entitled "The spring concert" by Sigourney Hartford
- Jonathan Holland to Reverend J. Walter,11 May 1855
- Portrait engraving of James Montgomery
- James Montgomery to J. H Maund,8 August 1853
- John Bartlett to George Mather,8 April 1858
- Mrs Bartlett to anonymous,27 October 1864
- Signed autograph letter of King George III instructing that a collection for
relief of the poor be taken (signed also by the Duke of Halifax),13 February
1764
- Autograph of the Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper - famous
philanthropist and politician)
- Copy letter from Mr Haughton of Rochester to anonymous of Rotherhithe,9
August 1807
- Printed poem entitled "Vegetable matter - or a further discovery in the
Garden of Eden"
- Printed broadsheet containing "A selection of curious names of Wesleyan
Ministers"
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code N/A
Title Ordinations:(WM) Transcripts of documents,1754-93
Keywords Ordination# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Sacraments# Sacraments# Church of England--Ordinations# Church of
England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)
Description Small notebook (reddish-brown in colour) containing 19th century transcripts

of 18th century Methodist papers, principally concerned with the ordination of
Wesleyan preachers and the Sacramental question from 1754 to 1793.
The notebook contains the following transcripts:

- Extracts from the shorthand diary of Charles Wesley (shorthand symbols and
plain language decipherment), 17 October to 24 October 1754
- Extracts from the diary of Charles Atmore and letters of John Pawson
regarding the ordination of Wesleyan preachers, 17 May 1788 to 14 April
1792
- Extract from the diary of Charles Atmore regarding Wesleyan Conference
debates over the Sacramental question, 29 July to 30 July 1793
- Extracts from shorthand diary of John Wesley (shorthand symbols and plain
language decipherment) listing his ordinations of Wesleyan preachers, 1784 to
1789, together with 19th century notes concerning the same
- Extracts from the diary of Charles Atmore (copied by Elijah Hoole, 1854),
28 June 1786 to 28 January 1787. These extracts include a detailed account of
the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference held in Bristol in late July 1786
- Extracts from the published journal of John Wesley, 25 July to 30 July 1786
- Extracts from the diary of John Wesley (shorthand symbols and plain
language decipherment as copied by Adam Clarke), 1783 and 23 July to 28 July
1786
-Transcript of the document of John Wesley’s ordination of Charles Atmore, 1
August 1786
- Extract from John Wesley’s diary, 1 December 1782
- Extract from John Wesley’s diary recording John Barber’s ordination
(shorthand symbols and plain language decipherment), 18 May 1788
- Extract from John Wesley’s diary (shorthand symbols and plain language
decipherment), 25-27 February 1789
-Transcript of the document of John Wesley’s ordination of Henry Moore, 27
February 1789 (with 19th century notes concerning the same)
- Transcript of a letter from Charles Wesley regarding the ordinations, March
1760
- Extract from John Wesley’s diary (shorthand symbols and plain language
decipherment), 1-25 February 1790
- Notes regarding John Wesley’s manuscript diaries, correspondence with the
preachers and other early Methodist historical subjects.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title George Whitefield:(CE/Ind) (1714-70) Portrait engravings
Keywords Engravings--Whitefield, George (1714-70)
Description Bound volume containing portrait engravings of George Whitefield. The title
of the volume states that the folder also contains a holograph letter of 1761,
but this was not in the volume as of August 2009.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Ministers’ letters etc, volume 1:(WM) Scrapbook
Date of Material 18th and19th

Description Scrapbook entitled "Autographs and Illustrations" (Wesleyan Methodist

History and Offices), volume 1, containing letters, news cuttings, obituaries and
portrait engravings etc relating to Wesleyan Methodist ministers, mainly 19th
century, but with some 18th century preachers (list of contents inside front
cover)
Contents relate specifically to the following individuals (names often occur

more than once in the volume):
Samuel Warren
John Anderson
Joseph Cusworth
Francis West
Charles Prest
William France
David Stoner
John Stephenson
John Greeves
John Murlin
John Pawson
John Partis Haswell
Thomas Harris
Charles Haydon
Samuel Romilly Hall
Peter Horton
Jonathan Barker
William Naylor
John Waterhouse
John Scott
Robert Lomas
Elijah Newhouse
John C. Leppington
William Blagborne
Joseph Entwisle
Thomas Blanshard
Edward Hare
James Townley
Richard Waddy
John Braithwaite
James Buckley
John Kershaw
John Mason
Joseph Taylor
William Toase
Abraham E. Farrar
James H. Rigg
George T. Perks
Notes
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Reference Code N/A

Church--Clergy--General# Engravings--Clergy

History and Offices), volume 2, containing letters, news cuttings, obituaries,
biographical notes and portrait engravings etc relating to Wesleyan Methodist
ministers, mainly 19th century, but with some 18th century preachers (list of
contents inside front cover).

Thomas Olivers
George Story
Joseph Benson
James McDonald
Jabez Bunting
Thomas Jackson
George Cubitt
William L. Thornton
Samuel Romilly Hall
Benjamin Gregory
John Atlay
George Whitfield (Wesleyan minister - not the Anglican evangelical)
Robert Lomas
Thomas Blanshard
John Kershaw
John Mason
John Brown
Richard Waddy
Joseph Taylor
John Bicknell
Daniel Walton
Peter McOwen
John Farrar
William Barton
Theophilus Woolmer
John Brown
Alexander E. Farrar
John Bicknell
Robert Newstead
William Davenport
Benjamin Field
Thomas Simpson
John Cennick
Thomas McGeary
John Pritchard
Robert Johnson
Robert Smith
Joseph Cusworth
William E. Sargent
James Wood
Thomas Stanley
Miles Martindale
John Stamp
George Morley
John Farrar
Charles Atmore
Jonathan Edmondson
Joseph Entwisle
William Toase
John Hannah
Thomas Stanley
John Scott
P. C. Turner
Edmund Grindrod
Charles Prest
William Beal
John Smith
George Osborn
Benjamin Waddy
Richard Treffry
Samuel Jackson
William Martin Harvard
Daniel Sanderson
John Bowers
William Jackson
Samuel Coley
William L. Thornton
Jonathan Crowther
Benjamin Hellier
John D. Geden
William Barton
William Atherton
James H. Rigg
Robert Wood
John Rattenbury
Michael C. Taylor
Notes
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Reference Code PLP/89/39/1
Title James Harrison Rigg:(WM) (1821-1909) Letters etc
Keywords
Description Letters and other papers of the Wesleyan minister James Harrison Rigg, 1821-
1904.
The collection contains the following papers:

- list of ministerial stations
- portrait photograph
- Certificate attesting to the birth and patrentage of James Harrison Rigg in
Northumberland Street, Newcastle on Tyne on 16 January 1821
- 20 letters written to Rigg after a leader appeared in the Methodist Times for
January 13 1896 attacking him for a letter he had written to Cardinal Manning
on education, which was subsequently published (without permission) in
Purcell’s Life of Manning
- letters written by Rigg to the following correspondents:
Mr Allen: 31 May 1879, 10 January 1882, 19 April 1882
Mr Banks, 14 July 1893
Mr Bate[?], 5 October 1880
John E. Coulson, 27 April 1869
J. Richard Hargreaves, 25 February 1886
John Knowles, undated
John P. Lockwood, 27 January 1886
Dr D. H. McNicholl, 7 October 1854
George Osborn, 22 November 1878 and 11 November 1883
Gregory A. Page, 17 August 1904
H. W. Retheslas[?], 2 January 1900
Mr Rees, undated and 25th June no year
Richard Rymer, 26 June 1869
Mr Smith, 15 June 1871
Mr G. Stampe, 12 July 1898
John Telford, 6 October 1897
Luke Tyerman, 4 December 1857
Unnamed correspondent: 17 November 1848, 13 December 1848, 25 March
1856, 26 September 1877, 19 October 1877, 14 September 1883 and 25
February 1899
Mr Walker, 22 June 1878 and 19 July 1878
Charles E. Wansborough: 12 June 1890, 18 April 1891and 28 June 1892
William L. Watkinson: [1878], 4 September 1898, 24 June 1899 and 31
January 1899
Mr Woolmer, 17 January 1889
Frederick C. Wright, 23 May 1893.
Notes
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Title Liverpool (South):(MCGB) Circuit plans

Description 2 circuit plans for the Liverpool South Circuit, October 1938-June 1939.
Notes
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Title Methodist Hymn Book:(WM) 19th cent. edition of 1780 collection
Keywords
Description Printed copy of a 19th cent. edition of the 1780 Methodist collection (pocket-
size).
Notes
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Title William Saul:(PM) (1852-c.1923) Memoir
Keywords Local Preachers# Colleges--Sunderland# Primitive Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Local Preachers
Description Xerox copies of personal papers of the Primitive Methodist local preacher
William Saul of Sheffield (1852-post.1923).
Xerox copy letter sent to William Saul by an unnamed friend (unreadable

signature) studying at the Primitive Methodist Sunderland ministerial training
institute, 12 September 1876
Xerox copy lecture delivered by Saul to his chapel on the subject of his life as a
Primitive Methodist, 1923.
Notes
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Title Wesleyan reform movement:Published tracts
Keywords Wesleyan Reform movement# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Wesleyan Reform

movement
Description 2 Wesleyan reform tracts, 1849
1. "The Origin and Development of the Sacred Deposit: A speech delivered at

the Horns Tavern, London, by William Martin"
2. "The Fly-sheets vindicated, or, the statements and arguments of the writers
in the fly sheets reasserted and defended, in answer to observations in the
Watchman, "Papers on Wesleyan matters" and other anonymous publications"
Notes
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Title Colleges:(WM) Handsworth,Manuscript magazine
Keywords Colleges--Handsworth# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Periodicals--College
Description "The Bandersatch" - manuscript magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist

Handsworth ministerial training college.
Notes
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Title Philip Edward Slater:(MCGB) (1907-71) Copy family memoirs
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign Missions--China# Methodism

(China)# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Memoirs relating to the family of the minister Philip Edward Slater (1907-71),
missionary in China between 1934 and 1945.
1. Typescript "Philip Edward Slater (1907-71), Methodist Preacher and

Missionary in China 1934-45: An appreciation and a memoir" by Reverend
Kenneth Roy Brown (1994)
2. Typescript "Memoirs (autobiography) of Phyllis May Slater" (1978) - wife

of Philip Edward Slater.
Notes
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Title Circuit Plans:(MCGB) Large diverse collection
Date of Material post 1945

Description Large collection of circuit plans with representation from most British circuits,
but incomplete for date. Arranged alphabetically under circuit name into 2
boxes,.
Notes
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Title Ralph Gibson:(WM) (1791-1848) Letter to Samuel Stratford
Keywords
Description Letter of the Wesleyan minister Ralph Gibson to Samuel Stratford.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(WM) Handsworth
Description Photographs of Handsworth College, Birmingham, students, c. 1928-31,

Handsworth College history, 1881-1931, Handsworth College magazine - ‘The
Cassoway’ (June 1931).
Notes
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Description
8 full text 18th century newspapers containing references to the Wesley
brothers or early Methodism
1. The Daily Advertiser, 28 January 1758

2. The London Chronicle, or Universal Evening Post, 15-17 January 1761
3. The London Chronicle, or Universal Evening Post, 19-21 February 1761
4. The London Chronicle, or Universal Evening Post, 26-28 February 1761
5. The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 23 June 1777
6. The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 10 December 1777
7. The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 27 April 1787
8. The London Chronicle, 1 May 1790.
Notes
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Title Lincolnshire Methodism and Cliff College:(MCGB) Papers
Keywords Colleges--Cliff
Description Papers re Cliff College near Sheffield and other local Methodist matters
1. Letter from the principal of Cliff College to Mr A. Turner of Lincoln, 12

October 1962
2. Printed leaflet re Ermine Estate West Methodist Church, Lincoln, c.1960
3. Printed leaflet re West Parade Methodist Church, c.1970
4. Printed admission ticket to the opening service for Ermine West Methodist
Church, Lincoln, 1960
5. Printed leaflet re the stonelaying ceremony for West Parade Methodist
Church, Lincon, 1962
6. Printed leaflet re Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich, c.1960
7. Sheet of information re the Methodist Church and the Lincoln City Centre
scheme, c.1960
8. Bundle of documents re Methodism in Brigg, 1962
9. Synod handbook of the Hull Wesleyan Methodist district, 1932
10. Black and white photograph of the stonelaying ceremony of West Parade
Methodist Church, Lincoln, c.1960.
Notes
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Title Leigh on Sea:(MCGB) Leigh on Sea
Description Circuit plans of the Leigh on Sea circuit.
Notes
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Title Circuit plans:(MCGB) Brentford and Hounslow
Description Circuit plans of the Brentford and Hounslow circuit.
Notes
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Title Coleraine:(MC of Ireland):Circuit plan
Description Circuit plan of the Coleraine circuit in Northern Ireland.
Notes
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Reference Code MAR 224A (Methodist Peace
Title Methodist Peace Fellowship:(MCGB) Papers and printed matter
Keywords Pacifism# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Pacifism
Description Papers and printed material associated with the Methodist Peace Fellowship
(MPF) and Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land Units, 1941-1971
Box 1
1/1 Folder containing printed and typescript newsletters produced by the
"Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land Units" based at Kingsway in London,
1941-1945
1/2 Folder containing papers connected with the work of the Methodist Peace
Fellowship, including correspondence, draft articles/working papers, printed
MPF bulletins and relevant Methodist Conference reports, 1942-1968
1/3 Folder containing minutes of the MPF, 1960-1966
1/4 Folder containing minutes of the executive of MPF, 1955-1961
Box 2
2/1 Folder containing minutes of the executive of the MPF, with supporting
papers, 1965-1971
2/2 Folder containing minutes of the executive of the MPF, with supporting
papers, 1961-1965
2/3 Folder containing minutes of the annual general meeting of the MPF,
1950-1970
Box 3
3/1 Register of new members (and resignations), 1945-58
3/2 Bundle of printed copies of the MPF constitution and covenant, 1953
3/3 Minutes of the MPF executive, December 1937-January 1944
3/4 Minutes of the MPF executive, February 1944-October 1954
3/5 Bundle of printed copies of the order of service for the taking of the MPF
covenant, 1969.
Notes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Service
Description Letters (mainly 1930s) and pamphlets (1900s) relating to Samuel Edward
Keeble together with pamphlets of the Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social
Service. Also includes some correspondence (1970s) of Keeble’s biographer
Michael Edwards.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(MCGB) Headingley,Photographs
Description Four framed photographs of members of Headingley College, Leeds.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title William Christopher Jackson:(UMC) (1874-1944) Official papers
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Methodism--Union#

Schools# Colleges--Victoria Park# United Methodist Church (Great Britain)#
United Methodist Church (Great Britain--Schools
Description Official papers connected with the ministry of William Christopher Jackson
(1874-1944), United Methodist minister and president of Conference (1935).
1. Statement of capital account, balance sheet and income account, connected

with the estate of John Henry Warhurst deceased, 1903.
2. Bundle of correspondence concerning financial matters arising from the

imminence of Methodist union, with
particular regard to the Children’s Fund and connexional schools, 1930.
3. Bundle of correspondence concerning the Committee of Enquiry re

Education Affairs, 1938.
4. Bundle of correspondence concerning property in Addington Street and

Marshall Street, Manchester, 1936-1939.
5. List of administrative papers sent to Reverend E.C. Barton of Epworth

Press, concerning Victoria Park College, Manchester, 1934.
6. Appointment of new trustees to the United Methodist Church caretakers

house and other premises in Hunslet, Leeds, with enclosed correspondence,
1910-28.
7. Bundle of papers concerning a bequest by the Misses Stretchley to the United

Methodist Church in the Channel Islands, 1932.
8. Bundle of papers concerning the administration of the trusts on United

Methodist Church property in Dukinfield, Lancashire, 1919-1930.
9. Will of Abraham Sharman of Sheffield, together with associated papers

concening the administration of his estate, with particular regard to his bequest
to the United Methodist Church, 1884-1922.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Schools:(WM) Managament trust deed
Keywords Schools# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Schools
Description Trust deed for the management of Wesleyan Secondary Schools.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Parliamentary Papers:Bill re Methodist Church Purposes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Trustees for Wesleyan Methodist Church

purposes# United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Trustees for Methodist
Church purposes# Methodism--Union
Description Bill to incorporate the trustees for Methodist Church Purposes and to vest in
them the properties formerly vested in the trustees for Wesleyan Methodist
Church purposes or in the trustees for United Methodist Church purposes, with
associated papers.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Trustees for Chapel Purposes:(WM) Annual report
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Trustees for Wesleyan Methodist Chapel purposes
Description Printed report of the Board of Trustees for Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Purposes, for the year ending 30 June 1908.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Parliamentary Papers:Methodist Union,Parliamentary Evidence
Keywords Methodism--Union# Parliamentary papers (Great Britain)
Description Minutes of evidence before the House of Lords in the matter of the Methodist
Church Union Bill.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Parliamentary Papers:Legislation affecting Methodism,1822-1939
Keywords Parliamentary papers (Great Britain)
Description Miscellaneous printed papers re Acts of Parliament as follows:
Finance (New Duties) 1916

Charitable Trusts 1925
Landlord and Tenant (War Damage) 1939
Roads Improvement 1925
Rating and Valuation 1925
Land Titles and Transfer 1875
Education 1902
Marriage 1898
Land Transfer 1897
Places of Worship (enfranchisement) 1920
War Charities 1916
Marriage 1898
Mortmain and Charitable Uses 1888
Land Titles and Transfer 1875
Charitable Trusts (Places of Worship) 1894
Endowed Charities 1860
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions 1933
Yorkshire Registries 1884
Disused Burial Grounds 1884
Burial 1900
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 1939
Trustee 1893
Voluntary Elementary Schools 1897
Conveyance of land for charitable purposes 1864
Purposes of religious worship 1850
Exemption of Sunday and Ragged Schools from Rating 1869
Finance 1931
United Methodist Church 1907
Church building 1822, 1831
Conveyance of land for charitable purposes 1861
Jurisdiction of Charity Commissioners 1861
Religious exemption from poor and church rates 1833
Enfranchisement of the sites of places of worship 1920
Incorporation of charitable trustees 1872
Tithe commutation 1860
Charitable Trusts (places of worship) 1894
Methodist Church in Ireland 1928
Rating and Valuation 1925
Public Trustee 1906
Burial 1900
Wesleyan Methodist Trust Property 1901
Methodist Church 1939
Conveyance and endowment of sites for schools 1841.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 9300A
Title Methodist Sacramental Fellowship:Papers re hymns
Keywords Methodist Sacramental Fellowship# Hymns
Description Folder of letters and other papers re the use of hymns in Methodist worship
(Methodist Sacramental Fellowship).
Notes No accession number on original document - accessioned with the rest of the
contents of accessions box 17, which appear to have been deposited
in the last quarter of 1994 (Gareth Lloyd, March 2006)
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Title Chapels:(WM) Engravings (national coverage)
Keywords Engravings--Chapels# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Engravings
Description Scrapbook of engravings of Wesleyan chapels.
Notes
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Reference Code District papers
Title Norwich:(PM):District Chapel Schedules
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--District papers# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Chapels
Description Chapel schedules of the Norwich Primitive Methodist district as follows:
Box 1
1. 1852
2. 1853
Box 2
1. 1854
2. 1855
Box 3
1. 1856
2. 1857
Box 4
1. 1858
2. 1859
Box 5
1. 1860
2. 1861
Box 6
1. 1862
2. 1863
Notes
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Reference Code Osborn
Title Osborn family:(WM) Papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--General
Description Papers of the Osborn family, including correspondence and associated papers
relating to the prominent Wesleyan layman George Osborn (1764-1836), his
sons the Wesleyan ministers James Osborn (1809-82) and George Osborn
junior (1808-91).
Box 1-2
Letters of George Osborn (1764-1836) to Jabez Bunting and Thomas Jackson,

1821-26
Letters of James Osborn (1809-82) to George Osborn (1808-91), Hannah

Osborn (fl.1836-39), Charles Thomas Longley (1794-1868) (Bishop of
Durham and later Archbishop of Canterbury), Thomas George Osborn (1843-
1910) and Herbert Osborn (1858-1940)
Letters of George Osborn (1808-1891) to William Moister (1808-1891 and

Ellen Osborn
Miscellaneous items, including: commonplace book of James Osborn (1809-

1882) 1836-1838; Press cuttings compiled by James Osborn (1809-1882);
extracts from the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine 1854-1870; notebook
containing cuttings re the Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Fund;
George Osborn (1808-1891), "Memoirs of the late George Osborn of
Rochester: by his eldest son", extracted from an article in the Wesleyan
Methodist Magazine October 1839.
Notes
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Reference Code MAR 220g
Title William Harold Beales:(WM) (1886-1967) Diaries and other papers
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1900-2009# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--

Photographs# Schools--Kingswood# Sermons--1850-99# Sermons--1900-32#
Sermons--1933-2000
Description Box 1
Correspondence, 1918-1963
Diary of a visit to the USA, September-November 1931
Papers relating to the Cambridge Group (Cambridge University Wesley Society,

c.1924-c.1927
Photographs and news cuttings, c.1920-c.1980
Manuscript notes on "St Paul: A study on social and religious history" by Adof
Deissmann (1913)
Manuscript diary kept by Beales, while at Kingswood School, January-October

1903
Manuscript list of daily readings from the bible, arranged by date, 1908
Bundle of miscellaneous printed pamphlets and service sheets, c.1909-c.1960
Box 2
Manuscript sermons written in childhood
2 Manuscript sermon notebooks
Manuscript dated loose sermons
Manuscript undated loose sermons and addresses
Sermon outlines (Old Testament)
Sermon outlines (New Testament)
Index to sermon illustrations
2 Sermon registers.
Notes
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Reference Code Brooks family (MA 4984)
Title Joseph Barlow Brooks:(MNC) (1874-1952) Family papers
Keywords Colleges--Ranmoor# Methodist New Connexion--Clergy# United Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Clergy
Description Papers relating to the family of the Methodist New Connexion/United

Methodist minister Joseph Barlow Brooks (1874-1952)
Box 1
1/1 Family correspondence, 1934-36
1/2 Family correspondence, 1941
1/10 Family correspondence, 1949-52
1/11 Family correspondence, undated
1/12-14 Papers relating to published works
Box 2
2/1 Correspondence and other papers relating to Harold Fletcher Brooks
(b.1907) - son of Joseph Barlow Brooks and his wife Jenni), including his notes
on his families history, 1928-c.1980
2/2 Correspondence of Jennie Brooks (d.1942), wife of Joseph Barlow Brooks,
1934-41
2/3 Books containing names of visitors to the Brooks family home at
"Ranmoor", Oxford, 1942; degree awarded by the University of Durham to
Jennie Johnson (later the wife of Joseph Barlow Brooks), 1899; press cuttings;
album containing water colour paintings and poems, c.1900
2/4 Correspondence relating to Emily Gwladys Brooks (second wife of Joseph
Barlow Brooks), 1945-52
2/5 Correspondence relating to Emily Gwladys Brooks, 1957-71
2/6 Miscellaneous papers relating to Emily Gwladys Brooks
2/7 Miscellaneous papers relating to Kathie (Kate) Johnson (1880-1959), sister
of Jennie Brooks
2/8 Miscellaneous papers relating to Dr Lily (Elizabeth) Johnson (d.1955),
sister of Jennie Brooks
2/9 News cuttings of a Brooks family interest
MA 4984 Conferment of the freedom of the town of Jarrow onto George

Johnson, Alderman and Justice of the Peace (1848-1930), 1926
MA 4985 Scrap book containing papers relating to the history of the Brooks
and Johnson families
Box 3
3/1 News cuttings documenting Joseph Barlow Brooks’ circuit ministry
3/2 Letters from Susie Thompson to Harold Fletcher Brooks, 1930-42
3/3 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Bradford Shearbridge Road ,
1927-32
3/4 Correspondence and associated papers re Harold Watkins Shaw of Bradford
Shearbridge Road Church
3/5 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Hawarden (Connah’s Quay),
1909-19
3/6 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Halifax Kings Cross, 1905-09
3/7 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Halifax Mount Zion, 1905-09
3/8 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Jarrow and of the Johnson
family involvement in Methodism in the town, 1897-1930
3/9 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Middlesborough, 1923-27
3/10 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ involvement with Methodism at
Radcliffe, 1900-51
3/11 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ involvement with Ranmoor College,
Sheffield, 1896-c.1945
3/12 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ ministry at Stalybridge, 1932-36
3/13 Papers re Joseph Barlow Brooks’ involvement with the Uniting
Conference, 1932
3/14 Miscellaneous papers re the ministry of Joseph Barlow Brooks, including a
copy of his will and extracts from his conference obituary
Box 4
4/1 Photographs relating to Ann Brooks nee Fletcher, mother of Joseph
Barlow Brooks, c.1900-c.1920
4/2 Photographs relating to Emily Gwladys Brooks nee Potter (second wife of
Joseph Barlow Brooks) c.1920-c.1980
4/3 Photographs relating to Jennie Brooks nee Johnson (first wife of Joseph
Barlow Brooks), c.1890-c.1920
4/4 Photographs relating to Joseph Barlow Brooks, c.1880-c.1940
4/5 Photographs relating to Samuel Brooks, brother of Joseph Barlow Brooks,
c.1880-c.1930
4/6 Brooks family group photographs, c.1920-c.1930
4/7 Photographs relating to Alderman George Johnson, c.1897-c.1925
4/8 Photographs relating to George Johnson JP, Town Clerk of Jarrow,
youngest child of George Johnson of Jarrow, c.1900-c.1930
4/9 Photographs relating to Kate Johnson, sister of Jennie Brooks, c.1880-
c.1940
4/10 Photographs relating to Dr Lily Johnson, sister of Jennie Brooks, c.1900-
c.1940
4/11 Photographs relating to Mary Ann Johnson (d.1907), wife of Alderman
George Johnson, c.1880-c.1907
4/12 Miscellaneous photographs relating to the Johnson family, c.1900
4/13 Miscellaneous photographs relating to the Potter family, c.1900-c.1960.
Notes
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Reference Code Salisbury collection
Title Frank Owen Salisbury:(WM) (1874-1962) Personal and profesional
Keywords Art# Congregational Church (United States)# British Council of Churches#

