Lincolnshire & Epworth Across The Irish Sea
LINCOLNSHIRE
EPWORTH ae = PWORTH, which features in Domesday, was torical references to this, the second-largest county in England, before the :
E notable for its most famous son, John Wesley, —_ Danish invasion made its permanent mark on place names and dialect alike. the fifteenth child of Samuel and Susanna
William the Conqueror was to build a castle at Lincoln, distributing the Wesley, born at Epworth Rectory on June main estates among his Norman followers; but in general the Domesday
17th, 1703. The rectory was burnt down on Survey reveals that the county was leniently treated. The city of Lincoln has
February 9th, 1709, and the children escaped a rich inheritance of Norman architecture, its crowning glory centering in narrowly. Wesley was to return to the scene
superb cathedral, first consecrated on May 6th, 1092. The county was to § of his father's labours many times during his __ witness the growth of maritime and fishing towns, notably Boston, Grimsby, itinerant ministry.
Barton, Saltfleet, Wainfleet and Wrangle. The early manufactures of the Alfred the Great celebrated his marriage county are all connected with the woollen trade.
= with Ealswitha at the Lincolnshire town of
EPWORTH CHURCH
Gainsborough; otherwise there are few his- [742 shea ee — /yade for "ung m CALS since J Saleen in awe: hoe 5 went fo an inn, in the middl of fhe town , not knowing whither there weré any left int now who wowd not be ashamed of my acquamntane, But an old servant of my fathers, with two or Aree poor women, presently founa me out.
1 asked her, Do you know any in Epworth who are in tarnest be saved?" She answered 'lam, by the grace of God; ana | know 1 am saved through fath..."
Sunday, June 6 — A little before the service B aa T went to Mr. Komtey, the avate, and offtred fo assist him Katha cadhiing or reading prayers, But he did not Care @ accept of my assistance.
"The church sre PP
WESLEY PREACHING ON HIS FATHER'S TOMB
was exceeding m the a on, a rumour be spread that I was preach. But the sermon on:
Quench not the Spirit," was not suitable fp the mary of the hearers. Mr. Komley the most aanguous ways Of page mg the Spurl was by enthustasm, and enlarged on the character of an tnthustast, i avery florid and ovatoricad manner. After the sermon John
Taylor stood tp the churchyard, and gave notice, as te fe were coming out, Mr, Wesley, not being pomited to preach the church, designs lo preach here at six 0M.
Accordingly at six | came, and found such a congregation as I behive Epworth never saw
INVITED MY WIFE AND ME TO
COME INTO HER COACH."
1752 Friday, April = — When | landed at the quay in LU was covered with people, inquring, "Which ts he? Whuch is he?" But slared and laughed; and we walked unmolested lo Mr. A__s house. before.
slood near the cast nd of the Aurch upon my fathers tombstone, and oritd: "The kingdom of heaven ts not meat and drink; but 7 den ae and peace, and joy in the Floly st, 1 was quite surprised at the miserable condition of the fortifications ;
WOVE TUUTOUS
and decayed than those at Neweaslle, even before he rebchion.
It ts we there 1s noenay WLAN.
Sunday, Tune ip — At sw / preached for the last time in Epworth eae (hen lo leave the town the next morning, ) to a vast muttiude gathered together from al parts, on he beginning ee ord' s Sermon on the Mount.
1 continued among them for near farce hours; and we scarce knew how fo art.
Ole none think jus labour of love ts lost ee a8 fruct dees not iS, Saat car.
Car cars did my father labow fre, hut he Low We Fie of Pd his labour...
1 went to prayers at re in the Ola chiath, —a grand and venerable structure, Boiwee) fweand six the coach called, and took mé to Mightrn - Car, about half a mite from the town.
A "huge medidude rich and poor, forse and foot wilh "several coaches were soon gathered logtine..,
GRIMSBY BOSTON after preacAir ng at Mak hee and Barrow We bib eee the next aay Our ee 'ied at orims fs WE mM ny jew of Furrysbur; m Geompia It Hes one of the ites vay ae fc sj jalan ut 1s no bigger than a else Mage , conlaining a smal number of hadffn bike mhabiants, wilheul any rade, atfur
Sorugn or domestic.
But thes Aave} they love the Gosped, hardly six fanities excepted. ew Some thousands of the peopl servously attended; many behaved ds i Y possessed by Moloch, Clods and stones flew about en ewery side; nether Wash nor Asturbed Me, When] had fratshed my discourse, | went to lake coach; but te coachman had dAriven oleaw aw We were at a loss, KU a geatlewoman wwe, wife and me fo come ato her coach, She Ye Some inconvnuances on hearst, thereby ; t only as there were nine of ust the coach, cm on €ach side, and three in the nude: but also as the mob Closely altendcd us rows, wg tn at Khe windows (whith we aid not Hink ih ut pruacnt to shut) whatever came nixt to hand,
BOSTON _CHUREH
But a large gatewoman who satin my lap 178O Frid Tun 16 — We went on fo srtntd me, so that nothing (ame Néar me,
Boston', thé ar oa hown tn the | sg xcept Lincoln, Sr om the top of the é hes L suppose is by far the highest 1766 ee gee 18 — | set out for the tee mn the king i) we had a view not moolashire, and only of all the , but of ad the adjacent
HRS COINS
© .VE LINCOLN (tes
ARM OF THE CITY AND
country, Formerly Ws wn was a lange number of young ui the fins, but the fers are women, and boys arid guts, vanished away: great pary of were employed.
The whole em ts tuned wite paslire, conversation of hese was and part wite arable fand, At profane and loose to the lastcw the Aouse contained tré conpe sy But SOME of these grégalien, ald of whem behaved stumbling i ot the prayer- 'in he most decint maana: mecing WAC suddenly ad How different from those wld the "heart, These mover beasts wih whem Mr Mithd vresttd til they had sauna and Mr, Mather had fo dof thir companins, ~ The | whok scene was hanged.
In three of he factories, no 1782 Friday, May 10 -move lewdness or profaneness I preached... the = were found; for God had wenwig at Epworth, 7 found put anew song m ther e he accounts ] fad recewed of mouth, ana blasphemies wee the work of God Aére, werenol turned to praise, LO at add ex 4 head ated, Flere is a
LINCOLN, GAT HEBRAL ge = SOUTH WEST
Mitte Beatie: te town, containing "Ta a Kttle mort than cnt or {790 Thersd.
Ti — ] went to Lucotn. After mine hundred grown people; auwnnear we ota a walk m ana reund the Minster; and Hie has been such awork which 1 really think 1s more elegant than that at York, m
Among Hew, as we pave molt varus parts of the structure, = well as m its adnurable san in so short a lime athier situation, "Tie how house was thoroughly led wn the wening; at Leds, Bristol or London, and wih hearers uncommonly sercous, ae seems to be remarkable aiffrence between the people of Lincoln and those
May th — Some of York. "They have not so much fire and vigour of spt; but "Tiesda Cars ago. aclories for far more milaness avid Gnneness; by means of which, if ty spinning and weaving were had the same outward "heps, thiy would probably excel set up 'at Epworth." In these thar neighbours.
THE DOCKS AT HULL
WILLLAM MASON THE POET, AND WILLIAM WILBERFORCE THE PHILANTHROPIST WERE BOTH 18TH CENTURY SONS OF THIS EAST RIDING SEAPORT
MANCHESTER.
Change and controversy have often been a feature of Manchester.
It suffered greatly from the Danish invasions, it saw the rapid growth of the textile industry, and it was often the centre of political turmoil. It was'
ANCHESTER (earlier named Mancunium by the Romans) may have seen the birth of Arkwright's spinning jenny and of Stephenson's railway engine
'Rocket', but its origin goes back to an era ' He shrouded by fable and ballad. In the days of good
4.' King Arthur, Sir Launcelot of the Lake was said the English poet John Byrom (1692- . to be the hero in the downfall of a local giant:
1763), himself of Manchester, who wrote these amusing lines:
Near Manchester there lived a knight of fame, Of a prodigious strength and might, God bless the King, I mean our faith' s defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender ;
But who Pretender isor who is King God bless us allthat's quite another thing.
Who vanquished many a worthy knight, A giant great, and Tarquin was his name.
SLR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT
INVENTOR, OF THE SPINNING JENNY
Certainly Manchester boasted a 'lang pedigree'. During the construction of the Bridgewater Canal, excavated Roman coins were those of Vespasian,
Antoninus Pius, Trajan, Hadrian, Nero, Domitian, Vitellius and ConstanManchester, famous for its Cathedral, its university, its "Guardian' newspaper and its Hallé orchestra, became a city in 1853. tine.
17358 Ticestay, March te — 1 set ont for Manchester, with Mr. Kunchin, es Fellow of Corpus Christ, = =. and Mr. Fox, latea lay acréss a aeep aitch near be lown. After supper I read rrayers to the people of the wn, and explained the Stcond Lesson; 1 hope not in vaen,
ARMS OF THE
CLTY OF MANCHESTER
Prisoner in the ce Pri bth nN ies eit we lost our way; but before nine, we came lo Shipston, having Vdc over, 1 katw not ow, a narrow footbridge, which Thursday, March 16 — ate at ni; vtathtd Manchtistar, we Friday, the 17%, Wwe speat ntirdy wih Mr. Clayton, by whew), and the vest of our friends here, we ware much refreshed and strenghhened. Mr. Hoole, the Kector of St. Anns
Hurt, being takin i the next day, on Sunday, the 19h, Mr: Kinchin and I officiated at Salford hapll in the morning, by which means Mr.
Claylon Was at (iberby To perform fre service of
St. Ann's; and wm the a on Bee there on those words of St Tau: Uf any be in Christ, he 1s a new creature.' aie w the morning we left Manchester, cig wie us Mr. Kinchins brother, for whom we cam, to be entered at Oxford.
Marta 31 — 7 preahed
3 sey aoa where 1 met Mr. C, i to the Earl of WwW.
Surely it sats be!
Is x possthle the Farl shoudd turn Ey oe Aonest, Atligent, Hes? tried servant, who had ben in the above Cas, no other fat ae fe ficarin pele ee es Ln the evenin, 1g 1 preachea wt Manchestar; and on Monday, rigs at Davyhulne. Hlere oa d (what | had ip heard of a whole dan Sap serge peasants, I Ae frail alchouse-keeper drinks, and laugns, ss argues nto Dausm oe the ploughmen and dary wey
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, MANCHESTER
to Manchestr: here wo was thal one and anoher dropped im, he scarce knew why, Lo hear the preaching. And they 5 are now a pattern of SU LOUSNESS , a, Wid ad holy conversalloy, can light en, But no mob ruses against Ny him; and reason a: Satan ws not divided against himself.
Wednesad. ay, April - [made ar] Wd of Xam CSO at Sea ie amen a pila o ( were seventeen of Dae COS. fe It is remarkable, that Bese were in Hie same re 1/55 (ALEAELL SY Tie 9 — lh he wenn preached latichester.
The Son was twlirab Pe as tong as [Was spa Ling, but_ immedi ghey raged horribly.
This, 1 find, has béen thir mame for some Lime. al No 1 iach sce the ga Tusuces ncourage with Jthn Haime,in ; Flanders; but they utterly déspiscd both um and Ais
STEPHENSON'S ROCKET MADE 1TS APPEARANCE
IN THE 19TH CENTURY
aster tu cy yemoved!
reaching at Congkion, Macelesfi 1781 ee ee March 30, 7 opened the mew chapel at Manchester, about the size of that in London, "The whok
CONT behaved with the utmost serious ness.
1 trust mucr goed wik be done this place .
Sunday , April 11 bean reading prayers al ten ocdock, Our country friends flocked in from ad sides, At the Ommunio was such a sight as 1 am persuaded was mver seen at Manchester before: dever or lwelve hundred communicants at ence; and au of them fearing God.
OWENS COLLEGE
7 trust 1776 Desedey meat a yA began an much answer angeéous Trad, Dr.
Price's "Observations upon Lise ry * whtch tf cod will practised, would overtum all government, and bring mn universal anarchy. ~ On ais be done the preaching house at Manchéstir contained he P Fi os Saget prety wel at seen im he morning,
W this in the afternoon 1 was obliged to be abroad, lac " thousands upon thousands flockin Logcther., 7 Pp C. stood in a convenient place, almost over against fn a time the infurmar y, ana exhorted a lus tening mutt tad
Journals SLD HAM aha CHAPEL bo "live unto Him Who aed for them and rose March 50,1781 er ee Again."
ihn i i (| } Wi) tt i l i} Hist (ni Mi Mi) | fi
MANCHESTER: THE FAIREST, BESTBUILDED, QUICKLIEST AND MOST POPULOUS TOWNE OF AL LANCESTRESHIRE' (ANTIQUARY JOHN LELAND)
THE FREE TRADE HALI WAS BUILT IN THE 19TH CENTURY
BRISTOe i (ELSES oe (Brigstow, Bristou, Bristow, Bristole) is eighteenth century, owing to an outstanding example of a town that has owed its the inhuman slave trade - the prominence entirely to trade. It was the western limit — two or three thousand tons of of the Saxon invasion of Britain, and about the year — shipping leaving England for ee 1,000 a Saxon settlement began to grow at the Africa in 1714 was to rise to over ¥ junction of the Rivers Frome and Avon, fifteen thousand tons by the early Wa In the eighteenth century Bristol becamethecentre sixties. Indeed England's growing "2 of the Wesleyan revival. The city was cramped, maritime and colonial strength of that = densely populated and dirty, with dark narrow streets time is illustrated in the resolve of her
: and no sanitary system, The mob gained an unenvi- —_ merchants to mitiate hostilities withSpan
MARY1EPORT STREET,
a4 - . able notoriety for its violence in the mots of 1708, in 1739 - the very year when Wesley BRISTOL Ohi Od Qo 1753 and 1767, began to preach to the masses in the open air.
He Hoopes The town's prosperity increased greatly during the
Saturday, March y/ 7 :
In the evaung 1 reached Bristol, and met Mr. Whutefield there, 1 conld scarcely reconcile myself at first to thus strange way of preaching wn the fidlas, of Which he set me an example on Sunday: having ben all my lik (ti very lately) so tenacious of every pow relating to decenty and mer, that ] should have thought the ics pt Bios: almost asin, if u« had not been aoneg in a ey Apri 2 At fur wm the aftemem , 7 submitted be more vile, and prodaimed m the Aighnays the glad vidings of satvaken, speaking from a httle eminence In a .
Jong to the uty, fo about three thousand people.
At seven 1 began ng the Acts of the Apostles, lo a SO mecling in Biltmin -Strect; and the next day the GospH of St. John 'Mm the chapel at Neni ~; where 1 also pei
IN _PITHAY, BRISTOL
Morming Service of the Church,
Aprid 8 — At sevea m the morning ] preached to about a thousand persons at Sant afarwards fo abrut fifteen hundred "on te top of Haanam Mouat, 1" Kingswood.
1 caded fo them in the words of tHe evangelical prophet: Ho!" everyone that thirsteth , come ye b the waters; come and buy wine and melL, 'without money, and without price." About fifteen thousand were in the afermorn ab Rose-Green (om the ather side of Keagswood); anweng whom 1 stood and oriad vn the mame of the Lovd:
"Tf any man tharst, let Ain? come unto Me'and avink. He that believeth on Me, as the Seripliwe' hath said, ont of his belly shad flow vives of ling water. .
1770 Monaay,_
—] é sth oo. ended, visilin CSO SE to Aeuse, setting Snares 7 jhe hwo hers ia a day for that purpose. | was surprised to find the spe ppeele with which one and all spoke, both of their temporal and tual state.
Nor coulda ] easily Aave known, by any other means, how great a work God has wreu
fem. Le £ exceeding: hitle fo DYE ; WU & praise 'God for. And 1 obstrved 01K tung which 1 aid not expect:— In yIst Ad ad the fanulies, without Law dgak, by far the poorest about the aty, I did not find so much as ene Persen who was out of werk.
Another corcumstance 1] oritic inquuca inte, What ts the real numibyof the people ?
The Aouses without Lawford s gate are ca to be a Thousand, New at the silting of the Tustices, Some years since, Hite were two hundred public heuses.
Was then one
OUTDOOR PREACHING
publi-house? house in five a No surdy, one house m ten at the utmost, If so, hire were two thousand houses, and consequently, fourteen thousand people, ignorant and eer Wg WEN, ~ us Teamove, if possi ic. the apprechensions whch Aave been - $0 ae spread, as if u were on the oe Tun Friday, 27, was the day appointa ge the national esse Ut was observed with due 177 Tense. tray she ra im © Solemmty, Al shops were = Sutup; all Hie oss in the streets; all places of publ worshep were crowsed, wo food was served tn the na at carn" there was some Aislurbance at Bristol, occastoned by men whose tongues were sc on fre aguanst the GUA A HE the King's house till fre o clock m the Bening. Thus least, we acknowledge direct our paths. fy emnmant, "1 went down mm the adligence, and on Thesdi
BRISTOL IN THE 17'TH CENTURY
ng strongly enjorcea Mose solemn words :
; ho be subject prinupalitees and, powers, to ak evil of noman.
] beliwe God applied Fis Word, and convinced m that thy had ben out of thar way. stopped at the spot thy had apponted, whux anciher | watted to atlack the thus, "Put them wm mind 17(9 Wercsatay,
gentiioman, just come In consequence of His, m we vob f ff lhad Bo good protector stl 1 have i,
LOVE US AV
MSE LI two days the combined fleets of France and Spain lay at the travedéd all roads, by aay and by night, for these forly years, ana never was wiler — rupted ye.
'Thesa December 16 — ] pada Dork vs to Bristol; mouth of the harbour. "They might have entered tt with payed ease. "Ihe wind was fuer; reached tn the wening avid BOTH Monin canesday ie i a hp at Bs heme théire was no fret oppost hin,'
Why then da they not go mr, destroy the dock, and bum, February 171778 2: y we was a combinalion amo mi of the postchaise artyers gt Bats read, especially these that drove in the night, or at least plunder he town?
