Category John Wesley

An Extract from Wesley’s Journal

Sat. 12 July 1777 – We dined at Llandilo. After dinner we walked in Mr Rice’s Park, one of the pleasantest I ever saw; it is so finely watered by the winding river running through and round the gently rising hills. Near one side of it, on the top of a high eminence is the […]

The Dawn of Leeds Methodism.

The Independents of Call Lane and the Presbyterians of Mill Hill had embraced Unitarianism in the course of the Eighteenth Century. They were by no means alone. W. B. Trigg has observed that, of the older dissenting communities, it was only those in the countryside, such as Mixenden, Northowram, and Warley which ‘remained true to […]