World Methodist Council# Royal Family (British)
Description Papers relating to the life and career of the artist Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-
1962)
Box 1
1/1 Letters written by Salisbury to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances,
often discussing the possibility of painting their portrait or associated historic
theme (addressees include Dwight Eisenhower, Clement Atlee, Sir Samuel
Joseph, Harry Truman, William Lyon Mackenzie King and members of the
Rockefeller family), 1928-60
1/2 Letters written to Salisbury by friends and members of his family, including
his daughters, 1936-53
1/3 Letters written to Salisbury by friends and acquaintances, 1925-57
1/4 Papers relating to Arthur Mee (1875-1943), the well-known
Nottinghamshire journalist, author and founder of the "Children’s Newspaper".
The documents include letters written by Mee, photographs, letters written on
Mee’s death, newspaper obituaries and other press cuttings, 1941-43
1/5 Letters written to Salisbury connected with the British Council of Churches
(BCC), including an autograph letter from Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of
Canterbury, together with notes on Sarum Chase (Salisbury’s house in
Hampstead, London, which was left on his death to the BCC) and photographs
of the house.
1/6 Letters written by Salisbury’s wife Alice Maude (d.1951), 1946-50
Box 2
2/1 Letters written to Salisbury, together with transcripts of BBC radio
addresses by Salisbury , 1954-56
2/2 Letters and associated papers written in connection with the publication of
Salisbury’s book "Proud Heritage", c.1950
2/3 Manuscript notes on "Life and Art: Notes for Revision"
2/4 Manuscript notes for Salisbury’s autobiography - "Portrait and Pageant"
2/5 Manuscript notes from folder marked ‘personal writings’
2/6 Letters, notes and cuttings on the theme of art and religion, c.1946-
c.1950
Box 3
3/1 Letters to Salisbury from Dr Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman (1878-1961)
of Los Angeles, California. Buchman was a well-known, if rather controversial,
American evangelist and the founder of the campaign for Moral Re-armament
3/2 Folder containing the following papers relating to the distinguished English-
born American Methodist and Congregational minister Samuel Parkes Cadman
(1864-1936) :Letters to Salisbury from Cadman and members of his family,
1933-58
3/3 Folder containing the following papers relating to Samuel Parkes Cadman:
- Text of the last radio address given by Cadman, February 1936
- extracts from Cadman’s book "Adventures for Happiness"
- Cadman’s tribute to Rev. Stuart Holden, 1934
- text of one of Cadman’s last prayers
- several items relating to Cadman’s book "Prophets of Israel" (illustrated by
Salisbury)
- tributes to Cadman
3/4 Letters to Salisbury from the US diplomat (Ambassador to Russia) Joseph
Edward Davies (1876-1958) and his wife Marjorie Post Davies, together with
news cuttings, 1941-55
3/5 Letter to Salisbury from Bernard Bateson re the meeting between Salisbury
and the American evangelist Billy Graham, together with an article entitled
"Painter and the Evangelist", c.1956
3/6-7 Letters to Salisbury from the American industrialist and philanthropist
John Davison Rockefeller junior (1874-1960) and members of his family,
1946-1960
3/8 Letters to Salisbury from the American industrialist and diplomat Myron
Charles Taylor (1874-1959) and members of his family, 1925-1954
3/9 Folder containing the following papers relating to Myron Charles Taylor
(1874-1959):
- "Myron [Charles] Taylor: An Artist’s Point of View" by Salisbury, 1936
- photographs of Myron Charles Taylor
- papers re the dedication of Annabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, 1952 -
provided for by the generosity of Myron Charles Taylor
- text of addresses given by Myron Charles Taylor at Colgate University
(1929), Cornegie Institute of Technology (1929) and the Boston Conference
of Christians and Jews (1942)
- newspaper obituaries for Myron Charles Taylor, 1959
3/10 Letters written to Salisbury concerning the business of the World
Methodist Council, with particular regard to the portrait of John Wesley
painted by Salisbury and portaits of other Methodist worthies, including Francis
Asbury, 1952-57
Box 4
4/1 Letters and telegrams sent to Salisbury by the Canadian Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), 1940-1950
4/2 Letters to Salisbury concerning his correspondence with the Canadian
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), 1950-1954
4/3 Orders of memorial service and tributes following the death of the Canadian
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), 1950
4/4 Notes on the presentation of Salisbury’s portrait of Canadian Prime
Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), 1947
4/5 Black and white photographs of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon
Mackenzie King (1874-1950) and some printed papers and news cuttings
relating to his premiership, c.1938-1950
4/6 Letters to Salisbury by Evelyn I. Lewis, 1959-1960
Box 5
5/1 Notes and illustrative material re the memorial panels on the Queen
Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, c.1905
5/2 Illustration showing the design of the stained glass windows at Hudson
Memorial Church in Bangalore, India, c.1920
5/3 Notes and illustrative material re the design of the stained glass window of
the church at Secunderabad, India
5/4 Letters to Salisbury and illustrations of the design of the stained glass
window I of the Wesleyan church (later cathedral of the Church of Southern
India) at Medak, India, c.1927
5/5 Letters to Salisbury and illustrative material concerning the design of the
stained glass window II of the Wesleyan church at Medak, India, c.1938
5/6 Letters to Salisbury and illustrative material concerning the design of the
stained glass window III of the Wesleyan church at Medak, India, c.1950-1958
5/7 Correspondence of Frank Whittaker, Bishop of Medak, concening stained

glass window III of the Wesleyan church at Medak, India, c.1947-1958
5/8 Folder of financial papers concerning the costs of the several stained glass
windows of the Wesleyan church at Medak, India, c.1954-c.1957
5/9 Papers relating to the private view and unveiling of stained glass window III
of the Wesleyan church at Medak, India,1957
5/10 Notes and illustrations of the 3 stained glass windows designed by Salisbury
for the Wesleyan church at Medak, India, c.1958
Box 6
Salisbury’s drawings illustrating "The Lord’s Prayer":
- File of illustrations for plate 1 - preliminary sketches
- File containing notes on the text of "The Lord’s Prayer"
- File containing sources for the interpretation of "The Lord’s Prayer"
- File containing reviews
Box 7
Papers concerning Salisbury’s illustrations of "The Lord’s Prayer":
7/1 Letters from Sir Robert Evans
7/2 Letters from Ernest H. Benson
7/3 Miscellaneous correspondence
7/4-7 Letters written in response to the appearance of the book on "The
Lord’s Prayer"
7/8 Material relating to exhibitions in Gateshead and Kettering
Box 8
Papers re Salisbury’s involvement with the Royal Family and the painting of
works of national importance 1910-21
8/1 Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon before the Consistory Court 1910
8/2 The great artists of Chelsea 1910
8/3 Royal Exchange Panel No. 1 - King Alfred the Great rebuilding the walls of
the city of London 1912
8/4 Queen Philippa pleading with King Edward III for the lives of the burghers
of Calais 1913
8/5 God and St George 1915
8/6 To the honour of the women of Great Britain 1916
8/7 Boy Cornwell VC 1917
8/8 The passing of war 1917
8/9 The passing of Queen Eleanor 1918
8/10 Royal Exchange panel no. 2: The King and Queen’s visit to battle districts
of France 1918
8/11 King Peter of Serbia crossing the Albanian mountains 1919
8/12 Royal Exchange panel no. 3 - national peace thanksgiving service on the
steps of St Paul’s Cathedral 1920
8/13 Burial of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey, 1921
Box 9
9/1 Wedding of Princess Mary 1922
9/2 India’s Homage to the Fallen 1924
9/3 Order of the Bath cermony, Westminster Abbey, 1929
9/4 Heart of the Empire - jubilee thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral
1935
9/5 King George V
9/6-9 Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Box 10
10/1-2 King George VI visiting the Chamber of Shipping 1940
10/3 Canadian Houses of Parliament 1940
10/4 The shrine of humanity 1941
10/5 The signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty for twenty years peace 1943
10/6 Freedom of the city being conferred upon Winston Churchill 1943
10/7 The battle of London 1946
10/8-10 Royal thanksgiving service for the deliverance of Canterbury
Cathedral 1946
10/11 The battle of London 1946
10/12 Miscellaneous pamphlets
Box 11
11/1-3 Dedication of the American Roll of Honour, St Paul’s Cathedral 1951-
52 (includes autograph letters of Winston Churchill (11.1.12) and Dwight
Eisenhower)
11/4 Opening of the Festival of Britain by King George VI 1952
11/5 1953 exhibition
11/6 Arts Council dispute 1948-54
Box 12
Papers re Salisbury’s work for churches and civic centres
12/1 Salisbury Chapel, Emmanuel Church, Hampstead
12/2 National Children’s Home, Harpenden
12/3 Wesleyan Church, Harpenden
12/4 Memorial Hall, Liverpool
12/5 War Memorial, St John’s Church, Palmer’s Green
12/6 Chapel of Youth, Congregational Church, Penge
12/7 Stained glass window, Poplar
12/8 War memorial, town hall, Stafford
12/9 Wesley’s Chapel, London
12/10 Richmond College
12/11 Salvation Army Goodwill Centre, Hoxton
Box 13
Copies of portraits painted by Salisbury:
13/1 Surnames A
13/2 Surnames B.
Notes
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Title Walter Gill:(MCGB) (fl.1960-86) Disciplinary papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Disciplinary papers
Description ‘Heresy Trial’ documents and letters in date order, plus scrapbooks of
newspaper cuttings re the case, 1960-64; reinstatement papers, 1985-86;
unpublished writings by Walter Gill.
Notes
Title Chapels:(WM) Title deeds,Miscellaneous
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Deeds
Description 11 property/title deeds/legal documents & identures re to lease/land settlement

transactions of chapel buildings, Liskeard, St Columb, Sileby-cum-Leicester,
Cardiff, Whittelbury, Norwich, Spitalfields, and Barnet.
Notes
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Reference Code Diaries collection box 1
Title Anonymous:(WM) Diary,1790-1800
Date of Material
Description Diary by an anonymous Methodist 1790-1800.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(WM) Diary/journal
Description Fragment of a diary/journal by an anonymous Methodist 1800.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(WM) Diary/journal (Ireland)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Methodism

(Ireland)
Description Diary of an anonymous Irish Methodist preacher (2 parts)
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Conference collection (special
Title Conference:(WM) Minutes

Church--Conference 1781-91
Description Manuscript minutes in an unknown 18th century hand of the Wesleyan

Conference.
Notes
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Reference Code Conference collection
Title Conference:(WM) Account of proceedings
Description Detailed contemporary manuscript account of the proceedings of the Wesleyan

Conference.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(WM) Diary
Description Manuscript diary of an anonymous WM local preacher active around Bristol

and Bath.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(CE) Diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Sermons--1735-91# Sermons--1792-1849#

Women and religion
Description Diary by an unnamed female evangelical Anglican describing the sermons of

Revd. Mr Simpson - probably David Simpson (1745-99) of Macclesfield.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(WM) Diary and household accounts
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Book Room#

Publishing# Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (City Road)
Description Diary and household accounts of an anonymous Methodist - references to City

Road and the Book Room in London, 1811.
Notes
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Description Diary by an anonymous Methodist.
Notes
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Description Diary of an anonymous Methodist.
Notes
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Description Diary of an anonymous female Methodist.
Notes
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Keywords Women and religion# Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (City Road)#

Diaries and Journals--1801-50
Description Manuscript diary of an anonymous female Methodist of London - references to

Sarah Wesley junior and events at City Road Chapel.
Notes
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Reference Code Diaries box 1
Description Diary by an anonymous Wesleyan Methodist of Brough, Appleby circuit.
Notes
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Title Financial Accounts:Personal accounts
Keywords
Description Manuscript accounts by an unknown member of the gentry (no apparent

Methodist connection).
Notes
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Reference Code Misc Notebooks/Memoranda
Title James Kenton:(WM) (fl.1770-85) Ms hymns
Description Manuscript hymns by the Wesleyan Methodist James Kenton.
Notes
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Reference Code Ms notebooks/Memoranda
Title Ms Poem:To the Professors of Christianity
Description Manuscript poem entitled "An Address to all the Professors of Christianity by
a poor fisherman’s wife in the town of B. [Brighton].
Notes
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Title James Kenton:(WM) (fl.1770-85) Ms hymns
Description Manuscript hymns by the Wesleyan James Kenton.
Notes Lamplough reference 607
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Lamplough reference 96
Title Benjamin Rhodes:(WM) (1743-1816) Account of a conversion
Keywords Conversion--Case studies# Conversion--Methodism# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Conversion testimonies
Description Manuscript account of the conversion of a deist as contained in a letter sent to

the Wesleyan minister Benjamin Rhodes (1743-1816).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Poems:(CE/WM) Ms poetry on the deaths of named people
Keywords Poetry--18th century# Women and religion
Description Folder containing miscellaneous 18th century papers & poetry of a Wesleyan
Methodist interest
- Manuscript Hebrew grammar (probably used by a WM preacher for self-

education)
- poem entitled "The sinner converted and the backslider restored"
- poem entitled "At lying down"
- poem on the death of Thomas McGeary A.M.
- poem on the death of Revd. Peard Dickinson (1758-1802)
- poem entitled "Turn not my saviour, thy smiles into frowning"
- poem on the death of Elizabeth Johnson (1720-98)
- poem on the death of Henry Durbin (d.1799).
Notes
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Reference Code Conference Collection
Title Conference:(WM/ME/Ireland) Extracts from minutes
Keywords Methodist Episcopal Church--General# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Conference 1781-91# Methodism (Ireland)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Conference 1792-1830
Description Miscellaneous manuscript notebook compiled by an anonymous Wesleyan

Methodist containing extracts from the Wesleyan Methodist Conference
Journal, Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, Minutes of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (United States) and the minutes of the Irish
Methodist Conference.
Access Restrictions
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy letters written by preachers,18th cent.

Church--Clergy--General# Conversion--Methodism# Conversion--Biography#
Conversion--Case studies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conversion
Description Manuscript book compiled almost certainly by the London lay Methodist
George Clark (1711-97) consisting of transcripts of letters written by
Wesleyan preachers to John Wesley detailing their spiritual/conversion
experiences - many were subsequently published in the Arminian Magazine.
The notebook also contains many portrait engravings of the preachers.
Notes Deposited with the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room in 1929 by a descendent
of George Clark..
Access Restrictions
Title Anonymous:(ME) Diary (USA)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Methodist Episcopal Church--General
Description Manuscript diary/memoranda book compiled by an anonymous American

Methodist, 1824. The book contains a journal section referring to several
places on the Eastern seaboard of the USA, including Boston and Pennsylvania.
There are also miscellaneous jottings relating to Methodism. Much of the text
is written in shorthand.
Found with the book was a pencil, which appears to be the original pencil used
in the writing of the manuscript.
Access Restrictions
Title Anonymous:Notes on religious subjects
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook by an anonymous author containing jottings on

religious/church historical matters.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Scriptural notes
Keywords
Description Miscellaneous notebook by an anonymous author containing jottings on

spiritual/theological matters.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Scriptural notes
Description Manuscript notebook by an anonymous author containing scriptural

notes/sermon heads.
Notes
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Title George Osborn:(WM) (1808-91) Theological writings
Keywords
Description Manuscript writings of the Wesleyan minister George Osborn on a number of

scriptural themes.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Minutes
Description Manuscript minutes of the 1773 Conference (18th century hand).
Notes
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Reference Code Ms Notebooks/Memoranda books
Title Anonymous:Ms poem entitled "A Caveat against Triflers etc"
Description Manuscript poem entitled "A caveat against triflers and trifling in religion
adressed to a young gentleman who has been extremely distressed with the Lo
here and Lo there of sects and parties".
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Miscellaneous Notebooks and
Title Anonymous:Ms Poem entitled "Close by the River’s side I sat"
Description Manuscript poem by an anonymous writer, the first line of which is "close by
the river side I sat".
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Diary
Description Anonymous diary, 1862.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Gift to John Jones
Keywords
Description Miscellaneous manuscript relating to the Wesleyan preacher Dr John Jones

(1721-85).
Leaf from a book annotated "Sum e libris J. Jones e dono Dom J. Wesley
Dec’bris 13o 1746" - "I am from the library of J. Jones from the gift of J.
Wesley 13 December 1746". The handwriting appears to be that of John Wesley.
Notes
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Title Jabez Bunting:(WM) (1779-1858) Diaries/sermon registers
Keywords Sermons--1792-1849# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--

1801-50
Description Diaries/sermon registers of the Wesleyan minister Jabez Bunting (1779-1858):

1798-1807, 1810-13.
Notes
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Title Robert Bond:(WM) (1802-87) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan minister Robert Bond (1802-87).
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Account of proceedings etc

Church--Bolton# Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the Church of
England
Description Manuscript compiled by the Wesleyan preacher Charles Atmore containing the
following:
- detailed accounts of the Wesleyan Conferences of 1794, 1797, 1800, 1804,
1806, 1808, 1811
- list of "senior preachers" 1761-82
- Account of the work in Bolton, Lancashire, with regard to the construction
of a new chapel together with the list of subscribers, 1776-83.
- Comments regarding the separation of the Methodists from the Church of
England.
Notes See also 1971/200
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(WM) Account of proceedings etc

Church--Bolton# Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist Church
(Great Britain)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the Church of
England
Description Manuscript compiled by the Wesleyan preacher Charles Atmore containing the
following:
- detailed accounts of the Wesleyan Conferences of 1794, 1797, 1800, 1804,
1806, 1808, 1811
- list of "senior preachers" 1761-82
- Account of the work in Bolton, Lancashire, with regard to the construction
of a new chapel together with the list of subscribers, 1776-83.
- Comments regarding the separation of the Methodists from the Church of
England
Access Restrictions
Title Richard Abey:(PM) (b.1797) Diary/memoir
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy#

Autobiographies/Memoirs# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and
Journals--1801-50
Description Diary/autobiographical account of the Primitive Methodist Preacher Richard

Abey (b.1797).
Notes See also MA673
Access Restrictions
Title Richard Abey:(PM) (b.1797) Copy diary/memoir
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy#

Autobiographies/Memoirs# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and
Journals--1801-50
Description Transcript of the diary/memoir of the PM minister Richard Abey.
Notes See also MA690
Access Restrictions
Title Aquila Barber:(WM) (1707-1870) Diary/letter book
Description Manuscript diary/letter book of the Wesleyan minister Aquila Barber (1797-
1870) written during his time stationed in the Camelford circuit.
Access Restrictions
Title John Atlay:(WM) (1736-1805) Receipt book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--

General
Description Manuscript account book compiled by the Wesleyan preacher John Atlay
relating to his time acting as a steward in London 1775-91. The book contains
receipts for moneys received by a number of Wesleyan preachers including the
Wesley brothers.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Miscellaneous Wesley box 1
Title John Atlay:(WM) (1736-1805) London society account,1782
Date of Material
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--

General
Description Single sheet summary of expenditure and incomes relating to London

Methodism compiled by the Wesleyan preacher John Atlay (1736-1805).
Notes Donated to the Archives in 1923.
Access Restrictions
Title Financial Accounts:(WM) London City Road Chapel
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--London

(City Road)
Description Book containing receipts relating to the construction, furbishment and

operation of City Road Chapel in London.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Samuel Bardsley:(WM) (c.1746-1818) Diaries/letter book
Description 4 manuscript volumes consisting of the diary and letter books of the Wesleyan
itinerant preacher Samuel Bardsley (c.1746-1818).
For a detailed calendar of part of the collection see catalogue BRD.
Notes Lamplough reference 595 (1-4)
Access Restrictions
Title Luke Tyerman:(WM) (1820-89) Memoranda book re Methodist history
Date of Material 18th-19th
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan minister Luke

Tyerman (1820-89) regarding Methodist historical matters 1863.
The book contains letters on Methodist historical themes, as well as undated

membership lists for the Burslem and Little Acton Methodist societies and a
membership list dated 1760 for the Carden Marsh society, 1863.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title William Bray:(BC) (1794-1868) Journal/autobiography
Keywords Autobiographies# Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-

99# Bible Christian Church
Description Manuscript journal/autobiography of the Bible Christian itinerant William Bray

(1794-1868).
Notes
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Title John Barritt:(WM) (1756-1841) Journal/autobiography
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan itinerant John Barritt (1756-1841),

brother of the well-known female evangelist Mary Taft.
Notes Lamplough collection 316. See also 1977/212
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Benson:(WM) (1748-1821) Diary/personal accounts
Description Diary and personal accounts of the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph Benson (1748-
1821) contained in "The Methodist Pocket Book 1806."
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Thomas William Blanshard:(WM) (1834-78) Journal/autobiography
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-99#

Autobiographies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--West Africa
Description Manuscript journal/autobiography of the Wesleyan minister Thomas William

Blanshard (1834-78) including detailed passages relating to his service as a
missionary in Sierra Leone, West Africa 1859-63.
Notes former reference MAM P7B
Access Restrictions
Title William Barker:(PM) (1856-1937) Circuit accounts
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Diaries and Journals--1900-2009# Primitive

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit accounts
Description Manuscript circuit account book compiled by the Primitive Methodist minister
William Barker (1856-1937).
The accounts cover the periods of Barker’s ministry in the following PM

circuits: Sheffield V (1878-81); Clay Cross (1881-82); Sleaford (1882-84);
Derby 1 (1884-86); Oldham 1 (1886-89); Bury (1889-90); Darwen (1890-99);
Manchester 4 (1900-04); Manchester 2 (1904-11); Preston 2 (1911-1915);
Stockport 2 (1915-20).
Notes
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Title John Barritt:(WM) (1756-1841) Copy journal/autobiography
Description Manuscript copy of the journal/autobiography of the Wesleyan minister John

Barritt (1756-1841) copied by Barritt’s grandson the Wesleyan minister Robert
Newton Barritt (d.1913). The original manuscript of this journal is accessioned
as 1977/208.
Notes Deposited by Miss D. Barritt with the Methodist Archives in 1925. See also
1977/208.
Access Restrictions
Title Mary Taft:(WM) (1772-1851) Bible (annotated)
Description Printed King James Bible, formerly belonging to the Wesleyan

Methodist female preacher Mary Taft (nee Barritt) (1772-1851). With
manuscript annonations by Mary(?).
Notes
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Title Jabez Bunting:(WM) (1779-1858) Memoranda book
Keywords
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by Jabez Bunting and bearing the date
September 23rd 1795 just inside the front cover.
The book contains a mix of uplifting anecdotes and miscellaneous extracts

from printed material (list of contents at the back of the volume).
Notes
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Reference Code Conference collection,
Title Conference:(WM) Private minutes (compiled by John Bedford)
Description Private manuscript minutes to the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conferences

compiled by the minister John Bedford (1810-79), 1849-53, 1856, 1859,
1861, 1868, 1871 and 1873. Includes minutes of the committees of which
Bedford was a member, such as the Memorial Committee.
Notes
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Title Bennett Dugdale:(WM) (1756-1826) Diaries etc (Ireland)

1792-1849# Methodism (Ireland)
Description 1. Manuscript diaries of the Dublin lay Methodist Bennett Dugdale (1756-
1826), 1777-78, 1786-c.1798, 1798-1813
2. Xerox copy of an extract from the "Primitive Wesleyan Magazine 1826"

reporting the funeral sermon preached for Bennett Dugdale at South Great
George Street Chapel in Dublin in January 1826.
3-4 20th century extracts and xerox copies from the diaries of Bennett.
Notes
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Title Richard Burdsall:(WM) (1735-1824) Memoir/autobiography
Keywords Autobiographies
Description Manuscript memoir/autobiography of the Wesleyan local preacher Richard

Burdsall (1735-1824). The autobiography was published in 1797.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Thomas Campey:(PM) (1858-1929) Journal
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--

Clergy
Description Manuscript journal of the Primitive Methodist minister Thomas Campey

(1838-1929).
Notes
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Title John Crickett:(WM) (1738-1806) Diaries/sermon texts etc
Description Manuscript diaries/sermon registers/personal accounts of the Wesleyan

itinerant John Crickett (1738-1806).
Access Restrictions
Title John Crook:(WM) (1742-1805) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan itinerant John Crook (1742-1805).
Access Restrictions
Title George Burrows:(WM) (1787-1863) Journal (Ireland)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Manuscript journal compiled by the Wesleyan preacher George Burrows (1787-
1863) compiled while serving in the Enniskillen circuit.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title John Edward Coulson:(WM) (1808-86) Journal/memoranda book
Description Manuscript journal/memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan minister John

Edward Coulson (1808-86).
Notes
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Title John Edward Coulson:(WM) (1808-86) Address delivered in Bolton
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Schools
Description Manuscript address delivered by the Wesleyan minister John Edward Coulson
(1808-86) to the young men of the Wesleyan School, Redway Gates, Bolton,
Lancashire.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Thomas Collins:(WM) (1810-64) Copy journal extracts etc
Keywords Autobiographies# Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-99
Description Manuscript copy extracts from the autobiography and journal of the Wesleyan
minister Thomas Collins (1810-64).
Notes Presented to the Methodist archives in September 1941 by Reverend S. E. Coley
Access Restrictions
Title William Lamplough Doughty:(WM) (1881-1966) Diaries
Description Manuscript diaries compiled by the Wesleyan minister William Lamplough

Doughty (1881-1966).
Notes
Title Samuel Dunn:(WM/Ind) (1797-1882) Diary etc
Description Manuscript diary and personal accounts compiled by the Wesleyan itinerant
Samuel Dunn (1797-1882) covering his time in the Shetland Islands.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Methodist diaries box 12
Title Allen Edmondson:(WM) (1761-1840) Journal/memoranda book
Description Manuscript journal/memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan layman Allen

Edmondson (1761-1840).
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) Journals etc
Description Manuscript journals compiled by the Wesleyan minister Joseph Entwisle

(1767-1841)
1. Journal, 1793-1806 (Lamplough reference 640)

2. Journal, 1804-41
3. Journal, 1821 (covering Entwisle’s visit to Ireland and attendance at the Irish
Conference)
3A. Journal, 1828-41 (Lampough reference 639)
4. Journal, 1829 (Lamplough reference 645)
5. Journal, 1837 (Lamplough collection)
6. Journal, 1838 (Lamplough reference 646).
Notes Lamplough collection.
Access Restrictions
Title Mary Entwisle:(WM) (1770-1804) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of Mary Entwisle, wife of the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph
Entwisle (1767-1841).
Notes Lamplough reference 613.
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) Memoranda book
Keywords Poetry--18th century# Poetry--19th century
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph

Entwisle (1767-1841) containing mainly poems.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) York Centenary address
Keywords
Description Manuscript address delivered at York by the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph

Entwisle (1767-1841) to celebrate the centenary of the founding of Wesleyan Methodism.
Access Restrictions
Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) Tadcaster Centenary address
Keywords
Description Manuscript address delivered at Tadcaster by the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph

Entwisle (1767-1841) to celebrate the centenary of the founding of Wesleyan
Methodism.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code Methodist Miscellaneous
Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) Accounts of providential deliverances
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook containing accounts of "providential" deliverances

compiled by the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph Entwisle (1767-1841).
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Reference Code DDJosD
Title Joseph Dawson:(WM) (1842-1935) Autobiography etc
Keywords Autobiographies
Description Manuscript autobiography and related papers compiled by the Wesleyan

minister Joseph Dawson (1842-1935).
Box 1
1/1-2 Two folders containing the typescript autobiography of Joseph Dawson,
c.1933
Box 2
2/1-2 Typescript notebooks containing the reminiscences of Joseph Dawson,
used in the writing of his autobiography c.1933
2/3-10 Typescript notebooks containing poems and miscellaneous writings on
a number of diverse themes
2/11-2/12 Manuscript notebooks containing miscellaneous writings c.1918.
Notes
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Reference Code Sermons collection box 9
Title John Furness:(WM) (1760-1830) Memoranda book/sermons
Keywords Biblical studies# Sermons--1735-91
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan itinerant John Furness
(also spelled as Furniss) (1760-1830).
The memoranda book contains notes on scripture (possibly sermon notes),

facts about the Bible (such as the number of books in the Old Testament) and
notes on historical matters.
Notes
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Title John Goodfellow:(WM) (b.1755) Journal/testimony
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Conversion--Case studies# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Conversion testimonies
Description Manuscript journal and conversion testimony of the Wesleyan layman John
Goodfellow (b.1755).
Notes Donated to the Methodist Museum and Research department in May 1950.
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Title Philip Hawkes:(WM) (1853-1940) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan minister Philip Hawkes compiled during
his time in the Crewe circuit.
Notes
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Title William Holder:(WM) (1740-1810) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan layman William Holder of Painswick in

Gloucestershire (1740-1810).
Notes
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Title Samuel Hodgson:(WM) (1759-95) Journal/conversion testimony
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conversion testimonies# Conversion--Case

studies# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800
Description Copy (in the hand of the Wesleyan minister Adam Clarke) of the
journal/conversioin testimony of the Wesleyan itinerant Samuel Hodgson
(1759-95).
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Title Samuel Harding:(PM) (fl.1854-88) Xerox copy diary

Clergy
Description Xerox copy of the diary of the Primitive Methodist minister Samuel Harding
(f.1854-58).
Notes
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Title Arthur George Gray:(PM) (1882-1963) Autobiography
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Primitive Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Portraits# Autobiographies
Description Manuscript autobiography of the Primitive Methodist minister Arthur George

Gray (1882-1963) contained in 3 notebooks, with several photographs, c.1960
(items 1-4).
Notes
Title Julius Hardy:(WM) (b.1763) Published diary
Description Published diary (1973) of the Wesleyan layman Julius Hardy of Birmingham,
(b.1763).
Notes
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Title Joshua Hocken:(WM) (1798-1853) Notebook,c.1823
Date of Material
Keywords Memoranda books--19th century# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--