] beliwe they could hardly — eu themsdyes. — The plain reason was, the bridle of God Address to the Inhabitants of England, wit regard to the prevent state of he nation, — so strangely musrepresented both fo deer thar passengas mnte ach others hands, One Ariwver
BRISTOL, FROM ST. AUGUSTINE'S QUAY
In 1735 ALDERMAN VICK LEFT £1,000 FOR 1TS ERECTION. WORK WAS NOT BEGLIN TILL A CENTURY LATER.
was in their teeth; and He had said; Hitherto children showing that they were now managed shall ye come ana no further." with the wisatom that cometh from adore,
1782. Hidey, Maren 1. — In the evening The hospitality) preached at Kingswood Schoor, se | and afterwards me the bands, The colliers of the cil NS spoke without reserve, ] was greatly y di! surprised: not he matter of What thy spoke was rational and Scriphural, but the language, yéa, and the manner, were exactly was widely ¥ \ proper. WAe taacheth Like THHim ? renowned 2 '
¢ prday, Ey 21— 1] waked over
1786; woodol, now one of the <\( , —~ Macaulay, ft i Pleasantest spots tn England.
J] found al things History of England = es Just baer bo my daesut; the rules bein wt observed, and the whole behaviour of the
PORTLAND SQUARE, BRISTOL
WEST RIDING oF YORKSHIRE
experience the full fury of the mobs that faced such sturdy Yorkshire preachers as William Grimshaw of Haworth, 'the Apostle of the North.' gs ]:
WAS IN 1742 that John Wesley visited Yorkshire for the first time. In what state did he find
England's largest county? Some twenty years earlier Daniel Defoe had found it a rough ride as he travelled along the track from Lancashire into Yorkshire along the old Roman road over Blackstone Edge. The roads were terrible, the terrain
Yorkshire's West Riding has become world-renowned for its beautiful dales, its superb architecture (Fountains Abbey being the finest of England's ruined abbeys) and its romantic history. Visitors by the thousand come to Haworth, which saw Wesley on seventeen separate occasions, and which boasted the Bréntes as its most celebrated family.
Wesley's journals make frequent reference to the political upheavals of his time. 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' (1720-1788) - the grandson of James II, and Pretender to the throne - was to rally a Highland army in the summer of threatening. Nevertheless, as he entered the towns
B and villages, he was able to report: Those people are full of business; not a beggar, not an idle person to be seen... [his business is the Clothing Trade . . .' The beginning of the eighteenth century saw the Yorkshire worsted industry really flourishing, Halifax being its centre. 1733 was to see the invention of Kay's flying shuttle. The age was rough and brutal, and the Wesleys were to 1745, and march into England in what proved to be the unsuccessful
'Jacobite' attempt to put the Stuarts on the throne. It was on November 5th of that year that Wesley arrived in Leeds.
[(45 Monday, November 4 — 1 left , Os eweashe.
Before nine we met S sweral expresses, sent to Coumter Vee, mand the march of the inte Scotland; and fo in them, that the rtebds had passed the Ineed, and were marching soudward.
'Thesday, November 5In the FZ cvenin came tas, and found te town of bonfires, and people shouting, furing of guns, asin and swearing, as Shi English manner of keepmg holidays 1, |
1 mmedtiately sent word Lo some of the magistrates, of what 1 had heard
LEEDS, IN THE TIME OF JOHN WESLEY
LEEDS TODMORDEN
on the vwoad.
"Thus van through tht town, as & were, 1 aninsthad afprned to fiat Mr, Wesley was now w Pretender, near Edinburgh, 1 wrote hum a few lines.
"It may be, he will have a littl more ant: and ] hope ut was a tok fr good.
"the mM Td stretts was quashed at once; some of the bonfires indeed ith the regard tb ruth, tr shame, fer he time Io come.
Saturday, February 22- (leeds) -T prea remained, brut scarce anyone was to be seen about them, bid a few children warming ther Aands.
WAS aude e
SURPRISE VIEW, FOUNTAINS ABBEY
cat mob followed, and Hrew whatfume. As we went home a thing more dehy tan the vale through which we rede _from LCE, The river ran the green meadows on the right. ever came to hand.
1 was Suck sweral times, once or frice neighbouring gentleman, Dr. C., the face, but not hurt at al.
1 walked on to the Keaorderss, and told him the case, He promised to prevent the lke for the time come.
The "fruitfil hills and weeds rose on 'ether hand: yet here and there a vock hung over, the litte holes of which put me in mtnd of those heautiful lines, ~Té, Domine, mtonsi montes, te T1755 (a SAKA Summa Deum, dum monus amat — out ten | preached near Todmorden.
"Ihe people stood, row above row, on he side of the mountain, "They were rough enough in outward appearance; but ther hearts were as melling WaK. juga pendulus hircs, Saxorumgue colt latebrosa cuntculus antra! * * Faraphrase of Psalm 10¢: "The high hills are a refuge for the wild oats and so are tht sleny Yocks 'for the conies."
One can hardly conceive any
THE MARKET PLACE, HUDDERSFIELD
HAWORTH
HUDDERSFIELD
(75 May 91 rode over the Monday, May 9mountams to cUeutaitas A wilder people 1 never saw in England.
The men, women, and chtldren filled the street as we rode atong, and ed Just oy to deyourus.
'They were, howBeer ge vet while 1 preached, enly a fw Bee were hrown, and the bell. man came a the middle of the sermon, but was stopped by ee an of tea town. Thad almost AONE, Und.
Me wet canoe at C, ji ot Aorse ape] 1S ei § ee we us upon the mountain; but tris Md not hinder such a congregation as the Chunh could not contain, 1 suppose we had nearly a thou— sand commusucants, and scarcily A trifler among thew.
21 — NW. Grimshaw
ea = fo oye, another lene house on the side of an enormous mountain.
"The cong ation Stood and sat, row above row. in the sylvan theatre, when they began sate the bells; 50 that it did Us small | disservice 1 believe nothin ing en the post-diluvian earth 'tan be more pleasant than the road from hence, betwen huge, mountains, clothed with Wood tt the top, ana washed at the
IN STUDLEY PARK
HAWORTH CHURCH AND REY. WILLIAM GRIMSHAW
BINGLEY
OTLEY BRADFORD
tomnta ys a char, winding stream, ———____
ARMS Of BRADFORD
as I possbly cold © on tpese words :
"the harvest ts passed, he seut!| summer is ended, and we are bottem pe Flepton congregniion at stad, and Perce rode on fo pecan, ] preached to a very large » Juaday ay 22 — At len, Mr er read prayers; but the church wowld not néar contain the congregauon; So a prayers, 1 stood ona saafpolal ——
LISTER'S MILL, MANNI
Mond tl 29About two reached at Fadiham,w a broad Sree te ahuge wngregation. 7 thnk the only mathr-
Friday, August srr ] preached ut Bradford where the pee are all alive, M here have
EX PET IN-
ced the great salvation, and ther zéal has been a general close to He Church, and the congregation in the churchyard.
communicants alone filled the Aurch, In the afternoen he congregation was nearly doubled, Da Ve most Of these Ss nO live persons were the mimster and a kind cnttimnan, J saw none mattentive at Clu in the nening. What has God wrought, since Mz Grimshaw and 1 were suzed near this place by a furious mob, and kept prisonors for some hours!
The blessing, Indeed, ths / always observe, — wherever a work of sancification breaks out, the curious frearers, but mean J God. whole work of God prospers, Some are convinced of sin, others bie holy and ad stirred 1/66 ) Menday, August 4 greater carnesiness for salvation, one 1 preached at Bingley.
In the aft Jweat fo s but the town seemed lo be run mad, Such noise, hurry, drunkenness, rioting, confusion, if know not when 1 have met with before.
It was their feast day !
A feast of Bacchus, or Venus, or (776 Sunday, as 28 — Cc congregi at Haworth was greater than the church could contac, For the sake of the poor parishioners, Sew of whom are even awakened Belial 7 O shame to a (hristian country / Tne' a #', = a oe es rr.
MLLLHANDS AT SALTAIRE
to tus day, 1 spoke as strongly
PADIHAM COLNE of him who headed that mob now gladly VeCUAVe our saying.
Tiusday, eas 30In the evening I preached in a kind of square, at ¢, a multtude of people, al drinking tn the Word, |] scarce ever saw a congregation wherun men, women and Children stood in such a ee : and us 1 the town wherein, turly years ago, no Methodest could show his head!
The first thot preachéd here was John Jane, who was mnocently riding rough the town, when the zealous mob pulled fim off his Aorse, and put sum m the stocks.
Tk seized the opportunity, and vehemently exhorted them "Lo flee from the wrath fo Come," nye +.
JOHN SANE PREACHING IN THE STOCKS
DR. SMOLLETT
Ais. of England," vol.xy., pp. 121, 122:— pebectere a fanatiasm is hang upon the skirts of religion. Weak minds were seduced by He delusions of a superstilion, styled Methodism raised upon the affectation of superior sarictily, and pradensiuns to Avine ulummaiim, Mary thousands were infected wih tus nthusiasm by the endeavours of a few obsaue< preachers, suh as Whitefdd, and the lwo Weskys, w. found means & lay the whole kingdom under contr hut, Poor Dr. Smollett! Thus to transmit to all we
succeeding generattens a whole heap of noloriwus falsehoods! Meantime, nhat fat can be gwen VC Thursday, April 22lwasattle ws Tsbry? What credit can any man of reason surprised at a passage un Dr. Smolkett's give t any fact upon us authority ie
WAKEFIELD
HEPTONSTALL
WC Wepresdey, Aerit 28 -] expec 1780 Weanessey April 9 — J neat te efitld in the evenng; , Ritchu was dead be29, at Kothwed and Leds; and on Friday, sore 1 came, But-he had frst witnesséd a noon, at Harewood, In the afternoon ne gee confession.
One telling him, "You wil be watked to Mr, Lascelles house. It is facly etter soon;" he replied, "1 "cannot be batter; sttuatéd on a little eminence, ammanding for I have God wy my heart. 1 am happy, a most delightful prospect of hid/ and ae happy, happy un Ths love /"
ae Mr. Wuson, the vicar, after a dale, and wood and water, It 1s brult of fine white stone, with Witle hesitation, consented, that 1 should preach es Yu two d and bauti frovits, J was not struck cosen was: "Ié you Hat believe, He 1s preceous."
Ferhaps such a 1s foo much sameness wy atl the ribs /rouses I fave seep ws tingland, hve rows arge, square yvomS, Wit costly beds, LASSES , Aauws and tables.
But hereisa profusion of weal; every nughty tings @ pass! of glass, We were Invs acung a several formed, cost six-andoer places 07! Monday and shillings, one looting glass eee Tuesday, Wednesday, '26, ] cost hundred ponds, ) ee tached in stall duh, and one bed, six hundred. The
HEPTONSTALL CHURCH
well filled wilh serins hearers, whole floor was just on the plan o In the tvend of verung I preached Near Monlague-house; now He British Museum. The "Tadwwrden, m the heart mountains, prousids round the house are pléasant deed, One would wendear where all the people came from. puticdarly tte waks om He pen sidé, and Poe | he woods, But what has fe onner hercop, save the keholding of them nuth his pane "es e
"HE SEE of WINCHESTER
ARMs OF THE CITY AND SEE OF
WINCHESTER
perpendicular nave representing the later work of Bishop Edington (1346- ] NEXTRICABLY LINKED with the ancient city and see of Winchester (Winton, Wynton) are the romantic figures of King Arthur and his knights; but it is to the late seventh
1366) and William of Wykeham (1367-1404). Numerous tombs feature there, including that of the controversial Cardinal Beaufort.
The New Forest, in south-west Hampshire, was a hunting ground for the West Saxon kings, and is one of five forests mentioned in Domesday.
William the Conqueror made it a royal forest; his two sons met their deaths within its boundaries — Richard being killed by a stag, and William Rufus by an arrow. Rufus' stone, near Lyndhurst, eventually marked the spot where the king was said to have fallen. The large stirrup that hung in the hall of Lyndhurst's 'Queen's House' (erected in Charles II's reign) has had only a legendary connection with Rufus.
century and to Hedda, first bishop of Winchester (d. 705), / _ |that we must go for our earliest reliable milestone.
Winchester's position at the centre of six Roman roads indicates its early importance and indeed it was the seat of ft King Canute's government, rivalling, for a while, London
"We itself as the capital of England. It gained its educational os ZA status through Alfred, and its great public school was
— originated in 1387 by the famous William of Wykeham. Its RUFUS'STIRRUP_ cathedral dates from Norman times, the magnificent g SYS VC Thursday October 3 — Winchester.
NOW d lume to take a view of the cathedral. Here the ight of that had Gard nals tomb, whom the scaiplor sus placa 1 a position ayer, brought to my mind these fine lines' of Srakespeare, which he put into the wuts of King Henry the Sixth: — dA (atrdinal Cs If thou hast an hope of Heavens grace, Ey Us a rag dies and makes Lie sign." cached at 1781 Tuesday, October 9 — J Wha Where ; went with great expectation to see Wat celebrated painting m the cathedral, the rmisin Lazarus, But 1 was disappointed, 1 obsérved, 1 There was suha hudolle of figures, that, had 1 not been told, 1 oe >See ¢ a ——
GENERAL VIEW OF WINCHESTER_
should never have guessed what they meant, 2, the colours ta general were far too glaring, such as neither Christ nor this fotowers ever wore, When wild pacnters have common sense > tober 10 — | opened the new preaching-house fey.
Just fitshed at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, After prea ng, Fie i, explained the nakure of a Methodist society; of which fer' had ti before the least concephon, mW 1783 Friday, October 10 ~ ] crossed over to Southampln;
X and Yund hve or three there also who feared and
THE HIGH STREET, WINCHESTER,
wy ovea® God, "Then J went to Winchester, A clergyman UN having offered me his church, 1 purposed beginning at to the next generation! In the five; but te key was not to be found; sol made a name of God, let us, if possible, virtue of necessity, and preached secure the present generation near the from drawing back to perdition!
Gross-stree; Let au the preachers that are probably _— stl alive to bod join logether w@ double as one man, fast and pray, Aft the congreup ther you as a trumpe, be gation mstast, m season and out of Whach season, convince them they wadd have are fallen; and exhort them been wn instantly to "repent, ana do the the churh, first works."
Thursday, August 9 — Monday, 1087 fc fo fe i South) Aoril 5 amplon as som as possible, We ave book, chaise at four in the morne lahourin and (making but a short s to secure Ge Komsey) came thither pha! preaching -houses cght and mine, We found two
Bia Ph a
HIGH STREET, SOUTHAMPTON
LSAAC WATTS THE HYMN-WRITER WAS A PRODUCT
1748 ) OF THIS ANCIENT
SEAPORT
sloops nearly ready [o saul.
Monday, zB — We set out from Yarmouth The caplay of one promised with a fer wind; but ub soon tuned st US fo sail the next morning; so and blew sohard that mn the afternoon we were we sat down content. At glad put m at Swanage. ] d we had still seven tn the axning | preached a little socuty here, 1 had not sen them for " Mr Fays school -rotm. thirteen years, and had no thought of ster thin now; but Cod does all things well. In BAR GATE Saarinen JSalird {ieee went the evening i, preahed. op) eth whe SOR OaerT The Queen, a smal/ sloop, and sailed erght or nine leagues with :
| tdevable wind.
But then ut prew ' and blew 'Thursday, September 30 It hein ey Pe ibe at 1790 ey, Sees 2 S Ws a storm; so that we were q es we went i a Yarmouth harbour. hary, throu ones harbour, to Nenport; one of the pltasantest_ néatest, and most elegant tonns th te Kings dominions, , a7 abridged Dr: Watts'
pretty "Treatise on the Passions.' seventy pages will make a useful : i .
Fads : . fract of fourS UNNI ant - tenty,"
DR. WATTS
Jour nals, 178 Tanuary, J 769
BROCRKRENHURST CHURCH
TRAVELS INITIO SCOTLAND
O roaring Clyde, ye roar ower loud, ~<A CROSS THE CENTURIES, Scotland (Caledonia)
- the 'land of mountain and of flood' - has cherished Your streams seem wonder strang; Mak me your prey as I come back, But sparemeas I gang. a fiercely-defended independence. It has produced
. such fighting spirits as William Wallace and Robert 4 Bruce, the leading figures in the wars of Scottish
Independence.
Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie', 1720-1788) was causing a massive
Wesley visited Scotland a number of times, and found a religious climate that had been prepared by the earlier missionary endeavours of Ninian
(c.400) and Columba (521-597). Later the sixteenth-century reformers such stir by his exploits at the very time of Wesley's minis- = try. Here is a land that has tested the bravest intruder by reason ae its rocky coasts and its Southern Uplands; whose swift rivers and mighty heroes have evoked ballads and traditions in great profusion: as Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart and - supremely - John Knox, had left a permanent mark upon Scottish Christianity. Here was the land of dissent, of the Kirk, and of the Bible.
W751 — Mr, Hopper and 1 took horse
and about seven came to Old-Camus.
'The Scotch towns are like none which 1 ever saw, either a a n) foe Wales or Ireland:
February
ce and Wednesda etween there 1s such an air in them all, and such a ee! m ther manner were most surprised at the entertainment we peatiar of building. But ne ts we with in tvery place, from common TEport.
SO oir S fogs va heap,m eke abundance, and | remarkably well- + dressed. In the aftrnoon we rode by Preston -fidld, Wits SAW place baile, and Colonel Ga diner's house. 'The Scotch here affirm, that
them seven or eight stories high) 1s beyond an mn Great Ae But fe id be py Saat ad manner of filth shoidd still be thrown even uo Yus street continually?
Where are the magistracy, We gentry, the nobilly of the land? Have ty no concen for the honour of ther nation?
How long shall the capital city of Scotland, yea, and the nef street of u, stink worse than a common sewer?
Will no lover of hus country or of dec — ancy and commen-sense find a remetly for this £ Flolyr ood - house, the entrance of Lainburgh, the anciunt palace of he Scott Kings, is a noble strudure. It was rebuilt and furnished
King Charles the Second.
Ope side fit tsa pictiregallery, wherun are pictures of all the Scottish "Kings, and an orignal one of the ctle — brated Queen Mary: tt 1s" scarce possible for aw who looks at ah) think her such a monster &
some have pawnted har, nor tndeed for W.
PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH
considers fre cor cumstances of her egies to that of an ancient martyr. he fou on foot aftr he was dismounted, and rfused ee ie Be ut as "may, he 1s now
"where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."
ee Soe sides, as well as to the east, with He stately castle upon a cragpy rack on the west, ts mexpresstbly frre, H he Ww * shreet $0 broad /
FOUNDED 1128, USED REGULARLY BY THE ROYAL FAMILY
OLYROOD PALACE,
oA ——-- ce fnedy paved, with the lo easday, Tine 7 — | rode over LOCH CLARE S BEN LEAGACH fii on either hand ( Gian of 1764 ur Archibald Grant's, twelve computed
yeu 'iy FE te RUT
TERM ORT)
8 MEAT SC
BALMORAL CASTLE?
