GoogleBooks, via WWW, Oct. 13, 2011 Teale, W.H. Lives of English laymen, 1842, p. 352 (Samuel Wesley; father of John Wesley; wrote the elegy "On Mr. Nelson" in his copy of Nelson's True devotion)
His The life of our blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ ... 1679 t.p. (Samuel Wesley)
InU/Wing STC files (usage: S. Wesley; country divine; a schollar)
LC data base, 5/15/85 (hdg.: Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735)
Nelson, R. The practice of true devotion, 1812 p. 16 (S.W.; author of elegy, On Mr. Nelson)
The works of John and Charles Wesley, 1906 p.10-11 (Advice to a young clergyman ... was written by Samuel Wesley, sen.)
Wikipedia, 20 Feb. 2012 under Samuel Wesley, poet (Samuel Wesley, born 17 Dec. 1662, died 5 Apr. 1735, was a clergyman of the Church of England, as well as a poet and a writer of controversial prose; he was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church)