APRIL 2
I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.
Journal, 2nd April, 1739
A few days since, Mr. Whitefield and I desired a friend to ask your advice, to whom it would be proper to make an offer of raising a company of volunteers for His Majesty’s service. We apprehend the number would be about five hundred. Finding Mr. Whitefield has since been persuaded that such an offer is premature, I am constrained to make the following independently of him:
To raise for His Majesty’s service at least two hundred volunteers, to be supported by contributions among themselves; and to be ready in case of an invasion to act for a year (if needed so long) at His Majesty’s pleasure. …
If this be acceptable to His Majesty, they beg to have arms out of the Tower, giving the usual security for their return, and some of His Majesty’s sergeants to instruct them in the military exercise.
to the Honorable James West, M.P., 1756