GAELIC — "THE MAJESTIC DWELLING'
THE PRLVATE RESLDENCE OF THE BRITISH SOVEREIGN SINCE
Strathbogit, muh improved bythe linen - Pere Ad the pis from Fochabers to Strathbogit has litte houses scattered up and down; and not only te vallys, but the mountains themsd ves, are improved wih the utmost care.
'There want more trees fo make thim more pleasant than must of the mountains in England, 100A eto, May 5 spiru was moored wihm me at the sermons 1 heard both maming and aftenom, "ty wntaintad mug
KINGS COLLEGE,
OLD ABERDEEN
mies from Aberdeen.
It is surprising f see how the between is improved even within these three years. On every side the witd, dreary moors are ploughed up, and covered with ristn com. Ak the ground near Sir Archibald''s, 1 partiadar, is as wel adttivated" as most 14 F5 d. About seven 1 preached.
The kirk was pretty well fill, though upon short notice.
Certainly tus 1s a'natim "swift héar, 'and slow te speak,"
Rough not 'slow to wrath."
Ttuesday, Fine, 12. — We rode through the pheasant and fertile couity of Muir ay w Elin.
At Elgw are the ruins of a noble Cathedral; the largest that | remember have seen in the kin . We rode hherice fe Spey, the most rapid river, next the Khine, that | ever saw.
Thou, te water was nel breast-high fo our horses, they could vary hardly keep their fet.
We dined at Keith, and rode on to
ruth, but were no more likely to awaken one soul 1] paid a visit to 4 Andrews, than an Italian opera, In the evening a mutti— oe wee > city m the kingdom, It was tude of people assembled on the spe to whom 1 times as as it ts Now, and a place tamestly applied these words: lhavead o very great trade; but the sta rushing from the Aor Sy = though 1 Aave es Sa, - Hou Ll north-east, gra dually destroyed the harbour ard
Bese gfe Sead to fred the par, "etc,, 'an trade Logeiticr ; in consequence of which, nhole
VE ss 1 an nothing," streets (that were) are how meadows and ns, 'Thiree broad, straight handsome streets remain, al
Saturday, 21— 1 returned ferth, and hee i at te old cathedral; which, by the preached tn Vz evening bm eer > IAS appears fo Aave gt ang th a | ae been above three hundred < way oe long _ and or tion theer hearts. "The es fey and high: so of the people here are so wise ik seems to have KXat they LAG No more soils York Munster, and Ete C, and so geod that * to have at least equalled thy med no more her sce! S | any cathedral in England, Who can wam them | Another church, a ards are brumful of wisdom ; :
; 4h used in Us stead' bears an 0ANESS ce from the rads tp come? date 7124, pA steeple, standin cathedral, ict thought en Aave stood thirteen hun 1( (Ogee Stay 20i = area years.
1s one neatést and most elegant =e ee towns that | have ene eae zs TIEN 1784 Sua May JScotland. It 1s pleasantly Va ane Twent i Taare sttuated on the side of a hill, sleping from the Yhrough the (arse of Gowry, the fruitfullest valley sea, though close to i; so that wt ts suuffici promen' pro Sin he es Ca sprit of unsreltered from the sharpest winds, 'The streets rovem Sa aA: vals in Dundee, and Pd the ie: i aie 7 believe tt may be esteemed it, Handsome houses spring up aay as the hostels lown 1 the eas gia every eee 'Trees are planted tn abundance, 7's Wastes and commoms are contau tnd nto eet of yd eee SEN ene hee meadows and fruclfdl frelds. hel wants only
a tionable improvement W religion, and this will be one of the happiest countrits in Ewrope. ey May 7 - (Fort-Glen), 7 fook a w round about the town, 7 know not Rlagtes 1 have sen so pleasant a Place. part of the house 1s an ancient see situated on the top of a litle pil. Ata small distance ris a ctar rive, with a beautiful wood en ce hanks.
Close to my, 1s a shady walk Tight, and another on the left aie On two sides of the houst here 4s abundance of wood; bn the other, a wide prospect 'over fields: and Pneadons
About ten 1 preached aguin w liberty of spirit, on: "Love never ~ failed iG ihe Scotch towns are like none which 1 wer yy
1. ABERGELDIE
CASTLE A SAW e:
2. CRATHIE
PARISH CHURCH
3. BRAEMAR CASTLE
Journals, February 24, 1757
aN Hi \ y Tu) f Wy "mnie By, carl i i | N er a IM t hi | } i TNA ie NONI ee im wun | regal ra wan ome Int mnt Nie eta, . "halt Wh bs STM pt een att yy UU i i Oa x is Ath CHI Wii i Shanon | + eat Wy Atte (tal i va in wht \ SG H} |
"LET GLASGOW FLOURISH BY THE PREACHING OF THE WORD" —
THE TRADITIONAL ciry MoTTO (THE
BROOMIELAW
BRIDGE
WAS FLRST USED LN 1835; RECONSTRUCTED 1899)
IVERPOOL AND MERSEY-
Levin the centre of Merseyside, may have houses 168, It was the rise of South Lancashire's industry and the opening of trade with America and the West Indies that was to transform Liverpool into a major city of commerce, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Throughout the century Liverpool was the centre of the English slave trade, which was |finally abolished in 1807. The American War of — derived its name from the Norse Hlithar-pollr, 'the pool of the slopes', colonies of Norsemen having settled on both sides of the Mersey in the eighth century. A favourite explanation, however, is that the name is taken from the heraldic bird, the 'Liver' = a bird of no § known species, but said to be of aquatic habits. Certaina=e4 ly there was a bird upon Liverpool's corporation seal at east as far back as the reign of King John.
Liverpool's growth only came about slowly, being Independence (1775) gravely threatened the livelihood of the Liverpool slave traders,
Wesley making mention of this in his journals, "THE PE ROCK
LIGHTHOUSE
little more than a fishing village at the time of William the Conqueror, and suffering from such adversities as the Black Death in 1360, and the Civil War - in which it sustained three sieges. A census at the end of the thirteenth century gave its porniation as 800, and its number of
MERGEVSIDERS
BOARDING SHLP
(155 Bees lo Lwerpool, one of the neatest, best-buédt Ties Tiesday, Aprid 15 — Warrington: at sum the morning, | preached bo a large and sarwus ad She a and thin want on fowns 1 have san in England: twice as large as Chester; most of the strecks are quite .
"Two thirds of the town ,we wee PoP cade have been added within these years. u contaue to cttase In the same ] hhink kis Aes more K will nearly qual Bristol.
The peop reral are the most mild and corteous 1 pore saw mn a sta-pot town, as mdeta ars by ther fria behaviour, aot only to e Jéws and Fapists who live Pitti but se to the Methodists (so called), "th loreasth house 1s a litle larger than that at Newcasth
It was thorou, ee and the he SOG tere to» be moved before the se prt. Se of Hrs power:
Every morning, as malar enn,
LIVERPOOL ABOUT
2) ee Me te abundance le gladly the ee any of them, 1 see arts learned, were dear lovers of controversy: oF Viverroo. but 1 had better work.
J] pressed upon them al/ "repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord g S SS io OH WL hace ip SoBe" Orie eoS "J sus Christ,"
PLCTON READING ~
RT GALLERY
E A ROOM
AND THE WALKER
A 1765 Friday, March 29 - 1 crassed over to werpool, 1 was surprised at the Mates congregations, Particularly on Sunday,
'The house, Cven with the addition of three New such fet upon them. So that 1 was not serry ws wind Be ae w the same point on Mond tuesday and Wednesday.
Only ut shifled a Uitte on Vkdnesday mornin haere which some t captams sailed ummtdiatdy. But m a few hours u came full west again; so that they Were glad galleries, would nol near contain phe congrega — non; and | never before observed the Word te take b get well back.
1768 ve eeSey ee 6 — In the evening
we Nad a Gs een b nin at liverpod: ut some ; j wing things tid not behave He DSc good hy oh ae mob at Wigan.
177 Monday ,
— I] preached about iS ae ioe arringion, and 14 the cvening at Lwerpool; where m large 'DS Ate Now lad up m the docks, NALA fed thes Ld for many years in bwying or stealing poor
Africans, and selling them in America 'for slaves.
179 O Wednesday, April 7About elesen ] preached at uw Jar Warrington.
"The chapel was wel filléd with serious hearers, but the great congregation was at Liverpod. If those without were added to these within, 1 believe tt would fave exceeded even that at Manchester; and surely the power of God was present with them abo.
The men. butchers have now nothing to do at Mus laudable occupation. Since the American war broke out, there 1s no demand human cattle. Sothe men of Africa, as well as Europe, may liberty.
Cayo their natye 'Thursday, 8 — Such anche congregation we had on 'Thursday, among whom were many iat "had newer been there before. They seemed utterly amazed when I explained: "Now th ts the widence things unseen,"
] bdiowe m were then convinced; but alas, "how soon wil that conviction de away !
Liverpool — "Where there are riches overflowing, and weyhing == Sz
Weanesday, April —
7 pict aitideaehs to Lwerpot!.
Her 1 founda people is alive to God; one aman who wishes to se the prosperity of a great community and a great empire" cause of Whi was, that they have preaching several
Wa week, and prryermecling's on the rest; all of which icy are carefid to attend.
— lord Frskine, 1750 - 1823, Lora Chancellor of England.
Ma 5 re HAW im Y
LIVERPOOL PORT:
HOME
OF MERSEYSIDERS
SINCE THE EIGHTH CENTURY NORSEMEN
CORNWALL - TIS FISHING
| HE INFLUENCE OF THE WESLEYS
Cornwall's aura of romance was perpetuated in such 3& figures as Edward, 'the Black Prince', hero of Crecy and 98, upon Cornwall is in full evidence today, through the numerous Methodist chapels that confront the visitor to England's most westerly region — the last part of southern
England to have: fallen to the ninth-century Saxon invaders. The mobs that Wesley faced
Poitiers, and one of the original Knights of the Garter, "See . becoming Duke of Cornwall in 1337 - the first Duke ever created in England. It was the giant Cormoran whom
Wt tradition credits as erecting the first building on the legendary St. Michael's Mount - in its lifetime both a fortress and an ecclesiastical foundation. This mass of granite finds a place in Milton's 'Lycidas'. at St. Ives and Falmouth were as rugged in spirit as the rocky coastline at Land's End, where, legend has it, 'that last battle in the west' was fought by King Arthur.
The sea and underground mineral wealth - here for :
CORNISH HEATH
centuries lay the very life of Cornwall, celebrated forits (erica VAGANS) fishing industry and its tin mines. It was to this captivating peninsula that the Wesleys came in 1743, and heard the ditty sung under their window at St. Ives:
Friday, September 16 — As ] was preahing at St. Ives, Satan began fight for bus kingdom. "The mob of the town
Charles Wesley is come to town, To try if he can pull the churches down. burst mo the room, and creattd Wuch Aislur bance; rearing and striking those that stood th ther way, as though Legion fumself possessed them with me to the desk.
1 rectised put one blow on the side of he head; after which we reasoned the case, all he muder and milder, =e 1 woud fay have porsuaded our people fo stand and at length under stl; but the zeal of some, and the fear of others had
HNO €AFS5:
SO vat, funding the uproar aacrease, 1 went who he mudst, and bri the htad of he mob up
VILLAGES.
CHAPELS AND MINES
Finding the justices were not met, we walked up St, Michaus' Mount, "The house at the top ts surprisingly large and pleasant. Su John St.
Aubyn had taken much pains, and been ata considerable expense, in repatring and beautsfying the apartments; and when the seat was finished, the owner died!
Ttesday, Tune 25 We rode t St. Just.
] preached at seven.
When the preacing was nda, j. Meant
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT
T(44 trwssday, April 4 - (St Ives). 7
Zook a view of the ruins of the house which the mob had prulleA down a little before, for joy that Admiral Matthews had beat thé Spantards. Such 1s the Lorush mtthoed of 'aught tS oo, AStS O71 7] suppose, if Admiral Lestock had they, pic kaocktd all che e é 1745 Friday, Tune 21 — We rode fo MaraZun.
Vulgarly called Marke--jew,)
the constable apprehended Edward Grenfidd, (by a warrant from Dr. Borlase,) a tunner, in ge ih Nath yeas of lus age, having a wife and swen chiltren . ee years ago he was eminent for orsng, swearing, drunkenness, and all manner of wickedness; ae ota thiigs had been for. some lime passed away, and Fo was then remarkable for a quite contrary behaviour.
1 asked a little gentleman at St. Just, what objection there was t Edward ian He said, " Why, the man 1s well
Be m other thin ee ie S dence the geutiemen canWhy, Sir, he says he knows hus sins are forgiven!"
Ted va tis cause We ts adjuaged to banishment or aéath |
ROCKS NEAR THE LIZARD
'Thuersd Tily lh — 1] rode to Falmouth, About Hree m the atternoon went to see a geatlewoman who had been ies indus posed. Almost as soon 1 was st down, the house was beset on all sides by an tmerable multitude of pegple.
A louder or more confused noise could A be at the taking of a by storm, "The rabble Fyoared with Ge thar throats, "Bring out the Canorum | Whure 4s the Canorum?" (An wrmeanee word which the Cornish g erally use insttad of Methodist.
Away went all tie hinges at once, ee the gach we mt the room, s ward at once into oe "abit and ue ee Lam. th of you has Wise ie ? "ah nhc of yo ve 1 BE ee 2 by oe yee a 9 1 continucd ae ri and, as far as the Sound reached, the people were oo e
"THE PRINCIPLE HAVEN OF AlL BRITAIN' (ANTIQUARY JOHN LELAND)
FALMOUTH :
stil; tll one er two of thar captains tuned about and swore that |= "4 net a may should touch him. Mr. Thomas, a dergyman, then came up and asked, Are you mot ashamed @ Use a stranger thus?" He was scon seconded by bvo or three gentlemen of the town, and one of the Adamen; with whem 1 walked down pa lee au the time, ttl 1 came fo Mrs. Naddems
TAZ mar rage Shs lips ibe St. Ives ey i much as one hur tly has one year changed He |, iy sctne in Cornwall!
"This 1s nowa peacable, nay, henowable | Hern station.
'They give us goed ards in almost wery place, What RS have we done, that the world shoitd be so cw fo us?
1753 Tuesd 1- (aftr illness), After ling a day and a hat~ on daret and water, | foundmysef so easy, that | how Ll could ridé to (rowan, ] found no memnyenunce the furst how; but m the second my disorder
: reurned. ae, However 7 _ Vode on, sewed See
JOHN WESLEY RIDING THROUGH CAMBORNE
sappoiut he aongregatien, and preached on: iste ae Aa i pate str as fast asl Lonvenienthy could, to Myr. Harriss, in Camborne.
1762 Sunday, Septembor § — 1 coud not , = : stand m he usu ce at Gweandap. a :
1h But at a smal astance was a hollow capable
FISHING BOATS COMING HOME.
IT 1S THE PLLCHARD WHICH
FIGURES IN THE OLD CORNISH TOAST:
"TIN, FISH AND COPPER"
of contamiug mary Cousania people.
7 stoad
Gwemap; far the fonest 1 know wm the kingdom.
It 1s a round, a hollow, g shelvingetowm, about fect deep; but 1 suppose tt 1s" two hundred across one way, and near three humdi the other.
1778 24 August 31 — About elwen ] | cached to lated ae gation, ine the town 'pall >in Bodmin; wae about six in the wening at Launceston; a wn as Kitdle troubled with religion as mostin Lornnall.
1 was desured preach at Trent at noon, a little way (Aw said Abie te ee "The little way proved SYK or swyen mules,
WESLEY PREAC
IN GWENNAP PIT
on one side of us theatre toward the Tep, wih the beneath and on ad{ sides, ana aalarged on those wods in the Gospel for the day (Lukt X. 23,24): "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye sec, and Which hear the things that ye hear, " rough a tread n to break our Wheds 1n eces. However y Just reached St. Austell ns time enough f preach; and bod greatly comforttd 1/766 Sina ember ty - 1 preached in Jt.
S aghnt, "The con on
Redruth, at one, was the largest 1 ever hadseen there; but small td tb that Which assembled at frt,in He natural amphitheatre at the hearts of Fis people.
POLPEOR
Tuesday, 28 — Between nine and ten we had such a storm of vain, as ] do not remember fo have seen tn Europe before, It seemtd ready t beat in the windows of the chaise, and wm three mououies drenched cur horsemen from head tf foot. We reached Truro, howwer, at the appointed time...
In the evening | preached tn the High-street at Trelston. 1 scarce know a town in the whale which 1s so ll changed; not a spark of that bitte" enmity to the MAhodists, mn which the people here plorted above thitr 'S, In the evening 1 preached the marketplace BG ee ne This 1s another of the towns wherein the wi stream of the gple ts Tumed, as Ut were, from east fo west, T8i oe day, September 1 - ¢ | PENZANCE sf ithe town, How strangely has one year and 1 bekeve the hearts of j | all the people were lowed | changed the scene itt down before the Lord.
Cornwall / | Journals, Tune 30, 1747
DURHAM AND THE WEAR
ciel ED URHAM (Dunholme, Dunelm, Duresme) is in 999 - where it has stayed for nearly a thousand years.
' not as ancient a centre as its appearance and : ch strategic position might suggest. There is no i) evidence of an early English settlement on the bold headland that was carved out by the River Wear, on its way from the Pennines to the North Sea. The earliest inhabitants of the site were the monks of Lindisfarne who, from The present cathedral was built in Norman times, and is unsurpassed by any other Norman church. It marks another resting place — that of 'the.
Venerable Bede' (c. 673-735), commonly acknowledged as 'the founder of medieval history, and the first English historian'. Durham Castle was built in 1072 by William the Conqueror, positioned to the north of the cathedral, across the neck of the peninsula. Durham University was not to receive its charter until 1837, from William IV, although a strong educational connection dates back to Prior Richard de Hoton and Bishop Hatfeld, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
OB fear-of Dangh invaders, had removed the body of St. Cuthbert (c. 634-687) from its tomb, and brought it to its new resting place
FAMOUS SANCTUARY - KNOCKE
ON THE CATHEDRALS NORTH DOOR.
1 ( (2 Tiesday, Junc_2 - We rode | NewOrygan, w cesdale.
"Ine | people were deeply aontive ; but, 1 lhink, . not deeply affected.
From the tp of the next unomous wountain, we had a view of Weardae. It ts a lovely prospect. "The green g - rising meadows and fitlds, on both sides of the Wille river, clearas crystal, were Sprinkled oye with wnumerable late houses; three wn four of whi (if not nine tn ten) are sprungup since the Methodists came hither.