Admission to ministry# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conversion testimonies
Description
Xerox copy of a manuscript notebook compiled by the Wesleyan minister
Joshua Hocken (1798-1853).
The notebook contains detailed answers to questions that Hocken may have
been anticipating as part of the selection procedure for entrance into the
ministry. These answers include a statement of Hocken’s conversion
experience and his responses to questions relating to doctrine.
Notes MAM P4d
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Title Christopher Hallam:(PM) (1808-73) Circuit accounts

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy
Description
Manuscript circuit accounts compiled by the Primitive Methodist minister
Christopher Hallam (1808-73) during the course of his circuit ministry, 1833-
54.
The following circuits are covered by the accounts:

Bolton
Oldham
New Mills
Haslingden
Stockport
North Shields
Hexham
Alston
Stockton
Kendal
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Calder Bank
Ripon
Halifax
Notes
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Title William Harland:(PM) (1801-80) Circuit accounts

Description Manuscript circuit accounts compiled by the Primitive Methodist minister

William Harland (1801-80) during the course of his circuit ministry.
Notes
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Title Benjamin Ingham:(CE/Ind) (1712-72) Inghamite Conference,1755-60
Keywords Inghamite Connexion--Conference
Description Manuscript minutes of the Inghamite Conference.
Notes
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Title John Hallam:(PM) (fl.1823-46) Journals
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Diaries and Journals--

1801-50
Description Manuscript journals of the Primitive Methodist minister John Hallam (fl.1823-
46) (33 volumes).
Notes Former reference MAM P6b
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Title Henry Hudson:(WM) (1864-1928) Journal,1895-1927 (India/England)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Diaries and Journals--1900-2009# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--India--Medical
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan medical missionary and minister Dr Henry
Hudson (1864-1928) covering the later years of his time in India and his circuit
ministry in Britain.
Notes
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Title William Horner:WM) (1746-1826) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan itinerant William Horner (1746-1826).
Notes
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Title Benjamin Ingham: (CE/Ind) (1712-72) Diary
Keywords Inghamite Connexion# Church of England--Evangelicalism# Holy Club#

Universities--Oxford
Description Manuscript diary of the Anglican evangelical Benjamin Ingham, written while
he was a student at Oxford University and member of the Holy Club.
Notes Transcribed and edited by Richard Heitzenrater under the title "Diary of an
Oxford Methodist" (Duke University Press, 1985).
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re alcohol licensing
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Licensing laws# Temperance & religion--Great Britain
Description Typesecipt report on suggested amendments to the licensing laws.
Notes
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Title International affairs:(MCGB) Re Central African Federation
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--International Relations#
Description Typescript resolution of the Methodist Church re the report of the Monckton
Commission on the Central African Federation.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re disabled children
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Disabled people# Youth--1950-2000
Description Memorandum presented to Conference on the care and education of

handicapped children.
Notes
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Title Foreign Missions:(MCGB) China report
Keywords Methodism (China)# Methodist Missionary Society# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--International Relations
Description Confidential statement of the Missionary Society concerning the state of

China - its economy and the life of the Church.
Notes
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re European Common

Market
Description Paper on the European Common Market.
Notes
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Title Methodist Commission on the Era of Atomic Power:(MCGB) Report
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Nuclear energy
Description Report of the Methodist Commission on the Era of Atomic Power.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re sex exploitation
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sexual issues
Description Paper on the commercial explotation of sex.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 205a
Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re housing shortage
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Social justice
Description Paper re the housing shortage.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re housing
Description Papers re housing.
Notes
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Title Conference:(MCGB) Re peace and war
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Pacifism# Pacifism
Description Summary of Methodist Conference statements on peace and war.
Notes
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Title Local Preachers Committee:(WM) Papers
Keywords Local Preachers# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers committee#

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers committee
Description Papers of the Local Preachers Committee, 1904-63
1. Book of press cuttings relating to the work of the LP committee, 1936-46
2. LP committee minutes, 1904-20
3. LP General Purposes committee minutes, 1923-32
4. LP committee minutes, 1927-46
5. LP Studies and Examining Board minutes, 1946-63.
Notes
Reference Code John Wesley/early Methodist
Title John Fletcher (1729-85):(CE) Letters re his clock,1866 and 1937
Keywords
Description 3 miscellaneous manuscripts including 2 letters re John Fletcher’s clock
1. Letter from George J. Perks regarding his grandfather’s membership of one

of the classes led by John Fletcher, 23 October 1866
2. Letter from J. Wesley Walter re his ownership and provenance of a clock

once owned by John Fletcher and purchased after Mary Tooth’s death by
Walter’s grandfather. Walter is presenting the clock to the Methodist Book
Room at City Road in London, 27 April 1937
3. Copy of the inscription on the tomb of Queen Catherine Parr, wife of King
Henry VIII, with a strand of her hair c.1817.
Notes
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Title Necessitous Local Preachers Fund:(WM) Typescript History
Date of Material
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Necessitous Local Preachers’ Fund
Description Typescript history of the Necessitous Local Preachers Fund.
Notes
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Title Trustees for Church Purposes:(UM) Deed poll
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Trustees for Methodist Church

purposes# United Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Deed Poll
Description Deed poll declaring trusts of property given, devised etc to The Trustees for
United Methodist Church Purposes.
Notes
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Title Necessitous Local Preachers’ Fund:(WM) Trustees minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Necessitous Local Preachers’ Fund# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Local preachers
Description Minutes of the meetings of the trustees of the WM Necessitous Local

Preachers’ Fund.
Notes
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Title Local Preachers Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers Committee
Description Minutes of the WM Local Preachers committee.
Notes
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Title Temperance Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance Committee
Description Minutes of the WM Temperance committee (MA4767).
Notes
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Title Local Preachers Conference Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers Committee
Description Minutes of the WM Local Preachers Conference committee (MA4755).
Notes
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Title Local Preachers Studies Sub-Committee:(MCGB) Minutes
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Local Preachers Studies sub-committee
Description Minutes of the Local Preachers Studies sub-committee (MA4756).
Notes
Title Anti-Gambling Sub-Committee:(WM):Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Anti-Gambling sub-committee# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Gambling
Description Minutes of the WM Anti-Gambling sub-committee.
Notes
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Title Methodist Society for Medical a Pastoral Psychology:AGM
Keywords Methodist Society for Medical and Pastoral Psychology# Psychology# Medicine
Description Minutes of the annual general meetings of the Methodist society for Medical
and Pastoral Psychology.
Notes
Title International/Industrial Relationships Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Industrial Relations# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--International Relations# Wesleyan Methodist Church--International
& Industrial Relationships Standing Committee
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist International and Industrial Relationships

Standing Committee.
Notes
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Title Spiritual Healing Committee:(MCGB) Minutes
Keywords Healing (Spiritual)# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Spiritual Healing

committee
Description Minutes of the Spiritual Healing committee.
Notes
Title Lord’s Day Observance Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Lord’s Day Observance Committee# Sunday

observance
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Lord’s Day Observance Committee.
Notes
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Title Necessitous Local Preachers Fund:(WM) Minutes,1931-53
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Necessitous Local Preachers’ Fund# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Local preachers
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Necessitous Local Preachers Fund.
Notes
Title Union for Social Sevices Council:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Union for Social Services Council# Social justice-
-Great Britain
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Services Council.
Notes
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Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Temperance Committee# Temperance and religion--Great Britain
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Temperance Committee.
Notes
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Title John S. M. Hooper:(WM) (1882-1974) Memoir etc (India/UK)
Keywords Autobiographies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--India#

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Foreign Missions--India
Description Typescript memoir and associated papers relating to the life and ministry in
India and Britain of the Wesleyan minister John Stirling Morley Hooper
(1882-1974).
Notes
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Title Charles Gorton Homer:(PM) (1832-1904): Autobiography
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy
Description Manuscript autobiography of the Primitive Methodist minister Charles Gorton

Honor.
Notes
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Title John Hunt:(WM) (1812-48) Diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Colleges--Hoxton# Wesleyan Methodist

Description Manuscript diary of the Wesleyan minister John Hunt written during his time
at the Hoxton Institute.
Notes
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Title John Hunt:(WM) (1812-48) Memoranda book (Hoxton Institute)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Colleges--Hoxton# Wesleyan Methodist

Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan minister John Hunt
while he was a student at Hoxton Theological Institute containing lecture
notes.
Notes
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Title William Kirkham:(WM) (1805-63) Autobiography
Description Typsecript copy of the spiritual autobiography of the Wesleyan class leader
and local preacher William Kirkham.
Notes Former reference MAM P4e
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Title William Kirkham:(WM) (1805-63) Travel journal (USA)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Emigration--19th century
Description Typescript copy of a journal made by the Wesleyan layman William Kirkham
during a voyage to USA.
Notes Former reference MAM P4e
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Title Frederick John Jobson:(WM) (1812-81):Memoranda book
Keywords
Description Miscellaneous manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan minister

Frederick John Jobson (1812-81).
Notes
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Title Charles Henry Kelly:(WM) (1833-1911) Lecture notes (Didsbury
Keywords Colleges--Didsbury# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--General
Description Manuscript notes on lectures delivered by John Hannah (1792-1867) to the

ministerial students at Didsbury College, Manchester, and taken down by
Charles Henry Kelly.
Notes
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Title John Hannah:(WM) (1792-1867) Lecture notes (Didsbury College)
Keywords Colleges--Didsbury# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--General
Description Manuscript notes on lectures delivered by John Hannah to the ministerial

students at Didsbury College, Manchester, and taken down by Charles Henry
Kelly.
Notes
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Title John D. Julian:(WM) (1811-96) Copy diary
Description Typescript copy diary of the Wesleyan minister John D. Julian (1811-96).
Notes
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Title Mary Lyth:(WM) (1782-1860):Memoir
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Women and religion
Description Manuscript memoir of the Wesleyan lay woman Mary Lyth (nee Burdsall)
compiled by her son the Wesleyan minister John Lyth (1821-86).
Notes
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Title Walter Lawry:(WM) (1793-1859) Journal extracts (UK/Australia)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Foreign

Missions--Australia# Methodism (Australia)
Description Manuscript extracts from the journal of the Wesleyan missionary Walter
Lawry covering his voyage from Britain to Australia.
Notes
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Title William Thomas Healey:(PM) (1875-1950) Sermons
Description Series of handwritten sermons of Rev. W.T. Healey.
Notes
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Title William Lea:(PM) (1800-70) Diaries etc
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Genealogy#

Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Portraits
Description Manuscript diaries of the Primitive Methodist minister William Lea (1800-70),
1845-46, 1848, 1850, 1852-58, 1861, 1863 and 1867, together with family
photographs and associated genealogical papers.
Notes
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Title William Lea:(PM) (1800-70) Autobiography
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Manuscript autobiography of the Primitive Methodist minister William Lea

(1800-70).
Notes
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Title Robert Lomas:(WM) (1808-29) Memoir and family papers
Keywords Genealogy# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Sunday Schools#

Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Manuscript memoir relating to the Wesleyan Sunday School teacher Robert
Lomas (1808-29) of Manchester, together with associated family papers and
genealogical material.
Notes
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Title Mr Lawledge:(fl.1809) Personal financial accounts
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook containing the personal accounts of a Mr Lawledge -

some entries appear to be of a Methodist/evangelical nature but the majority
relate to general financial transactions.
Notes
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Title Edgar Anthony Low:(WM) (fl.1842) Conversion testimony
Keywords Conversion--Case studies
Description Manuscript conversion testimony of the Wesleyan Methodist Edgar Anthony

Low.
Notes
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Title James MacPherson:(PM) (1814-1901) Circuit accounts

Description Manuscript circuit accounts compiled by the Primitive Methodist itinerant

James MacPherson, 1833-47.
The accounts cover MacPherson’s time in the following circuits: Sunderland

(1833-36); Manchester (1836-37); Preston Brook Irish Mission (1837-38);
Silsden (1838-40); Rochdale (1840-43); Keighley (1843-45) and Preston
(1845-47).
Notes
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Title John Leng:(BC) (1813-1908) Xerox copy account of his life
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Bible Christian Church
Description Xerox copy account of the life of the one-time Bible Christian minister John
Leng (1813-1908) written by members of his family.
Notes
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Title Mary Maillard: (CE) (b.1680):Account of her miraculous cure
Description Manuscript account of the miraculous cure of Mary Maillard, wife of Reverend
Henry Briel.
Notes
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Title Ms "Design, Nature & Effects of True Religion"
Description Manuscript "Design, Nature & Effects of True Religion."
Notes Lamplough 320
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Title Isabella Mather:(WM) (fl.1800-12) Journal/diary
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Women and

religion
Description Manuscript diary/journal of Isabella Mather, widow of the Wesleyan itinerant

Alexander Mather (1733-1800).
Notes
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Title John Murlin:(WM) (1722-99) Journal/sermon notes
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Sermons--1735-91
Description Manuscript journal, with some sermon notes, compiled by the Wesleyan
itinerant John Murlin (1722-99).
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Title Charles Mayne:(WM Ireland) (d.1838) Journal
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Manuscript journal of the Irish Wesleyan minister Charles Mayne (d.1838)
covering his time spent in London as the Irish representative at the British
Conference.
Notes
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Title George Marsden:(WM) (1772-1858) Journals
Description Manuscript journals compiled by the Wesleyan itinerant George Marsden

(1772-1858) (5 volumes).
Notes
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Title Thomas Manners: (fl.1823-25) Letter book/personal accounts
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter book/personal accounts compiled by Thomas Manners.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Account of proceedings,1806-09,1811
Description Manuscript private account of the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference,

1806-09, 1811 (anonymous author).
Notes Lamplough collection 611.
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Title Thomas Marriott:(WM) (1786-1852) Memoranda books
Date of Material c.1839-.50
Keywords
Description Manuscript memoranda books (2 volumes) compiled by the Wesleyan layman

and philanthropist Thomas Marriott (1786-1852).
The memoranda books contain miscellaneous notes on Methodist historic

themes including copies of letters written by members of the Wesley family
and anecdotal material relating to the early history of the Methodist movement.
Notes
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Title Timothy Robert Moxon:(WM) (1817-83) Journal
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan minister Timothy Robert Moxon.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Personal accounts
Keywords
Description Manuscript accounts (anonymous) relating mainly to farming.
Notes
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Title William O’Bryan:(BC) (1778-1868) Journals (USA/UK)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Bible Christian

Church
Description
Manuscript journals compiled by the founder of the Bible Christian Church
William O’Bryan (1778-1868), 1825-64
1. Journal, 10 April -18 December 1825, April 1827

2. Journal, n.d.-23 November 1832
3. Journal, 24 November-24 January 1832, 7 January -3 April 1833
4. Journal, 4 April - 12 September 1833
5. Journal, 12 September 1833 - 18 February 1834
6. Journal, 4 March - 21 October 1836
7. Journal, 30 October 1836 - 17 March 1837
8. Journal, June 1838, 27 January 1840 - 15 February ??
9. Journal, 16/18 November 1842 - 1 January 1843, 1845, July - December
1848
10. Journal, April 1855, June - September 1857
11. Journal, 17 June 1857 - 19 July 1859
12. Journal, 19 July 1859 - 27 June 1861
13. Journal, 28 June 1861 - 15 August 1863
13A. Printed copy of "Female Teaching …" by Mrs Booth
14. Journal, 16 August 1863 - 16 February 1864
15. Manuscript experience of Catherine Cowlin, c.1825.
Notes
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Title Richard Reece:(WM) (1765-1850) Journals/diaries
Description
Manuscript journals/diaries of the Wesleyan minister Richard Reece (1765-
1850), 1788-1836.
1. 1788
2. 1788
3. 1789
4. 1790
5. 1805
6. 1810
7. 1813
8. 1815
9. 1816
10. 1817
11. 1819
12. 1821
13. 1822
14. 1823
15. 1824
16. 1825
17. 1826
18. 1827
19. 1828
20. 1831
21. 1832
22. 1833
23. 1834
24. 1835
25. 1835
26. 1836
27. Miscellaneous jottings by Richard Reece, 1828
Notes Deposited with the MCA in 1971 (Eastern Daily Press report, 8 June 1971)
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Title Social Purity Committee:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Social Purity Committee# Morality and society
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Social Purity Committee.
Notes
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Title Methodist Society for Social and Pastoral Psychology;Minutes
Keywords Methodist Society for Social & Pastoral Psychology# Psychology
Description Minutes of the Methodist Society for Social & Pastoral Psychology.
Notes Former reference MAR 220E
Title Standing Committee on Public Health/Social Purity:(WM) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Standing Commitee on Public Health & Social

Purity# Morality & society# Public Health
Description Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Standing Commitee on Public Health and
Social Purity.
Notes
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Title Temperance and Social Welfare General Committee:(MCGB) Minutes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance & Social Welfare Dept.# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Temperance & Social Welfare General Committee#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance# Temperance & religion--Great
Britain
Description Minutes of the General Committee of the Temperance and Social Welfare
Department.
Notes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Temperance Committee# Temperance & religion--Great Britain
Notes
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Title Intenational/Industrial Relationships Standing Committee:(MCGB)
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--International Relations# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--Industrial Relations# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
International & Industrial Relationships Standing Committee
Description Minutes of the Methodist Church International and Industrial Relationships

Standing Committee.
Notes
Keywords Temperance & religion--Great Britain# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Temperance#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance Committee
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Copy letters to Josesph Thompson & Earl of Leven
Keywords
Description Copies (early 19th cent.) of 3 letters of John Wesley: MAW JW. 5.16B
a) To Joseph Thompson, 18 July 1772.
b) To Joseph Thompson, 5 June 1782.
c) To Earl of Leven, 9 May 1786.
Notes
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Reference Code M005
Title Wesleyan Methodist Atlas:Statistics for England and Wales
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Statistics# Wesleyan Methodist Church--District

statistics#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit statistics
Description Wesleyan Methodist Atlas containing detailed statistics for Wesleyan

Methodist districts and circuits in England and Wales.
Notes This item came into the libraries possession as part of the purchase of the
archives and printed books of Hartley Victoria College Manchester
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Title Colleges:(PM) Hartley Victoria,Photograph
Description Hartley Victoria College group photograph.
Notes
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Title Connexional General Purposes Committee:(MCGB) Minutes etc
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--General Purposes committee
Description Minutes and associated papers of the Connexional General Purposes Committee.
Notes
Reference Code N/A
Title Chapels:(MCGB) London,Map
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--London
Description Large rolled street map of London showing the location of Methodist churches
out to a radius of approximately 12 miles from the centre of the city.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM JW letters
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letter to Sarah Crosby
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of John Wesley to Sarah Crosby.
Notes The depositor inherited the letter from her mother, one of the family of John
Winspear of Brompton near Northallerton.
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Title George Osborn:(WM) (1764-1836) Journal
Description Manuscript journal compiled by the Wesleyan layman George Osborn (1764-
1836).
Notes Wrongly labelled as being compiled by James Osborne - this stems from a name
written inside the front cover, but it is clear that this relates to a later owner
and the person who actually wrote the diary was probably James Osborn’s father
George Osborn.
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Title Frances Pawson:(WM) (1736-1809) Diaries/memoir
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--1801-50#

Autobiographies/Memoirs# Women and religion
Description
Manuscript diary/memoir (2 volumes) of Frances Pawson, wife of the
Wesleyan preacher John Pawson (1737-1806)
1. Manuscript memoradna book containing what appear to be diary entries,

spiritual reflections and extracts from letters, sermons, a sermon/spiritual
reflection entitled "A Pillar in the Temple" and the Wesleyan Magazine,
1782-c.1805
2. Manuscript memoir of Frances Pawson by Joseph Sutcliffe - this is the

manuscript of the printed book of the same title, published in in London in
1813.
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Title John Pawson:(WM) (1737-1806) Account of his life
Keywords
Description Manuscript account of the life of the Wesleyan minister John Pawson (1737-
1806) preserved by the Wesleyan minister Joseph Entwisle (1767-1841).
Notes
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Title William Burt Pope:(WM) (1822-1903) Diaries
Description Manuscript diaries of the Wesleyan minister William Burt Pope (1822-1903),
1867 and 1869.
Notes
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Title Henry Hines/Hindes Pollard:(WM) (1837-1924) Diary
Description Manuscript diary of the Wesleyan Methodist layman Henry Hines/Hindes

Pollard (1837-1924) of Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Notes
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Reference Code Misc. Notebooks &Memoranda
Title James Peacock:(WM) (fl.1790) Scripture notes
Description Miscellaneous scripture notes compiled by the Wesleyan layman James

Peacock (2 volumes)
Notes
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Title George Peacock:(WM) (fl.1824) Ms hymnbook
Description Manuscript hymn book compiled by the Wesleyan layman George Peacock.
Notes Former reference MAM P5
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Title Christopher Peacock:(WM) (c.1800) Catechetical notes
Description Manuscript catechetical notes compiled by the Wesleyan lay preacher

Christopher Peacock.
Notes
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Title Charles Perronet:(WM/Ind) (1723-76) Theological treatise
Description Manuscript theological treatise on "Communion with the Father and the Son in
Grace and Glory" by the former Wesleyan preacher Charles Perronet.
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Reference Code Diaries =collection
Title Joseph Pescod:(WM) (1750/51-1805) Diary
Description Manuscript diary of the Wesleyan itinerant Joseph Pescod.
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Reference Code Methodist notebooks & memoranda
Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Conversations with William Pollard
Keywords
Description Manuscript record of meetings between the Wesleyan ministers Adam Clarke
and William Pollard.
Notes The manuscript passed from William Pollard to his son Henry Hines Pollard
(1837-1924), then to Henry’s son Professor A. F. Pollard (1869-1948), to his
son H. G. Pollard (1903-76) and daughter Mrs M. L. Butler who gave them to
the Methodist Church Archives.
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Title William Rowe:(PM) (1817-88) Memoir
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Autobiographies/Memoirs
Description Xerox copy of the memoir of the Primitive Methodist minister William Rowe
(1817-88).
Notes
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Title Peter Samuel:(WM) (1804-74) Journal (UK/Jamaica)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1801-50# Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Foreign Missions--Jamaica
Description Manuscript journal of the Wesleyan minister Peter Samuel covering his
ministry in Jamaica and England.
Notes
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Title John E. Sunderland:(PM) (1851-1924) Journal etc

Clergy--Portraits
Description Manuscript journal of the Primitive Methodist minister John E. Sunderland,

1876-79, together with a portrait photograph (1885), a letter of 1876 and
loose sheets from his journal.
Notes
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Title John Simpson:(WM) (b.1742) Memoir
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Music--19th century
Description Manuscript memoir of the Wesleyan layman and church organist John Simpson
of Newcastle on Tyne.
Notes
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Title Mary Bosanquet:(CE/WM) (1739-1815) Account of Leytonstone

community
Keywords Women and religion# Diaries and Journals--1751-1800
Description Manuscript notebook containing an account by Mary Bosanquet of the

founding of her community at Leytonstone, 1763.
This account appears to be an early draft of Mary Bosanquet’s published

account of the Leytonstone community entitled "A Letter to the Reverend Mr
John Wesley" by a "Gentlewoman" (1764). There are also several entries from
the manuscript diary of the Wesleyan layman Richard Taylor, 1772-74.
Notes
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Title Richard Taylor:(WM) (fl.1773) Diary
Keywords
Description Manuscript diary of the Wesleyan layman Richard Taylor. Contained in the
same notebook as a manuscript account of the Leytonstone community by
Mary Bosanquet (accessioned as 1977/286).
Notes
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Title J. George Stuart:(WM) (1850-1930) Diary
Description Manuscript diaries (2 volumes) of the Wesleyan minister J. George Stuart

(1850-1930), covering his time in district mission work in Cornwall and Newcastle.
Notes
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Title John Smyth/Smith:(WM Ireland) (1713-74) Memoir written by his son
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Manuscript memoir of the Irish itinerant preacher John Smyth written by his
son David Smyth.
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Title Frederick Burdsall Swift:(WM) (1846-1937) Memoir of Didsbury
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1851-99# Autobiographies/Memoirs# Colleges--Didsbury
Description Manuscript memoir by the Wesleyan minister Frederick Burdsall Swift covering
his ministerial training at Didsbury College in Manchester.
Notes
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Title Henry Smallwood:(WM) (1809-81) Memoir
Description Manuscript memoir of the Wesleyan minister Henry Smallwood.
Notes
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Title John E. Sunderland:(PM) (1851-1924) Circuit accounts
Description Manuscript circuit accounts compiled by the Primitive Methodist minister John
E. Sunderland (2 volumes).
Notes
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Reference Code M9869A
Title William Seward:(CE) (1703-40) Ms letter book
Keywords Calvinism# Methodism (Calvinistic)
Description Manuscript letter book of the Anglican evangelical and supporter of George
Whitefield, William Seward.
Notes
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Title Luke Tyerman:(WM) (1820-89) Diary/memoranda book
Description Manuscript memoranda book/diary compiled by the Wesleyan minister Luke

Tyerman.
Notes
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Title Wesley Thorpe:(WM) (b.1868) Diary/sermon register
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local preachers# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Local Preachers# Sermons--1850-99# Sermons--1900-1932#
Sermons--1933-2000# Diaries & Journals--1851-99# Diaries & Journals--
Description Manuscript diary/sermon register of the Wesleyan local preacher Wesley Thorpe.
Notes
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Title John Valton:(WM) (1740-94) Journals/diaries,sermons etc
Description Manuscript diaries/journals/sermons/hymns and class lists of the Wesleyan

itinerant preacher John Valton,1763-94.
1.Autobiography and journal/diary, 1763

2. Journal/diary, 1765
7. Journal/diary, 1773-81
10. Extracts from the journals/diaries of John Valton, together with an account
of his final illness
11. Sermons of John Valton
15. Notebook containing manuscript hymns/poems in the back of the volume
and in the front, class lists for Wesleyan societies in Bradforth, Dudley Hill,
Manningham, Heaton, Shipley, Temple Newsome, Coat Gap, Great Horton,
Little Horton etc - these all appear to Valton’s time in the Birstall and Bradford
circuits of Yorkshire, 1782-86.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title James Rogers:(WM) (1749-1807) Diary & notebooks
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1792-1830# Diaries and Journals--

1751-1800# Genealogy--Rogers family# Spirituality--18th century--
Devotional writings# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Manuscript diary and other notebooks of the Wesleyan itinerant James Rogers,
1784-1804.
1. Copy of a printed Minutes of the Methodist Conference (London: 1797),

containing James Rogers’ (JR) manuscript annotations in the front and back
concerning the rules of Methodism and the number of preachers who were
junior and senior to Rogers, c.1800
2. Manuscript diary of JR, January - November 1795, together with

miscellaneous jottings on a spiritual theme
3. Copy of a printed "Select Remains of the Reverend John Mason" (1742),

with JR’s manuscript annotations on a spiritual theme in the front of the
volume, 1781
4. Detailed household accounts kept by James Rogers during his time in Dublin,
Cork, London, Birmingham, Bradford, Stroud and Oldham, together with a very
detailed inventory of household goods and personal possessions and JR’s
detailed comments on the same against the general background of Methodist
income and expenditure, 1784-1804. At the front of the volume also is a list
of births and deaths within the Rogers family.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Hester Ann Rogers:(WM) (1756-94) Journals etc
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Women and religion# Women and religion--
Conversion testimonies
Description Manuscript journals and associated papers of Hester Ann Rogers (nee Roe),
1773-89
1. Manuscript journal, 1780-82
2. Manuscript journal, 1782
3. Manuscript spiritual testimony, 1789, with extracts from HAR’s journal,

1773-77
4. Manuscript journal, 1782
5. HAR’s annotated copy of a pocket edition of the King James Bible (1658),
1782 (in original case)
6. Decorated copy of scriptural texts presented to Mrs Rogers on her wedding

day by E.W.B., 1852.
Notes
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Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Journals & sermons

