An annuity of £300 a year was given to her in exchange for the transfer of ownership of her estate to her husband.
[3] She took this disaster as a signal from God and despite proposals of remarriage she decided to devote her life to religious causes.
[1] In 1764 she started to attend Methodist meetings and she met the movement's founder John Wesley.
She also continued to attend Church of Scotland services where she could Holy Communion.
[1] Robert Raikes, who published a newspaper in Gloucester, had funded and publicised several Sunday Schools which he had organised with Thomas Stock.