Smce that time, the beasts are tuned mo ma, and the wildness nto a fruitful fia.
THE NAVE "Thursday, 4 — At foe 1 bok my aye of tus blessed people.
1 was a lite s 'sed, in looking atentTy than , to 0bS4-VE 50 many beautfil faces as 1 never saw before
DURHAM CATHEDRAL
arti — one congregation, pes car, tweve or sat fulltn my view. But 1 allow, much more the Adldren t on ie (ee
VALLEY 2888
might be owing t grace i i nature, g, the heaven within that shene sutward, eae CAFS
NY reasung at Load the pa one Bok tie healthy cxercuses 0 the world.
3. never Wavelling less than four thousand Se hunared mules Ma year.
ARMS OF THE CITY AND
SEE OF DURHAM
In tus part of Weardale, He people in general are employed in the lead-mines, WA Sunday, Tame 26 - In the mornin a. preached at the Ballast-MYs, tming re cagtagal keelmen, and satlors, As these had io t pay, le ca them "to Wine and mikk without money and without price."
Monday ey COE my leave of Mus loyuy place'and people, and about ten preana tha serious Congre, oe HESS ee About L preached at -uponItes, on alt ee to he con : "Where thar Ses dich not, and the frre 1s not quenched."
Ps Nt
GEWERAL VIEW OF THE CATHEDRAL AND CASTLE
CC Monday, May 5 — Hang finished my smness in these parts Sunderland) 1] st my face southward again; and after preaching at Durham, about deen went on _ Thesday, 28 — This hung my birthday, he t day of my sev eee year, te sidering, Tow ts tis' that I 'find just the same "strength as 1 did therly Years ago ? That my sight 1s considerably betir'now, and my naoVes , Han thy were han? That '] ts hd
have none of the se Sic ola and have lost sea? had w oy ds? "The grand cause 1s, He asure of God, Who aoeth whatsower pleaseth Him. the chiefmeans are, i My constantly rising at four, for about fo Darlé 7 have not lat aso lively a work m any part of England as here.
"The aes, 1s constantly creasing, and seems Co be on frre for God, "There 4s nothing amieng them but humble, simple love; no dispute, no
water, six a deep. In the Sues vA psa: to the lovely congregation mn Weardale, and taenpist day went on & Newcastle.
ITSO ecrcstey, ag took a view of tie castle at Durham, tie residence of the bishop. "The situation is wonder, fire, surrounded the' river, ana commanding all the country, and m the apartments ave large and Satily; but the ture 18 mean beyond rmagination! 1 know mt where 1 have seen such mn a gentleman 'S Aouse, or aman
— TOMB OF BEDE,
DURHAM. CATHEDRAL
fwe hundred a year, except that of the Lord-lieutenant mn | ey In the est Oe y é 1s quite , Re Bar it ncn eee U-judged, "Take hut one unstance: — In Tacobs yvisven you see, on the one side, a Little p ladder, and an angel cumbing Ut, th the atti & of a Homey -swteper; and en the other side Jacob jar any kind.
"They ¢xa answer the Ce David Brainerd gives of hus Indian congreg:
A 'Thursday, Tine 1— About ten 1 préachéd at Aycliffe, a large vilage, twelve eles from Durham; atl the whabs/—tants Vas seem now as of good will, as thy were ence of prejudice.
Pi Gs ze May 12preahin "
Lerten and tn Teesdale, ] went a little out of my way, @ see one of the wonders of nature, 1786 Saturday, June 10 — 1 went ft lar A Since 1 was here last, Mr. — staring at fim, from under 'The river Tées rushes down between two rocks, and falls sixty fee perpendiacar into a basw a large suyerlaced hat Ff died, and left many thousand
nny nt Ue oman, sm) oe ~
TE WAS CHOSEN
'TO a = DEFEND
THE CORPSE RAT HER THAN THE
LLiFE OF A MAN'
DURHAM FROM THE RIVER: "THE $1
pounds an ide spendtrrift, but not one great fo the poor:
O unwise steward of Aemammon p unrighteousness {! Flow much ter for him had he dhed a beggar '
Durham: rcs The situation ts wonderfully pine; Surrounded by the river and commanding all the country. "
_DURNAM CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH-WEST
Journals , May 31, 1780
and Chatham features prominently in the writings of Charles Dickens (1812HROUGHOUT early English history, Kent has been seen as the Gateway to England, and Dover Castle as the key. To this day the High
Street in Rochester follows the line of the old mo Watling Street - the great Roman highway that
SHARESPEARE'S
CLIFF, DOVER Jed from the Kentish coast to London, and on to the north. Along this road the Roman legions marched; the English invaders followed, succeeded in turn by the missionaries of Gregory, and a host of kings, knights and pilgrims.
1870), Chatham having been his home in early childhood.
Of Rochester
CHARLES DICKENS
MAN OF KENT
(under the name of Cloisterham), he wrote: 'Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods and fields - or, rather, from the one great garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time - penetrate into the cathedral, subdue
The diocese of Canterbury was founded in 597 with the arrival of Augustine, and that of Rochester in 600. The neighbourhood of Rochester its earthy odour, and preach the Resurrection and the Life.' It was into Kent, 'The Garden of England', that John Wesley rode one Monday in November, at the age of forty-eight.
W751
CTE OORT IIL
a EE hester, and the next day to CGxnterbury, where 1 preached, morning ana evening.
" what was lately the French Church, We had not Usturbancێ from frst to. having broke the spurts of ebb
last, the Court of the Kings poe 1715 6 Aevaay, October 11 ournyy , | Yead ove-a curiost 1 went to Legh . In tus little mdeed, - a Frenh Fle 1s avery lydy writer competent
- races
a fine maginaiion,; ana alowed, | suppose, Judges, to be a perfec master of the French language: ana by him hernc poem, "Hlenriade" more than cver convinced that the French 1s he poorest, meanest language nn Eurvpe; that ut 1s nomore comparable f fe German or 1] was Spans than a bag-pipe ts to an organ...
NOOO ee ae ta ag ill Pat ane aAVEe 7 rode Srvrehiam to taken, 1 have nought much on the huge encomiuLins WW
SEES Se Ne aa ek aaa at
WEST GATE, CANTERBURY
take a deta of hus happiness. He rises wih, or before the sun, calls hus servants, looks fo hus ier and cows, they to his stable aad barns. He sees to the ploughing and sonin hus ground, %h wwter es Me Path see Sent . summer and autumn he hurries and sways ee his mowers and re . And where rte AND see oF 1s his happiness th he meantime ? Whe o _
CANTERBURY _
these ments do we envy? Or ap weeny the delicate repast that succeeds, which the poet so languishes ?—"O the happiness of tating beags well preased with fat hacen!
Nay, and cabbage too!" — Was Horace y hus stnses when he thus, or the servile herd of lus inutalors ? Our eyes and ars may convince us thyre 1s not a less happy bo men) 1A al England than the country farmers.
In general, ther life 1s supremty Aut; and & is us unhappy too. For of au igi in the kingdom, they are most Asconténted; sddom satisfied citha wilh Cod or man.
"SEE THAT LITTLE HOUSE UNDER THE Wood".
b bestowed ee ee cuntry (fe have all the tamtd world cried out, O fortunat' nimuum, sua st hona norte, Agricolae Ls But after all, what a flat contradiciiom 1s this fo wiwersal experience! See that Utlle house, under the wood, by the river stde/ shes 1s Kasi' fe i erfeclion.
How 1s the yale that esd Let us Ss ?
, ; * To happy, He ther happiness they knew /
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, FROM MOUNT EPHRAIM
RY, den el = y
TONBRIDGE CASTLE, BULLT IN HENRY 1's
REIGN, BESLIEGED BY WILLIAM RUFUS, LATER
CAPTURED BY SOHN
ANDO EVENTUALLY DIS~
MANTLED DURING THE CLVIL WAR.
1OCO Meese Recs where wih some aiffu Wwe himbed to the top of Shakespeares cig. It is exceeding high and commands a vast prospect both by sea and land; but uw 1s nothbaa mae ¥ hes ne TT ing so terrible in uUself as it Is we bus descriplion.* ] preahed a serious con in the wening as Ww as w Fy OTA witty,
CANTERBURY VIEWED FROM HARBLEDOWN
he morning. oUuNE, Teady ; so | gave them a short ascourse, and went ou to Ghatham,
Friday, 11 — fassing Khrough Sittin cor ey egation 1772 Wednesday Meeeeaeey sit) cde at € new preachinghouse, in the parish of Bromley. In speaking severally t the members of the socidly, 1 was surprised at' the Ness and artlessness of the people.
Such 1 should never have expected fo find within ten mules o London. y peeuiaay ty ~ | read prayers and preached fo a cronded congregaiion at Gravesend.
"The. sheam here spriads wide, but t ts not deep.
Many are drawn, but nene converted ,or wen awakened, Suh 1s the general method of God's x "— Whose bipt high and bending hea a fearfully on the confined dey."
VO Op nea ert Eoearig 'Wells, ana preached w te Dissenting meeting, fo a ns ith ref ' and deep attention on wery face.
Wednesday, November ye ] took a niew of the o Aunn at Minster, once a spacious and tegant building. It stands RASS SES IS ese: pos on the top ofa hill, and commands al the We went fs thence. to ueensborough, which contains chan ered houses, ana sends tvo members to Farliament.
PENSHURST CHURCH
ovridence: where all approve, fon profit 177A, Merten Pernt m the stage-coah, and by PAE way vea Lord Herberts 12 fe, written by himself; the author of the eee s es Dusm oe oie iegle eanek W Englan as thire oe so wld a Fie grant as this?
Don Quixote was a sober has te whole Isle of Sheppey 1s now but a shadow of what Sue AS wads, Ay 5— 1 retumed to Chatham, and onthe morning si out mm the stage coach for Londen. At the end of Stoud, 1] chose fo wakk up the AY eee EG the coahto low me, But t wasn no great haste: "i did not overtake me tll 1 had walked about five mites, ] cared not if had been ten; he mre qT walk the SOUR J sleep.
PENSHURST PLACE, HOME OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554 — 1586)
SALUTING BATTERY GATE, DOVER CASTLE
1780 'Tuesday, Octobe 17— 1 came back to Swenoaks and m the a on walked over tw the Duke of Dorses stat.
"The park 7 the pleasantest 1 ever saw; the trees are so eT oe elegantly aisposed.
"Ihe house which 1s at least two hundred Vi eae years Old, 15 immensty large.
"The tapestry, represeniing the whole history of Nebuchddnezzar, ts as fresh as if newly woven, But the heacurtains ave exceeding dirty, and look more like copper an gold.
'Ihe silver on the tables, chair and ¢iA55, Looks as Au as lead...
178) Wednesday, November 28 — | preahed at Tain br pe Wells, wm the large, Fresbyterian mecting-house, to a well-dressed audience, and yet deeply serious. On Thursday.
] preached at Sevenoaks, 1785. Wednesa.
Nor ore / nent Roditested cAaeee Pere ie on tb MNlargate, Some years swice we had a small soutly hye, but a Deitel LCG 8 IT: MeL gly Mm one mS
IT aT a Ra took them to fumseif: only two or three remained, who, from time to ee Presstd ous preachers to Br om ley :
, come again ; ie to remoye the ee, rat " here was no place to preach in, wih he help of , ps frucnds they ee convenient oes l was surp rised at SE.
the openness and tal Thursday, Deember 1 — ] elie es ts mn ¢ évening: Whe congregation WV <, fw ana perfe.
LTE SS and 1 eine b hut artlessnes. s of tic peop hope, that, afr all the stumbling blocks, there wll be a people here, who wid ing adorn the Gospel of Christ.
Journals, December 72,1772
ARMS OF THE CITY
BIRMINGHAM AND THE
N THE MIDLANDS we come to the very heart and past Stratford-on-Avon itself. The Midlands threw up in Wesley's time a a powerhouse of England, where intense industrial — brilliant array of great names. John Fletcher, the godly rector of Madeley expansion was to develop throughout Wesley's itinerant was marked out by Wesley as his successor - though this was not to be so. ministry. Earlier the Midlands had set the stage for the Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) became the world's greatest potter; William
two great battles that began and ended the Civil War Murdock (1754-1839) was linked with the first manufacture of gas; and (1642-1645) - Edgehill and Naseby; Warwickshire and Birmingham may claim for herself the development of the steam engine
Northamptonshire serving as busy crossroads for through James Watt (1736-1819) and Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). Such e el Parliamentarians and Royalists alike. change we contrast with John Leland's description of England's second city
This is Shakespeare's country too, for the Avon rises _ as recently as the sixteenth century: 'Bermingham, a good markett towne in quite near Naseby, flowing south-westerly to Rugby - __ the extreame parts of Warwickeshire, is one street going up alonge, almost where the famous public school is Thomas Arnold's from the left ripe of the brooke, up a meane hill by the length of a quarter of greatest monument - and on through Warwick, and a mile. I saw but one parroch church in the towne.'
SWORDS FOUND
17435 "Thursday, October 20 — I] rode to Wednesbury.
At twelve 1 preached w a ground near the middle of town, @ a far larger congre-
AT EDGEHLLL,
AND
BADGE OF CHARIES1
than was expected, on:
Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." ] beleve everyone presint fell the power of God.
1 was writtag at Francis Want's, i the , When the ary arose, that the mab had beset the house...
"The of one and all was, Bring out the minister, we wll have the minister,"
I deswed one take thar captam by the hand, and bring him nto the house. After a few sentences interch, between us, the ion was become a lamb, 7 desired him fo go and bring one or two more of the most angry of his companions.
He poubht two, whe php to swallow ee a ee the ground with rage; but th two minctles
JOUN WESLEY AT WEDNESBURY
IDLANDS they were as calm as he. 1 then bade them make way, that 1 WA 0 out anrng the people.
As Soon a 1 A nm "te, Race them, 1 called aac; pee standing ve, ache "What ao any of you want With me?"
Some said, "We want you to go with us to the Fistice:'
] reoliéd, "that 1 will, wilh al my heart."
1 then spoke a few words which God applied; so that thyy cried out, wilh mW ana main, "Te
CHURCH AND VLCARAGE, MADELEY, SHROPSHIRE
eman ts an honest geatleman, and we will spill our blood 1 his 1764 Satiira Ttly 21— |] vede to Bubrook, near alefence."
WEP vIeDD and preached between two and thre.
...A Ute before ten, God 'Thence we went on to Maddy an exceeding pleasant village, brought me safe to Wednesbury, Mcompassea with tres anda hills. having lost only one Oe my waist and a little skin from Stinday, 22-— At ln Nw. Fletcharead prayers, one of my hands. and 1 préached on D} se ie Ose words oe the eer! : "1 am the Good hurd: the good Shehera aown Hrs life the Sheep." The es would nothing néar vonbien the congre— att, but a window ntar the puipe being taken down, those who could not come in stood m the churchyard, and 1 believe all could hear. gees 1778 Friday, March 20 - ] preached at Bumingham.
MLL AT Piel Saturday, March Oy be Calling at Wolver. hamplon, V4
was informed that, some Lime sinc, a large, old oe wey house was takin, thre or fourmiles the
town, Which recavets all the children Hat come, sometimes above four hundred at once. They are , gratis, rea pea and fopery; and, when at age, bound apprentices.
VOD eet aa nan been ah det USS agian the park; but he cavy rain prevented.
] sent f Ke Mayor, desiring the use of the town-had. He refused; but the same day gaye the use of ut a danang master.
71 thin went to the women's market. Many soon gathered together, and listned with ae striousmess, 1 preachta there again the next morning, "Inursday, 2L, and again tn the crening, aoe 1 Look Coach Londen, 1 was nobly attended: behind the ,
ST. MARTILN'S, BLRMLNGHARC'S
ONE PARROCH CHURCH', DESCRIBED BY LELAND, REGUILT SINCE HIS TIME
coach were ten convicted felons, loudly blasPheming and rattling ther chains, by my Side
The profpect of
BERMINGHAM
from Ravenhurht (neereLiondon toad.)
onthe Southeast Partofthe towne s6hc}| — ~~ sat atnan with a bladed blunderbuss and upon the coach, \ 782 "Thursday = 4-- 1 preachéd at Derby. trust the work of God nil now prosper here aso.
Friday, 12 — (Bymingham) 1 walked fhrough Mr.
Bolton aurious works, He has carried every which he takes In hand t a high degree of perfection, and employs
= ral 1 Til a en gen ia : iy auc ree eee!
HOME OF THE BOULTON AND WATT STEAM ENGINE
7 never was so surprised.
] have seen nothing th al England to be compared with tz, it ts beauti a kg ad a There ts fie grand, nothin ty; no temples, so called; no statues; Eee: ee or Aree, which had better have been spared; but such walks, such shades, such hills and dales, such (awns, 'such
'THE CHAPEL
EXTERLOR OF
RUGBY SCHOOL (FounpeD 1567 ) artless cascades, such qwavin woods, with wi antermixed, as exceed all ima ation! On the upper side, the openings of a shady Wak, 1s a most beautiful and extensive prospect . wg all this ts vised tn the ss Of three mits. 1 doubt if ut be exceeded by any thing
AND THOMAS
ARNOLD, ITS
MOST FAMOUS
HEADMASTER.
(1827 - 1842) wm Ewope.
Sund.
] heard a sermon m the — Murch at Ree, am, Which the preacher pe Reh es great pest ede: against hese "'harebrained, ttinerant enthusrasts." But he
— bot misstd his mark; having not the least ee: tion of the persons whom he undertook m Khe house abort fwe hundred men, women, and children, Hs gardens, rum) " atong the side of a fl we acightful indeed; having a large ptece of stv DE .
~ wate at the bottom, in
which are two well-woeded islands if faith and love dwell here, then there may be happiness tov.
Otherwise all these beawtifid things are as unsatisfactory as straws and feathers.
as March 25 - (Being Good Fri ed to reach Birmingham before the "Ohne service began, A sharpar frost 1 never knew; but. wdeed our house was hot enough in the evening; and 1 have not sten 8 Keats camest peop of Such pe mailesig ut is lo be fully employed. In every place we labouring men pied aes ts oe hep Such a eee results from that arse: ee the cae of thy fit, halt thou ¢atSaturday, 13 - 1 spent an heur uw Ha sold suppose inferror to few, if any, ey England.
But we were straitened for ame, To take a proper view of tt wold require fe or six hours, Afterwards 1 went to the Leasvwes, a faon so called, four or five mules from Hagley. read."