1735-91#
Sermons--1792-1849# Hymns--Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description Journals and sermons of the Wesleyan itinerant Samuel Bradburn,1774-1815
1.-2. Journal containing texts preached from and places where sermons were
preached and when, together journal entries relating mainly to Bradburn’s
spiritual condition, 1774-1815
3. Volume of short sermon notes, 1788
4. Bradburn’s copy of the King James version of the Bible, with extensive
manuscript annotations, a list of texts appointed for every Sunday in the year
and rules for choosing the text, c.1780-c.1815
5. Notebook containing "select texts proper for Public discourses", 1781
6. Samuel Bradburn’s manuscript hymn book
7-8. Manuscript hymn book containing hymns copied by Bradburn from the
Methodist hymn book, together with Bradburn’s guidelines on preaching,
c.1800
9. Notebook containing Bradburn’s list of hymns sung in Sunday services, the

order in which they were generally sung, and the frequency. The list covers
Bradburn’s time in the Bath circuit, 1794-96.
Notes
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Title Isaac Woodcock:(WM) (1799-1865) Journal
Description 1. Typescript copy of the journal of Isaac Woodcock, 1826-58

2. Manuscript journal of Isaac Woodcock, 1846-58.
Notes
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Reference Code M648
Title John Welford:(PM) (1865-1922) Xerox copy journal
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy# Diaries and Journals--

1851-99
Description Xerox copy of the diary of the Primitive Methodist minister John Welford
(1865-1922).
Notes
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Title Samuel Wood:(WM Ireland) (1767-1842) Autobiography
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Manuscript autobiographical notes compiled by the Irish Wesleyan itinerant

Samuel Wood.
Notes
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Title War Damage:(MCGB) London Chapels,Details and Financial costs
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Chapels--War damage# Methodist Church

(Great Britain)--London# World War 2--War damage
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Methodist minister Robinson

Whittaker (1881-1980) detailing war damage caused to Methodist chapels in
London and the financial costs of the same.
Notes
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Title James Warnes:(PM) (1837-86) Journal

Clergy
Description Xerox copy journal of the Primitive Methodist minister James Warnes.
Notes
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Title Zachariah Yewdall:(WM) (1751-1830) Journals
Description Manuscript and transcript journals of the Wesleyan itinerant Zachariah

Yewdall; 1779, 1784-89, 1789-97, 1805-09, 1817-25.
Notes
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Reference Code Sermons collection
Title Anonymous:Sermon texts,18th cent.
Keywords Sermons--1660--1734# Sermons--1735-91# Sermons--1792-1849
Description Bundle of anonymous sermon texts.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon texts
Description 3 volumes of anonymous sermons and sermon texts.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon preached at (Westwell)
Description Anonymous sermon preached at Westwell.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon texts
Keywords Sermons--1660--1734# Sermons--1735-91# Sermons--1792-1849
Description 14 manuscript anonymous sermons.
Notes Coleman reference 315
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Title Anonymous:Sermon texts (Sunderland)
Description Manuscript anonymous sermons preached at Sunderland.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(WM) Preaching diary (Bristol)
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Sermons--1735-91
Description Manuscript diary by an anonymous Wesleyan recording sermons preached in

Bristol and the names of the preachers including many by the Wesley brothers.
Notes
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Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735 or 1690-1739) Sermons
Keywords Sermons--1660--1734
Description Manuscript sermons dedicated by S.W. to Lady Norton - one identication, in a

19th century hand, of the author of these manuscripts is Samuel Wesley, either
junior or senior.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon
Keywords
Description Anonymous manuscript sermon.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon (Oswaldtwisle)
Description Anonymous manuscript sermon preached at Oswaldtwisle in Lancashire.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon (typescript)
Description Anonymous typescript sermon.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon/service diary (London)
Keywords Sermons--1850-99# Diaries and Journals--1851-99
Description Anonymous manuscript diary containing details of sermons preached and

services led at chapels in the London area and wider South-East of England.
Notes
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Title Samuel Cocker:(WM) (fl.1782) Conversion testimony etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conversion testimonies# Poetry--18th century#

Conversion--Methodism
Description Manuscript conversion testimony by the Wesleyan Samuel Cocker, with verse
in the back of the volume.
Notes
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Reference Code Miscellaneous Notebooks &
Title Hopper family:(WM) (19th cent.) Letter book
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter book relating principally to members of the Hopper family, a
well-known Wesleyan family in West Yorkshire.
Notes
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Title Samuel Annesley:[CE/Ind) (1620-96) Sermon (ms copy)
Keywords Sermons--1660--1734# Puritans
Description Manuscript copy sermon/treatise by the puritan Dr Samuel Annesley,

grandfather of John and Charles Wesley, 17th cent. It is likely that this is a
contemporary copy rather than an original manuscript - in the introduction
Annesley is referred to in the 3rd party.
Notes Colman reference 43
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Title William Aver:(WM) (1768-1835) Sermons
Keywords
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister William Aver.
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Title Anonymous:Sermons
Description Anonymous manuscript sermons.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(CE) Sermons (Beenham)
Description Manuscript sermons preached at Beenham St Mary’s Anglican Church in

Berkshire.
Notes
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Title James Allen:(WM) (1822-73) Bible lessons (juvenile class)
Keywords Biblical studies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Youth work# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Birstal
Description Manuscript Bible lessons prepared by the Wesleyan minister James Allen junior
for use in a Wesleyan juvenile class in Birstal, Yorkshire.
Notes
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Description Anonymous manuscript sermons.
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Title William Atherton:(WM) (1775-1850) Sermon
Keywords
Description Manuscript sermon by the Wesleyan minister William Atherton.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:(CE) Sermon (Plympton St Mary)
Description Anonymous manuscript sermon preached in the Devon parish of Plympton St

Mary.
Notes
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Keywords
Notes
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Title James Allen:(WM) (1822-73) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermon preached by the Wesleyan minister James Allen junior in
Middlesborough, 22 April 1863 and sermons/addresses preached to working
men at the Middlesborough Iron works, and to labourers and scavengers etc in
Manchester.
Notes Former reference MAM P5c
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Reference Code Miscellaneous Notebooks &
Title Thomas Marriott:(d.1775) Memoranda book (Wesley’s Christian
Keywords Memoranda books--18th century
Description Manuscript memoranda book compiled by the Wesleyan layman Thomas

Marriott containing a list of the contents of each volume of Wesley’s Christian
Library.
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Description Anonymous sermon.
Notes
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Title Anonymous:Sermon/treatise
Description Anonymous manuscript sermon/theological treatise.
Notes
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Notes
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Notes
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Title Samuel Bradburn:[WM] (1751-1816) Sermon notes and sermon
Description Manuscript sermon notes and index to texts preached by the Wesleyan
itinerant Samuel Bradburn.
Notes
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Title Adam Clarke:(WM) (1760-1832) Sermon notes
Description Manuscript sermon notes by the Wesleyan itinerant Adam Clarke.
Notes
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Title Hugh Beech:(WM) (1787-1856) Sermons (Wrexham)
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan itinerant Hugh Beech while he
was stationed in the Wrexham circuit.
Notes
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Title John(?) Burdsall:(WM) (1775-1861) Sermon outlines
Description 172 manuscript sermon outlines by the Wesleyan itinerant John(?) Burdsall (2
packets).
Notes
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Title William MacLardie Bunting:(WM) (1805-66) Ms copy sermon notes
Description Manuscript notes taken by Dr Noble from a sermon preached by the Wesleyan
itinerant William MacLardie Bunting at Liverpool Road Chapel, Islington,
London, on behalf of the Strangers’ Friend Society.
Notes
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Title Samuel Bradburn:(WM) (1751-1816) Ms copy sermon notes etc
Description Bundle of manuscript copy sermon notes taken down by Sophia Cooke
Bradburn from sermons preached by her husband the Wesleyan itinerant Samuel
Bradburn, with associated manuscript material.
Notes
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Title Samuel Dunn:(WM/Ind) (1797-1882) Sermon (London)
Description Manuscript sermon preached by the Wesleyan itinerant Samuel Dunn in the
Halifax Wesley Chapel on the occasion of the death of the Wesleyan itinerant
Henry Moore (1751-1844).
Notes
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Title William Dawson:(WM) (1773-1841) Sermons
Date of Material h/19th century
Description 2 packets containing manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan evangelist

William Dawson.
Notes
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Title William Henry Brackenbury:(MCGB) (1909-77) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Methodist minister William Henry

Brackenbury.
Notes
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Title Jabez Bunting:(WM) (1779-1858) Sermons and sermon outlines
Description 128 manuscript sermons by the Wesleyan minister Jabez Bunting, together
with sermon outlines.
Notes
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Title Peter Du Moulin:(CE) (1601-84 Ms copy sermons/treatises
Description Manuscript copy sermons/treatises of the Anglican clergyman and religious

controversialist Peter Du Moulin. There is an accompanying letter from [Mary
Tooth] of Madeley to the Wesleyan John Mason re possible publication of the
transcripts. (32 vols.)
The history of this collection is confusing but interesting at the same time.
There is an accompanying letter of 8 January 1837 from [Mary Tooth] of Madeley to the
Wesleyan minister John Mason (1781-1864), steward of the Wesleyan Book Room, regarding
the possible publication of the transcripts. There is also a draft translator’s
"Address to the Public" signed Martha Ward of Cork, 5 July 1800. It appears
therefore that this collection of translations from the original French was put
together with the intention of publication by the Wesleyan Church.
Notes
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Title Thomas Ellis:(WM) (b.1755) Sermons,1781-88
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan itinerant Thomas Ellis.
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Title G. Thackray Eddy:(MCGB) Sermon register
Description Manuscript sermon register, and accompanying correspondence, compiled by

the Methodist minister G. Thackray Eddy.
Notes
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Title Thomas Fawcett:(19th cent.) Sermons
Keywords
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Methodist minister Thomas Fawcett - no

trace of him can be found in Hill’s Arrangement or the lists of ministers of
other Methodist denominations.
Notes
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Title John Hannah:(WM) (1792-1867) Sermon registers
Description Manuscript sermon registers of the Wesleyan minister John Hannah.
Notes
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Title Edward Harrison:(WM) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan local preacher Edward Harrison
with accompanying correspondence (2 vols.).
Notes Deposited by Reverend T. F. Glasson in 1972 - he was given the sermons in

1944 by one of Harrison’s children.
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Title Samuel Hick:(WM) (1758-1829) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan local preacher Samuel Hick (2
items).
Notes
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Title Joseph Entwisle:(WM) (1767-1841) Sermons (3 bundles)
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister Joseph Entwisle (3

bundles).
Notes
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Title John Jones:(CE/WM) (1721-85) Sermons (2 vols)
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan itinerant (later Anglican

minister) John Jones (2 volumes).
Notes Lamplough reference 599-600
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Title William Jones:(PM) (1834-1914) Sermons
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Primitive Methodist minister William
Notes Given to the Methodist Archives in 1962 by an American minister who had
been given them many years before by Jones’ daughter Mrs Harry Worton of
Birmingham.
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Title Edward Hare:(WM) (1775-1818) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister Edward Hare (3

bundles).
Notes
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Title Daniel Isaac:(WM) (d.1834) Sermon outlines
Description Manuscript sermon outlines preached by the Wesleyan itinerant Daniel Isaac (2
bundles).
Notes
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Title Thomas Jackson:(WM) (1857-1904) Sermons
Description Bundle of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister Thomas

Jackson.
Notes Dontated by Thomas Jackson’s grandson in May 1973.
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Title James Everett:(WM/Reform) (1784-1872) Sermons
Description 4 bundles of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan and Wesleyan

Reform minister James Everett.
Notes
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Title Thomas Glasson:(WM) (1870-1940) Sermons
Description 4 volumes of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan Methodist local

preacher Thomas Glasson.
Notes
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Title Charles Henry Kelly:(WM) (1833-1911) Sermons and sermon registers
Description Manuscript sermons and sermon registers compiled by the Wesleyan minister
Charles Henry Kelly (3 volumes), together with letters and miscellaneous documents.
Notes
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Title John Kemp:(WM) (1777-1861) Sermons
Description Bundle of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister John Kemp.
Notes
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Title William Arthur Harrison:(WM) (1855-1932) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan Methodist local preacher William Arthur
Harrison (5 volumes).
Notes
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Reference Code PLP 59A
Title Daniel Isaac:(WM) (d.1834) Papers
Keywords Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the Church of England# Roman
Catholicism# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the State (British)
Description Papers of the Wesleyan minister Daniel Isaac
59A/1 Manuscript "Appeal to Common sense against the assessment of the

Methodist Chapel in Malton to the poor rates", 1814-15
59A/2 Manuscript dialogue between a minister of the Church of England and a

dissenter
59A/3 Manuscript notes re Lord Sidmouth’s bill (incomplete)
59A/4 Manuscript notes on "Popish matters"
59A/5 Manuscript letters to Mr Cocker on the "Popish question"
59A/6 Manuscript letter written by the Revd. D. Isaac to the Wesleyan

Conference relatively to a motion of vote of censure passed by them etc"
59A/7 Manuscript notes re the Dewsbury plan, 1807-08 (incomplete)
59A/8 Manuscript notes re Lord Sidmouth’s bill (incomplete)
59A/9 Manuscript "Letter in defence of the sequel to essays etc"
59A/10 Manuscript notes re "objections" and their replies
Notes
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Title John Hearnshaw:(WM) (1818-1909) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister John Hearnshaw (56
volumes).
Notes
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Title Frank W. Evans:(20th cent.) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by Frank W. Evans (no biographical information

available).
Notes
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Title Henry Moore:(WM) (1751-1844) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan itinerant Henry Moore (2

volumes).
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Title Frederick James Jobson:(WM) (1812-81) Sermons etc
Keywords Sermons--1792-1849 Sermons--1850-99# Methodism (Australia)
Description Manuscript sermons and other papers of the Wesleyan minister Frederick
James Jobson
1. Manuscript description of the Christian antiquities of Rome
2. Manuscript sermons
3. Will of Frederick James Jobson, 1881
4. Letter of commendation/thanks from the Methodist Church of Victoria,

Australia, to Frederick Jobson, representative of the British Wesleyan
Conference, 1861
5. Letter of commendation/thanks from the Methodist Church of New South

Wales, Australia, to Frederick Jobson, representative of the British Wesleyan
Conference, [1861]
6. Letter of commendation/thanks from the Methodist Church of South

Australia, to Frederick Jobson, representative of the British Wesleyan
Conference, [1861]
Notes
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Title Roy C. G. Langer:(MCGB) (1907-38) Sermons etc
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Sermons--1933-2000# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--International Relations# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Pacifism
Description Sermons and other papers of the Methodist local preacher Roy C. G. Langer of
Chichester.
The papers include detailed biographical notes, portrait photograph, circuit

plans and notes of sermons and addresses on disarmament, the League of
Nations, sport and international relations.
Notes
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Title James Oddie:(WM) (1731-90) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan itinerant James Oddie.
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Reference Code PLP 76/15A
Title John Hugh Morgan:(WM) (1844-1915) Sermons, poetry etc
Keywords Sermons--1850-99# Sermons--1900-1932# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Wales# Methodism (Wales)# Poetry--19th century# Poetry--20th century
Description Personal papers of the Wesleyan minister John Hugh Morgan
1. Bundle of sermons and other public addresses, including the text of a sermon
preached at the united service of the Folkstone Free Churches on the occasion
of the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, 22 June 1911.
2. Manuscript sermons and other addresses
3. Manuscript notebook containing details of Morgan’s financial transactions

with the Methodist Publishing House concerning his published poem"The
Cistern and the Fountain", together with feedback from various parties and
extracts of printed reviews, c.1910
4. Manuscript notebook containing notes (sermons?) in Welsh, 1857
5. Manuscript notebook containing sermons
6. Manuscript notebook containing poetry
7. Manuscript notebook containing the poem "The cistern and the fountain"
8. Manuscript notebook containing sermons, 1860
9. Manuscript notebook containing miscellaneous notes written in both Welsh

and English, c.1862.
Notes
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Title Timothy Robert Moxon:(WM) (1817-83) Sermons
Description Bundle of manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister Timothy Robert Moxon.
Notes
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Title William Magee:(Church of Ireland) (fl.1801) Theological treatise
Keywords Theology & Doctrine--Atonement# Anglican Church (Ireland)
Description Manuscript extracts from the published "Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines
of Atonement and Sacrifice" by Reverend William Magee, Senior Fellow of
Trinity Coll. & Professor of Mathematics at the University of Dublin
(published in London, 1801).
Notes
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Keywords
Description Bundle of anonymous manuscript sermons.
Notes
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Title John Martin:(WM) (d.1814) Sermon
Date of Material December 1811
Description Manuscript sermon preached by the Wesleyan itinerant John Martin in
Notes
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Title Thomas Harold Mallinson:(WM) (1875-1968) Sermon registers etc
Description Manuscript sermon registers and scrap book of the Wesleyan minister Thomas
Harold Mallinson
1. Scrap book containing news cuttings re Wesleyan Methodism in Huddersfield

and surrounding circuits, 1902-07.
2-6. Manuscript sermon registers, 1902-06; 1911-16; 1916-22; 1933-45; 1947-56.
Notes Donated to the Methodist Archives and Research Centre on 15th July 1964.
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Title William Morley Punshon:(WM) (1824-81) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister William Morley Punshon (5

bundles).
Notes
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Title Joseph Sutcliffe:(WM) (1762-1856) Sermons
Keywords Sermons--1735-91# Sermons--1792-1849# Sermons--1850-99
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister Joseph Sutcliffe (2 bundles).
Notes
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Title Percy Tigg:(20th cent.) Sermons
Description 2 bundles of Manuscript/ts sermons by Percy Tigg.
Notes
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Title David Stoner:(WM) (1793-1826) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister David Stoner.
Notes
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Title Richard Smetham:(WM) (1773-1847) Sermon outlines
Description Manuscript sermon outlines preached by the Wesleyan minister Richard

Smetham.
Notes
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Title Ray Robinson:(mid-19th cent.) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by Ray Robinson (no further biographical details
available) in the Chester circuit.
Notes
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Title Henry Titchener:(WM) (1861-98) Sermon register
Description Manuscript sermon register compiled by the Wesleyan layman Henry

Titchener (1861-98).
Notes
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Title Thomas Townend:(UM) (1801-47) Diary
Description Manuscript diary of the United Methodist minister Thomas Townend.
Notes
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Title Thomas Robinson:(CE) (1749-1813) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Anglican evangelical Thomas Robinson (2

volumes).
Notes
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Title William Thompson:(WM) (1733-99) Ms copy exhortation
Description Manuscript copy exhortation delivered by the Wesleyan itinerant William

Thompson in City Road Chapel, London.
Notes
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Title John Henry Titchener:(WM) (fl.1901) Sermon text book
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Local Preachers# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Local

preachers
Description Manuscript sermon text book compiled by the Wesleyan local preacher John
Henry Titchener - relates to sermons preached in the vicinity of London.
Notes
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Title William Strong:(CE) (1756-1842) Sermon
Description Manuscript sermon preached by the Anglican minister William Strong in

Stanground parish church, 29th January 1826 (
Notes For biographical details of Strong, see Alumni Cantabrigenses and "Clergy of
the Church of England database”.
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Title Zechariah Taft:(WM) (1772-1848) Sermon outlines
Description Manuscript sermon outlines preached by the Wesleyan minister Zechariah Taft.
Notes
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Title John Smith Simon:(WM) (1844-1933) Address to Conference
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1881-1932#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--Presidents
Description Manuscript address delivered by the Wesleyan minister John Smith Simon to
the pastoral session of the 1907 Wesleyan Conference over which he presided
as President.
Notes
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Title John Smithson:(WM) (1793-1868) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister John Smithson.
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Title John E. Sunderland:(PM) (1851-1924) Sermon register
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Clergy
Description Manuscript sermon register of the Primitive Methodist minister John E.

Sunderland.
Notes
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Title Charles Richardson:(fl.1850) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of Charles Richardson, local preacher(?) of Tetford near

Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
Notes
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Title Charles Prest:(WM) (1806-75) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister Charles Prest (2 volumes).
Notes
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Title Thomas Townend:(UM) (1801-47?) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons preached by "Reverend Thomas Townend" - this was

tentatively identified by a later hand as the United Methodist minister Thomas
Townend (1801-47), but this is perhaps rather unlikely as Townend would have only
been aged 16 or 17 in April 1818.
Notes
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Title Barnabas Shaw:(WM) (1788-1857) Sermons (South Africa)
Description Manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan missionary Barnabas Shaw.
Notes
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Title William Secker:(CE) (d.1681) Ms copy sermon
Description Manuscript copy of a published sermon originally preached by the Anglican

clergyman William Secker (see new Dictionary of National Biography) at
Edmonton and titled "A Wedding Ring fit for the Finger", copy dated 1729.
Notes
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Title John Stephens:(WM) (1772-1841) Sermon
Description Manuscript sermon preached by the Wesleyan minister John Stephens.
Notes
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Title Isaac Watts:(Ind) (1674-1748) Ms copy treatise
Keywords Theology & Doctrine
Description Manuscript copy of a theological treatise by the dissenting minister and hymn-
writer Isaac Watts, originally published as an Essay on the Powers and Contests
of Flesh and Spirit (1747) . Possibly transcribed by Joshua Monkhouse of
Barnard Castle, c.1820.
Notes
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Title James Young:(WM) (fl.1846) Notes from WM ministers’ sermons
Description Manuscript sermon notes copied down by the Wesleyan layman James Young
from sermons preached in the Faversham circuit by Wesleyan ministers.
Notes Additional reference MAM P7b.
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Title Thomas Townend (UM) (1801-47):Ms sermon register
Description Manuscript sermon register compiled by the United Methodist minister

Thomas Townend.
Notes
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Title Richard Rodda:(WM) (1743-1815) Sermons
Description Manuscript sermons of the Wesleyan minister Richard Rodda.
Notes
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Title George Sargent:(WM) (d.1823) Sermons
Description Bundle of manuscript sermons preached by the Wesleyan minister George

Sargent (d.1823).
Notes
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Reference Code WM Chapel Trust collection
Title Board for Chapel Trust Purposes:(WM) Papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Board for Chapel Trust Purposes# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Chapels--General
Description Administrative papers of the Wesleyan Board for Chapel Trust Purposes
including accounts and papers re administration of bequests to individual
chapels.
Notes
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Title Douglas Wollen:(MCGB) (1909-98) Personal papers
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1900-2009# Art# Sermons--1933-2000# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Scholarship
Description Papers of Douglas Wollen (1909-1998), Methodist minister and art critic.
Box I: a) Diaries 1926, 1936, 1960 (fragmentary); b) 1959, 1961-79

(complete)
Box 2: Diaries 1980-91, 1993 (complete)
Box 3: Gallery Notes 1974/5 (notes on exhibitions and art galleries etc.
visited). Notes on books read/reviewed (including reading circles?); a) vol from
c. 1952 (157 pp, 300 books); b) vol from c. March 1967 (indexed, 260 books);
c) Shakespeare & the Bible (77pp). D) Manuscript notes on miscellaneous
books (Wesley etc.). Inventories & catalogues: 1980s? 51 Derwent House, Mile
End, London. Catalogue of books; Copy of Douglas Wollen’s ‘John Wesley
Christian Citizen’ (Epworth Press, 1937). Jointly written with Rev E.C. Urwin.
Folder of misc. quotes & notes on books.
Box 4: Misc. working papers (by circuit). Parcel a): c. 1938-c. 1949; b) c.
1949-c. 1957 (mainly Exeter, and incl. important letter from Bishop of
Exeter, 1956); c): c. 1957-c. 1983. d): Class Leader newsletters & church
membership committee papers (printed) c. 1954-c. 1961.
Box 5: a) Sermon notes (manuscript); b) Sermon and service notes

(manuscript.). C): book reviews - ‘Architect & Building News’, 1965-70; d): Art
reviews for ‘The Times’ (1960s-1980s); e): Art reviews (1969-92), and book
reviews (1965-82) for ‘The Methodist Recorder’.
Box 6: a): pamphlets & newspaper articles re. to Pacifism & Methodist Peace
Fellowship etc; b): misc. newspaper & magazine articles by D. Wollen, incl.
obits; c): misc. ‘odds & ends’ - newscuttings of reviews of plays & books (some
by Wollen), manuscript notes on books & events, some (mainly official) typed
& handwriten correspondence; folder of misc. photos (mainly City Rd,
London, 1980s, and incl. visit of P.M. Mrs Thatcher to City Rd, early/mid-
1980s); e): folder of misc photos (mainly official events), 1950s-1980s
Box 7: Family & Personal Papers: a): folder of family & personal
correspondence; b): folder of misc. family & personal correspondence; c):
folder of misc. personal notices, death certificates, + printed poems (on ‘The
Nativity’); e): folder of personal printed memorabilia - wedding anniversary
service sheets, notice of wife’s death, order of services (funeral) etc; f): folder
of condolences on wife’s death (Mrs Winifred Wollen); g): folder of Mrs
Winifred Wollen’s manuscript poems; h): misc. 80th birthday (of Douglas
Wollen) photos; i): folder of personal correspondence with Muriel Langford (in
Brisbane, Australia), mid-1980s/March 1991; j): folder of Douglas Wollen’s
later correspondence (mainly 1990-98); k): misc. photos & mementos,
postcards (personal), etc.
Box 8: Financial (Personal) Papers: box of cheques/financial records (‘stubs’);

five financial ledger books; folder of Tenancy Agreement (rent books etc). s &
inventories, Gallery notes 1974/5, notes on books read, Visitors’ books;
Working papers incl. sermon notes, Class leaders newsletters, articles by
Wollen on literary, religious & political figures; Published works incl. ‘John
Wesley’s Christian Citizen’ (1937), Art reviews & book reviews for ‘Methodist
Recorder’, etc; Family Papers, incl.correspondence between other members of
the Wollen family.
Notes
Title Henry Smallwood:(WM) (1809-81) Diary etc
Description Book of ‘Reminiscences’ of Methodist preacher, Henry Smallwood, 1877; Diary

of Henry Smallwood for 1827; Henry Smallwood’s annotated and inscribed
[1826] copy of John Wesley’s edition of the ‘New Testament with Explanatory
Notes.’
Notes
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Reference Code Renewal Group collection (2 boxes)
Title Renewal Group:(MCGB) Papers,1965-70
Keywords Renewal Group
Description Papers of the Renewel Group 1965-70
1. Membership directory
2. (a-o) Receipt books showing income (membership dues), check book stubs
and a bundle of loose completed checks , 1966-70
3. Bundle of customer order forms for the booklet "Group Work in the
Christian Community" n.d.
4-7. General correspondence files, mainly of a financial nature such as renewel

reminders, 1966-70
8-9. Files of financial papers, such as receipts, invoices and letters from the
bank, but also including some membership lists, 1966-68
10. File of papers, mainly financial but also including lists of subscribers,
regarding "New Directions: A Methodist Quarterly", 1966-67
11. File containing: membership and mailing lists 1966-9; printed material
including newsletters 1970; correspondence; statements of account 1965-8;
minutes of the Renewel Group Conference 1965-7, 1969; interim working
party reports and policy reports/papers 1965, 1969; minutes of the executive
1965
12. File of papers, including correspondence, membership lists and financial

papers, 1969-70
13. Account book containing details of income and expenditure, with loose
supporting invoices and receipts inside the front cover, 1965-9.
Notes
Title Financial accounts:(WM) London Society account book
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--London--Finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Finance
Description Bound volume containing manuscript income and expenditure accounts for the
London Methodist society.
This account book contains details of all official income and expenditure by
the London Wesleyan Society and covers each of the chapel congregations
that constituted the society (six chapels at the start of the period and ten by
the end). The income side of the account includes details of revenue from
collections at services, seat rents, class and band money, love feasts and the
poor box. The expenditure includes the itemized costs of housekeeping,
servants’ wages, repairs, furniture and stationery, traveling expenses, pensions,
poor relief and the salaries of preachers attached to the society. This account
book is the world’s oldest surviving and most comprehensive survey of local
Methodist finance in the 18th century.
Notes
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Title Regnal League:Administrative papers
Keywords Regnal League
Description Institutional archives of the Regnal League
Box 1
Membership registers, 1923-31, 1931-35, 1935-61, 1961-99
Box 2
Membership register 1919-23
Executive committee minutes 1935-52
Men’s branch General Council minutes 1928-57
Women’s branch - register of circle officers 1963-77
Women’s branch membership register 1934-99
Women’s branch executive committee minutes 1942-62
Women’s branch circles on record 1942-62
Women’s branch register of officers and circles 1935-40
Box 3
Folder of papers labelled "Various dcuments of the Early Years"
Folder of papers labelled "The Wilson papers" 1918-19
Folder containing bulletins/newsletters 1936-50
Bound copies of the Regnal Magazine 1920-37, c.1968-2000 (incomplete)
Box 4
Folder of Regnal League annual conference programmes 1923-2002
Folder of income and expenditure sheets 1923-2001
Published works as follows:

