OF

JAMES HUTTON;

COMPRISING

THE ANNALS OF HIS LIFE,

AND

CONNECTION WITH

THE UNITED BRETHREN.

BY

DANIEL BENHAM.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co. PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLVI.

PREFACE.

THE information contained in the following Memoirs, is derived

1. From gleanings out of a large collection, made in the course of a number of years, from manuscript and printed sources;

2. A manuscript History, drawn up by the Rev. John Plitt, the late keeper of the archives at Herrnhut; 3. Correspondence of the renewed Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel;

4. Diaries of the Brethren in London; and, chiefly, 5. From an extensive selection of diaries and correspondence in the archives at Herrnhut.

For the use of these materials acknowledgments are specially due to William Mallalieu, Esq., treasurer, and the gentlemen of the Committee of the Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel; the Rev. Mr. Miller, Minister, and the Elders' Conference of the Brethren in London; and the Rev. Mr. von Schweinitz, the present Keeper of the archives in Herrnhut.

Thanks are also due to the Rev. Mr. Clemens, of Baildon, Yorkshire; the Rev. Mr. Eberlé, of Devonport; and other friends favourable to the undertaking, who have rendered indispensable assistance in the production of this work.

In making these acknowledgments, it must be distinctly understood that none of the friends, to whom the compiler avows his obligations, are in the slightest degree responsible for any portion of the contents of these Memoirs; which