Tnesday, — At noon 1 preached m the be Toom fe a deeplyaffected congregation.
'Thus was more bighrd py. apie eer few towns tr Englan d 'less tnfected with religun than aT.
November 6 — eka a je eee for faat d good fray gh: paste, anda frente Lon) — gion. at' God was tn the midst ce oiienam, Viet Be hace "of u a (ZZ) woman, snatched away at fr oe iS) she was ripe for the Bride 00M), iy fade fo Wee tan un the full triumph of fai.
FREE SCHOOL
SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE
N76 stan i a
STRATFORD
mules short o rt of Der 7 was nothin aA of tus, as u obliged me fo gut ponies yoad, t hobble ovea miserable common,
The people, gathered from ad parts, were wating, EMM NOI ing 8 wal) Sey Net So 1 went medial Be ey ee eaten oe ad Lo the marke place isan IN WHICH peers and standing under a hc ee tee, testified:
"This 1s life cternal, to know Thee, Bey 'true God, and Téesus (Arist whem Thou hast
The house 'at Derby was thoroughly fultd We evening.
rcs In every place we find labouring men most susceptible of religion."
Journals, March 25, 1785 (Birmingham)
BIRMINGHAM MANUFACTORLES
1. MESSRS. OSLER — GLASS WORKS
2. MESSRS. D.F. TAYLER 8 CO. — FIN AND W1RE WORKS
3, MESSRS. ELKINGTON ~~ FLECTRO-PLATE WORKS
4-MESSRS. PERRY 82 CO. — S'*TEEL PEN WORKS
ACROSS THE IRISH SEA
1641 rebellion and the ascendancy of Cromwell.
Ireland produced some outstanding men at the time of Wesley's many N THE MIDDLE of the fifth century St. Patrick, missionary to the Irish, "came to a certain hill about a mile distant from Ath Cliath, now called Dublin, and 4... 1s reported to have broken out into this prophecy: visits.
A champion of civil and religious liberty was found in 'the Irish Demosthenes', Henry Grattan (1746-1820), whose spellbinding oratory and statesmanship won him acclaim throughout the land. A statue was erected to him at Trinity College, Dublin, as also to Edmund Burke (1730-1797), admired over all Europe for his political exploits, and described by Johnson
/- "That small village shall hereafter be an eminent city; = S<~.& ¢ .— _ it shall increase in eminence and dignity, until at length
THE COLLEEN BAWNN ROCK it shall be lifted up unto the throne of the kingdom" '
(Patrick's biographer, Jocelin). as 'the first man in England.' Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) became revered for his literary achievements, in "The Vicar of Wakefield,' 'She stoops to Conquer,' and other works.
The church founded by Patrick was later strengthened by Columba (521-597), and was to play a vital and stabilising role in the challenges that lay ahead; in the Viking invasions of the ninth and tenth centuries, in the John Wesley had a love for Ireland, and some of the richest descriptive passages in his journals are reserved for this beautiful land. transfer of authority to the English government, and in the upheaval of the V(48 "Tiesday, March_8 ~ Before one we sailed out of the h . Having a geutle gale it som lulled me fast asleep. 1 was when he was very drunk, and Just able to stemmer out the Irish proverb, No gown, no cronn." He was gu convinced, tat, wharewy we wee, he was himsuf a hud of He devi, ® waked before fe by a violent storm: thus continued two or We left him full of good resolutims, whith hdd sweral days. three hours lenger, and left us with sight of Honth, wih a small breeze, which brought us Sunday Apru 2 - 1 hastened on t Athlone. At su / preached from the window of an unfinished to the Black-Kok about fourm the afternoon. house, opposite to the market house, (which would not have
Monday, 1 -— | began preahig at fir in Ac morning; an unheard-of thing in Ireland. contained one half of the congrealion,)on:
Ye know he grace a. pe ote Crist," J] 5 os Wednesday, 23. - | talked evr saw a batir-hehaved or more attentrve ee garni Inaeed , so cwu a people as the Trish wn
STATUE OF GRATTAN
Wwulh a wamm man, Who nas always very zealous for the (um,
STATUE OF BURKE
neal, lnwer san, eithtr in Europe or America.
1752 Friday, Odober 6 — (Cork).
"lhe ship bang under sau, we fook boat, and came f Cove ty the weningAll the tnns being full, we lodged at a prwate house; butwe found one inconvinunce herein: we had nothing to cat; for ou
"Thursad.
May 12.— 1 look tre serasght Toad Eee hence to Dublin. Here... 1 observed rovisions were en board, and there was nothing to be bought tn the town...
At eae We procured some eggs and bread, and wore well contented. abundance of ruined puildings; but 1 observed also, that some of them were never firtshed; and some had been pull<a down by those who bul them, Such Wednesday 111 rode t Cork, once more and was very fully employed all he day. "The next morning we retumed to love, and ) about non got out of the harbour, Wk ummedialily found the — pot. The moon effects of the late storm, the sea stl boiling Uke a sit about aght, but je Norttem Lights abundantly supplied her place. Son after God smoothed the face of the deep, and gare
Is the amazing fickleness of this peaple. us a small fair wind.
TS Friday, Fune 15We e se out at or and Teached Kilkinny : out Lwenlyfwe dd Irish mites, pie Friday.
13J] read over fascal's Thoughts." What coda possibly induce such a creature as Voltaire give such an author as Mus a good word, unless Kk was that he es once wrote = a satire ? | And so hus noon, "This 1s by far the most pleasant, as well as friatful SS which 1 have seen tn al Irdand.
Our way aferdiane lay by Dunmore, the stat ofthe late Duke of Ormond. We rode through the for about two miles, by the side of Which the river runs.
1 never saw & th Ergland, Helland, or Germany so dtgntful a place. "The waks, tach consisting of rows a ashes, the s Of (ees sprin wand down, uterspersed wilh the smoothest and est Gnas, are hautiful beyond description. being a satirist'
|i (ont alone Ue 2
COURTYARD OF
THE CASTLE
THE CUSTOM HOUSE,
DUBLIN; BUI1T 1781 — 1791,
SURMOUNTED
BY A STATUE
OF HOPE
bodies which light caanol penetrate, and ye cannot penetrate glass, which light pervades so freely.
6. "that lghining 1s no Siete en Ss fue, ollecked by one br more clouds. p 7.
That e effects of Lightnin be formed € artificial ei oN Shak aaythin oes as ie or free, attracts the lightning, just as a needle does the electrical fur.
9. That the electrical fire, discharged on a rat ora fowl, will kill t instantly; but discharged on one Atpped m wate, wil slide off and doit no hurt atau. Ln like manner, the lightng wih wil Killa wan m a moment, will not hurt him, fF he "be thoroughly wet.
What an amazing scene 1s here opened for for aftrr-ages to improve upon!
DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 — 1790), AMERICAN
a Namo reer aee warenen| YP LEVG Montay, May 10 - 1 weat forward @ Conmd, the pleasantest town, beyond all comparison, which I have
1753 Saturday Feb We es YY icc ae (ein Bi ch tn ee ee ee broad, straight Franklin's Letters 1 leamed: streets of well1. That electrical fure (or ether) built houses, is a speces of fue, infinitely which cross ner than any other yet known, tach other w 2. That u¢ 1s diffused, and mn the centre of nearly equal proportions, through He Tonn, lose almost all substances, 3. That f the walls, on as long as tt 1s Hus Adfused, tt the south side, has uo discernible ees 4 That runs a broad q uautily of it be cohected clear river. ete Uhiodier a art or vulure, Beyond thus uo then eee visible 1 the My
y «ists a green form t, and meApressib | ie.
= FeN.
Gin — and frut pet 5 fat bis pets a ae MG) eee = NN eeepc. y diferent from the light of the ! gS fee
hangs over the sun; for u pervades a thousand
_JOUN WESLEY AT CORK
runs miles both cast and west, and 1s well cdkiyated throughout.
Wednesday, Time 16In the aflrnoon 1 vod f Balisn garrance, a town of Falatines, who came over in Queen Anne's time. "They retain much of the t and manners of ther own , having "0 bi sad of epee among whem th Me. found nuch life tus pie, artless, sirtous people. Tre whole town came together im the evening, and praised God for he consolation.
Monday, Tity 19 — No sooner aid we wteor Wstir than' we observed the difference, "The ground was wttivatad just as Mm" England; and the collages not neal, but with doors, s and windows. Newry, the fst own we came to, (alowing for fhe SRC) aS bul much after the manna of Liverpoot.
I preached 500n aftr seyen to a large congregation, and t great part of them at fre tr he fruc to poxchor).
The between Lishum and Mouwa 1's much Uke mrmirig..
Friday, 231 rode wm the afternoon to Sila the est town tn Ulster. Some Berkshire, hayin valés on Cach stae of the road, and well. wooded hills running even with them, at nk tt contains ntar as mM prope as Lumerick;, i 1s far cleaner and pleasanter.
THE SALMONLEAP
a small distance.
Monday, 26 I spoke very platy at Lishum, Both to the great vulgar and the small, Put between Seceders, old saf-conceted Presbyterians, New-lignt men, Meorarvians,
Cameronans, and formal Churcamen, U is a wuracle of miracles if any here bring forth
We) 8 Wednesday August 2 — 1 learned 0 or Ii ce rules, very Neafil for those who saul berween England and lrdand:
1 Never pay Au you st satl; 2, Go not on
board hu the Captain gos on board: 3. Send not your bagpage on board KU you go yourself.
TO Menaay, May 27 - At fre we reached Donegal, the county-lown, What a wonderfid stt of countytowns are tm tus kin ! "Donegal, and five more, would not m up such a town as Islington, Some have twenty houses i» them, Mayo three, and Leitrim, 1 think, not one, ; Teves! aS "'Tiesday, 28 — We brakfasted at Batlyshannon, 1 beleve the largest and plkasantest tonn tw the ... ln the evening 1 took usual stand 'wn the market -house at Sligo; but here how was the scene changed! 1 have seen nothing (kt Mus swve t entrance wnto the kingdom . Such a tolal want of good
THE METHODIST COLLEGE,
BELFAST sense, of good manners, yla of common deenry, was shown not a few of the fearers! Tt ts good Lo ris. Sligo after Londenairry : honour and aishenourbalance cach ober, zlave we done noning here yet 'Then uf 1s hugh time fo begin, and if something can be done now.
In the two following days 1 spoke as strongly as 1 cold; and labour was not th vaén, 'The congreguivon increased very considerably, and appeared to be of another spirtt.
Salieri June 8 — us rode to chaise and a the preaching-house just finished.
Y thi be BOhGL Gaby ie Ee bung neal, yea degant, yt not gaudy.
1778 Wednesday Apri 291 retumed rk and meé the dasses.
O when wild even hhe Methodists learn not t exaggerTate? After all He pompous acewunts | had had
THE LAKES
OF KLLLARNEY
of the yast merease of the society, thousand souls, "The streets are well laid out; ate broad, straight, and "is not wercased at all; nay well-built, "The poor-house stands on an eminence, fronting the main
"ts a little smater than ut street, and having a beautifid prospect on wery side over the was three years ago: and yt — whole country: the old men, he ol women, the male ana the femany of the membas areawe male children, are all employed according to ther strength; and te God. ad ther apartments are airy, sweet and Clean, equal of the kind ] have seen wn England.
] preached m the evening on friday, Tine 5— We went one side of the new church, to far the largest congregation
"/ on oley-aine. As fhe have seen rn lreland. barracks here are empty, we | hired one wing, which, by layRi. ew
Wednesday, Truly 71 - | ing several rooms into one, pe ae ae € fwe | took an affectionsupplied us with a spactous ate leave of this loving people; i, and, having finished all my business heré, in the aflerpreaching-house; but tt would not contain a hird of the congation; but standing at Gee door, 1 had hem CM before mew the barrak-sgquare. noon 1 went down Wwuh FS A EN ny ads, Wee taken Mh te whole Salurday, 6 — 1 was eee eae (flr | ship, and deswed to take a ride f He tHe uNennar df a i t i Peat on celebrated Giants Causeway.
tae | hoard "Lhe It lies eleven English miles dan LotR ae op eas Trunce of Wakes from Coleraine.
When we ds ea one of the came t the cage of the preapBae hk eae Farkgate we, three or four poor boys ase eae ae aces were ready to hold our horses, Mea ee oe At seven and show us the way down.
; Jota vie okt We sacled It being dead low water, we
SARE AT: A CONT
Wilh A SEs, could where, and 'ste ich tad moadrate 'g
THE BOOM IN
SHILP- . everything to the best advantage ate gee iia wind Tuesd. r. We Wweatto
BEGIN UNTIL THE
Bel ast, é est own Ww
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Sltr, sata to contaw Airty-
FACTORY HANDS
HEN THE FIRE OF LONDON
broke out in September 1666, completed in 1710, when Wesley would have been seven years old. a unique opportunity was given to England's greatest architect, Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
He re-designed much of the gutted city, including the Custom House, the Royal Exchange,
A few buildings have survived the ravages of history, including the City's most ancient parish Church, Great St. Helen's in Bishopsgate - the scene of more than one visit by
Wesley - and the Tower of A ae London, whose keep, the SN White Tower, dates back to the SIR
CHRISTOPHER
WREN eleventh century. Let us then visit London of the mid-eighteenth century, and see it through the eyes of John Wesley.
175 5 'Tuesday, December 23-— J was m_ the robe ch , atyoning to the House of Lords, when the king put on his robes. His brow was much furrowed wif age, and quite clouded with care. And i ts the world can give even a king?
Ad the grandeur u can a ? A blanket of ermine Tound his showders, so heavy andcumbersome he can scarce move unde u'! And heap of borrowed haw, with a few plates of gold and glittering stones upon his head! Alas, what a bauble is "human greatness! And ten this
Marlborough House and many churches, notably St. Bride's Fleet Street, St. Mary-le-Bow
SOW CHURCH AND! CHEAPSIOE
Cheapside, St. Michael's Corn-
CHEAPSIDE
hill and St James' Piccadilly, it is, however, St. Paul's Cathedral which best illustrates his creative genius, a masterpiece of grace and harmony, finally
Is it! il ie | Ih, = wih not endure.
1768 Wednesda December ry — ] saw the Westminster scholars ack the Adelphi" of Térence; an entertainment not unworthy of a Christian.
O how ao these heatens
PALL MALL ABOUT 1740
Lewisham on Monday; and en Sunday folloning, went to the chapel wm 'lottenham-court-road, An immense muttitude was grthered bi Sindee aul corners of the town, 1 nas at firstafraid fhat a preat part of the congregation woulda not be abl lo hear; but leased God so to aon, 77) voice, That even those at the door heard distinctly, It was an awfitl season: ad were as stil as might; most appeared to be aeiply afpecta; and an ression Was made on many, Whith one Would Aope wil not specdily be offaced.
100] Thesday,.
February
- 1 went through both the upper and lower rooms of the Londen workAouse, It contains about an lundred children, who are i as good order as any prwate fanily. And tHe whole house 1s as ckay, top to bottom, as any gertlemans need he, And why Is not every workhouse 11 London, yea, KMrough the kiagdem,
Ww the same order?
GEORGE 11 — 1683-1760
shame us! "Wier very comedies contain both excellent séase, the liveliest pidures of ten and mannes, and all, strokes of genuune moraliy, as are sddem found hh the 'wrilings of Guwrstuans.
T77O Saturday, November 10 retumed to London, and had the mdan News of Mr, Whkefield''s death cenfumed by hus executors, who destrea me % preach his funeral seymon on Sunday, the 18H, In order to write this, 1 retired to
CORNHLLL: THE EXCHANGE AND LOMBARD STREET
Where fonds Fhilosop (a With which she ge Secor at yon bumnn Unaaztled, and pit Sense counts his spats ?
In racy Where her implements i With which she a f computes 4nd scans AM distance, motion, a ae, and now Measures an atom, and ma sa world ?
Now In London. Where has commerce such amart, So rich, so throng'd, 0 drained : and so As Londen, diets end wel narcas Ree re,
"LONDON BRIDGE JUST BEFORE THE HOUSES WERE PULLED
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT FROM THE RIVER
DOWN IN 1760
IN WESLEY'S TIME
1TiD Sunday, October 8 — 1 preacheawm orfitlds @ a larger congregalion than usual, Strange that ther crwsity sheuld not be satisfied yt, after hearing the same thing near forty years | Stand November 12_— 1 was deswed to preach, n Bethnal green church, a ar sor-mon the widows and orphans of he soldiers that were killed 11 America, V0 CG, Liscscey Desenbers In the way, 1 read over Mr.
Grays Works, and lus Life wrote by Mr. Mason. He 1s an adnurable pot, not much inferior
HAMPTON COURT: BUILT By CARDINAL WOLSEY, WHO
LATER GAVE 1T TO HENRY V111.
IT CONTINUED A
ROYAL RESIDENCE UNTLL GEORGE 11'S REIGN
Friday, February 7 — V0CL Fe Who OTe a Me eet ee SHOR me more than anything. of the kind 1 have seen in England; more to ether Frwr or Fope. han Blenham-house tsef.
One great diffrence 45, everything there ars designedly grand and splenmid; here everything ts guile, as kt were, Natural, and ene thinks 4 cannot be cherwise.
If the expression may be alowed, there ts a kind of stiffness runs the one, and an easiness through the other. Of pictures
do not pretend to le a judge; but there 1s one, Put Rubens, whith partreul struck. me, boh wih the design and the executim te ts It 1s Lachhartas and Elizabeth, with Tohn the Baptist, two or thre years old, coming to visit Mary, ad our Lord sitting upon her knee, "The passwns are oS lad ad expressed, evin wm the children; but 1 could not see either decency or tommen-sense of painling them stark naked: noting Can daéefend or excuse tus...
LONDON SHOEBLACK
] have not such distress, no, not m the prison of Newgate, One poor man was Just creeping out of has sick-bed, to his ra wife and three litle children, who were more than half naked, and the very picture of famine; when one. ys fw a loaf of bread, th ran, serred upon i, and tore t in pleces wan rea:
Zan wilt i Se | i — A) Wilt pstant.
Who word not re_Jorce that there 1s another world ?
THOMAS GRAY
(1716-1771). AUTHOR. OF THE FAMOUS
"ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD"
GEORGE 111 (1738 ~ 1820)
IT WAS IN H1S RELGN THAT
BUCKINGHAM PALACE BECAME
THE MONARCH'S RESIDENCE
( ( ( Wednesday, January 15L "Begun visting Oidse M "gan visting € our Soci who lived mw thnaigreen hamlet, of them ] Am such poverty as few can conceive Without stei Sunday, 26 — 7 preached a at 'is hh (Lootbard Street), ing cond a on. 1 found great liberty of sputt; and the con seemed to be much a :
Flow 1's this? Do? yet please men ? Is the offence of the (ross ceased?