- Regnal League Handbook (1929)
- Regnal League handbook (women’s branch) (1938)
- Regnal League Handbook (n.d.
- "Christ in relation to the whole" by Donald Standfast (1933)
"The Regnal Road" (1959)
- "The Regnal Road" (1962)
- "The Quest for Wholeness" by Len Yeomans (1954)
- "The Doctrine of the Whole" by Donald Standfast (1933)
- "The Great Game" by Donald Standfast (1931)
- "The Charter of Youth" by Donald Standfast (1931)
- "The Regnal League and Youth Centres" by Donald Standfast (1943)
- "The Kingdom of God and its social significance" by Donald Standfast (1939)
- "The doctrine of the whole in relation to education" by Donald Standfast

(1937)
- "Evolution for Christians" by J. Parton Milum (1933)
- "The Regnal Book of Prayers for Young Men" by George E. Roberts (n.d.)
Bag containing miscellaneous ties, badges and book marks

Bundle of newsletters c.1990-2000
Box 5
Folder containing minutes of the General Council 1973-2001
Folder containing names and addresses of local officers 1973-2002
Folder containing local membership lists 1999
Bundle of miscellaneous printed material
Box 6
Folder labelled "Various leaflets over the Years"
Folder conntaining miscellaneous printed and typescript material
Women’s branch General Council minute book 1943-62
Women’s branch membership register 1919-34
Register of branches formed within British forces serving in France 1918-19
Men’s branch Executive Council minutes 1919-27.
Notes
Title Social affairs:(MCGB) Re population growth and living standards
Description Typescript report by the Methodist Church on "Population Growth and the
Standard of Living."
Notes
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Title Youth work:(BCC) Recommendations to Albemarle Committee
Keywords British Council of Churches# Youth--1950-2000
Description Typescript recommendations of the British Council of Churches Youth

department to the Albemarle committee.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re capital punishment

Church (Great Britain)--Capital punishment
Description Typescript paper on capital punishment.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re empire

Church (Great Britain)--District papers# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Imperialism# Race & Religion
Description Typescript report compiled by the Christian Citizenship Commiittee of the

NW London District on "Attitude to Empire."
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re boxing
Keywords Sport--Boxing# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Sport--Boxing
Description Typescript paper on boxing.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re venereal disease

Church (Great Britain)--Sexual issues# Public Health
Description Typescript report of the sub-committee set up to establish the response of the
Christian Citizenship department to the British Medical Association’s report on
venereal Diseases.
Notes
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Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Re penal reform
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Prison reform# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.# Prison reform
Description Typescript report of the Dept of Christian Citizenship on aspects of penal reform.
Notes
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Reference Code Frank O. Salisbury Papers Box 1.
Title Frank Owen Salisbury:(1874-1962) Letter to Victor Emmanuel etc
Keywords Art
Description Letter of the Methodist artist Francis (Frank) Owen Salisbury from Gotham
Hotel, New York, to Victor Emmanuel, 7 March 1926; newscutting re Salisbury
paintings, International Herald Tribune, 28 Sept 1985.
Notes
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Title R. W. Perks:(fl.1900) Copy letters to Lord Roseberry
Keywords
Description Five packets of microfiche of letters from R.W. Perks to Lord Roseberry.
Notes
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Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymnal (Ms Richmond Tracts)
Description Bound volume formerly in the possession of Charles Wesley and later
presented to Richmond College by the Wesleyan minister Thomas Jackson. It
consists of a number of published hymnals bound together as follows:
Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution (1745)

Hymns for Times of Trouble (n.d.)
Funeral Hymns (n.d.)
Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord (n.d.)
Hymns for the Resurrection (1746)
Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving for the promise of the Father (1746)
Hymns for Ascension Day (1746)
Interleaved between the tracts are a number of manuscript hymns including

"Hark how all the welkin rings."
Notes Formerly in possession of Thomas Jackson and Richmond College Library.

Former refence F53
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Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Ms hymns (Ms Thirty)
Description Manuscript hymnbook labelled "Manuscript Thirty"containing hymns in the

hand of Charles Wesley, including "Love Divine, all loves excelling", page 135.
Access Restrictions
Title Donald Soper:(MCGB) (1903-98) Letter to Michael Naughton
Keywords
Description Letter of Donald, Lord Soper to Mike Naughton, requesting an article.
Notes
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Title Wesleyan Deaconess Order:(MCGB) Papers
Keywords Wesley Deaconess Order# Women & religion
Description Wesleyan Deconess order deposit (Sister Jesse Burnett, trained Ikley College
1930s).
Miscellaneous papers relating to Sister Jesse Burnett, Methodist Deaconess,

trained at Ikley College, early-1930s, includes material on: appointment as
probationer to Caravan Mission at Perry Beeches, Birmingham, late-1930s and
on Caravan Mission and first Methodist church there (with history, 1938-48);
photograph albums concerning Ilkley College and students, 1932, 1935, plus
photos of Deaconess order conventions, 1936 (Ilkley), 1947 (Liverpool) and
1952 (Leeds); several copies of Wesleyan Deaconess order journal, ‘The
Agenda’, 1935-49; photo albums and newspaper cuttings re Methodist
evangelism at Catterick Camp, N. Yorks, late-1940s and early-1950s; file of
‘News and Notes’ from the Wesleyan Deaconess orders, with programs of
convocations, 1970s and 1980s, plus photos; sample batch of sermon notes and
records of sermons preached of Jesse Burnett.
Notes
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Title Cardiff (Rhiwbina Chapel):(Calvinistic Methodists) Photograph
Date of Material
Keywords Methodism (Wales)#
Description Photograph postcard of Rhiwbina Methodist chapel, Cardiff.
Notes
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Title Alexander Kilham:(MNC) (1762-98) Papers
Keywords
Description Addition to Kilham (Sheffield Deposit) manuscripts
Kilham Manuscripts (addition to existing Sheffield Deposit).
Notes
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Title William Morley Punshon:(WM) (1824-81) Sermon
Keywords Sermons--1850-99# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Conference--Presidents
Description A manuscript sermon, given as a charge to ordination candidates by the Rev.

Dr Morley Punshon (President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, 1874).
Notes
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Title William John Roberts:(MCGB) (1904-67) Papers
Keywords Methodism (Wales)# Diaries & Journals--1900-2009# Ecumenism--20th

century# Sermons--1933-2000
Description Papers of William John Roberts (1904-67), Methodist minister, active in

relation to Methodism in Wales, but mainly stationed in England.
13 box files of papers of William John Roberts (1904-67), Methodist minister

active in Welsh Methodism, donated by his son, Dr Alun Roberts.
Box 1: Letters of Condolence and Obituaries.

Box 2: Correspondence, 1945-1961.
Box 3: Correspondence 1962-67.
Box 4: Diaries.
Box 5: Commissions/surveys into condition of Methodism in Wales,
1950s/1960s.
Box 6: Anglican/Methodist (Wales) Conversations.
Box 7: Standing Committee for Methodism in Wales.
Boxes 8 & 9: Inter Church cooperation & Anglican/Methodist Conversations.
Box 10: Assorted Newspapers/Cuttings/articles.

Box 11: Miscellaneous.
Boxes 12 & 13: WJR’s sermons, some in Welsh.
Notes
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Title Sunday Schools:(WMA) Clitheroe,Moor Lane,Rules
Date of Material December 1837
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Association--Sunday Schools
Description Photocopy of the manuscript Rules of the Wesleyan Association Sabbath

School, Moor Lane, Clitheroe, Lancs.
Notes
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Title Donald Soper:(MCGB) (1903-98) Additional papers
Keywords
Description
Additional Soper deposit: scrapbook of newscuttings, 1950s; folder of loose
cuttings, 1953-56; envelope of items (news cuttings) re to Soper’s 90th
birthday celebrations, 31 Jan 1993; 3 photographs of soper; copies of ‘The
Kingsway Chronicle’ (1940s/1950s), ‘Kingsway’ (1960s, 1973); printed reports
of the West London Mission; cuttings from ‘Bury Times.’
Notes
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Title Scotland:Photographs of Methodist chapels
Date of Material
Keywords Methodism (Scotland)
Description Collection of old photographs of Methodist chapels, in Scotland. Annotations

on reverse of images. Compiled by Oliver Beckerlegge.
Notes
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Title Voice of Methodism Association:Papers
Keywords Voice of Methodism Association
Description File of papers relating to Voice of Methodism Association (VMA), incl.

correspondence etween Oliver Beckerlegge & Norman Valley.
Notes
Title Fellowship of the Kingdom:Printed bulletin etc
Keywords Fellowship of the Kingdom
Description Sets of ‘Bulletin of the Fellowship of the Kingdom’, 1929-2007 (mainly bound,
some loose), and administrative papers.
Notes
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Title Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge:(MCGB) (1913-2003) Papers
Keywords
Description Files/papers relating to the late Reverend Oliver Beckerlegge.
Notes
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Title Hannah Ball:(WM) (1734-92) Letters
Keywords Women & religion
Description Hannah Ball archive: 1) 15 original letters from John Wesley to Hannah Ball,
1771-1789; 2) 10 letters from Samuel Wells (d 1779) to HB; 3) Other material
associated with the archive.
Notes
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Title Sarah Rushworth Chambers:(WM) (fl.1830-65) Class Tickets

tickets--Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1860-1900# Wesleyan
Methodist Church--Class tickets--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Class tickets--1860-1900
Description Small leatherbound volume of Wesleyan Methodist class tickets of Sarah

Rushworth [from Dec 1828 Sarah Chambers], Sep 1817-Jan 1865.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A


History and Offices), volume 3, containing letters, news cuttings, biographical
notes, obituaries and portrait engravings etc relating to Wesleyan Methodist
ministers, mainly 19th century, but with some 18th century preachers (list of
contents inside front cover)

Thomas Coke
Joseph Entwisle
William Jenkins
Robert Johnson
George Highfield
Robert Smith
Jonathan Edmondson
James Buckley
George Marsden
Richard Watson
Jabez Bunting
Joseph Taylor
John Burdsall
George Morley
John Mason
Robert Newstead
James Townley
John James
Thomas Edwards
Walter Croggan
Jabez Bunting
John Beecham
Elijah Hoole
Robert Alder
George Osborn
Samuel Romilly Hall
Samuel Young
George T. Perks
Luke Wiseman
Robert Lomas
James Wood
Joseph Taylor
John Scott
John Stack
Thomas Marriott
Thomas Rogers
Robert Wood
P. C. Turner
Robert Alder
Francis A. West
Thomas Stead
John Rigg
Frederick J. Jobson
John Nelson
Joseph Taylor
Richard Treffry
James Dixon
John Bedford
Samuel Warren
Richard Waddy
Robert Wood
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Early Methodist portraits engravings,illustrations and letters etc
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Engravings# Engravings--Wesley,

Charles (1707-88)# Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-88)# Engravings--
Wesleyan Methodist themes--1730-1800# Class tickets--Wesleyan Methodist
Church (Great Britain)--1760-1820
Description Bound scrapbook entitled "Wesleyan Ministers Letters and Portraits"

containing a large collection of early Methodist material as follows:
- portrait engravings of John Wesley and illustrations of scenes from his life.
19th century (often engraved from 18th century originals)
- Class ticket dated 1785 and an impression of John Wesley on a wax seal
- Methodist illustrations including Kingswood School and City Road Chapel,
London. 19th century (often engraved from 18th century originals)
- Portrait engravings of Charles Wesley and other members of the Wesley
family including Samuel Annesley (father of Susanna Wesley). 19th century
(some of the portraits are derived from 18th century originals).
- Portrait engravings of John and Mary Fletcher, with the following manuscript
letters:
John Fletcher to Vincent Perronet, 6 September 1777
John Fletcher to Joseph Benson, 6 September 1789
Mary Fletcher to Christopher Hopper, 6 May 1798
- Portrait engravings of George Whitefield and illustrated scenes from his life
and of the Tabernacle Chapel in Tottenham Court Road, London, with the
following manuscript letters:
George Whitefield to John Wesley, 17 March 1737
George Whitefield to Howell Harris, 6 December 1743
Notes
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Title Wesley brothers:(CE/WM)
Keywords
Description Album of ten autograph letters, 1771-1831, including: John Wesley to Duncan
Wright, 11 June 1771; Chas Wesley at Westminster to John Wesley, 1729
(dated in margin). Other letters from George Whitefield, Richard Morgan,
Adam Clarke, and Samuel Blackburn.
Deposit from Wesley House Cambridge of album of ten autograph letters,

1771-1831, including John Wesley to Duncan Wright, 11 June 1771; Charles
Wesley at Westminster to John Wesley, dated in margin 1729; George
Whitefield in Oxford to John Wesley at Epworth, 8 May 1735; Richard
Morgan to John Wesley, 10 March 1733, etc. etc.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Letters,1758-88
Keywords
Description Folder of 13 autograph letters, including 6 letters from John Wesley (including
one to Sarah Mallett from JW, 1788), 1758-88; and one letter from John
Fletcher, n.d, etc.
Deposit from Wesley House Cambridge, of folder of 13 autograph letters,

including 6 letters from John Wesley (one addressed to Sarah Mallett, 8 March
1788), 1758-88; one letter from Richard Watson, one letter from John
Fletcher, n.d. etc. etc.
Notes
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Title Autograph letters:(WM)
Keywords
Description Album of autographs, mainly the concluding greetings and signatures cut from
letters, sometimes with the addressee’s name, the Rev J.P. Haswell, but
including: i) letter of Jabez Bunting to J.P. Haswell, Jan 1848; letter of J.B.
Mortimer, n.d.
Notes
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Title Alliance of Radical Methodists:Newsletters/publications
Keywords Alliance of Radical Methodists
Description 6 boxes of material relating to the Alliance of Radical Methodists: - mainly

newsletters & other publications, 1990s.
Notes
Title Preachers Annuitant Society:(WM) Administrative papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Preachers Annuitant Society# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Clergy--Supernumary#
Description Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Preachers Annuitant Society.
Box 1
1/1 Register of members arranged by membership number from 1 to 2000. This

volume was compiled from the valuation records of 1899 and subsequent
yearly lists of new members revised half yearly. The entries appear to cover
members from the earliest days of the Society
Details include names of individual members of the Society, birth date, date of
marriage, date of superannuation, amount of annuity, date of death, name of
wife, her date of birth, date of the wife’s entry into the Society, date when she
became a widow, her annuity, year of her death and if she had remarried.
1/2 Register of members arranged by membership number from 2001 to 4000.
Box 2
2/1 Register of members arranged by membership numbers from 4001-6000.
2/2 Index of register of members.
2/3 Minutes of the Committee of Management and of the Annual General

Meeting, 29 October 1958 - 23 March 1995
2/4 Cash book, 1 January 1993 – 31 December 1995
2/5-2/6 Printed rules of the Society, 1917
2/7-2/9 Printed rules of the Society, 1917
2/10-2/14 Society printed annual reports, 1990-91 and 1992

Notes
Title Methodist Youth Department:(MCGB) Scripture notes etc
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth Dept# Youth--1950-2000
Description Methodist Church, Youth Department: Scripture examination (notes) +

obituaries of Jennifer Leach (nee Salisbury).
Notes
Access Restrictions One archive box.

Title Brian Duckworth:(MCGB) (1933-2003) Papers
Keywords
Description Reverend Brian Duckworth’s (additional deposit) papers: - files relating to Reverend
Harry Morton & Reverend Wingfield Perry.
Notes
Title Circuit plans/Synod directories:(MCGB) Miscellaneous
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans# Methodist Church (Great

Britain)--Synods
Description Miscellaneous collections of several bundles of synod directories and circuit

plans.
Notes
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Title Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu:(1885-1959) "My Tuskagee Pilgrimage"
Keywords Methodism (Rhodesia)# Methodism (South Africa)# Race & Religion
Description Typescript account of Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu’s journey as a black man
through the Southern United States in the summer of 1913.
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in
1885. He was the eldest son of John Tengo Jabavu, a politician turned
journalist who founded and also became the editor of the first Black-owned
newspaper in 1884, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black opinion). His father was also a
founding member of the South African Native College (later renamed the
University of Fort Hare). He attended the Lovedale Institute, in Cape Town,
Morija and Colwyn Bay in Wales (Britain).
After gaining Bachelor of Arts (B. A) Degree at London University and

teacher’s certificate at Birmingham University in Britain, Jabavu returned to
South Africa and took up a teaching position in languages as the first Black
professor at the University of Fort Hare. He remained at the university for
more than thirty years and also founded a Black teachers’ association, which
advocated better farming methods, stressed the value of manual work, and
pleaded for racial co-operation. He was President of the All-Africa Convention
(AAC), an umbrella organisation that consisted of several organisations that
were opposed to the segregation legislations passed by the Hertzog Government
in 1936.
Rhodes University conferred an honorary doctorate on him in 1954. Among

his literary publications were The Black Problem (1920), The Segregation
Fallacy and Other Papers (1928) and The life of John Tengo Jabavu, editor of
Imvo Zabantsundu (1922) and IziDungulwana (1958).
Notes Deposited by Barbara Negus of Methodist Church House.
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Title Kings Lynn:(MCGB) Circuit plans

Description Folder of circuit plans from Kings Lynn.
Notes Deposited on behalf of the Society of Cirplanologists.
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Title Circuit plans:(WM) York
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1820-1860
Description York WM circuit plan.
Notes
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Title Circuit plans:(PM) Brough and Kirkby Stephen (WM)
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Circuit plans--1861-1932# Primitive Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1860-1932
Description Circuit plans for Brough (PM), 1921, and Kirkby Steven (WM), 1915-22.
Notes
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Title Colleges:(WM) Didsbury Football team photograph
Description Didsbury College football team photograph.
Notes
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Title Synod directory:(MCGB) Channel Islands
Description Synod directory, Channel Islands district (district number 10).
Notes
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Reference Code M208
Title Division of Social Responsibility:(MCGB) Re artificial insemination
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Divisions--Social responsibility
Description Papers re the position of the Division of Social Responsibility re artificial

human insemination, 1956 and 1958.
Notes
Title Stockport (Tiviot Dale):(WM) Chapel, Interior photographs
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Chapels--Photographs
Description 2 black and white photographs of the interior of Tiviot Dale WM chapel.
Stockport.
Notes
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Title Samuel Arnold:(UM) (1866-1925) Obituary notices
Keywords United Methodist Church (Great Britain)
Description Obituary notices and associated material for Samuel Arnold (1866-1925),
United Methodist reporter, publisher and layman.
Notes
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Title Rochdale (Shore):(PM) Chapel commorative material
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Rochdale
Description Commemorative material relating to Shore chapel (PM), Rochdale, 1911
1. Advertisement for the Shore chapel (PM) diamond jubilee celebrations, 1911
2. Illustrated souvenir for the chapel’s diamond jubilee, 1911

3. Diamond Jubilee commemorative booklet, 1911
4. Admission ticket to the Diamond Jubilee commemorative celebration, 1911.
Notes
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Title Stockport (Tiviot Dale):(WM) Circuit papers
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Tiviot Dale# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Stockport# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Youth work# Methodism--Union#
Parliamentary papers (Great Britain)
Description 1. Proposed scheme for the division of the Tiviot Dale circuit, 1892
2. Stockport North circuit preaching plan, 1861
3. Printed 6th annual report of the WM Juvenile missionary association,
Tiviot Dale circuit, 1895
4. Stockport North circuit preaching plan, 1861
5. Certificate of appreciation for raising funds for a reading room for Wesleyan
congregations in Stockport, 1850
6. Bundle of printed material re Methodist Union, including some
parliamentary and legal papers, 1920s.
Notes
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Title Oxford Institute:Conference papers (drafts),1982
Keywords Oxford Institute
Description Draft papers from the 1982 Oxford Institute.
Notes
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Title Sydney Lawson:(WM) (1884-1943) Papers re Lawson Methodist
Keywords Sermons--1900-1932# Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan Methodist

Church (Great Britain)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Relations with the
Church of England# Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society--19th century#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Sunday Schools
Description Papers relating to the Sidney Lawson collection of Methodist manuscripts and
Memorabilia.
1-2. Published sermons by Revd. W. E. Orchard, 1911

3. Published sermon by Revd. J. H. Jowett, 1914
4. Published sermon by Revd. T. Rhondda Williams, n.d.
5. John Wesley, "A short English Grammar" (Bristol, E. Farley, 2nd edition,
1761) - outstanding condition
6. 19th century transcript of a letter from John Fletcher to John Wesley
containing Fletcher’s response to Joseph Benson’s proposals for Methodism to
be formed into a general society of the Church of England (addressed to Mr
Wesley at the Methodist Preaching House in Leeds), 1 August 1775 (also
includes a separate typescript of part of the same letter)
7. Small magazine entitled "The Teacher’s offering or, The Sunday School
Visitor" edited by Revd. John Campbell, No XI, November 1823 (London:
printed by Francis Westley) - outstanding condition
8. Printed handbill issued by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
containing names of the committee and a set of instructions to missionaries,
1834-5
9. Title deed - parties include a member of the Colley family (alleged ancestors
of the Wesleys), Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury and several others,
1617 (this document may have been collected by Lawson because of the alleged
connection between the Colleys and the Wesleys)
10. Chinese language broad-sheet newspaper, 21 Feb. 1880
11. Bundle of miscellaneous WM class tickets, 1785-1943
12. News cutting and portrait engraving re Florence Nightingale
13. Bundle of letters and engravings as follows:
a. From J. Bowring in Petersburg, Viriginia to Samuel Parks in London, 8 Jan
1820 (manuscript)
b. From J. Bowring in Lombard St, [London?] to unreadable correspondent, 17
Oct. 1826 (manuscript)
c. From ?? Godwin to David Booth in [London], 15 Dec.1817 (manuscript)
d. Cover of a letter from George Marsden in London to William Wilberforce,
1817 (manuscript)
e. From J. Roughley[?] to J. Radgetts[?], n.d. (manuscript)
f. From ?? Brougham to unnamed correspondent, n.d. (manuscript)
g. Portrait engraving of Baron Brougham and Vaux, c.1820
h. Portrait engraving of Baron Brougham and Vaux, robed as Lord High
Chancellor
i. Cover of a letter from George Canning (former Prime Minister) to Mr Chubb
in Portsea, 4 December 1826 (manuscript)
j. Engraving of a scene from the House of Commons, 1826
14-15. Scrap book containing a number of autographs and manuscript letters
including the writer Sir Walter Scott
16. Two newscuttings , one reporting on the sale of first editions by 19th
century writers and the other, recounting an anecdode of George III related by
Adam Clarke
17. Typescript copies of the following letters written by John Wesley:
a. To Miss Bolton, 5 Jan. 1783
b. To Captain Richard Williams, 7 Oct. 1781
c. To Miss Bolton, 29 Jan. 1773
d. To Miss Morgan, 20 Feb. 1780
e. To Joseph Benson[?], 23 Sept.1773
18. Typescript letter from anonymous to John Fletcher, 18 Aug. 1775
19. Typescript miscellanous literary fragment
20. Manuscript "Directions in choosing a wife" (anonymous), c.1800
21. Fragment of music to a "Manx song adapted to English words by John
Wesley"
22. Obituary notice for Sidney Lawson, 1943
23. News report of the exhibition of the Lawson collection of Wesleyana in
Liverpool, 1932
24. Title page of an 18th century edition of two published tracts by John
Wesley: Earnest appeal to men of reason and religion; A further appeal, parts
1-3
25. 18th century portrait engraving of John Wesley (from Hampson’s Life of
John Wesley, 1791)
26. Coloured engraving of an unidentified little girl, c.1850
27. Envelope addressed to Revd. J. Grinfield, 1840.
Notes
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Reference Code MA 1
Title Bilston: List of cholera victims
Keywords
Description Xerox copy of a manuscript list of cholera victims (names and ages), parish of
Bilston, Staffordshire.
Notes
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Title Burton on Trent:(MCGB) Poster showing Methodist chapels
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Chapels--Burton on Trent
Description Illustrated poster showing all Methodist chapels (past and present) in Burton on
Trent.
Notes
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Title Ministerial Training Committee:(MCGB) Papers
Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Ministerial Training committee# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Clergy--Training
Description Papers of the Ministerial training committee, 1969-73
1. Published report of a working party on the "Shape of the Ministry", c.1970
2. Published report of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee,

1972-3
3. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 11 Jan.
1973
4. Notes on pre-ordination retreats, Dec. 1972
5. Agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 28 Sept.
1972
6. Minutes and agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee,
25 May. 1972
7. Proof copy of the report of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight
Committee, 1971-2
8. Minutes and agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee,
12 April 1972
9. Report of the sub-committee on "Going out Quietly", 11 May 1972
10. Minutes of the sub-committee on the nature and length of probation, 1
Feb. 1972
11. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 6 Jan.
1972
12. Aide memoire of the sub-committee on probationers’ studies, 1 Dec. 1971
13. Letter re ministerial retirement fund, 8 Dec. 1971

