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A History of the County of Lancaster
… A district was assigned in 1879; Lond. Gaz. 14 Feb. John Wesley preached there on 4 April 1782; Wesley's Works (ed. 1829), iv, 224. The first chapel was in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was introduced and spread, but it was not till 1780 that Wesley himself preached in the town of Blackburn, and then he …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… plantations. 10 The soil is mainly clay and sand. One of Wesley's most prominent fellow-labourers, the Rev. William …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is the hostile reception accorded by many of the people to Wesley, when John Milner, the vicar, desired him to preach at Chipping. In June 1752 Wesley and his friend the vicar returned to Chipping from an … some others were consulting as to the means of preventing Wesley from preaching. After an interview they were pacified, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… four Roman Catholic, 116 and thirty-six Nonconformist. Wesley preached in the district in the year 1748 (at … and Astley. See under Bedford, Pennington, and Westleigh. Wesley, Journal. Ex inform. Mr. John Gerrard. Pink, Leigh …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1775; the church in Manchester Street was opened by John Wesley in 1790, and enlarged in 1850. 182 There are also chapels at Greenacres Road (Wesley), Glodwick, Watersheddings, Moorside, and Northmoor. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Methodism was introduced into the town about 1746, and Wesley, on visiting the place in 1749, was received with ' …
Survey of London
… Little St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate, and father of John Wesley's mother, Susanna, lived in Spital Yard, dying there … No. 36. Stow, vol. i, p. 167. Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, ed. Nehemiah Curnock, 1909, vol. ii, p. 268 note. …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… of which stands Brunswick Chapel, the spacious and elegant Wesley an place of worship. After passing this chapel, there …