It seems, aftr ben Scandalous near SY years, Jam at growing intd an hon le man!
HiaO why ae not ad the rich that fear 'God const visit he poor? (an they spend part of ter spare ime belir ?
(ertainly not....
Such another scene | saw the next day, m visting another part of the socitly.
HANDEL (1686 ~ 1769), Mis
"WATER MUSIC" WAS FLRST PER-
FORMED AT A ROVAL WATER
PARTY ON THE THAMES, HE
BECAME A NATURALILED ENG
TISHMAN IN 1726
'1 hate to meet John Wesley: the dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away t go and visit some old woman'
Dr. Samuel Tohnson 177.
Un February 28 — mmnediat after preaching at Spitalfields, 1 "hastened © away to St. Peters, Cornhill and declared 16 a crowaed congréga lion:
"God hath gue us Hrs Holy Spirit." At four ] preached word with exact propriety, % muA doubl whether bhi other King? m Euro pris 50 Just Gt jatvera? a Speaker. w the new chapd for the benefi the. ation Society. "Thus also 1 trust will be a means of wnuting together the hearts of the O may thy virtue guard thee thro' the roads 4 Of Drury's mazy courts laren of Cod of various denommations, e.
1783 ase Pent, at N Wit \ \ N i and dark. abodes/
LP F The harlot's guileful paths man, Dr. Johnson, Who Sax ts sinking into the pave bya geatle Macey, & r who nightly stand AWS Where Catherine Street W785 perty terse 4° descends into the was Aurch.
The congre very humerous and the collecliby unusually larye, 1786 Bey sary 26 was aesured @ go and
DR. JOHNSON AND JOHN WESLEY
Strand. hear the King ( George 111) deiver his speech in the House of Lords, But howa, eably was 1 surprised !
He pronounced John Gay, in 1717
NEWCASTLE AND THE NORTE
EWCASTLE,
originally the site of a The city's prominence is due to its position on a tidal river and its fi
Roman station, began to assume its present —_ immense coal resources; 'Carrying coals to Newcastle' has for long denoted
J Zak shape under Robert, eldest son of William the carrying out of unnecessary actions. fers fy the Conqueror. The 'New Castle' itself Nearby is Gateshead Fell - swept by the Danish invaders of the ninth ee | <1. was built by Henry II in the twelfth century and by the Normans in the eleventh. A February day some seven ew al Seq; century on the site of Robert's older hundred years on saw John Wesley battling his way through a wintry
Pe EI; structure, and was a formidable fortress _ blizzard ona different kind of mission.
Matte indeed.
PARES ive id exile AO Oi ee Saturday, February 23. It was past et before we got —— Ties a WBE 1745 Gateshead-Fe, whith appeared a par Ohler pa 5 white.
ie Sno filling up and covering aff the reads, we were ata loss how bo SANDGATE, NEWasnz _—«- Proceed; when an honest man of Newcastle overtook and guided us safe bie Shoe is
M a yough jou have ad before, 2. = but ARIAT: bis. eee ae between he Se
and hau, and rain, and 1c, and snow, and ariving slect, and piercing cold: but # ts past: use Ss will Traum No more, and are {ae therefore as though they haa never been. fit.
Fain, dsappnntment, sickness, strife, whateer moests or troubles life, Fhowever grievous tn its stay, It shakes the tenement of clay, When past, as nothing we esteem; And pain, like pleasure, 1s a dream.'
Wednesday, Septemba 18 — About five we came to ae , Wan accetable lime.
We found the eratily of the habitants in the utmost ie as FA news being fust-
WESLEY ON GATESHEAD-FELL
EAST arrived, that oe ys the mo rn be fore,
ARMS OF NEWCASTLE
at two o'clock, the Pretender had entered Edinburgh, A great concourse of people were withus i the evxing, to whom 1 expounded the turd Hapter
Of Toneh; insisting particularly or that verse, Who can tell if God wih retum and repent, and tum away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?"
(75 Monday, June 131 proclaimed the love of wist to suiners, m the marke
GRAIN OER STREET, PAEVI PILE
place at Morpeth.
"thence we rode to Facey, "She soucky of colliers here may hea pattern a the societies to England, No puso wor misses his hand or class: they have no far of ary kind ammng hen; hut with one htart and one mind 'provoke one anrthar t oye and good works ."
'Tuesday, 28 - 1 relurned to Newcastle, hoarse and weak, But whe can be spent a hbitttir cause 7 its 70 ( 24 April 28 - At ome 1 took ae.
j cach, and on Wednesday evening preadhd pie re eee at Newastle-upmTyne. 1 bye cur brehyen in
ROVAL ARCADE, NEWCASTLE
the southern counties; but still find fer among
to preach w hus Huth.
A keener sermon] never heard. So all 7 have dene fo SUuade Sts eople fo attend To tess ts overtumeéed at
once! Anda " who preach thus, will driye the me Methodists
THE OLD BRIDGE,
from the. hurd, tn spite of ad/ that 1 can do. them that have the spurt of ow northen wcwkss.
178] Sunday, Tune ra — 1 preached in the morning at eshtad-Fel{: about noon, at a village called Greenside, ten miles west of Meweastle, to the largest con on 1 have seen . ss he onivth pire a eee ee 1 love our brethren
THE SIDE, NEWCASTLE
Catholics.
In the evening
ched " s
be Cutts Haas 'ome thoi pte age in the southern counties; congregation that had ever been thcre,) on thos e = mites A Ser the SaOvice i (ee See . but still 7 find few among My people, saith your God," them that have the Spi. Tit— .
Setetay, Tine 19 - In te evening } of our northern counties. preached to a large congregation at Scarborough, Sunday, 20 - The new vicar showed plaumty, Journals, April 28, 1777 why he aoe these who desired the liberty forme siec Sagi ct pak eee
CAMBRIDGE
ARMS OF THE CITY AnD
UNEVERELTY OF CAMBRIDGE
(1788-1824). Macaulay the historian studied at Trinity, as also George Herbert, Francis Bacon and Alfred 'Tennyson. And ..
A AMBRIDGE (Cantebrig, Grantebrigge), situ7: ated in the low Fen country, is a university city stalked by the ghosts of an illustrious past.
Today's visitor can walk into the Great Court of Trinity, and see much the same scene as this from one college among many. A brief tour of the other colleges gives us a similarly tenuous but tangible link with such men as Wilberforce, Cromwell and would have confronted a student of the seventeenth century. South of the chapel is the stairfy, case once mounted daily by science's greatest
giant, Isaac Newton (1642-1727). The rooms Pitt; Milton, Gray and Wordsworth; Leland the antiquary and Latimer the martyr, besides a galaxy of archbishops and other divines. to the west formerly housed England's outstanding geologist, Adam Sedgwick (17851873). Nearby are the rooms of the poet Byron
It is undeniable that the town of Cambridge preceded the university, which stemmed largely from the religious orders of the thirteenth century.
Nevertheless history forces us to coneur with Thomas Fuller's observation of 1655; 'Oxford is a university in a town, Cambridge a town in an university.'
NEWTON'S STATUE IN
COLLEGE
10 — At four we took 1762. Sunday, January @. anda reached OCranthesler a little before seven, Finding a little company ma
1 spent half an pour with them ¢exceadin fartably, NG, COP) = and, through the blessing of God, ] was no more red when i nink Lo bed than whew
] arose ww the morning, Monday, 11 — "The Aouse was thoroughly filled at , and thal wih serwus and sersthle 1 was sorry 1 had no more tame at dy as i was so near lambriagé, hearers, ts place , especia
BRIDGE AT ST. FOHN'S COLLEGE (FOUNDED 15)1)
whence m gentlemen used to eh whey ergyman preached, Bus y te Was fixed, so 1 took horse Soon afar preaching and rode fo a village called Bottishamtlode seven mules from lambriage, Ferea large Con, alin was soon assembled, and J] had no sooner ae ped my Heit ihn ae is i ; OF EN prise both," than a murmur rap ho he frankly hiowgh Ps ey people, and many of tem nere
aaa > ke Sea Hate "lactis a
THELEYS SCHOOL, FOUNDED BY PROMINENT
WESLEYANS IN THE CENTURY AFTER WESLEY
wy téars.
"This concern mcreased as ] wert on, so that none appeared to be unmoved.
1/6 'Thesday, Odober 11 — 1 rece MH 5: mswable reads tp Cambridge, and hen & Lakinheath.
"The next day |] reached Nornich, and found much of the presesice of God m the congregaiion, bo Wus evening and the next Aay.
1784 Mond December 20 — ] went to Hinkewor i where I had apie es of meting Mr: Simeon,*® Fellow of King's NaS
" Cambridge. Fle has spent some timé with :
KING'S COLLEGE AND CLARE GARDEN
Charles Simeon (1759 - 1836) vicar of Holy oot Sor over 50years, as influential as they were evtn
Fletcher, at Madeley: two kindred souls; much resembling each cher, both th fervour of sprit, and m the cantestness of ther address, He gave me the pltasing mformation, that there are tree. parish churches th Cambridge wherein true scrypliaal is preached; and several young gentlemen who are A partakers of "it, Ll preached mn the evening on Galatians we, fy, 1787 ee October 301 went down foMess Harveys at Fiinxworth tn Hertfordshire, Mr. Simeon, from Cambridge, met me there; who ee breathes the very spt of Mtr.
/ JE a Si Fletcher.
'lV
GATEWAY, JESUS COILEGE
FOUNDED 1496: FORMERLYA
James IT ona
BENEDLCTINE NUNNERY
University, said i visit to the "that if he lived at the University i he would pray at King's, cat at Hy 'Trinity, and study at Jésus."
INTERIOR, KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL
YORK AND THE BATTLEFIELD
y, thus os S INCE EARLY TIMES York and its surrounds have of Stamford Bridge, where Harold Hardrada and Earl Tostig were annihilated by Harold of England, who in turn was overthrown by William the Conqueror. In 1138 David of Scotland met with defeat at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton, and in 1318 the areas surrounding Boroughbridge, Scarborough and Skipton were flattened by the forces of Robert the Bruce. set the stage for some of England's fiercest fighting,
York itself having been chosen by the Romans as their I ule trategic northern centre, Eboracum. With the Roman withdrawal in 410, the gates were opened for Barbarian ncursions from the north. The devastation must have been great, for when King Edwin was baptised in York on Easter Day, 627, no consecrated building was in Of the many further struggles, none can compare in importance with the Wars of the Roses that settled the succession to the throne in the fifteenth century, and, of course, the Civil War two centuries later. This latter struggle, coupled with the "Bloodless Revolution' of 1688 and the subsequent Bill of Rights accepted by William and Mary, firmly established the principle that government must be by consent of the governed.
- existence for the ceremony.
After successive struggles between Mercia and Northumbria for control of Yorkshire (Deira), the next major conflict reached its climax in 1066 at the Battle service, ] preached on the conclusion of the 1766 hee Tity
- 1 tok ave
everley Minster, such a parish Aurchh as has scarce us fellowm Gospel for the day: Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shad enter nEn it 1s a most beautifid as well as sti building, both within and without, and is kept more nicky clean than cathedral which 1 have seen mn the kingdom.
About one 1 preached at Pocklington, fo the kingdom of heaven; but he that doch the will of my Father wh ts mn heaven," ] hd not se one person laugh or smile, though we had an degant congregautien.
(hou strength was much ex fausttd) and in the evening at Mork.
(77.
Tuesday, Tine 1y — We Crossed over tie aormous mountaums inte lovely Wenaudak; fhe far of al the dales, as fe a most beaut fil...
As 1 rode through the town, the ¢ stood staring on every side, Deu we had been a company of Sunday, 20 — After preachi at eight, | went Lo St. Savi: of Aurcth, "Towards the close of the prayers the rector sent the sexton bs Bul i the pulpit was atmy
F ENGLAND D8
monstzrs , ees | wn the street, and theysom 1 pointed the true and the false way of ex— van bogether, and od, from every guar §=pounding those important words: Voark Saved
7 Wohnen he on er, of their having seen me through faith,"
Yurly years bere, oe 1 preaché wn Wensly hurch; and enforced Wednesday, 3 - 1 preached once more:
"Believe w the :
Sesh aig used ee © about noon at "Tadcaster, Lord Teésus Christ, and thou | a ge eae ee with an uncornmon acgree shat be saved .
Poe _f the ee of freaom, whith Was Hence we hastéd Zs attended with a remarkRiAmend, where ] preached able blessing, A glorious wna kind of square, AM work 1s dawning here, the Yorkshire milthia were again anst Which "a teas hire, and so were ther can prevail. . officers, who kept them in awe, so that they behaved | S; "1780 le eg with decency.
About ten at Stayel 1776 Monday, Tine
Bor 'Age. Mr. ia went on to the rector, yead prayes.
Scarborough, 1 tHink fre But the church would SEIS here ts Oe contain half the the most elegant of ary pregaiton ; so that ] was square room which we
MICKLEGATE BAR, YORK
oblie Ss f stand upon a lombhave in England; and we had
BESTE EIME OF SF ME CIVTE WAR"
stone, both morning and afturas degant a ig soe but they were as noon. In the evening 7 preached at "Boroughbridge, attentive as if thty been Kingswood colliers. hm a numerous congre, 3 and a were attentive except a few soldiers, who seemed to understand nothing of the matter.
Tiesday, Tidy 21 weat to York. the house Was enough in the evening, while
1781 Wednesday, August 15— 1 went t Sheffitld. In the a 1 took aview of the chaped latdy built by fhe Duke of Norfolk.
One may safely say, Here ts none like t tn the three kingdoms; nor, 1 suppose, in the world. it 13 a stone Hula £ an octagon, about tighty feet diameter:
A upola, which ts at a great hught, gives some, = but not much, Ught. A' lille more is giyen by small windows, Which are under the galleries.
"he pulpit 1s movable; it rolls upon wheels; and Is shifted once a guarte, that all the pews may face ut m ther lus:
] presume the frst contrivance of the tind m Europe. it on York Gate, Pe wae.
0 York may overlook the fT a Gon town of York."
1. CASTING
2. WATCHING HE FURNACE
ueen ap referring to Richard, Duke of lork ee Wars F the th
3. FUNNEL FOR FLLLING POTS LN 'THE FURNACE
Roses — Shakespeare's Henry
AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION
IN THE WORMAN CONQUEST, IT WAS RECONSTRUCTED
IN VARIOUS STAGES, BEING FINALLY RECONSECRBATED ON FEBRUARY
ITH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Travellers to Bath would find Marlborough a convenient halting place.
The Castle Inn (converted from the old Marlborough Castle) became famous among experienced pilgrims, William Pitt himself spending several weeks there during a time of crisis. Eventually, with the arrival of the Great
Western Railway, the Castle Inn went out of business. Today it serves as the oldest boarding house of Marlborough's great public school.
Further west and south of Bath are some of England's most romantic :
Y began Bath's golden era - enhanced by two -— royal visits (in 1734 and 1738), by the work of _ the two architects Wood (both named John), nd by the city's most flamboyant figure and Master of Ceremonies, Richard 'Beau' Nash
(born 1674) - voted by popular acclaim as 'King of Bath *. Many made the pilgrimage, as much for the amusements provided as for the healing properties of the mineral springs, which had been well-known to the sites - Glastonbury with its numerous legends; the marshes of Athelney, which once sheltered Alfred from the Danes; and Corfe Castle which, for long, stood sentry over the Isle of Purbeck. We can imagine Wesley as he travelled along the Old Bath Road, with the aim of re-opening England's
West Country for the Christian faith.
Romans. Indeed it was the Romans who had constructed the great Bath Road that ran from London, through the Marlborough Downs, and on to the West.
"Titesday, Time J — "Thiere was great expectation at Bath of whata noted man was * do t me there; and ] was much entreated not to preach, because no one knew what nught happen. By tus report J also gained a much er audience, anon, whom were many of the rich and great.
/tola them plaaly, the Scripture fad concluded them all under sin; /ugh and low, rihand poor, one wih another. them seemed to bea litle surprised, and were sinking apace inte seriousness, when her A on appeared, and, Coming dose W me, asked what a d _ did hese wungs. 1 replied, "By the of Tesus Carist, conveyed bo me he (now) Aranbtshop of Canterbury, whan we lait hands upon me, Je sad, "Tbe ba
"YOu, MR. NASH, TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY;
WE 'TAKE CARE OF ouR souls..."
replied, "Sir, leave lum tome: le an old woman answer him. You, Mr. Nash, take care of your body; we take care of owr souls; for the food of our souls we come here." He replied nota word, but walked away.
VT4( Suet Dine 21. — After preaching ak the chapd m the aflarnoon, | se out for Brentford with Robert Swindeds. "The next day we reahed Marlborough, where one in A room beneath us was swearing desperately,
Mr. Swindells stepped down and put inle As hand the paper tntitled, Swear not at all." He —_—LLZEa
BATH, FROM NEAR 'THE ABBEY CEMETERY
ity to preach the Gospel!" He said, "Thus 1s contrary to Act of Parliament: Gus rs a conventicle."
I answered, "Sir, ... here is no Shadow of sedition; therefore ut 1s not contrary to that Act."
He replied, "] say 1s; and beside, your Bes, Srightens people out of ther wits."
"Sir, aid you ever hear me preach?"
No."
"How then can you judge of what you never heard?"
"Sw, common report."
'Common report 1s not eriou Give me leave, Sur, fo ask, Is not your name Nash?"
© name 18Nash."
"Str, 1 dare not judge fF you by common report:
1 think aoe pe oe ludge by."
Here he paused anh, and having recovered himself, sad, "1 desire to know what Gus people comes here for:" on which one
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, ZOO YARDS FROM THE BATH ROAD
thanked him, and promised f swear no more. And he did not while he was tn the house.
We Wok horse at tree, breakfasted = Chippnham, and athed at Kingswood; whence 1 walked & ris@l.
150 Frid.
August _ Setting out Carly, we reached oe ere Collumpten £ the evening ; but as 1 was not expected,
| the congregatin was smad.
Sund ember 2— 1 rode t Tiverton, At eght ] preached t% twice as many people as were present when L was here before; but even this congregation was doubled at one and a five.
The meadow was then full from side side, and many stood the gardens and orchards round.