14. Aide memoire of the sub-committee on discipline of students and
probationers, 7 Dec. 1971
15. Minutes and agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight
Committee, 7 Oct.. 1971
16. Memo re provision of audio-visual equipment from the Lord Rank trust,
Oct. 1971
17. Agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 27 May
1971
18. Letter re sub-committee on probationers’ studies, 13 Dec. 1971
19. Aide memoire of the sub-committee on discipline of students and
probationers, 7 Dec. 1971
20. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 27 May
1971
21. Proof copy of the report of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight
Committee, 1970-71
22. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 31 March
1971
23. Letter re probationers discipline, 8 Jan. 1972
24. Minutes and agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight
Committee, 7 Jan. 1971
25. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 1 Oct.
1970
26. Letter re diploma in pastoral studies, 7 July 1970
27. Agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 1
Oct.1971
28. Document re probationers appointments, 26 June 1970
29. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 27 May
1970
30. Minutes of the sub-committee on Probation studies, 21 Spt. 1970
31. Minutes and agenda of the Miniterial training executive committee, 27
May 1970
32. Minutes of the sub-committee of the finances of married students, 28 Apr.
1970
33. Aide memoire of the sub-committee on Conference visitors, 7 May 1970
34. Minutes of the ministerial training general committee, 15 April 1970
35. Pamphlet entitled " Free University for Black Students", 1970
36. Paper on the free university for Black studies, 1970
37. Agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 27 May
1970
38. District arrangements for the ordinands’ regional retreat, 1970/1
39. Minutes of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 14 Apr.
1970
40. Agenda of the Ministerial Training general committeee, 15 Apr. 1970
41 Membership of the general committee of the ministerial training
department, c.1970
42. Minutes of the Finance advisory committee, 5 Feb. 1970
43. Agenda of the Connexional Probationers’ Oversight Committee, 14 Apr.
1970
44. Minutes of the Ministerial training executive committee, 7 Jan. 1970
45. Proof published copy of the report of the Connexional probationers’
oversight committee, 1969-70.
Notes
Title William Charles Bird:(WM) (1880-1982) Papers re his ministry
Keywords Methodism (Rhodesia)# Methodism (South Africa)
Description Papers re the ministry of William Charles Bird
1. Typescript memoir by William Charles Bird entitled "Some random

recollections", Nov.1973
2. Service sheet for the thanksgiving service to commemorate the life of
William Charles Bird, 6 Feb.1982
3. Obituary for William Charles Bird, 11 Feb. 1982 (Methodist Recorder)
4. Obituary for William Charles Bird, Feb. 1982 (Palm Grove Magazine,
Birkenhead)
5. Obituaries for William Charles Bird, 29 Jan. 1982 (Birkenhead News and
Southport Visitor)
6. Obituaries for William Charles Bird, Jan. 1982 (extracted from unnamed
Methodist magazines)
7. Letter of invitation to deliver a radio sermon for the BBC in Glasgow, with
the typescript text of the sermon attached, 22 Jan.1941
8. Published 31st annual report of the Deptford Mission, London, 1933-4
9. Printed "Centenary reminiscence 1871-1971", Palm Grove Methodist
Church, Birkenhead
10. Printed order of service to celebrate the inaugeration of the partnership
between Trinity United Reformed Church and Palm Grove Methodist Church,
Birkenhead, 1 Nov. 1977
11. Issue of "Joyful News" containing an article on the front cover by William
Charles Bird entitled "The World Mission of the Church - has it a future" part
1, 28 Feb. 1957
12. Issue of "Joyful News" containing an article on page 2 by William Charles
Bird entitled "Glimpses at South Africa. IV Apartheid", 27 Feb. 1955
13. Delegates badge and commemorative medalion from the 6th Ecumenical
Conference of Methodism held in Atlanta, 16-26 Oct. 1931
14. Typescript copy of "African Journey" through South Africa and Rhodesia
by William Charles Bird and his wife Nancy, 1955.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Portrait engraving at age 87
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John
Description Portrait of John Wesley at the age of 87. Engraved by T. Fry from an original
portrait by J. Benton (published London, 1824).
Notes
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Title Manchester (Blackley):(WM) Class list
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Manchester--Class lists# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Class lists# Class meetings--Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description Manuscript list class members from the Blackley Wesleyan society near
Manchester.
Notes
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Title Manchester (Blackley):(WM) Circuit plan
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Manchester# Circuit plans--Wesleyan Methodist

Description Manuscript circuit plan, Blackley near Manchester.
Notes
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Title Manchester:(WM) Circuit plan
Date of Material October-

Description Circuit plan for the Wesleyan society, Manchester.
Notes
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Title Manchester (1st circuit):(WM) Circuit plan
Date of Material October-

Description Circuit plan for the Manchester 1st Wesleyan circuit.
Notes
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Title Manchester (1st circuit):(WM) Circuit plan
Date of Material May-July 1836

Description Circuit plan for the 1st Manchester Wesleyan Methodist circuit.
Notes
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Title Division of Social Responsibility:(MCGB) Papers
Date of Material
Keywords Social justice--Great Britain# International relations--1970-2000# Methodist

Church (Great Britain)--Social justice# Methodist Church (Great Britain)--
Divisions--Social responsibility
Description Papers on Methodist social policy (additional deposit)
1. Typescript paper commissioned by the British Council of Churches on

electoral reform, 1980
2. Published Government Department of the Environment report on
"Streamlining the cities - proposals for reorganising local government in
Greater London and Metropolitan Counties", October 1983
3. Issue of the "99 percenter", January 1982
4. File of papers on disarmament discussions (DSR and British council of
Churches), 1983-85
5. File of papers re the DSR Political, Social and Economic Policy main
committee, 1982-3.
Notes No accession reference found in the register. Accession dated from a date on
the original covering envelope
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Title Wesley family etc:Letters
Keywords
Description Artificially created collection of letters of the Wesley family and their circle of
associates. Formerly contained in two bound volumes entitled:
- "Letters chiefly to Wesleys, vol.1"
- "Letters to the Wesleys and others, vol 2"
Box 1 (formerly "Letters chiefly to Wesleys, vol.1")
This box contains approximately 187 letters and consists mainly of letters
written to Charles Wesley’s daughter Sarah Wesley junior (1759-1828).
Correspondents include Count Zenobia (friend of Dr Samuel Johnson), Lord de
Dunstanville (Francis Basset (d.1835), Lady Mary Manners and Miss Freeman
Shepherd. There are also 2 stray letters of Samuel Wesley (1766-1834), son of
Charles Wesley and a famous musician.
Box 2 (formerly "Letters to the Wesleys and others, vol 2")
This box contains approximately 210 letters and includes the following
significant sub-series:
- Sarah Perrin to Charles Wesley, 1740-78

- John Gambold to Charles Wesley, 1737-62
- James Hutton to Charles Wesley, 1736-39
- Henry Durbin to Charles Wesley, 1780-1786
- John Collinson to Mrs Sarah Wesley, 1788-1803
- William Wilberforce to Mrs Sarah Wesley, 1790-99
- letters of individual correspondents to Charles Wesley and members of his
family, from: William Grimshaw, Lord Exeter, Lady Gertrude Hotham, Edward
Walpole, Mrs Gallatin, Mary Degge, John Horton, Lady Sparrow, Thomas
Marriott etc
- letters of miscellaneous individual correspondents to other named individuals -
mainly Methodist ministers and laity, including Thomas Jackson, Samuel Dunn
and Jabez Bunting.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Ms minutes,1744-48
Description Manuscript minutes of early Wesleyan Conferences compiled by the preacher

John Bennett.
Notes Former reference C.10
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Psalms and Hymns (Charleston,1737)
Keywords Hymns
Description Copy of "Psalms and Hymns" compiled by John Wesley (Charleston,1737)
The world’s first English-language hymnal, the first hymnal to be produced by

the Wesleys and first hymnbook to be published in what became the United
States. There are only 2 copies in the world and this is the only complete copy.
Notes
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Title John Nelson:(1707-74) Ms book of hymns, homilies and sermons
Keywords Hymns--Wesleyan Methodist Church# Sermons--1735-91# Biblical studies
Description Manuscript book containing homilies, hymns, sermons and scripture notes
compiled by the Wesleyan preacher John Nelson (1707-74).
Notes
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Title Sarah Crosby:(1729-1804) Copy of Charles Wesley’s Hymns for
Keywords Hymns--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Women & religion
Description Copy of Hymns for the use of Families by Charles Wesley (1767) - formerly
owned by Sarah Crosby and bearing her signature with the date 30 September
1773.
Notes
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Title Greek New Testament:Leiden,1591
Keywords
Description Copy of a Greek New Testament with some manuscript annotations, published
in Leiden in 1591. This appears to have peripheral Methodist significance, but
is a rare voulme from an important Low countries press.
Notes Former reference Lamplough 664
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Title Memoranda book:Anon., Lists, minutes and transcripts
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1742-60# Methodist Episcopal

Church# Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John# Church of England--Foreign
Missions
Description 19th century transcript of documents as follows:
- Minutes of a meeting to discuss the proporal for a general union of

evangelical societies, 16 November 1749
- Minutes of the Wesleyan Conference held in Leeds, 12 May 1755
- Minutes of the Wesleyan Conference held in Bristol, 12 August 1758
- List of manuscripts formerly owned by Jabez Bunting (1779-1858) and
returned to his son for safe-keeping. Includes lists of papers of Dr Thomas
Coke, William Miles, James Oddy, William Boothby, Walter Sellon, John
Fletcher and John Brown: transcripts of letters, including one written by
William Wilberforce and one from Sally Wesley to Joseph Benson: bundle of
papers relating to the death in the United States of Francis Asbury: lists of
Jabez Bunting’s personal papers
- Extracts from John Wesley’s journal of his voyage to Georgia, 1735
(published).
Notes Former reference C.80
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Proof copy of Samuel Shaw’s Immanuel
Keywords
Description John Wesley’s annotated copy of "Immanuel" by Samuel Shaw (1635-96). This
appears to be the copy that was corrected for the press by John Wesley
preparatory to its publication in the "Christian Library."
Notes
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Title "A Gentleman":The Oxford Methodists (London, 1733)
Keywords Holy Club# Universities--Oxford
Description "The Oxford Methodist: Being some account of a Society of Young Gentlemen
in that city" (London, 1733) by A Gentleman.
Notes Former reference 157
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Title Conference:(WM) Bradford,Autographs of lay delegates
Description Autographs of lay delegates to the Bradford WM Conference of 1878 - the

first to admit laity.
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Title John Byrom:(1692-1763) Universal English Shorthand
Keywords
Description John Byrom, "Universal English Shorthand" (Manchester, 1767). Inscribed

with the name Pickersgill and containing a bundle of loose 20th century
historical notes and letters.
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(WM) Minutes,1833-35
Description Minutes of the WM Conference 1833-35.
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Title Conference:(WM) Notes of proceedings by Henry Fish

Church--Conference 1792-1830
Description Manuscript notes on the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conferences of 1829,

1834-36 compiled by the Wesleyan minister Henry Fish (d.1879).
Notes
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Reference Code MAW G173A
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) An epistle to John Wesley (1755)
Description Poor condition copy of Charles Wesley’s "An epistle to John Wesley" (1755).
Inscribed with the Moravian minister Francis Okely’s (1719-94) name and a
date of 7 September 1771. Okely also states that the book was a ‘gift of the author.
Notes
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Title Strangers Friend Society:Manchester, Ms Cash book
Keywords Strangers Friend Society--Manchester# Charities--Strangers Friend Society
Description Manuscript cash book of the Manchester branch of the Strangers Friend Society.
Access Restrictions
Reference Code MAW G43B
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Rules of the United Societies (1743)-
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Discipline
Description [John Wesley], "Rules of the United Societies" (1743). This volume contains John Wesley’s
manuscript annotations listing the rules of the bands.
Notes
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Title James Everett:(WM) (1784-1872) Ms treatise on class tickets
Keywords Class meetings--Wesleyan Methodist Church# Class tickets--Wesleyan

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Class tickets--1820-1860# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Class meetings
Description Manuscript treatise by the Wesleyan minister James Everett "On class tickets."
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Ms minutes
Description Manuscript minutes of the 1744 Conference. Written in an 18th century hand
- possibly that of the Wesleyan itinerant John Bennett (1714-59).
Notes Former reference C 330
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Title Conference:(WM) Ms account of debate on ordination

Church--Ordinations# Ordination
Description Manuscript account by the Wesleyan minister Joseph Entwisle (1767-1841) of

the debate on ordination at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Autographs of delegates
Description Notebook containing signatures of ministers attending the1841 Wesleyan

Conference.
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Isle of Man,Extracts of Minutes etc,1780-99
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--Isle of Man# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Isle of Man--Conference
Description Extracts from the manuscript minutes and associated documents of the Manx
Conference, 1780-99 (probably transcribed by a local preached Charles
Radcliffe).
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Title James Rogers:(WM) (1749-1807) Family dispute at Marske,North

Yorkshire
Keywords
Description Manuscript notebook in the hand of the Wesleyan preacher James Rogers
(1749-1807) giving details of a long-running dispute with his brother over
family land in Marske, North Yorkshire.
Notes
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Description Manuscript minutes of the Wesleyan Conference held in Bristol between 12

and 15 May 1746. In the hand, probably, of the Wesleyan preacher Thomas
Maxfield (d.1784).
Notes Former reference L612
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Title Conference:(WM Ireland) Ms notes
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference--Ireland# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Ireland# Methodism (Ireland)
Description Miscellaneous notes on proceedings at the 1829 Irish Wesleyan Conference

(anonymous author).
Notes Former reference C 327
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Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Printed verse re John Wesley’s illness
Keywords Poetry--18th century# Methodism (Ireland)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Ireland# Methodism (Ireland)
Description "Some verses occasioned by the severe illness, much feared dissolution and
almost miraculous restoration of the Revd. John Wesley at Lisburne in Ireland,
July 2 1775" (London: Printed for W. Kent,1775) - anonymous, but attributed
to Charles Wesley. Not recorded in ESTC, but published by Kimbrough and
Beckerlegge in their "Unpublished verse of Charles Wesley."
Access Restrictions
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference
Description Manuscript minutes of the 1795 Wesleyan Methodist Conference held in

Manchester, transcribed by the Wesleyan minister James Wood (1773-1840).
Access Restrictions
Date of Material June 1744
Description Manuscript minutes of the first Wesleyan Conference held in Bristol, 25-30
June 1744 transcribed by a contemporary but anonymous hand. At the back of
the volume is a list of funeral expenses for Sarah, wife of Thomas Hardwick.
Access Restrictions
Title Conference:(WM) Ms satirical account of proceedings
Description Manuscript satirical account of how the 1868 Wesleyan Conference was
interrupted by the "arrival of Revd. J. Scott and Rev. T. H. Squance with
funeral dirges and chants etc" - both ministers died that year prior to
Conference, so it is difficult to work out exactly what this document is saying.
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Title Early Preachers’ Letters etc transcribed by James Everett,vol.1
Keywords Diaries & Journals--1700-50# Church of England--Foreign Missions# Wesleyan

Methodist Church--Yarm--Society book# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Chapels--Registration# Church of England--Registration of dissenting chapels
Description Bound volume of copy letters and other documents relating to early
Methodism transcribed by James Everett, with additions by Luke Tyerman.
Completed in 1862. Volume 1.
The volume contains the following letters, often accompanied by notes by

James Everett and Luke Tyerman on provenance and context:
John Gambold to John Wesley, 27 January 1738

W. Chapman to John Wesley, 3 Septepmber 1736
Benjamin Ingham to his mother containing an extremely lengthy account of
how John Wesley persuaded him to go to Georgia and his voyage there (this
constitues a journal rather than a letter), 1 May 1736
John Valton to George Merryweather, 17 August 1784
Thomas Coke to George Merryweather, 5 October 1785
Joseph Benson to George Merryweather, 22 December 1794
Christopher Hopper to George Merryweather, 22 April 1789
George Merryweather to John Pawson, 10 February 1797
John Pawson to George Merryweather, 13 February 1797
George Merryweather to John Pawson, 24 July 1799
John Pawson to George Merryweather, 10 October 1799
John Pawson to George Merryweather, 8 August 1805
John Fletcher to George Merryweather, 27 August 1781
William Grimshaw to George Merryweather, 22 January 1759
John Wesley to William Thompson re baptism, undated
William Romaine to George Merryweather, c.1771/2
Reverend Richardson to George Merryweather, 19 March 1779
John Hampson to George Merryweather, 1784
John Hampson to George Merryweather, 10 March 1785
John Hampson to George Merryweather, 1 September 1785
John Hampson to George Merryweather, 29 March 1786
John Hampson to George Merryweather, 1785
Robert Oastler to George Merryweather, 1785
John Hampson to George Merryweather, [1785]
John Atlay to George Merryweather,17 September 1785
John Atlay to George Merryweather,19 May 1785
John Atlay to George Merryweather, 18 April 1786
John Atlay to George Merryweather,30 May 1786
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 16 June 1758
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 24 January 1760
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 5 October 1763
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 7 May 1764
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 8 February 1766
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 15 November 1766
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 20 December 1766
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 29 January 1767
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 30 November 1767
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 6 October 1767
John Wesley to George Merryweather, 26 September 1768
John Wesley to George Merryweather, [1770]
Mr Manners to George Merryweather, 9 September 1761
John Horner to George Merryweather, 22 September 1758
Alexander Mather to George Merryweather, June 1765
Michael Fenwick to George Merryweather, 3 June 1796
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 4 October 1779
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 28 December 1779
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 31 May 1780
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 10 July 1780
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 31 July 1780
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, 7 April 1781
Brian Bury Collins to George Merryweather, [May 1779]
Sarah Crosby to Mrs Merryweather, 8 February 1776
Sarah Crosby to Mrs Merryweather, 31 January 1777
Sarah Crosby to Mrs Merryweather, 18 February 1780
William Blagborne to James Oddie, 13 August 1791
Mr Phillips to James Oddie, [c.1787]
N. Marshall to James Oddie, 1 October 1775
James Hamilton to James Oddie, 15 February 1785
Mrs Oddie to James Oddie, 17 November no year
John Atlay to James Oddie, 14 September 1789
John Atlay to James Oddie, 12 June 1789
John Brandreth to James Oddie, 27 January 1789
Richard Shaw to James Oddie, 23 December 1783
John Pawson to James Oddie, 14 December 1785
Appeal to the public relative to my conduct and transactions in the case of Mr

T[homas] Colbeck’s children etc, 28 November 1788 - by James Oddie (James
Everett’s notes reveal that this was in connection with Oddie’s seperation from
his wife - the children referred to were Mrs Oddie’s by her first marriage)
John Brandreth to James Oddie, 4 June 1785

John Sharp to James Oddie, 19 July 1788
John Atlay to James Oddie, 1 June 1789
James Hamilton to James Oddie, 8 March 1795
Sarah Crosby to James Oddie, 28 January 1763
John Sharp to James Oddie, 2 August 1784
James Oddie to unnamed person, undated
Verse by James Oddie
Thomas Hanby to James Oddie, 21 May 1789
Thomas Colbeck to James Oddie, 10 February no year
Thomas Colbeck to James Oddie, 27 January no year
Mrs Oddie to James Oddie, undated
Extract from documents relating to the last will and testament of Thomas
Colbeck, 1788
Thomas Hanby to James Oddie, 5 August 1789
Richard Lawson to James Oddie, 29 October 1784
Charles Thompson to James Oddie, 30 October 1785
Thomas Hanby to unnamed fellow preachers, 12 September 1789
James Oddie’s notes regarding prayer
Mrs Colbeck to James Oddie, 16 December 1783
Thomas Colbeck to James Oddie, 1787
John Nelson to James Oddie, 3 May 1785
Thomas Colbeck to "much esteemed pastor", 10 August 1778
James Oddie to Reverend Hartley, 8 November 1784
Mrs Oddie to James Oddie, undated
James Oddie to "gentlemen", 16 December 1785
Mrs Oddie to James Oddie, 21 December 1789
Charles Bland to James Oddie, 15 November 1785
Richard Middleton to James Oddie, 14 April 1785
Mrs Colbeck to James Oddie, 28 October 1783
Thomas Colbeck to James Oddie, undated
Richard Middleton to James Oddie, 14 January 1788
Richard Middleton to James Oddie, 16 December 1787
James Oddie to Mr Garton, 30 January 1773
Richard Lawson to James Oddie, undated
Verse by James Oddie
John Brandreth to James Oddie, 18 April 1786
A. Ikin to James Oddie, 7 December 1775
Mary Lawson to James Oddie, 5 August 1775
Richard Lawson to James Oddie, 8 March 1785
Invitation to renew lease of seats in the gallery of Keighley Chapel, c.1785
J. Cole to Richard Rodda, 30 November 1784
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 3 November 1787
Thomas Coke to [Richard Rodda], 7 October 1788
Thomas Hanby to Richard Rodda, 4 June 1789
William Thompson to Samuel Bradburn, 8 April 1791
William Thompson to Richard Rodda, 10 October 1791
William Thompson to Richard Rodda, 18 February 1792
William Thompson to Richard Rodda, 14 May 1792
William Thompson to Richard Rodda, 27 September 1791
John Pawson to Richard Rodda, 29 January 1793
Samuel Bradburn to Richard Rodda, undated
John Pawson to Richard Rodda, 28 March 1793
Joseph Bradford to Richard Rodda, 28 May 1794
Joseph Benson to Richard Rodda, 12 March 1796
Jabez Bunting to Walter Griffith, 2 April 1810
Richard Rodda to Joseph Taylor, 1 January 1811
Charles Atmore to Thomas Marriott, 23 August 1811
Thomas Taylor to Walter Griffith, 16 May 1816
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, undated
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 12 April 1766
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 16 January 1767
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 11 April 1767
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 6 December 1767
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 6 March 1770
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 15 June 1770
John Pawson to Matthew Mayer, 29 September 1772
Thomas Taylor to Matthew Mayer, 12 October 1772
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 16 March 1773
Thomas Rankin to Matthew Mayer, 7 July 1778
Joseph Benson to Matthew Mayer, 9 February 1788
Miss Stephenson to Matthew Mayer, 30 January 1771
S. A. Young to Matthew Mayer, 10 August 1778
Joseph Benson to Matthew Mayer, 9 October no year
John Valton to Matthew Mayer, 13 December 1781
John Valton to Matthew Mayer, 23 November 1784
Extracts from the Yarm Society book transcribed by George Merryweather,

1761-1801
Alexander Mather to [William Marriott], 17 March 1783

Alexander Mather to [William Marriott], 12 June 1783
Alexander Mather to [William Marriott], 3 August 1783
Alexander Mather to [William Marriott], 31 November 1783
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 30 December 1783
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 10 February 1784
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 7 April 1784
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 3 July 1784
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 6 January 1785
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 8 September 1785
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 8 October 1785
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 7 December 1785
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 5 April 1786
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 9 May 1786
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 12 March 1789
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 5 May 1789
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 18 June 1789
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 26 October 1789
Thomas Walsh to [Mary Bosanquet], 17 March 1757
Mary Bosanquet to Sarah Crosby, 4 January 1781
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 30 April 1803
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 28 May 1800
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 16 August 1788
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 10 December 1802
Mary Fletcher to Anne Tripp, 6 December 1808
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 17 September 1803
Mary Fletcher to Anne Tripp, 1804
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 3 May 1804
Mary Fletcher to Anne Tripp, undated
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 29 November 1803
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, undated
Mary Fletcher to [Sarah Crosby?], undated
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, undated
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 21 August 1787
Mary Fletcher to [Sarah Crosby], 10 June 1788
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 13 October 1794
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, 17 Match 1813
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, 6 September 1808
Harvey Walklate Mortimer to anonymous, 21 December 1801
Elizabeth Mortimer to Sarah Crosby, undated
Elizabeth Mortimer to Mr Jones, 25 January 1794
Extract of a letter from Elizabeth Ritchie to anonymous, undated
Elizabeth Ritchie to Sarah Crosby, undated
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, 9 October 1810
Elizabeth Mortimer to [Peard Dickenson], 2 February 1815
Elizabeth Mortimer to Sarah Crosby, 27 October 1802
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, 19 May 1814
John Wesley to William Wogan, 28 March 1737
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, 25 November 1808
Elizabeth Mortimer to [Sarah Crosby], 30 November 1804
John Wesley to Zachary Yewdall, 1 May 1782
Thomas Coke to "our brethren at Delph in Yorkshire", 10 October 1780
Several named Methodist preachers to Bishop Bailey of Chester regarding
registration of a chapel as a dissenting place of worship, 9 September 1779
Alexander Mather to unnamed female correspondent, 11 June 1777
Written assent signed by John Wesley authorising the Weseyan society at
Delph in Yorkshire to raise money locally for the erection of a chapel, 25
March 1780
Written assent signed by John Wesley authorising the Weseyan society at
Delph in Yorkshire to raise money outside their locality for the erection of a
chapel, 2 November 1780
John Whitehead to anonymous, 29 August 1803
Extract of documents regarding expenses of the Wesleyan Conference
convened at Manchester, July and August 1833
Quarterly subscriptions from the constituent congregations in the proposed
Stockport circuit, 1808-09
Elizabeth Ritchie to Sarah Crosby, 17 October 1800
Elizabeth Mortimer to Anne Tripp, October 1813
Elizabeth Ritchie to Sarah Crosby, 20 August 1798
Mary Fletcher to Sarah Crosby, 18 July 1797
Mrs Carthy to Sarah Crosby, 19 January no year
Sarah Crosby to Sarah Ryan, 24 November 1760
Mrs Mitchell to unnamed, 21 September 1762
Sarah Crosby to Anne Tripp, 29 May 1778
The following letters were transcribed by James Everett in 1855 from John
Wesley’s journal:
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 5 January 1725

Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 26 January 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 13 March 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 10 May 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 25 September 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 2 August 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 21 August 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 14 July 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 1 September 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 19 October 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 30 November 1725
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, March ?? 1726
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 1 April 1726
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 17 April 1726
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 6 June 1727
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 21 June 1727
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 23 February 1724
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 19 August 1724
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 10 September 1724
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 5 January 1725
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 8 June 1725
Susanna Wesley to John Wesley, 21 July 1725
Robert Wood to Barnard Slater, 9 February 1825

James Fussell to William Morgan, 27 August 1822
George Highfield to unreadable name, 14 February 1806
David Cornforth to John Hambleton junior, 29 October 1815
Miles Martindale to Mrs Garside, 9 June 1800
James Buckley to William Morgan, 10 March 1831
James Collier to William Morgan, 23 February 1818
John Anderson to Barnard Slater, 29 May 1815
John Pawson to Thomas Garside, 26 May 1769
Extract from Thomas Taylor to anonymous, 4 August 1810
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 29 October 1791
Robert Dall to James Bogie, undated
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 31 May 1792
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 30 June 1792
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 30 August 1792
Duncan McCallum to James Bogie, 19 September 1792
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 27 November 1792
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 11 December 1794
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 29 December 1794
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 3 March 1794
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 30 January 1797
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 2 March 1797
Robert Dall to James Bogie, 17 June 1797
Thomas Hanby to Peter Jaco, 1760
Reverend Broughton to [John Wesley], 15 April 1735
John Wesley to John Bredin, 16 September 1773
John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn, 17 October 1776
John Wesey to Samuel Bradburn, 13 February 1779
John Wesley to Duncan McAllum, 24 October 1782
John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn, 19 June 1779
John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn, 16 September 1780
John Wesley to Samuel Bradburn, 16 June 1781
John Wesley to Hester Ann Rogers, 15 April 1782
John Wesley to Joseph Thompson, 3 September 1770
Joseph Taylor to James Rogers, 23 February 1803
William Palmer to James Rogers, 23 February 1803
William Myles to James Rogers, 5 November 1805
Mary Fletcher to Anne Tripp, 20 June 1812
Elizabeth Ritchie to Mrs Bradburn, undated
John Wesley to Jasper Winscomb, 9 May1785
John Wesley to Jasper Winscomb, 17 June 1786
John Wesley to Jasper Winscomb, 16 July 1788
John Wesley to Jasper Winscomb, 13 ?? 1790
John Wesley to William Thom, 30 August 1789
John Wesley to Hester Ann Rogers, 18 March 1783
James McDonald to Sophia Bradburn, 28 September 1821
John Wesley to Robert Costerdine, 20 October 1775
John Wesley to Robert Costerdine, 26 March 1776
John Wesley to Robert Costerdine, 7 April 1776
John Wesley to Robert Costerdine, 27 December 1776
John Wesley to Robert Costerdine, 4 September 1785
John Mason to Robert Costerdine, 31 March 1779
Thomas Tatton to Robert Costerdine, 6 July 1772
Samuel Bradburn to John Holland, 18 March 1805
Samuel Bradburn to John Holland, 24 March 1805
Joseph Bradford to James Rogers, 2 August 1805
John Dawson to James Rogers, 26 August 1805
Henry Moore to James Rogers, 4 February 1806
Henry Moore to James Rogers, 8 July 1806
William Shackleton to John Mann, 10 May 1856
Extracts of the following letters:

William Harrison to John Harrison, 19 July 1822
Anne Moore to Miss Taylor, 11 June 1806
Thomas Roberts to William Morgan, 18 October 1826
Anne Loxdale to Mrs Garside, 8 February 1811
William E. Miller to Mrs Morgan, 13 February no year
Henry Moore to Eliza Taylor, 20 August 1821
Extract from Thomas Rankin’s journal regarding the ministry in North
America of Captain Thomas Webb
Peter Arrive to Isaac Clayton, 4 September 1806

