. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . n as late as 1812 the Conventicle Act had power toannoy, and what the trend of the time was is clearly shown by Lord Sidmouths bill forchecking the facilities with which persons entered the dissenting ministry. This bill wasbrought in in 1811, the birth-year of Primitive Methodism. Lord Sidmouth complainedthat cobblers, tailors, pig-drivers, and chimney-sweeps had assumed the sacred clause requiring the signatures of six respectable householders of the villagebelonging to the applicants denomination might seem a harmless c
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . n as late as 1812 the Conventicle Act had power toannoy, and what the trend of the time was is clearly shown by Lord Sidmouths bill forchecking the facilities with which persons entered the dissenting ministry. This bill wasbrought in in 1811, the birth-year of Primitive Methodism. Lord Sidmouth complainedthat cobblers, tailors, pig-drivers, and chimney-sweeps had assumed the sacred clause requiring the signatures of six respectable householders of the villagebelonging to the applicants denomination might seem a harmless condition, but it wasshrewdly suspected that the true billet of the bill, and especially this clause of it, wasthe suppression of local preachers and the extirpation of village dissent. TheNonconformists were up in arms ; and historians do not fail to note the fact that, for thefirst time, the Wesleyans took a leading part in a political struggle, joining heart and soulin the resistance which was organised to the bill. On the day of its second reading there.
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