Monday, 3 ~ We rede to Shaftesbury, where 1 preached,
between Six and seven, t a serious and quiet congregation,
MOUNDS AND
We had another happy oppor: at fwe in the morning, when Inwirsmee: abundance of people were present. | preached, at noon, mthe
'onsronr ano —- 0st rlolous part of the lown, fust where four ways me;
AT AVEBURY
, but meme made any notse, or spoke one word, while 1 called
SILBURY HILL
"the wicked to forsake his way. 7
'THE DEVLL'S DEN
"THE GREAT STONES OF
STONEHENGE :
"COME 'THITHER , AND
FIND 'THEM AS PRODIGIOUS
AS ANY "TALES 1 HAVE
HEARD OF THEM, AND
WORTH GOING 'THIS
JOURNEY 'ro SEE"
SAMUEL Pepys
Soon after ] was sat down, a constable came, and said, "Sw, Chef Tustice Banks. It 15 one of the noblest ruins ] eve-saw : the walls are of an immense thickness, defying even the assaults of time, and ware the Mayor discharges you from Preatung im this borough ee more."
1 replied, "While Ka ig George gives me leave & preachy, 1] shad not ask leave of the Mayor of Shaftesbury." erly surrounded bya deep itch, "The house, whi stands w the middle, on the v fo the yock, Aas (is ps eee feet struc ture, Some time swcethe : selor filled up Some rooms Oi the Saye of Gus, and Mpnday, Odober 10 — 100. ] preached at Saluusbury; and on Tuesday, 11, set out for the Isle of Purbeck, When we came to (orfecaste, the Noe beng quite calm and mild, preached #1 a rneadow Hear
SALLSBURY CATHEDRAL, BUIL'T 1220-1266
laid out Sse garaen, comm -
: anding a e prospect, pleasant ond descroplion ...
8 bout: bye : orenan at ps ln), ph sy or four miles from Corfe-castle, to a large and deeply serious congregavon, the ton, a deplyatenine congregation, gaihered ad/ parts of the island. ] afterwards me the socucty, artless and ee: and full of good desires.
In the evening 1 preachéd m1 a meadow, near Swanage, & a stud larger congregation, at them yet have got eg ee fo Mee Men 3 ptt walking,"
Wednesda 12 — 1 preached ba € congregation at five, who seabea ee Me for mstructun, Aflorwards ne oak a Walk over the remains oF the castle, so bravely defended in the last , against all the power of the Parliament forces, by the widow of the Lord
SENTINEL OVER PURBECK!
CORFE CASTLE
Sunday, August 18 - CExeter) I was 1782 much pleased wih the decent behaviour of he whol congregation at the Cathedral; as also wih the solemn music at He post-ammunay, one of the finest composites 1 ewer heard,
The bishop, mviling me dinner, ] could not hut observe, 1. The lovely situation of the palace, covered nih trees, and as rural and Tétred as 1776 Wednesday, March 6 - 1 went doun 'Taunton, and at Aree in the aftanoon opened the new preaching-house.
"The peopl showed great eagerness to hear. Wid heyy at lengh, know the day of theer visitation 2 Tthesd.
September 1 — ]went fo
"Tiverton.
1 was musing here on what 7 heard a gta: man say leng since, — "Once th seven if it was quite m the country.
2. "Te plain— ness of the furniture, not costly er showy, but just fit for a Gristian years 1 bum al : sermons; for U 15 a Shame bishop.
3. The inna; sufficient but not if 1 cannot wik beter seypmens now than 1 could SWEN Years re Whatewer chhers can do, 1 really cannot: J cannot writ a betlir sermen on redundant; plain ard good, hut not delicate, fe We set out carlym e morning, Monday, 19, and in the aftr nom came to Plymouth,
preached wn lhe evening, He Good Steward than 1 did seven years ago...
Forty years ago 1 knew and preached wery on Tuesday, pur posing Guristian doctrine Which fe Preah now.
Luesday, 8 ~ In the evening 1 stood on one side of he marktlplace at Frome, and declared (0 avery numercus conorecaivon:
"Fis Commaraments are not prrevous."
They slood as quiet as Hose at Bristal, a Wi pv ies excepted; most of whew wee, by the courtesy of England, called genthe-
THE MARKET PLACE, FROALE
'Thursday, September 23 — 1 preached at Faulty about one, and at Rasford m the evening.
"Ihe gentleman at Chow-Magna having sent' me word 1 was welcome to preach m the church, 1 went ther the Maile: te but they now sent me word they had chang men. How much inftrior the keelmen and colliers |
BATH —
'THE MOST FLOURISHING
AND FASHLONABLE OF 'THE
18'TH-CENTURY ENGLISH
SPAS
fo new worlds, AU 1 goto He world of spwts.
178 Mon February 26 — 'lhe diligence reached Sarum about ' m the & About nine we left wt, So keen a frost, ] ait ever felt before: and eur carriage le w th. ar om ad st oe a could preserve life.
However, soon aftr fue on "Inesday wening we got t Exeter.
Friday, March 4-- 1 bok a walk throu the Koya Hospital sick and Wounded sailors, 1 néver saw anything of the kind so complete: ev 1s so convenient, and so adnurably neat.
But there is nothing supyrflucus, and no purely ornamental, athe within or without.
There seems be nothing wanting, but a man full of fat and zeal, @ watch
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1723 "1702 )
OF PLYMPTON, DEVON! THE MosT
PROMINENT
FIGURE IN 'See ENGLISH
SCHOOL
OF PAINTING
ther minds; so] preached uw our own preaching-house.. oe 'TVhursa.
September 30-71 had a long conversation with John M''
- ome of arbi dal preaners, Just come fo En He gave a pleasing account a the work. of God there, continually wmcrcasiig, and vehem wm por lune me to one miorxe visit to America hefore ] dé.
Nay, 1 shad pay no more visits
GLASTONBURY: HOME OF SAINTS AND LEGENDS
THE BURLAL PLACE OF KING ARTHUR
over the sous of te poor patients, and teach them What a blessed proof of this has there ben here, bo umprove ther affliction. since 1 was 11 the town before !
In the wening I preached f a large congregation at Plymmuth; 'and it pleased God t gue'me | (GG Monday, September 11 — (Bath) Leavin uncommon liberty in describing the power of fasth. the society here well united together, ]wvent on. ..
THE OLD BATH ROAD
(froma Marlborough College School song) Strong and true, on its western stages, Girt by downland and tree-clad hill, Strong and true, as in by-gone ages, The old Bath Road fares onward still.
And strong and true, the young with the older, Stands the School, our youth's abode, Side by side, and shoulder to shoulder, Guarding the flanks of the old Bath Road.
Old Bath Road you have conquered regions Fenced with forest and sunk in swamp, Rung 'neath the tramp of Roman legions, Borne the pageant of Roman pomp.
But to-day from city and town and shire, Hither you bring to your cherished school
Youth, that may learn the things that are higher Than Norman splendour and Roman Rule.
THE. WEL OVER HE MOUNTAINOUS country of 7, Wales, with its rocky coasts, its yf rivers, moorlands and coalmines, produced the first Welsh Bible, and Howell Harris (1713-1773), associate of Wesley, and leader of the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival in Wales.
Wesley, though a visitor to Wales, took no real part in the organising of the Methodist societies, leaving Harris to develop the work in an indigenous
has known the power of Chris- . tianity since the Roman era. At - and sometimes erratic - direction. At the height of the revival, Wesley complained, "They start up, and cry, "Glory! glory!" perhaps twenty times together. Just so do the French Prophets, and very lately the Jumpers in Wales, bring the real work into contempt' (Journals, April 3rd, 1786). Even
W, times the flame of devotion has « burned low, only to be revived in periods of great spiritual fervour through leaders such as David
Sees (c.520-589), patron saint of Wales, —_———_— "= "~ **""
William Morgan (c.1547-1604) who
THE TORRENT WALK"
so, the revival was to affect every part of the Welsh culture, becoming something of a real folk-movement in the country. owed Flarris, la 1740 Monday Agr 1 — At the pressing through broken rocks of every sxe, shape and mstance of gan colour.
On the other side of the river, the sa oul for Wales."
In the evening | preached mountain vose an immense height, clmot "repentance and remission of sins," at Lanvachas, tree miles from the New assage.
(A ( Wetresday, August 5— Taking horse Carly in the morning, we rode over the rough mountains of Radnorshire and Momgomeryshire wite Merioneas- \j shire.
In the evening 1 was surprised wih one of the finest prospects, in its kind, that ever [| saw in my Life. Werder a gree vale, shaded with rows of lrees, which made an arbour for swveral mules, 'The river laboured along on our lefthand,
DOLGELLY , MERIONETHSHIRE
MOUNTAIN VOD Ge ee Be a tha perpendicular: and yet the lal straight caks stood, yank above rank, from the boom # 1s aeuightfid beyond expression, Flere we saw a large and Nandsome . cathedral, but no trace of the good old munks the very top; mountain was not so steep, were mterposed pastures or fiddas of crn. At a atstance, as faras the tye could veach, as kt were by way onty here and there, where the of contrast, Bangor; So Wi "A mountain huge upreared dreds of Whom fel/ at once cru. and vevenge.
"The om: hence FeamaenMawr 71s far pleasantér Its broad bare back," wih vast i gask rocks tab tee ¢ over tts brow,
'sf that seemed tnd porten TUuMYy), fhan arden. Mountains of every shape and stZe, is LER ass or corn, woods and smatler tufts of Lees,
HOWELL HARRIS
were continually varying on the tne hand, as was the sea prospect on the other. Penamaen-Nawr itself rises almost perpendiicilar to an enormous height froto the sea.
Saturdw, August 20 We look horse at four, and rode one of the pleasantest "countries in the world, When we came &
Trecastle, we had rode fifly miles 1n Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire, and 1 will be bold lo say, all England does not afford sucha line of ty mites length, for fidlas, meadows, brooks and gentlyrising mountains, frudfil to He very top. Carmarthenshire, to which we came soon
HARLECH CASTLE
of plain, artless people, at Houghton; rules, so fruitfid and wed/and tn the town-had/ at Fembroke, in Ke wening, many yich and elegant hte adtivattd, What a difference 1s there hetween the nestimmost parts of England, and the pallet parts of Wales !
Thesday, 27We wept through a right Welsh road and hea' Oxwych between twelve and one. "The congreg— "Mountains of ation had waced for some time; so] began without delay. "The road te Swansea was a Little bettir; so 1 reached the tonn every shape and size, vales clothed
A WELSH PEASANT WOMAN
mn time, and at sy preached tn the yard, 4s our 700m would contain hardly a turd of the with grass or after, has at least as frutfel a sou; but u& 1s not so pleasant; because tt has fewer mountains, corn, woods and people. ag abundance of brooks smaller tufts of ana 71 vers, About fe J preachtd on the a large number of deeply May 1-Slrode d's, swenteen measured wiles Thwer ford.
]was surprised fitid au the land, for the last nine orten green at Carmariien,fo trees, were continually varying on the one hand, atteniive people.
1 rede on Thursday, WO st) 22, to Datla, a ra as was the sea prospect on the lithe village at the mouth of Milfora-Haven...
1 bold them Just what 1 thought.
Hh went as a4 sword to their hearts. other." fet the (ruth, and wept bitterly. ed ( Road between Bangor and Fenmaen-Mawr )
Friday, rs: — 1 preached at L noon, a doytly congregation Journals, August 13,7751 BANGOR
gym , WT oa _—
THE LLEDR VALLEY,
TYPICAL OF THE COUN'TRYSIDE
"THAT CAPTLVATED
WESLEY ON HIS TRAVELS
JORWICH -
CITY @&
ARM OF THE CITy
AND SEE OF NORWICH
ORWICH is a city of churches - documents dating from the time of Edward the Confessor
1066) show that even then it 'had twenty_- _<= five parochial churches, if not more .
Little is known of Norwich until the ninth and burnt by the Dauphin's army in 1216; it prospered through the arrival of Flemish weavers in the fourteenth century, but received a sharp set-back in 1348-9, when a third of its inhabitants were wiped out by the Black
Death; many of its townsmen were involved in Wat Tyler's uprising of 1381; it suffered severely from fires in 1507 and 1509; and Thomas Bilney, gcentury invasions of the Danish, whose a Norwich divine, was burnt at the stake in 1531, during the Marian persecution.
leader, Guthrum (later baptised as Athelstan) #4 <became King of East Anglia, making the The superb cathedral, with a spire second only in height to that of Salisbury, was largely completed in the twelfth century. at town his headquarters. It was also possessed by Canute, who strengthened its castle.
Norwich has had an eventful history. It has suffered various sieges; it was plundered
1775 ste Pete of Norwich," published bi afew
'ST. PETER MANCROF'T,
NORWICH'S FINEST CHURCH
the Thslory ears since.
In the wening a large mob gathered atte door of the preaching-house, the captam of which struck m (hiefly women) wilh a large sick.
Mr. Randal going out t see what was the matt, he struck him with u tm the face.
But he was soon seared, and carricd before the mayor; who, knowing him to be anor are offender, against whom one or two warrants
A GENERAL VIEW OF NORWICH
Wednesday, 6 — 1 vistted many of those remained wih Us, and those hat fad left us since ty had learned a new were then lying, sent him gaol without delay.
Thesa — We se outa little before day, ana yeached 1 in the afarnoon, Inthe HKning, the new house would fardly contain one half of the congregaicon. doclrine.
1 Md not Aispite, hut adeavyoured hb stofltn their spirlls, which had bens.
"df & a hgh degree. In the wening the apd
1779 "Thursday, February 181] preachea at Lowestoft, where ts Gel | IRC HES a great awakening, espeaally among youth and children; seweral of whom, between twelve and sixteen years of age, we a pattem to all about them.
Sunday, 21 — 1 retumea % Norwich, and took an exact account of the society.
1 wish al our preachers would be accurate m ther accounts, and rather speak under Han above the truth.
1 had heard again and again of the mcrease of the society. And what 15s he naked Buth? Why, | leftm t two hundred and two members; and 1 find one hundred and seventy-nine | At twelve 1 Look coach, and m the morning reached London.
NELSON (1755 - 1805)
FOR A WHLLE A PUPIL AT
_ THE GRAMMAR scHOOL
Tr was quite foo small: and yet | even hose who could not gam were suent. a corcumstance which 1 have shdem dcbserved m any olhtr part of England.
Saturday, 16 - Loday | read Dr. Beatties poems; Cert one of the best Poets of the age, He wants only tie ease and simplicity of Mr: Pope.
~— 1 know one, and only one, J that has t.
NORWICH MARKETPLACE, THE MOST LONGSTANDING OF ENGLAND'S MARKETS, DATES
FROM
BEFORE 'THE NORMAN CON
EST. 1171S IN USE MOST DAYS AT THE PRESENT TIME.
1781 Sunday, Oclober 28 — (Norwich) ] preached at Bear-Street fp a large congregation, most of whem had never sten "my face before.
'Tuesday, 30 —~ 1 went & Weds, a considerable sea-port, twelve miles from Fakenham, where also Nuss Franklin had ened a aoor caching abroad, Hou a the pou oF a Mis : g g" wee in ee afternoon 1 preached at ingham, a place WI taeration - Aj ean ee Pasta 8 ts left of te famous Abbey, the east end of whic
1s still standing.
Ve then nent fp the Friary; the cloisters and chapel whereof are almost entire.
Had there been a Bho of virlue or public spirit tn Henry the Etghth, these noble buildings need not have run to vin.
RS eat
WALSINGHAM ABBEY
Norwich - "the suburbs are large, the prospects swecte... "
English diarist, John Evelyn, in 1677
THE ENDURING THAMES
ce the mighty jet airliners of the Nearby is Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed over seven hundred and fifty years ago. Across the river is the famous school founded by Henry VI in 1440 - Eton; where England's greatest soldier Wellington was educated. To the south, over the beautiful Surrey Downs, lies Leith
Hill, between Dorking and Ockley - site of a national victory over the Danes in 857. world's busiest airport pass overhead by the minute, there is much to remind us that a survey of the Thames Basin is virtually a survey of England's history. The finest vantage point is perhaps the royal residence
It is the winding Thames that has seen it all; the pageantry, the fluctuations of power, the unfolding drama of Monarchy and people - and, through men of faith like Wesley, the maintaining of Christianity's flame within the realm of Merry England.
Mien. itself, Windsor Castle, which owes its present @ magnificence largely to Edward III (1312i
1377). From the keep can be seen a vista, mtn: stretching across several counties.
"Tues a September 28. - A little before twelve ] came to Windsor, 1 was soon informed that a Ll arge number of the rabble had combined logether, and dedared, agai and again, there should be no preactung ee that day.
In order to make ad sure, ty had provided gunpowder and cher things some days before.
But Bunham fair aming between, they agreed fo go tillher first and have a "ithe dyersion tee. cnough went, and bestowed a few of her crackeas upm her
Bumham.
But these, not being Methodists, didnot take ut well, lwned them, and gave they chase.
"They look shelter wy an house, But that would not serve; for those without soon forced away i, And SsuZ¢A On as m as they could find, who, upon tnform made, were stnut to jar. "The rest ran away, so that when / came none | Accorain Xn brother En vf hindered or interrupted.
TAS Ste att D oom Windsor on Sunday nwrning, Thence 1
walked over to Egham, where Mr: —— preached one of the mot place not far from the market place proclaimed the. grace of our Lora Fésus (arist. At first lwo Pikes little children Were miseyable strmons 1 ever heard: stuffed so full of Add, sensdess Umnprohable les of these he complhmentcd wih the tite of "False Prophets."
] preached at one, and endeavoured to rescue the poor text (Matt, vit, 15) out of so bad hands. About 1 left Foham, and at Ught mm the evening met with a_joyfid congregation at he Foundery. the whole of my congregatin; bul ib quilkhy incked, ware he aur nas sharp, and the ground exceeding wet, and at Sei well but pee or | grums men, WAo stood so far off they disturbed none but themsdyves.
176 4 Viursday, Tinuary 12 — 1 preached at Mitcham, and m the afternoon rode to Dorking; but He entleman to whose house ] was invited seemed to have no aesure I should preach. So that evening 1 had noting lo ao Friday the 13th 1 weat at noon mbo the street, and 2A a bread WC Saturday, Ocobe5-7] sad out at two. rut tn some of our london friends met me at Cobham, with whom 1 took, a walk 1 the neighbo ardens, Uex thly pleasant, rou the Laricty OF hills and dales, ana the aamirable conir'vance of the whole, eanesday, th - J preached at So ns 8 oe u Was that ] preached my first sermon six-and-forly years ago. One man was m wy present aAudtence who heard u. Most of the rest are gone t ther long home. Afler preaching at Wi in the evening, ] met the belitvers apart, and was greatly refreshed among them.