Peter Arrive to Isaac Clayton, 2 October 1806
Thomas Vasey to Isaac Clayton, 4 August 1800
Thomas Vasey to Isaac Clayton, 8 November 1800
George Tindale to Isaac Clayton, 9 October 1812
Richard Treffrey to Isaac Clayton, undated
Richard Treffrey to Isaac Clayton, 6 November 1812
Edward Towler to Isaac Clayton, 27 July 1803
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 11 September 1804
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 2 February 1805
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 23 March 1806
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 16 July 1806
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 9 December 1806
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 7 November 1810
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 15 February 1813
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 15 December 1813
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 7 May 1816
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 18 June 1818
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 24 April 1818
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 2 August 1819
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 23 May 1821
George Russell to Isaac Clayton, 7 August 1823
John Rawson to Isaac Clayton, 14 March 1828
Thomas Pinder to Isaac Clayton, 4 November 1805
Thomas Pinder to Isaac Clayton, 21 December 1804
Thomas Pinder to Isaac Clayton, 11 July 1804
Jonathan Parkin to Isaac Clayton, 25 June 1814
William Midgeley to Isaac Clayton, 25 December 1802
Mary Clarke to Isaac Clayton, 7 October 1806
William Leach to Isaac Clayton, 22 October 1801
William Leach to Isaac Clayton, 15 November 1802
William Leach to Isaac Clayton, 10 February 1804
William Leach to Isaac Clayton, 29 October 1804
Notes
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Title Early Preachers’ Letters etc transcribed by Luke Tyerman
Keywords Autobiographies/Memoirs# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Shaftesbury#

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Finance# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Shepton
Mallet# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Ordination# Diaries &
Journals--Wesley, John
Description The volume contains the following letters, often accompanied by notes by
Luke Tyerman on provenance and context:
Extracts from anecdotes by John Pawson relating to his ministry, 1767-69
Extracts from loose papers formerly in the possession of James Everett

relating to miscellaneous early Methodist topics, late 18th and early 19th cent.
Extracts from a manuscript memoir by Mr Sayer of Southfield near Colne,

Lancashire, 1751-1809
Extracts from a manuscript memoir of John Whitehead written by John

Pawson, including some very interesting and controversial remarks on
Whitehead’s biographies of the Wesley brothers and in particular, Whitehead’s
opinion of Charles Wesley
The following letters:

John Whitehead to John Pawson, 24 February 1800
Meville Horne to [John Pawson], [1800]
Meville Horne to [John Pawson], 22 April 1800
Michael Sadler to John Pawson, 6 February 1804
Joseph Bradford to John Pawson, 15 February 1806
John Pawson to Thomas Johnson, 21 September 1764
Thomas Taylor to Frances Pawson, 6 April 1808
Adam Clarke to Frances Pawson, 17 December 1806
Joseph Benson to John Pawson, 13 April 1802
Booth Newton to John Pawson, 20 December 1805
John Johnson to John Pawson, 29 June 1801
John Barber to John Pawson, 13 December 1805
Richard Reece to John Pawson, 10 February 1806
John Grant to John Pawson, 23 September 1800
Thomas Wood to John Pawson, 6 February 1802
Richard Reece to John Pawson, 10 November 1800
Robert Lomas to John Pawson, 30 May 1803
Adam Clarke to John Pawson, 25 June 1806
Thomas Rankin to John Pawson, 16 May 1803
Thomas Roberts to John Pawson, 18 November 1805
Alexander Mather to John Pawson, 3 December 1789
Thomas Rankin to John Pawson, 31 January 1800
Benjamin Rhodes to Frances Pawson, 13 April 1806
Richard Reece to Frances Pawson, 22 May 1809
Richard Reece to Frances Pawson, 10 October 1807
Henry Moore to John Pawson, 1805
Robert Lomas to John Pawson, 6 May 1802
Extracts from the Shaftesbury Methodist Society book containing the income
and expenditure account, 1762-1810
Historical notes re Shepton Mallet circuit, compiled in 1839
John Pawson to Charles Atmore, 1784-1805 (114 letters)
Ordination certificate of Samuel Bradburn, 5 April 1792
Certificate testifying to Bradburn’s excellent ministerial service, 5 August 1803
Lady Mary Fitzgerald to Samuel Bradburn, 21 February 1786

Samuel Bradburn to Sophia Cooke, 11 May 1786
Samuel Bradburn to John Wesley, 3 June 1786
Samuel Bradburn to Sophia Bradburn, 19 May 1793
Samuel Bradburn to Thomas Cooper, 11 February 1795
Joseph Benson to Samuel Bradburn, February 1795
Samuel Bradburn to Joseph Benson, 10 February 1795
Samuel Bradburn to Thomas Cooper, 23 March 1814
Copy of John Wesley’s journal as sent to Samuel Bradburn containing the entry
for 28 June 1788
John Wesley to Sophia Cooke, 20 June 1786

Samuel Bradburn to John Wesley, 2 February 1786
Extracts from a document entitled "A few recollections of Mr [Samuel]

Bradburn"
Samuel Bradburn to a Socinian minister, 18 March and 24 March 1805

Samuel Bradburn to John Reynolds, 12 May 1795
Extracts from loose papers in James Everett’s collection copied by Luke

Tyerman, 4 February 1863. The papers include material relating to Cornelius
Bayley, early Methodism in Rochdale 1792-1806, Mrs Green of Rotherham
and Matthew Mayer
Thomas Taylor to John Proctor[?] of Leeds, 11 August 1814

Thomas Taylor to John Proctor[?] of Leeds, 31 August 1813
Joseph Thompson to Joseph Agar, 15 February 1794
Frances Pawson to Mrs Spence, 14 December 1807
Elizabeth Ritchie to Anne Loxdale, 19 December 1787
Elizabeth Ritchie to Mrs Spence, 1 August 1796
Elizabeth Ritchie to Joseph Agar, 28 January 1800
J. Cockershill to Joseph Agar, 7 April 1794
Thomas Farmer to Joseph Agar, 9 March 1839
Daniel Isaac to Joseph Agar, 9 February 1809
Daniel Isaac to Joseph Agar, 8 August 1810
Joseph Butterworth to Robert Spence, 20 January 1806
Joseph Butterworth to Joseph Agar, 21 April 1826
Extract of a letter from Joseph Hackney to Joseph Agar, 12 October 1812
John Story to Joseph Agar, 16 January 1831
John Story to John Proctor[?] of Leeds, 21 January 1832
Extract of a letter from Jonathan Crowther to Joseph Agar, 6 October 1832
Joseph Sutcliffe to Joseph Agar, 21 February 1836
Joseph Sutcliffe to Joseph Agar, 25 August 1840
Joseph Sutcliffe to Benjamin Agar, 2 February 1847
Mrs Brackenbury to Joseph Agar, 8 April 1840
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, undated
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, [1811]
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, 26 November 1811
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, 6 February 1814
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, 14 June 1814
Thomas Galland to John Agar, 30 September 1814
Thomas Galland to Joseph Agar, 9 April 1821
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 12 October 1811
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 20 November 1811
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 11 April 1812
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 26 October 1812
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 11 December 1812
Joseph Agar to his parents, 1824
Joseph Agar to John Agar (brother), 14 June 1814
Joseph Agar to his mother, 15 May 1815
Mary Miller to Joseph Agar, 16 October 1821
Joseph Agar to Joseph Agar senior, 8 April 1822
Joseph Agar to his mother, 1 October 1822
Joseph Agar to his parents, 28 October 1823
Joseph Agar to his parents, 26 August 1823
Joseph Agar to his parents, 6 May 1829
James Jones to Joseph Agar, 26 July 1830
Edward Oakes to [Joseph] Agar, April 1829
Extracts from the minute book of the Liverpool Wesleyan circuit, 29

September 1802 to 26 June 1856
Extracts from a book entitled "A hundred years ago - an historical sketch 1755
to 1856" by the Wesleyan ministerJames Hutton
John Crosby to his mother, 7 September 1831

Thomas Dudley to John S. Stampe, 8 May 1835
Joseph Cole to Richard Rodda, 15 June 1787
Sarah Crosby to James Oddie, 20 January 1763
Charles Bland to James Oddie, 15 November 1785
William Blagborne to Eli Jowett, 13 August 1791
Biogrqphical notes relating to James Oddie
List of class members in Howarth, 1763
Notes relating to early Methodism in Howarth with particular regard to the

ministry of William Grimshaw
Biographical notes relating to Jonathan Catlow
Notes relating to early Methodism in Leeds
John Wesley to the Keighley Wesleyan Society, 11 January 1779
Extensive notes relating to early Methodism in Doncaster and pother places in

the Doncaster circuit
Notes relating to early Methodism in Alfraham (Chester circuit)

Notes relating to John Wesley’s ministry at St Agnes in Cornwall
Notes relating to the Wesleyan minister William E. Miller
Notes relating to the Wesleyan minister Thomas Laycock
John Wesley to Alexander Clark, 21 March 1772
Notes relating to early Methodism in Manchester and constituent parts of the

circuit (Manchester Methodism appears several times in this part of the
volume)
Notes relating to early Methodism in London
Notes relating to early Methodism in Newcastle upon Tyne and John Wesley’s
visits to Gateshead Fell
Notes relating to early Methodism in Oldham and Middleton
Notes
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Title Conference:(WM) Minutes etc
Description 19th century transcript by the Wesleyan minister George Osborne (1808-91)
of the minutes of the Wesleyan Conference for 1749, 1755 and 1758, together
with the rules for holding meetings made by the 1773 Conference (copied
from the Wiltshire circuit book).
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Title W. F. Warren:Treatise - Methodism, No Counsel or Work of Men
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Anti-Methodism
Description 19th century manuscript treatise by W. F. Warren entitled "Methodism, No

Counsel or Work of Men."
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Title Education:(WM) Report of a special meeting on primary education
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Schools
Description Manuscript report of the proceedings of the special meeting on primary

education held in the Centenary Hall, London, 30 November 1869
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Title Conference:(WM) Account of proceedings
Description Account of the proceedings of the 1837 Wesleyan Conference held in Leeds.
Recorded by the Wesleyan minister William Pollard (1794-1839).
Notes
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Title Mr S. F. Longstaffe (fl.1890):Scrapbook of Wesleyana
Date of Material 18th - 19th
Keywords
Description Scrapbook of cuttings and associated material on an early Methodist or Wesley

theme compiled by Mr S. F. Longstaffe (fl.1890). Many of the cuttings are
from periodicals dating to the late 19th century, but with some 18th century
published material.
Notes
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Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Letter to John Wesley
Keywords
Description Manuscript letter of Charles Wesley to his brother John, including shorthand
passages.
Notes
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Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Draft revisions to standard journal
Keywords Diaries and Journals--1751-1800# Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John
Description Several folders containing proposed manuscript and typescript revisions to the
standard edition of John Wesley’s journal by the Wesleyan scholar Wesley
Frank Swift (1900-61).
Notes
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Title William Seward:(CE) (1703-40) Copy will and testament
Keywords Calvinism# Methodism (Calvinistic)# Methodism--Persecution
Description Xerox copy will of William Seward, the first Methodist martyr.
Notes
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Reference Code Lamplough 658c
Title Early Preachers’ Letters etc transcribed by James Everett,vol.2

Church--Todmorden# Diaries & Journals--1751-1800# Wesleyan Methodist
Church--Chester#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Wigan# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Manchester
Description Bound volume of copy letters, biographical notes and other manuscripts
relating to early Methodism transcribed by James Everett, with additions by
Luke Tyerman. Completed in 1862. Volume 2.
The volume contains the following letters and other documents, often
accompanied by notes by James Everett and Luke Tyerman on provenance and
context:
Peter Jaco to George Merryweather, 7 March 1763 to 12 December 1764 (7

letters)
Charles Wesley to Walter Sellon, 1754-55 (3 letters)
Vincent Perronet to Walter Sellon, 24 February to 2 September 1752 (3
letters)
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to Walter Sellon, 31 December 1754
and 1776 (2 letters)
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to Mrs Webster etc (Lord
Chesterfield’s housekeeper), undated
John Fletcher to Walter Sellon, 7 January no year
Sir Richard Hill to Walter Sellon, 24 December 1772
Edward Perronet to Walter Sellon, 1758
John Wesley to Walter Sellon, 1 December 1757 to 10 June 1784 (7 letters)
David Simpson to George Merryweather 3 December 1788 to 1 October 1795
(4 letters)
Charles Wesley to John Horton regarding Mark Davis’ ministry with the
Methodists, 1774
Last will and testament of John Wesley, 27 April 1768
Thomas Hanby to James Oddie, 6 September 1788

William Hey to James Oddie, 8 November 1787
Agreement regarding the lease of a house in [Keighley] attached to the

preaching house made between Thomas Colville (first husband of James Oddie’s
wife) and William Riddishah, 16 April 1773
Petition to John Wesley and the hundred preachers appointed to form the
official Wesleyan Conference, 1784
Robert Oastler to James Oddie, 24 June 1785

Richard Shaw to James Oddie, 8 January 1789
John Brandreth to James Oddie, 21 November 1785
Thomas Hanby to James Oddie, 2 January 1790
John Brandreth to James Oddie, 10 April 1788
James Oddie to anonymous, 16 November 1765
Remarks regarding the inventory of James Oddie’s household goods, including

one quarter share in a ship
Receipt for 8 guineas delivered by James Oddie to James Kendrick for the use of
the preaching house at Gisborough, 24 October 1779
Notes regarding James Oddie’s license to preach
Extensive extracts from several legal documents relating to James Oddie, his
estranged wife and his step-son Thomas Colbeck, 1785 (Colbeck is referred to
as Oddie’s son-in-law, but the relationship was actually step-son)
Schedule of the goods and chattels of James Oddie sold by auction, 21 February
1787
Richard Shaw to [James Oddie), 5 December 1788

John Fox to James Oddie, 29 May 1785
Mary Thompson to James Oddie, 16 June 1785
John and Elizabeth Oliver to James Oddie, 22 October 1788
Thomas Colbeck to James Oddie, 6 November 1785 and 23 February 1789 (2
letters)
Thomas Hanby to James Oddie, 22 October 1787 to 7 February 1788 (4
letters)
Extracts from the Todmorden circuit book containing income and expenditure,
November 1750 to 22 December 1765
Extensive transcript of the journal/autobiography of Thomas Rankin, including

passages relating to his ministry in North America
Extracts from the papers of Isaac Clayton, including correspondence and diary
entries
William Jenkins to Isaac Clayton, 19 February 1824 and 23 March 1825 (2

letters)
Robert Newton to Isaac Clayton, 3 March 1813 to 11 November 1833 (5
letters)
John Aikenhead to Isaac Clayton, 25 April 1803
James Bogie to Isaac Clayton, 10 November 1805
Jabez Bunting to Isaac Clayton, 14 February 1815
James Burley to Isaac Clayton, 7 December 1804
Joseph Entwisle to Isaac Clayton, 21 January 1814 and 30 May 1816 (2
letters)
John Dean to Isaac Clayton, 30 October 1801
John Crook to William Jenkins, 22 July 1805
Adam Clarke to Isaac Clayton, 27 November 1827
Adam Clarke to Harvey Walklate Mortimer, Secretary of the Trustees of City

Road Chapel in London, undated
John Wesley to John Atlay, 3 September 1783
Dudy Perronet to Miss Briggs, 6 August 1768 to 20 September 1777 (6 letters)

Dudy Perronet to "my dearest creatures", 6 October 1764
Dudy Perronet to Vincent Perronet, 26 October 1767
Dudy Perronet to anonymous, 9 May 1771 and 12 April 1775 (2 letters)
Jane Thornton to [Cherry] Briggs, 18 September 1781 and 3 undated letters
Jane March to [Cherry] Briggs, 24 November 1774 and 21 January 1782 (2

letters)
Jane March to Elizabeth Briggs, December 1776 to 24 February 1779 (4
letters)
Jane March to Miss Briggs, 19 May 1780 to February 1783 and 1 undated letter
(5 letters)
Jane March to anonymous, 23 August 1774
Notes relating to Elizabeth Mortimer (nee Ritchie), including the following

letters:
Elizabeth Ritchie to anonymous, 18 October 1793 and 28 December 1787 (2
letters)
Elizabeth Ritchie to Mrs Dickenson, 3 May 1789 to 24 September 1798 (8
letters)
Elizabeth Ritchie to Peard Dickenson, 14 May 1799
Elizabeth Ritchie to Miss Briggs, 14 November 1786 to 10 May 1788 (5
letters)
Extracts from a manuscript history of Methodism in Chester between 1746 and

1811 written by George Lowe
Transcripts of programmes of events at Chester Chapel, c.1799
Walter Sellon to Benjamin Babbington, 28 February 1758

William Thompson to Samuel Bardsley, 1781
John Wesley to Thomas Longley, 5 November 1783
John Pawson to William Eden, 4 July 1769
Official letter of the 1806 Leeds Wesleyan Conference to several named
preachers directing that they take possession of Wigan Chapel for the use of
the Methodists, 2 August 1806 (there are twol follow-on letters relating to this
matter, one undated and the other dated 6 October 1806)
Thomas Coke to Miss Knapp, 18 April 1811

Samuel Bradburn to anonymous, 20 December 1801
Lady Mary Fitzgerald to Samuel Bradburn, 26 January 1786
Joseph Taylor to Mrs Bradburn, 19 August 1819
John Barber to Joseph Dutton, 18 May 1811
Charles Atmore to Joseph Entwisle, 16 February 1821
John Gaulter to Thomas Squance, 24 May 1817
Jonathan Edmundson to Samuel Walton, 16 May 1840
George Morley to John Simpson senior, 13 May 1812
Thomas Vasey to John Stamp, 25 December 1815
Adam Clarke to James D. Moxon, 23 September 1814
Press report of the meeting of the Wolverhampton branch of the Wesleyan

Methodist Missionary Society, 20 November 1861
Newspaper article regarding early Methodism in Liskeard, Cornwall, 1751-1803
Extracts from the financial report of the trustees of the New Road Wesleyan
Methodist chapel, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1812-3, with an appendix containing
details of the money raised to liquidate the debt on the chapel, 1833
Extensive notes regarding the history of New Road Wesleyan Methodist
chapel, Newcastle upon Tyne (p.232)
Notes relating to early Methodism in Newcastle upon Tyne
Notes relating to early Methodism in the Dales circuit
Notes relating to early Methodism in Yarm
Extracts from the Otley circuit book, 1752-89
John Slack to John Hartt, 10 November 1802
Extracts from the following letters:

Alexander Mather to anonymous, 7 April 1784 to 2 September 1797 (10 letters)
Alexander Mather to William Marriott, 25 August 1792 to 12 June 1799 (13 letters)
Alexander Mather to Richard Rodda, 6 June 1794 and 4 July 1795 (2 letters)
Thomas Judson to Mr Marriott, 23 March 1769 to 11 April 1774 (7 letters)
Extensive extracts from the 6 volume manuscript autobiography and journal

written by Thomas Dixon, 1745-1801
Extracts from the Rotherham circuit book containing details of income and
expenditure, 21 December 1793 to 1 July 1805
List of the local preachers and class leaders active in the Rotherham circuit
with the numbers in each class (marital status and occupation of the class
leaders are also recorded) together with miscellaneous financial details, 1793
Statistical overview of the Rotherham circuit listing each individual society
together with a record of the number of new members, deaths, backsliders,
marriages, local preachers, value of household goods (presumably at the
preaching house), contributions to preachers’ fund and Kingswood collection,
Notes
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Reference Code MAB RQ 118
Title Early Preachers biographical notes:(WM),18th and early 19th cent.
Keywords
Description Volume of manuscript notes relating to the lives of early Wesleyan preachers,
18th and early 19th centuries.
Volume 2 (volume 1 is missing) contains extensive manuscript notes (including

transcripts of letters and other documents) relating to the lives of the following
early Wesleyan preachers:
Thomas Lee (1727-86)
James Oddie (1731-90)
Thomas Colbeck (1723-79)
Paul Greenwood (1723-67)
Thomas Mitchell (1726-85)
Jonathan Catlow (1732-64)
William Fugill (d.1800)
Titus Knight (1719-93)
Samuel Meggott (d.1765)
Francis Scott (d.1787)
Thomas Hanson (1733-1804)
Thomas Hanby (1733-96).
Notes
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Reference Code notebook
Title Preachers Letters etc:(WM)
Keywords Hymns--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Wesleyan Methodist Church--

Controversies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference 1831-80# Wesleyan
Methodist Church--Conference 1792-1830# Wesleyan Methodist Church--
Conference--Presidents
Description
Bound volume of copy letters and other documents relating to late 18th and
early 19th century Wesleyan ministers entitled "Wesleyan Documents."
The volume contains the following letters and other documents:
George Corly to Mrs Richard Smith, 12 May 1846 (page 1)

Thomas Clarkson to Mrs Richard Smith, 4 May 1845 (page 1)
Joseph Bradford to Richard Rodda, 28 May 1794 (page 3)
William Thompson to Christopher Hopper, 31 May 1782 (page 5)
Hymn by Charles Wesley, the first line of which is "My present help in time of
Need" (page 5)
Charles Wesley to John Fletcher, 13 March 1784 (page 7)

Charles Wesley to Mary Fletcher, [13 March 1784?] (page 8)
Adam Clarke’s minutes of the controversial Lichfield meeting sketching out the
future givernment of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, 2 April 1794 (page
9)
Notes relating to the financial allowance for the maintenance of a preacher’s

wife - extracted from the published life of Alexander Mather (page 11)
"Articles extracted from the minutes of the different committees in which the
members were unanimous" [c.1792]
(page 11)
Notes relating to Alexander Kilham (page 13)
Minutes of a meeting held of Wesleyans from around the country to applaud

the election of John Lomas to the office of President of Conference, [1853]
(page 14)
Correspondence between James Haughton and Charles James Blomfield,

Anglican Bishop of London, regarding the burial of a child and the controversy
that arose as a result, 14 January 1845 to 5 February 1847 (page 15-21)
Biographical details relating to Henry Brooke (page 22)

Henry Brooke to John Wesley, [June 1786] (page 24)
John Wesley to Henry Brooke, 14 June 1786 (page 26
Historical notes relating to the question of Methodist separation from the
Church of England (page 28)
John Atlay to anonymous, 25 May 1793 (page 33)
Notice of suspension of John Whitehead from the ranks of the preachers for
his wrongdoing in not fulfilling the terms of John Wesley’s will with regard to
Wesley’s papers, 9 December 1791 (page 34)
Thomas Coke and Henry Moore to the executors of John Wesley’s will,
November 1791 (page 34)
List of tracts "necessary to a full understanding of the Bristol dispute",

[c.1795] (page 36)
Extracts from Jonathan Crowther’s letters to Alexander Kilham and notes of

the defense conducted by Kilham at the Wesleyan Conference of 1798 (page
36)
Notes relating to John Pawson and discipline including his controversial

ordination of seven elders, while serving in Glasgow,1787-89 (page 43)
John Wesley to Jonathan Crowther, 10 May 1789 (page 45)
The Cornish delegates and their resolutions regarding the issue of Wesleyan
government, 1791 (page 46)
Transcript of the protest document against the Plan of Pacification, with the
names of petitioners, 1795 (page 48)
Letter of several named Methodist preachers to their brethren among the

preachers relating to the question of Wesleyan government, 30 March 1791
(page 49)
The following letters:

John Wesley to Reverend Topham, 11 June 1752 (page 51)
Samuel Wesley senior to John Wesley, 1 April 1726 (page 52)
Martha Wesley to John Wesley, 10 September 1724 (page 53)
Kezia Wesley to John Wesley, 12 July 1729 (page 53)
John Wesley to Susanna Wesley, 28 February 1733 (page 55)
John Wesley to Christopher Hopper, 29 March 1768 and 9 June 1768 (page
58)
Transcription of manuscript minutes of Conference, 1749, 1755 and 1758

(page 59)
John Wesley to Christopher Hopper, 9 October 1767 and 3 December 1774

(page 71)
John Wesley to Charles Atmore, 28 May 1782 and 24 March 1790 (page 73)
George Whitefield to John Wesley, 17 March 1737 (page 74)
Lady Frances Gardiner to Christopher Hopper, 13 July 1764 (page 75)
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to John Wesley, 25 March 1742
(page 77)
Joseph Benson to Christopher Hopper, 5 July 1777 (page 78)
John Fletcher to John Wesley, 18 March 1771 (page 80)
Transcript of a circular regarding the general debt of the Methodist Chapels, 24

November 1767 (page 83)
Lady Gallatin to Christopher Hopper, 10 December no year (page 86)

John Richardson to Christopher Hopper, 8 November 1767 (page 88)
Mary Bosanquet to Christopher Hopper, 6 May 1778 (page 88)
Alexander McNab to Christopher Hopper, 2 February 1780 (page 90)
Joseph Pilmore to Christopher Hopper, 4 April 1780 (page 95)
John Wesley to the preachers, 20 November 1769 (page 97)
John Allen to Samuel Bardsley, 15 November 1776 (page 99)
Christopher Hopper to Joseph Cownley, 6 April 1780 (page 100)
Request to Conference from the Whitchurch quarterly meeting (Aylesbury,

Buckinghamshire) that William Harrison junior be allowed to remain for
another year and that a missionary may also be appointed to serve in the
circuit, 28 June 1811 (page 101)
Duncan Wright to Christopher Hopper, 8 June 1789 (page 102)

Joseph Benson to Christopher Hopper, 15 May 1775 (page 104)
Adam Clarke to Charles Atmore, 11 January 1812 (page 108)
Thomas Coke to Charles Atmore, 15 May 1797 to 6 March 1814 (6 letters)
(page 108)
Adam Clarke to Miss Atmore, 21 April 1822 (page 121)
Thomas Coke’s last letter to Charles Atmore written while on passage to India,
14 April 1814 (page 122)
John Wesley to Christopher Hopper, 12 November 1773 (page 124)
Thomas Coke to Charles Atmore, 5 April 1805 (page 125)
John Wesley to Christopher Hopper, 3 December 1768 (page 126)
Notes
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Title Rodney Smith:(1860-1947) Commemorative postcards
Keywords
Description Four postcards showing the evangelist Rodney Smith, better known as "Gypsy
Smith".
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P 12C
Title Samuel Sebastian Wesley:(CE) (1810-76) Personal papers
Keywords Music--19th century.# Church music.
Description Album of letters and music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley probably compiled by W.
T. Freemantle to whom many of the unidentified letters may be written.
Freemantle was in the employ of the music publishers Novello and was
therefore concerned with the publication of some of Wesley’s works.
The collection contains the following letters and other papers:
Publishers announcement of the publication of three collections of music

composed or arranged by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, [1853]
Two autograph signatures of Samuel Sebastian Wesley
"Triumphant to the Lord" - hymn tune by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
"Harewood" - hymn tune by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
"Hampton"- hymn tune by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Musical emendation by Samuel Sebastian Wesley to Sphor’s 24th Psalm
Samuel Sebastian Wesley to anonymous, 29 April 1846
Samuel Sebastian Wesley to anonymous, 6 February 1851 to 13 October 1875
(12 letters)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley to W. T. Freemantle, 2 June 1863 and 5 May 1875
Samuel Sebastian Wesley to [Edward Stirling] Howard, 3 March [1871] and 13
November 1872
Samuel Sebastian Wesley to Mr Philips, 11 September no year
Notes and press cuttings relating to Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 19 January 1911
Article from the Musical Times relating to Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1 May
1900
T. S. Kendall to W. Medwin, 27 July and 1 August 1927
Copy in the hand of T. S. Kendall of "Holdsworthy Church Bells" by Samuel
Sebastian Wesley
Notes.
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Reference Code MAM P12 C
Title Samuel Wesley:(CE/RC/WM) (1766-1837) Musical compositions
Keywords Music--18th century.# Church music.# Music--18th century. #Genealogy--

