. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . , withhis court and people, destroyed the heathen temple and accepted the Christian faith. * Piety among the Peasantry: being Sketches of Primitive Methodism on the YorkshireWolds, by the Rev. Henry Woodcock, ]>. 155. 398 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. At the village of Sancton, two miles from Market Weighton—as Wesleyan Methodistswill remember—the venerable Father Jackson, so called by his admirers, and his twobrothers, Robert and Samuel, were born. Jackson Wrays Nestleton Magna, we maybe quite certain, was somewhere within the radi
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . , withhis court and people, destroyed the heathen temple and accepted the Christian faith. * Piety among the Peasantry: being Sketches of Primitive Methodism on the YorkshireWolds, by the Rev. Henry Woodcock, ]>. 155. 398 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. At the village of Sancton, two miles from Market Weighton—as Wesleyan Methodistswill remember—the venerable Father Jackson, so called by his admirers, and his twobrothers, Robert and Samuel, were born. Jackson Wrays Nestleton Magna, we maybe quite certain, was somewhere within the radius of the Pocklington circuit, andPrimitive Methodists should know that Warter stands on its plan, with its memories ofWilliam Sanderson, John Oxtoby, and Thomas Wood, the little shoemaker, hereafterof Driffield. There is a slight conflict of evidence as to the person to whom belongs the honour ofhaving first missioned Market Weighton and Pocklington. Herod, in his Sketches,claims for Sarah Harrison that she opened both these places, as well as Warter,. HAPEL LODGING-HOUSE. THE OLD CHAPEL, MARKET WEIGHTON. Elvington* and Riverbridge, in the early part f May, 1819. But Herod does not quote-it Harrisons own words, of give the precise dates, and, moreover, his bias against,rathei in favour of, Clowes priority in a given case must be borne in mind. On theother hand Clowes words are perfectly clear and the claim made unmistakable: Thenext .lay M;i\ 27th,) I made my way to open Market Weighton. I preached in the • On ?< large farm :tl Elvington, re-ided (Jeorge ami Alexander Bond, who •joined our societ}r atthai village, and becami greal helps in Bpreading Primitive .Methodism throughout the whole• .I the Ouae and Derwenl division or the Easl Biding of Yorkshire. They also rendered grealhelp to the infant cause in ihe city of York, by becoming responsible lor tin- rent id the first chapel«e took. Thej afterwards emigrated to Canada West, and Laboured, during life, in co
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