THE THAMES AT RICHMOND PRIDGE
travelling through Berkshire... 1 diligently made fwo enquiris: he furst nas, aj B the wcrtase or decrease of the people; the second, concerning increase or dtcrtast of trade. As tote later, i ts, witn these last lwo years, amazingly increased, yw several branches such a mayne as has not been known m the memory of man: such % the frud of the mtire ctyil ana reigwus liberty which all England now eryoys! And as to the former, not w every uty and large "lown, but in every village and hamlet, there ts no decrease, but avery large and swift' mcrease, One stgn of Hus te te swarms of lithe children whith we seem every place, W717 Monday , ffs 10 ~ In the evening | preached at aang.
Flow many years were we beating he aor at tus tonn,! ° Stretching out our hands tb a people as stupid as oxen! But ut 7% not so at present.
Friday, 28 — 1 received an affectionate message from a great Wian, — But 1 shal not =a wonder tf the wind changes.
SOUTH-LELGH CHURCH
WHERE WESLEY'S FIRST SERMON
WAS PREACHED
Suaday April 6et gan) A jouny through 17 ( Wednesday, October 18 - 1 retumed tb Newbury.
Some of our friends mformed me, SOmC Of Our souctés, tw there wee many red-hot palriots here; so 1 took occaswn to grve a strong exhortation, by "fear aesure Ht assistance lowards the expense of the.
WOW Napa Peete ee ee ae ~ a (Cty Road ).
HIGH STREET, DORKING
God, and honour the king: Z 1776 pedscadey _May 1 - In
"Thursd
blew vehemently j Setember 7 — In theevenin preached at Newbury.
I]t racned ya the house was thoroughly filled; and 1] found uncommon Liberty pushing the inquiry :
"Who of you are building on the sand, and Who tipon a rock 7"
READING, FROM CAVERSHAM HILL
AN_OLD PRINT
Composed upon Westminster Bridge Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air,
Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
THE BUILDING OF WESTMINSTER BRLDG
" But thank God! 'The 'Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensbury."
Horace Walpole, 1717-1797
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770-1850
THE QUADRANGLE,
ETON SCHOOL
FOUNDED BY KING HENRY V1
S JOHN WESLEY entered the last three _ fifteen a week. years of his life, it appeared that his ministry
Although Wesley's contemporary evangelist Whitefield may have been had at last met with commendation from vir- | the more compelling preacher, there is little doubt that Wesley left the tually every quarter. Honours were heaped
more permanent mark on society - and this must be attributed to his upon him wherever he travelled. His visits to | organising genius under which chapels and classes mushroomed all over various parts of the country would be prothe land. claimed as public holidays. For over fifty years the Wesley preached his last sermon in Mr. Belson's house at Leatherhead people of England had felt the force of what has been — on February 23rd, 1791; wrote his last letter the following day, in which he described as 'the single most influential Protestant leader © encouraged William Wilberforce in his campaign against the slave trafhe; of the English speaking world since the Reformation' and died in his own house, in City Road, on March 2nd. He was buried in (John Wesley, by Stanley Ayling). Nearly a quarter of a _ the City Road chapel graveyard on March 9th. million miles had been covered on horseback, and some forty thousand sermons had been preached - a rate of 1789 Tuesday, February 24 Mr. With aforce called upon me, and we had an agreeable and usefil conversation.
What a blessing is ut b Mr. Pitt @ have such a friend as this!
'Ties d:
Tuty 28 - The Conference began: about a ed preachers were present, and nwa was cur Master more eminently present wih us.
"The case of stparatim from the Church was largtly considered, and we were all unanimous agtinst tt.
Sunday, August 16 - (Plymouth), Lyn the morning, ? Believe® we had not less Han stx hundred communicants; but they were alladmuaably well-behaved, as if trey waved discemed the lord 's body, But when 1 preachea m the SS Se ee
INTERVIEW BETWEEN WESLEY AND WLLBERFORCE
ye me uncommon liberty of spirit; as abo at Dover the next evening, where the new house, large as i ts, was far too smal, so that many codd not get in.
Sunday, December 27 — (London).
1 preached StLuke's, our parish church, w the afternoon, t a very numerous conpregation, on:
"The Spirit and the Bride ee Come," So are fhe tables tumed, that 1 have now more wvitations to preach m Churches than 1 can accept of.
WESLEY '63
PREACHING
Friday, Janu - 1 am now an ola man, decayed from head TF. My eyes are aim; my right hard shakes much, my mouth 1s hot and wery morning; 1 have a lingtru ever almost every day; my moeton is weak and slow, Towever, blessed be God, 1 donot slack my labour: 1 afternoon, the house would not hold half the congregation. 1
Chose the space adjoning the south side of the house , 'Capable of containing some Cousands of people. © Besides, some hunareds sat on the ridge Of the rock which ray atong at lft hand.
preached on part of the Gospel for the day: "He behela the city and wept over it." can preach and write stl, _ "Ties a December 6 — ( ah )." We took ene wm the dock-yard.
In the evening ] preached e, he Uegant housé Brompton; but tt 1s already far too small.
'the people foc ta on Wery side, & hear peacefully the Gospel. a ~ Me ba : one — Monday, December th — (Cauterbur'y).
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THE 'TREE AT WINCHELSEA, UNDER WHICH WESLEY PREACHED H1S LAST SERMON IN 'THE OPEN AIR
'Thursday, October 7 — 1 went over to that poor skeleton of ancient "Winchelsea. It ts beauh, Situated on the top of a steep ht, and was ae arly built in bread ey crossing €ach
and "ncoompassing a ve 2 square; " the midst of Which Py, .: Ae hs es TOW wm ruins. | stood under a large tree, on the stde of t, and called to most of the tnhabiiarts of the lown:
"The En heaven 15 at and; repent, and belie the Gospel,"
WESLEY AT 63
Sunday, October 24 — 1 explained toa mumerous congregation in Spitalfields church,
'the whole armour of God," St. Faul's, Shadwell, was still more crowded tn the afernoon, While
] enforced that wnportant Gruth: "One thin is needfid;" and] hope many, even then, Tesowed t Choose the better part.
WNSS ul ru. hire Will We went tw Wigan, for Many years ovVerph td Wicked Wigan: hut u 1s not now what 2 was: he mhabitants mn eneral have taken a sofler mould, The house in the wening was more ay Ued; and ad ae eae Gaw seemed
affected, whde ] stron Lica Cth Mpa Gi "7 wid; be ta ghee si * qally ¢
JOHN WESLEY DIED AT THE AGE
OF 88 ON MARCH 2ND, 1791
Sunday , September 2 - This day 1] cut off ek te custom, not when ee it Loan, of preaching tree times a a Same coat Np the gy congregation Ree to weary out bot the bates aha minds of the speaker, as well as lus hearers.
TABLE of
PLACES, PEOPLE AND ILLUSTRATIONS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PEOPLE OXFORD PLACES St. Mary's Church — Christ herch Gateway of St. Mary's Kusrh, Oxford John Wesley , Fellow of seed 1 follege, Socardo Frison PLATE: Oxford from Headington Hil/ Finstock — St Tohm's College Truly Gardens — Magdalene Water Walks — White Walk, Oxford Peter Boxter LONDON Dr, Samuel Johnson lslagton m the 184 Century Ndersgate Street — Islington Se ~ Wappin e Upper Moor frelds Kennington ae ~ Lambeth Dr. Samuel Tohason Bishop Butler OF Bul 5 Cathedra/ Daniel Defoe George Whilefield George Whitefield PLATE: Kensington Gardens Kernugton — Thames Imbankmeunt
LINCOLNSHIRE
Epworth Mighton-Car — Awkborough Epworth Church Wesley preaching on his father's tomb Alfred the Great Samuel be Susanna Wesley Mr. Romley, Curate at Epworth The mob at MNghionCar Gramshy — Boston Chur Luncan Cathedral Barrow ~— Purryshry, Georgia Grumshy — Boston The Minster, Lwicoln John Taylor of Epworth Wiliam Mason, poet Wiliam Wilberforce philanthropist PLATE: The Docks at Hud
MANCHESTER
Sw Richard Arkwright. invewlor Supston — Salfora Aape/ Pee, — babel et Congteton A knight of fame'
Sur Kichard Arkwright, uventor of the Pel Park Spinning Tenny George Stephenson, engueer eng Av ther
PEOPLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Sw Launctlot of te Lake The Royal Exchange, Market Street John Byrom , poet Stephenson's "Rocket"
My. Kinchin, Fellow of Corpus, Quen's College in Oxford Street My. Hoole, Rector of tums. C4 = lapam Street Chapel
PLACES Macclesfreld of; Lockport Tohn Haime PLATE: Free Trade Hall, Manchester Dr Price & his views
BRAGS DOL
The Ola Koom in the Horsefar George Whitefield Lilhay, Bristol Moryleport Street, Bristol Baldwin Street Newgate Chapel Harnam Mount , kings wood Rose Gren Lawford Gate kings wood ScA00l Outdoor preacher Bristol in the 17 Centr Pirate. Bristol from St. Augustine Clifton Suspension Briage ns Portland Square
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Dame Defoe The Young Pretender, Bonnie Frunce, Wihtiam. Cromshaw Leeds mn Wesley's tome Harlie The Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Fountains Abbey Tohu Fane Sd ee The Market Place, Hudaersfield Dr. Smollett's History Haworth (hurch k: Mr Grimshaw Mr. Rice of Oey Studley Fark | Mr. Wilson, vicar of Gey Lister's uu, Mannungham , Bradford Mil -hamnds at Sattowe Leeds ~ Todmorden Huddersfield — Haworth Gawksham — Heptonstall Bingley — Otllty — Bradford Pathan Couns — Colne Wakefield — Rothe — Leeds Harewood touse WINCHES TER Hedda, frst Bishop of Winchester — Rufus Strrup
at 6 Cmte — king Aifred oe view of Waachestér WM. an of Wykeham Ligh Stret — Westgate, Wnchester Bishop Edington PLATE: High Street, Sotthampton Cardia ae Brockenhurst Church Willian the Congueror —Withiam kufus Bar Gate, Southampton
Dr. Isaac Watts, ymn-wriller Isaac Watts Rufus' Stone, New Forest Winchester Cathedral Newport, Iste of Wight Southampton Romsey Yarmouth Si wanage
PEOPLE SCOTLAND Wham Watlace Robert Bruce PLACES
ILLUSTRATLONS
Dumbarton Rock Old Camus — Prestonfreld Edinburgh — Hotyrood-House Aberdeen — Murray Elem — Rwer Spey Kath ~ Sx athbogre Fochhabers Glasgow ee Johu Knax On the Forth Princes Street, Fainbur, Loch Clare k Ben Leagach The Young Pretewder Nuwuan Colum ba Patrick Hamdton Tohn knox Mary Queen of Scots Holyrood Fatace PLATE: Batmora/ Castle kung's College, ld Aberdeen an ote: Uy ees Dundee Carse of Gowry Fort - Glen Glanus Ruins of St. Anarews Cathedral Abugedse Castle, (ratte parish Church, Braemar Castle PLATE: Broomuelaw Briage, Glasgow fie, we OE OO the Lerch Rock Light, Lwerpool Merswysiders boarang ship Warrington Lord Erskine Liverpool, about 1755 Lhe Brown Free Library kk Museum Picton Keaaing Room & Watker Avt Gauery, Liverpool Strand Stree &- Custom House, Liverpool College etvesport St. George's Had', Liverpool PLATE:
Liverpool Fort CORNWALL Rocks at Kynance Cornish heath Land's Erd Newlyn, with Penzance St. Michadl's Mount Falmouth Preactung in Cwennap Fut St. lves Edward, he Black Frince Falmouth Mara2zimn The Giant Cormoran Admoral Lestock St. Michael's Mount Stinsust Crowan St. John St: Aubyn Edward Greenfrdd Camborne
PLACES PEOPLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Gwennap Rocks neow the Lizavd St. Agnes Fishing boats comug home Redruth Wesley viding through Camborne Bodmin — Trenuth Fopeor — oe riding be Xt. Just Launceston — St. Austel/ Penzance DURHAM Linds fame Durham Cathedral Doorknocker Mew - Orygan St. tadthbert Duvham Cathedral Nave Teesdale ~ Weardale 'The Venwable Bede Durham Cathedral Chor Stockton - upon - Tees Wiliam the Conqueror View of Durham Cathedral & Castle Sunderland — Dartington William lV Tomb of Bede, Durham Cathedral Cuthburlon — Rwer Tees Prior Richard de tHoton Norman Doorway in Durham Castle Newcastle.
Bishop ttatfield Plate: Durham from the rw Durham Castle Durham Cathedral from the 5. West A: bis ee LON meee eee KENT Dover Castle Shakespeare's iff, Dover Rochestw~ Gregory Charles Dicktas, man of Keut wating Street Jt, "Augustine West Gale, Canterbury Canter bury Charles Dickens loumtry ride to Sewencaks Legh — Shoreham Voltare Tunbriage Wells from Mt. Ephrau Swenoaks — Dover Canterbury from Harbledown Shakespeare s Cliff 'Lonbriage Castle Bromley — Sutingbourme Penshurst Church Chatham — Gravesend Runs of Sissughurst Tunbri age Wells — Mmster Satiding Battery Gate, Dover Castle Base alee Penshurst Hace Stroud — Margate Rochester Castle , from the Medway
BIRMINGHAM
a - WNaseby William Shakespeare Swords found at Ldgehil, A paage ighy School Thomas Arnold Wesley at Wednesbury "Of Hark Wednesbury ~ Bilbrook Tohm Fletch MM at Ldgenid
PLACES PEOPLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Madeley Tosiah Wedgwood The Guurch & Vicarage, Madeley Wolverhampton Wilh am dock SX Mavin's m the Bull Ring loventry — Derby Tames Watt View of Bermungham'- an old print Hagley - Fark MNatthew Boulton PLATE:
General View of Burmugham The form at Leasowes John Leland , antiquarian Rugby School chapel & Thomas Stafford Arnold, famous headmaster Bother Stratford news: the Free School, Shakesptare's bwitplace Anne Hathaway 5 Cottage IRELAND The Black Rock The Coleen Bawn Rock Malone — Dublin St. Fatrick Statue of Edmund Burke Kilkenny — Dunmore Columba Statue of Heary Grattan Cork — Cove ~ Clonmel Heavy Grattan Courtyard of Dublin Castle Ballngarrane Eamund Burke PLATE: The Custom House Uster — Newry — Belfast Owen Goldsmith Dr. Benjamin Franklin Lishua — Mowa — Donegal Dr. Benjamin Franklin John Wesley at Cork Mayo — Lectrum Ballyshannon & the Satmwon -leap aa — Sluigo The Lakes of kklamey Londonderry — Limerick The Methodist College, Belfast Colerame .
The Luan Hall, Belfast The Giant's (auseway lrish factory hands
LONDON OF THE M1D~18TH CENTURY
The House of Lords Bow Church k (heapside King George 11 Gwistopher Wren Guislophar Wren Westnunster School William lowpe, pot Fall Matl, aout 1740 Lewisham — Tottenham lourt Road Death of Whitefield Houses of Parliament from the river The London Workhouse Thomas Gray , pot Vauxhall m 1751 Hampton Court ~— Moorfields Dr Samuel Tohnson The Monument Bethnal Green Londen Bridge before the removal AU — Hallows Church Lombard King George 1 of he houses Spuasfitlds Street | Cornhill, ie Exchange k; Lombard St. Eeter's, Cornhil/ Sted, from an old print
PLACES PEOPLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Spitalfields Lonaon shoeblack , 1750 Hamplon Court — Thomas Grey kung George 111 — Handd Dr. Tohmson mecling wih) Tohn Wesley
NEWCASTLE & THE NORTH-EAST
Gateshead Fell Wesley on Lateshead-Feu/ Morpah — Flacy Kung Henry
Grainger Street, Newcastle Greenside — Garth - Heads The Young Pretender The Royal Arcade, Newcastle Scarborough The Old Briage, Berwick -uponLue The Side, Newcastle
CAMBRIDGE
Trinly College Su lsaac Newton, sciewtast king's tolege Chapel Grant chester Adam Sedgwick , geologist Sw lsaac Newion's Statue Botisham lode Byron, poet ae at St. Tohui's College Lakenheath Macatlay, suslorian The Lys School, (ambridge Norwich George Herbert Francs Bacon Hunxworth Franas Bacon The Gateway , Jésus College Mfrea Tennyson Interior of Kung's College "Chapel Wilberforce — Cromwel/ Witham Put — Milton Thomas Gray — Wordsworth Town Luand ~— Latimer Thomas Fuller — Charles Suen John Fletcher
YORK %& THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ENGLAND
Berwrley Muster kung Edwin Battle sowenurs Pocklington Harald Hardrada Sandside, Scar borou ; St. Saviourgate Qurch Earl Tostg Micklegate Bar, York in the lime Wenaudale° — Wensley king Harold Whi Of the Cail Tag kichmond — Scarborou Wiliam the Conqueror Vartous aspects of Shefpeld Tadcaster — Staveley David of Scotland steel manufacture
PLACES PEOPLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE:
Yovk Must Boroughbridge Shepriedd =
THE OLD BATH
ROAD 86 THE WEST
Stagecoach ode Wesley encounters "Beau Nash The Castle Inn , Marlborou, Brentford — Mow lbor ough Jenn Wood, avhlect Bath, from near the Abby lCemetry Mor thorough's va Castle Lun, later Ye Od Schoo! House aps monuments w Wiltshire : ppenham — kungswood Bristol — Columpton Tiverton — Shaftesbury Salsbury — Isle of Purbeck lorfe Castle ~ Langton Swanage — Taunton Eee — faulton ew-Magna 'Beau' Nash AY — Sith Hi — the ogo — Stonehenge Salsbury Cathedral Corfe Castle The Markel Mlace, Frome PLATE:
Bath from Beechen Cuff Sw Joshua Ryynolds Glastonbury Stagecoach af the pwriod WALES The. Torrent fyalk Lanyachas Dol, , Marwnehsnre Howe Harris Harlech Castle A Welsh peasant woman Kadnorshure Montgomeryshure Merionethshire St. David William Morgan Howell Harris bangor — Trecastle Monmouthshire Langor on the Lee PLATE:
'The Llear Vall Brecknockshire Larmarthenshire — (armarihen Dala — Mupord - Haven Houghion — Pembroke Oxwych — Snausea St. Dand's — Haverford