Wesley family
Description Album containing manuscripts and printed copies of the following

compositions by Samuel Wesley:
Manuscript "Sonata Violino"signed by Samuel Wesley
Manuscript "Largo"
Manuscript "Soli Deo Gloriae"signed by Samuel Wesley
Manuscript "Duetto a Duo Violini"
Manuscript "Air Italian"
Manuscript "Allegro" signed by Samuel Wesley, 20 January 1785
Manuscript "Sonato a Violino Solo" initialled by Samuel Wesley
Manuscript "Divertomento" and "Marcia" signed by Samuel Wesley, 1829
Manuscript "Sonata a violini solo" signed by Samuel Wesley, 14 November
1781
Printed "Handel’s Three Hymns from the Fitzwilliam Library arranged by
Samuel Wesley" signed by Samuel Wesley [1827]
Manuscript genealogical chart showing the descent of the Wesley family from
the early 17th century until the end of the 18th century.
Article from the Westminster Magazine by Daines Barrington about the
musicians Charles and Samuel Wesley, May and June 1781
Article from the Musical Herald relating to Samuel Wesley, 19 December 1846
Obituary from an unknown magazine for Samuel Wesley, 1837

Printed "A voluntary for the organ composed by Samuel Wesley" (Op. 6
numbers 1-4 and 8) signed by Samuel Wesley.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P12 C
Title Charles Wesley:(1707-88) Papers
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)# Music--18th century.# Church

music.# Music--18th century.# Hymns--Wesley, Charles (1707-88)
Description Album containing the following papers relating to Charles Wesley amd his son
Charles junior (1757-1834):
Portrait engraving of Charles Wesley (1707-88)

Entries from a printed sale catalogue containing entries for a manuscript
musical composition by Charles Wesley junior and printed hymnals by his
father Charles senior (early 20th cent.).
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title Samuel Wesley:(1691-1739) Portrait engraving
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, Samuel (1691-1739)
Description Album containing a portrait engraving of Samuel Wesley junior.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) Portrait engravings etc
Keywords Engravings--Wesley, John (1707-88)# Engravings--Epworth Rectory#

Engravings--Fletcher, John (1729-85)# Church of England--Epworth
Description Album containing the following engravings:

John Wesley, 18th century and 19th century (approximately 20 items)
Epworth Rectory, 18th cent.
John Fletcher, 18th cent.
Notes
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Reference Code N/A
Title John Fletcher:(CE) (1729-85) Letters etc
Keywords Sermons--Fletcher,John# Church of England--Madeley# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Madeley# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Dublin# Women and religion
Description Scrapbook containing letters (mainly autograph with some copies) written by
John Fletcher to the following correspondents:
Charles Wesley, 20 September 1752 to 19 December 1782 (63 letters)

Sarah Ryan and Miss Furly, 1 October 1759
Elizabeth Vigor, 16 May and 8 June 1762
Madeley parishioners, 30 April 1766
John Wesley, 24 June 1771 to 24 August 1773 (6 letters) - it is sometimes
unclear if the correspondent is John or Charles Wesley
Joseph Benson, 12 April 1772
Charity Perronet, 15 May 1778
Vincent Perronet, 23 December 1779 and 27 February 1780
Mrs D’Olier, undated
Dublin Wesleyan Society, March 1772
John Valton, 30 March 1775
Walter Sellon, 7 January 1772
Mrs Gittoes, 11 November 1758
Reverend Hall, 18 December 1770
William Ley, 9 May and 3 July no year
George Merryweather, 27 August 1781
Historical notes relating to the Fletcher family (De la Flechere) of Switzerland
Account of John and Mary Fletcher’s marriage day, 1782

Manuscript sermon by John Fletcher
Mary Fletcher to Joseph Benson, 10 January 1810
Mary Fletcher to Mrs Smyth, 28 April 1787
Mary Bosanquet to Sarah Ryan, 22 July 1760.
Notes
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Reference Code MAM P4d
Title John Fletcher:(CE) (1729-85) Letters
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Madeley# Church of England--Madeley#

Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion# Women and religion
Description Bound album containing 19th century transcripts of letters from John Fletcher
to Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 6 September 1760 to 5 September
1773 (25 letters).
Copied with extensive notes by A. Crossley Hobart Seymour.
Notes
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Title London (West Street):(WM) Chapel poor fund
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--London (West Street)--Poor fund account#

Poor--England--London--History--18th century# Wesleyan Methodist Church-
-Outreach--Poor people
Description Bound manuscript volume containing the income and expenditure account of
the poor fund of West Street Wesleyan Chapel, London, 9 March 1764 to 9
October 1796.
Notes
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Reference Code MAW G172C
Title John Wesley:(1703-91) New Testament Commentary (presentation
Description "Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament" by John Wesley (Bristol,1768,
4th edition). Annotations inside the front cover record that this copy was
presented by John Wesley to Richard de Courcy, whose widow then gave it to
John Vaughan.
Notes
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Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735) Dissertations on the book of Job
Description "Dissertations on the book of Job" by Samuel Wesley (1662-1735)

(London,1736).
Notes
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Title Samuel Wesley:(CE) (1662-1735) Penteteuch (Basle,1546)-annotated
Description Samuel Wesley’s annotated copy of a Penteteuch published in Basle in 1546. In

addition to Wesley’s extensive annotations, there are other annotations by
previous owners from the 16th century to the 19th century, including John
Wesley, Adam Clarke and James Everett. The provenance of this volume is
exceptional.
Notes
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Reference Code EMV
Title Conversion testimonies etc:(CE/WM)
Keywords Conversion--Case studies# Conversion---Biography# Conversion--Methodism#

Conversion--Church of England# Church of England--Conversion
testimonies# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conversion testimonies# Women
and religion--Conversion testimonies# Deathbeds
Description Manuscript letters written mainly to Charles Wesley containing accounts of

spiritual experiences/conversion testimonies/happy deaths. These accounts
were specifically requested by Charles Wesley and appear to have been used in
Methodist meetings. Some were subsequently published in the Arminian
Magazine.
Letters to Charles Wesley by the following correspondents:

Margaret Austin, 19 May 1740
Elizabeth Hinson, 25 May 1740
Martha Jones, 1 June 1740
Ann Martin, 1740
Sarah Middleton, 25 May 1740
Catherine Gilbert, 1740
Sarah Barber, May 1740
Sister Ibison, 23 May 1740
Joseph Jones - account of William Grimshaw, c.1763
Mrs Platt, 20 September 1735
E. Bristow, 12 April 1740
Maria Price, 18 May 1740
Mary Ramsey, 4 June 1740
James Hewitt, November 1741
Nathaniel Hurst, 1741
Mr Cowper, 1741
Joseph Carter, November 1741
Samuel Webb, November 1741
Taverner Wallis, November 1741
W. Barber, 1741
Elizabeth Appleton, 1776
J. Barber, February 1752
W. Barber, 27 December 1762
M. Berkin, 30 November 1774
Ebenezer Blackwell’s friend, 10 March 1763
Account of J. Bracy’s death, 16 August 1753
J. and E. Butcher, 9 January 1763
Thomas Butts, 14 April 1743 and 28 January 1761
Michael Callender, 12 December 1771
Eliza Cart, 14 September 1748
Ann Chapman, 3 March 1770 to 24 May 1786 (5 letters)
Sally Chapoon, 6 January 1736
John Colmer, 15 March 1787
Mrs Clagget, 24 July 1738
Fanny Cowper, 1741 to 1742 (3 letters)
Jane Cowper, 1763
? Clark, December 1760
Ann Davis, 1 July 1758 and 25 April 1766
Mrs Davis, 1785
W. Dellaway, 2 February 1742
Susanna Designe, 18 March 1742
John Downes, 28 April 1753 and 28 October 1774
Elizabeth Downes, 13 April 1743
Isaac Duckworth, 11 April 1773
John Edmonds, 4 September 1739
W. Ellis, 23 December 1762
Miss L. Elliott, 17 December 1767
Mr Evans, 6 April 1763
Hester Farley, 15 March 1777
Mary Francis, 28 January 1745
Mr Galvin, September 1748
Mrs Gilbert, August 1760
Elizabeth Gill, November 1764
Mrs Grinfield, 30 April 1758 to 9 May 1758 (3 letters)
Mary Guy, 15 February 1783 and 14 January 1786
Mr Hartley, 16 June 1755 and 12 July 1755
John Hutchinson, 31 October 1752 to 1788 (9 letters)
B. M. Hutchinson, 30 January 1755
Joan Webb, May 1742
Enoch Williams, 21 June 1755
Robert Windsor, 30 April 1785
Elizabeth Winter, 15 April 1745
Rebecca Wrench, May 1741
Anonymous, 11 November 1738 to 22 May 1772 (9 letters)
Mr Rathall to his son, 28 May 1827
J. Montgomery to anonymous, 13 October 1828
George Whitefield to Ebenezer Blackwell, 17 June and 28 June 1744
George Whitefield to Mr Dixon, 24 October 1761
Thomas Coke to Reverend Collier, 1 October 1806.
Notes
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Title Circuit Plans:(PM) Winster, Buxton, Waterhouses
Keywords Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1820-1860#

Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Circuit plans--1860-1932
Description Primitive Methodist Circuit Plans: Winster 1855, 1858, 1859; Buxton 1887;
Waterhouses (Staffs) 1931.
Notes
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Reference Code Leather volume IV
Title Early Methodist copy and ms letters:(CE/WM)
Keywords Church of England--Ordinations# Church of England--Relations--Wesleyan

Methodist Church (Great Britain)# Anglican Church (United States)--Relations
with Methodist Episcopal Church# Methodist Episcopal Church--Relations
with Anglican Church (United States)
Description Scrapbook containing 19th century transcriptions of letters by Eliza Telitha

Tooth (c.1790-c.1865). The volume bears the title "Copies of J. Wesley’s
letters - women - ordinations" (Leather volume IV). In fact, while the volume
does contain many letters written by John Wesley, there is also a substantial
collection of other early Methodist letters. The volume contains a letter of
1862 written by Eliza Telitha Tooth as the first item. Tooth (c.1790-c.1865)
was a close friend of Sarah Wesley junior and acted as executrix of Sarah’s will -
in this capacity Tooth was custodian for a time of many Wesley family
papers. At the back of the volume, there is also manuscript letters between
various early Methodists.
The volume contains 19th century transcriptions of letters written by John

Wesley to the following correspondents:
Adam Clarke, 3 February 1786 to 3 January 1791 (27 letters)

Barnabas Thomas, 25 March 1785
James Morgan, 3 September 1768
William Pitt, 6 Septepmber 1784
Ann Parker, 21 January 1784
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 16 May 1764
Peard Dickenson, 6 May 1787 to 9 July 1789 (6 letters)
John Bredin, 9 September 1777 and 19 May 1781
R. Stretton, 26 February 1786
Walter Sellon to John Wesley, 20 July 1760

John Fletcher to John Wesley, 17 February 1760
Charles Wesley to John Haime, 7 May 1778
John Haime to Charles Wesley, 1 June 1778
John Berridge to John Wesley, 22 November 1760
The volume also contains the following manuscript letters:
John Fletcher to John Wesley, 11 September 1771

George Whitefield to John Wesley, March 1753
Miss Lucy Aikin to Sarah Wesley junior, undated
Elizabeth Benger to Miss Shepherd, undated
Miss Blackwell to Charles Wesley, 29 July
Elizabeth Briggs to Mrs Bissaker, 11 January 1777
Mrs Cavendish and Elizabeth Carteret to Charles Wesley, 18 January 1760
Mrs Cavendish to Charles Wesley, 18 April 1756
Ann Chapman to Charles Wesley, 24 January 1774 to 12 February 1786 (7
letters)
M. Docoetlagon to Sarah Wesley junior, 17 March
Mercy Doddridge to Sarah Wesley junior, 11 November 1798
Lady Ann Agnes Erskine to Sarah Wesley, 16 June 1790
Eliza Hamilton to Sarah Wesley junior, undated
Gertrude Hotham to Charles Wesley, 3 May 175- to 13 November 1769 (3
letters)
Gertrude Hotham to Charles Wesley junior, 28 February 1767
James Jenkins to Charles Wesley, 19 December 1782
Elizabeth Johnson to Charles Wesley, September 1774
Martha More to Sarah Wesley junior, 18 September 1793
Sarah Perrin to Charles Wesley, undated to 14 November 1743 (3 letters)
Elizabeth Ritchie to Miss Thoms, 29 July 1776
Elizabeth Vigor to Charles Wesley, 18 November 1746 to 16 July 1774 (3
letters)
Elizabeth Vigor to Sarah Gwynne junior, 9 March 1749 and 17 April
Printed historical relating to Methodist ordinations, 1746 to 1836

Transcript of John Wesley’s document ordaining Charles Atmore, 29 July 1786
Facsimile of John Wesley’s document appointing Thomas Coke as

Superintendent for North America, 2 September 1784
Transcript of John Wesley’s document ordaining Thomas Owens, 3 August
1788
Transcript of John Wesley’s document ordaining Robert Gamble, 10 August
1788
Printed circular in which John Wesley sets out his policy for ordaining
ministers for the work in the United States, 10 September 1784
John Richardson to Charles Wesley, 20 January 1765
Extract of a letter regarding Methodist ordinations from an Anglican minister
in New York to Dr Samuel Seabury, 29 November 1784
Detailed extract of a letter regarding the crisis affecting the Anglican Church in
the United States from Dr Samuel Seabury to Dr Morice, Secretary of the
Society for the Propogation of the Gospel, 28 February 1785 (annotated by
Charles Wesley)
Dr Samuel Seabury to Charles Wesley, 20 July 1786 and 23 January 1787
Notes on the succession of Scottish bishops since the 1688 Glorious Revolution
- possibly in the hand of Samuel Seabury with annotations by Charles Wesley
Thomas Richards to Charles Wesley, 13 March 1764
Copy letter of Bishop Erasmus of Arcadia to Charles Wesley, 30 May 1764
Mr Thwaite to Charles Wesley, 5 January 1764
Notes
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Reference Code Colman collection of Wesleyana
Title Wesley family:Colman collection of Wesleyana
Keywords Diaries and Journals--Wesley, John# Sermons--Wesley, Charles# Sermons--

Wesley, Samuel# Poetry--18th century# Sermons--Wesley, John# Women and
religion--Conversion testimonies# Diaries and Journals--Wesley, Charles
(1707-1788)
Description Colman Collection
Colman Boxes 1 to 3
Diaries and memoranda books in the hand of John Wesley, described by the
original cataloguer of the Colman collection, as follows:
1. Miscellany in verse, with index of subjects and list of abbreviations, 1729
2. Ten letters written between May 1730 and October 1731, together with
names of members of the societies, March 1743 and 1746.
3. Diary, April 1729-June 1732
4. Kezzia Wesley’s commonplace book 1729, with an epitaph on her sister

Susanna Ellison, who died in April 1762
5. Treatise on the procedure, extent and limit of human understanding,

December 1730
6. Letters, August 1730-July 1734
7. Treatise on art of divine meditation March 1734, and a list of pupils, 1730-
1731
8. Prayers selected from various eminent Anglican divines
9. Diary, June 1732-September 1733
10. Diary, October 1735-April 1736
11. Diary, February 1737-July 1738, together with writings on the weekly fasts
of the Church and an inventory of goods and chattels.
12. Diary, October 1739-August 1741, together with a list of annual

expenditure in Wesley’s later years.
13. List of books read and noteworthy occurrences, January – August 1734
[THIS VOLUME IS MISSING AND MAY HAVE BEEN MISSING SINCE
ABOUT 1938 – SEE ITEM 3 IN BOX 4]
14. List of books for the poor, together with Fleury’s historical catechism
translated from the French by Wesley
15. Diary, September 1734 – February 1735
16. Diary, April 1738 – April 1739
17. Cash account January 1731 – December 1733, together with an inventory
of goods and chattels.
18. “Pastoralia” – seven sermons preached between March 1731 and

November 1732, together with a short French grammar.
19. Statutes of Lincoln College Oxford (written in Latin), together with a list
of the members of the London societies with quarterly financial contributions,
November 1745 – April 1746
20. Manuscript copies of hymns and texts of sermons preached between 1747
and 1761.
21. Text of a sermon preached by John Wesley’s father at Buxton in 1721 and
one preached by John Gambold at Oxford, together with sermons by John
Wesley, 1725-1734
Colman Box 4
1. Manuscript itemised catalogue of the Colman collection (notebook), n.d.

[c.1930]
2. Manuscript itemised catalogue of the Colman collection (notebook), n.d.

[c.1930]
3. Manila folder labelled “5, 6, 7” containing news cuttings, typescript letters

and lists of manuscripts from the Colman collection. Many of the papers relate
to the deed of gift of the collection to the Conference of the Methodist
Church, 1937-1938
4. Manuscript letter from James Currie to John Wesley, 13 February 1788
5. Manuscript letter from Augustus Toplady to William Lunnell, 25 June

1763
6. Loose bundle of manuscript sheets labelled “A” containing a mix of

shorthand and plain text consisting of extracts from the Church Fathers and
other writers, together with hymns - unidentified hand c. 1762
7. Bundle of sheets consisting of a list of Wesley papers in the Colman

collection, April 1914
8. Typescript deed of gift by Russell Colman of the Colman collection of

Wesleyana to the Conference of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, 17th
June 1937
9. Manuscript poetry written by J. Ryley in honour of John Wesley, with

Wesley’s annotation, 1 March 1776
10. Manuscript letter of Philip Conradi to John Wesley, with Wesley’s

annotation, 29 November 1759
11. Manuscript labelled “H” of religious writings in an unidentified hand, 1742
12. Manuscript letter labelled “C” written by an anonymous correspondent in

Savannah, Georgia, to one of the Wesley brothers, probably John, 27
December 1737(?)
13. Manuscript letters from female members and two male members of the
societies to John Wesley (most bear Wesley’s annotations), consisting mainly
of conversion experiences. The correspondents are as follows:
a. Mary Bainton, 3 October 1742
b. Elizabeth Holmes, 20 January 1742
c. Sarah Mason, 8 November 1740
d. Sarah Mason, 10 July 1740
e. Elizabeth Spring, 13 November 1740
f. Elizabeth Spring, 26 October 1740
g. M. Parnell, 20 June 1740
h. Susanna Designe, 23 July 1740
i. Susanna Designe, 31 December 1741
j. Susanna Designe, 16 August 1741
k. Elizabeth Edwards, 24 March 1740
l. Samuel Hage, May 5 1740
m. Mrs Maguire(?), 14 December 1739
n. John Ewer, 24 July 1740
14. Loose bundle of manuscripts labelled “G” consisting of eight sheets in the
hand of John Wesley, some in Latin and some in English, describing an
interview with an Anglican bishop, n.d.
15. Loose bundle of manuscripts in the hand of Charles Wesley, consisting of

a substantial extract from his journal covering the voyage to Savannah
commencing 11 August 1736. This is an alternative version to that published
by Thomas Jackson
16. Large bundle of typescript copy letters written by members of the Wesley
family, including John and Charles and Samuel senior, and a number of
evangelicals including George Whitefield, John Newton and William Grimshaw.
Most of the letters are however from John Wesley, 1736-1790
17. Loose bundle of rough 20th century notes re John Wesley letters, c.1912
18. Loose bundle of rough 20th century notes re John Wesley letters and
letters re Wesley correspondence held at the John Rylands Library, c.1914-
c.1928
19. Loose bundle of manuscripts labelled “B” in an unknown hand and

consisting of writings on “outward communication between John and Charles
Wesley and such as agreeing with them in the essentials of real Christianity, do
yet differ from them as to all or any of the points within written
[predestination, universal redemption and sinless perfection]”, 23 April 1745
20. Manuscript sermon of Samuel Wesley senior preached at Buxton on 7 July

1721, with annotations by John Wesley
21. Loose bundle of manuscripts labelled “F” consisting of a letter(?) sent by

Thomas Austen of Rochester to John Wesley, 18 December 1779
22. Manuscript letter of Sarah Crosby to Mrs Bright, 22 June 1785
Colman Box 5
1. Manuscript in an unknown hand entitled “Religion contrasted: A vision of

religion with a graceful mien, all lovely, smiling and serene”, and at the end of
the manuscript in the same hand is an account of Reverend P. Ince, one of the
ejected ministers (1662), 1775
2. Printed “Narrative of the Revd. John Wesley”, being a transcript of

Wesley’s own account of the Grace Murray affair
3. Manuscript letter from John Harrison to his ‘dear brothers and sisters’, 9th
September 1739 (very fragile)
4. 3 Manuscript journal letters in the hand of Charles Wesley, 1740
5. 8 Manuscript journal letters and journal extracts in the hand of Charles

Wesley, 1740-1756
6. Manuscript letter containing a mixture of shorthand and plain text from

Charles Wesley to John Wesley, 5 October 1736
7. Manuscript journal letter from Charles Wesley to Robert Windsor, October

1756
8. Manuscript journal letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley, April 1740
9. Manuscript journal letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley, March

1740
10. Manuscript journal letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley, May
1740
11. Manuscript journal letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley, August
1746
12. Printed handbill advertising a “New Sacred Oratorio (taken from Milton’s
Paradise Lost” by M. P. King and performed by Messrs C. I. Ashley and Samuel
Wesley, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, 1 June 1816
13. Printed handbill advertising a performance of the “Messiah” by Handel, to

be performed by Messrs C. I. Ashley and Samuel Wesley, Theatre Royal,
Covent Garden, London, 19 March 1813
14. Manuscript letter by Samuel Wesley to an unnamed correspondent, 15

January 1811
15. Manuscript letter by James Creighton to Mr Jarratt, 9 October 1818
16. Manuscript letter by James Creighton to Mr Blair, 4 April 1814
17. Manuscript letter from Lady Mary Fitzgerald to Samuel Bradburn, 26

January 1786
18. Manuscript letter from Hester Ann Roe to Francis Swindells, 20 October
1786
19. Manuscript letter from Samuel Wesley to Reverend Hoole, 12 October

1716
20. Manuscript letter from Miss Sarah Wesley to Mr Glenn, 22 March 1813
21. Manuscript letter from Samuel Sebastian Wesley to an unnamed

correspondent, n.d.
22. Manuscript letter from Charles Wesley junior to [George Marsden], 31

August 1831
23. Manuscript letter from C. L. Wesley to an unnamed correspondent, n.d.
24. Manuscript letter from an unnamed correspondent to Dr Ford, 1790
25. Ms account of Lewis Andrews, probably sent to John Wesley as there are
Wesley annotations on the document, February 1780
26. Ms letter from Thomas Tatton to Robert Consterdine, 6 July 1772 (badly
damaged)
27. Two ms sheets containing virtually illegible script by an unknown hand,

1760-1770
28. Ms letter from Henry Moore to Robert Costerdine, 27 July 1785
29. Ms letter from John Mason to Robert Costerdine, 31 March 1779
30. 19th century ms compiled by Eliza Telitha Tooth consisting of references

and extracts from Wesley papers, particularly those of Charles Wesley,
documenting Charles Wesley’s activities in 1755
31. Bundle of typescript letters re the gift of the Colman collection to the
Methodist Conference, 1937
32. Photographic plates for the reproduction of John Wesley’s first sermon,
1725
33. Photographic reproduction of John Wesley’s first sermon, 1725
34. Bundle of ms Charles Wesley sermons and sermon outlines, 1758-1762.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code CHV
Title Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon:(CE/Ind) (1707-91) Papers
Keywords Women and religion# Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion# Engravings--

Hastings, Selina (1707-91)# Sermons (funeral)--Hastings, Selina
Description
Box 1
Manuscript letters from Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to the
following correspondents:
John Wesley, 24 October 1741 and 19 February 1742
Charles Wesley, 19 February 1742 to 28 June 1775 (97 letters)
Box 2
Manuscript letters from Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to the
following correspondents:
Charles Wesley, 9 January 1742 to 14 January 1766 (11 letters)
John Wesley, 31 January 1742 to 4 May 1742 (4 letters)
Ferdinand Fairfax, undated
George Whitefield, undated
Joseph Benson, March 1770
Mr Carpenter, 12 November 1784 to 17 February 1787 (4 letters)
Mr Winkwell, undated
Mr Shenston, 1 April 1780
Anonymous, 3 August 1786
Miss Hill, 24 July no year
Thomas Jones, 3 August 1772
Mrs Harris, 16 February 1767
Walter Churchy, 1772
Mr Newben, 12 January 1773
Manuscript text of a funeral sermon preached by Mr Wilks on the death of

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 2 July 1791
Portrait engraving of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Notes
Access Restrictions
Reference Code DDX56 (former reference)
Title Thomas Taylor:(WM) (1738-1816) Family letters
Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Ordinations# Ordination# Wesleyan Methodist

Church--Legal status# Wesleyan Methodist Church--Preaching--Legal status#
Wesleyan Methodist Church--Conference
Description 19th century scrapbook containing the following manuscript items:
- Certificate authorising Thomas Taylor to administer the sacraments with the

office of Presbyter (signed Thomas Hanby, John Pawson and Henry Taylor), 5
April 1792
- License issued by the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions authorising Thomas Taylor

to preach as a dissenting minister, 20 April 1763
Manuscript letters sent by John Wesley to Thomas Taylor on the following

dates:
30 October 1775
15 January 1778
12 April 1782
24 December 1784
21 February 1786
12 January 1787
7 June 1788
28 October 1789
14 October 1790
6 January 1791
John Wesley to Mrs Thomas Taylor, 14 May 1782
Manuscript letter from Charles Wesley to Joseph Bradford, 29 June 1775

Manuscript letter from F. Owen to Mrs Thomas Taylor, 6 January 1776
Manuscript letter from unnamed correspondent to Thomas Taylor, 1
December 1800
Manuscript letters from John Pawson to Thomas Taylor, 12 April 1802 to 23
November 1805 (4 letters)
Manuscript letter from Joseph Butterworth to anonymous, 24 December 1823
Manuscript letter from Jabez Bunting to Robert Miller, 4 June 1821

Manuscript letter from Frances Pawson to Thomas Taylor, 19 March 1806
Manuscript letter from Henry Moore to Thomas Taylor, 9 January 1809
Xerox copy letter from Thomas Coke to Thomas Taylor, 16 February 1810
Manuscript copy letter from Francis Truscott to unnamed correspondent,
undated
Manuscript copy letter from Robert Carr Brackenbury to Thomas Taylor, 10
September 1811
Notes Manuscript "Thoughts respecting the Conference" by [Thomas Taylor]
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Methodist Archives and Research Centre, JRUL (GB-135)

Archive Accessions: Full Details Report

Accession Number 1977/001 Date Received 09/01/1977

Reference Code MAW Ms 359

Title Clapham:(WM) Chapel legal case

Date of Material 1853-54

Quantity of Material 1 linear metres

Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clapham

Description Legal papers consisting of eleven volumes of depositions, judgements and

Reference Code MAB M 1841-1842

Title Anglican-Methodist union:Press cuttings

Date of Material 1963-64

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Church of England--Union--Methodist Church

Reference Code MA 187

Title Youth and Citizenship:(MCGB) Standing Committee

Date of Material 1931-32

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth Dept

Description Minutes of the Youth and Citizenship standing committee.

Reference Code N/A

Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Magazine

Date of Material 1968

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.

Description Christian Citizenship Magazine (magazine of the Methodist Church

Reference Code MAW P14d

Title Methodist Times:(WM)

Date of Material 1902-04

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Periodicals--Methodist Times

Reference Code MA 186

Title Young Methodist Citizenship:(WM) Committee etc

Date of Material 1927-33

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Youth and Christian Citizenship committee

Description Papers of the Young Methodist Citizenship committee etc, 1927-1931,

- Meeting of the Temperance and Social Welfare and Sunday School

Reference Code MA 197

Title Temperance:(WM) News cuttings

Date of Material 1919

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Wesleyan Methodist Church--Temperance

Reference Code MAR 216E. 15

Title Wesleyan Deaconess Order:(MCGB) Membership rolls

Date of Material 1890-52

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Women and religion

Reference Code MA 253

Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Executive Committee

Date of Material 1952-59

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Christian Citizenship Dept.

Description Minutes of the Executive of the Christian Citizenship committee.

Reference Code MA 248

Title Youth and Citizenship:(MCGB) Standing Committee

Date of Material 1932-56

Quantity of Material 0 linear metres

Keywords Methodist Church (Great Britain)--Youth and Citizenship committee

Description Minutes of the Youth and Citizenship Standing Committee

Reference Code MA 193

Title Department of Christian Citizenship:(MCGB) Executive Committee