Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . HJS, THE LOVING iMM^ CHAPTER XIII. TIf£ RISE AND PROGRESS OF NONCONFORMITY IN HISTORY OF THE FLINT CATHOLIC MISSION. We are indebted to the Rev. Michael Jones, NonconformistMinister, for the following account of the rise and progress ofNonconformity in Flint, which we have no doubt will proveinteresting to some of our readers, The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists.—This denomination was firstintroduced into Flint between 1784 and 1788, by an Excise Officer thenresiding in t
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . HJS, THE LOVING iMM^ CHAPTER XIII. TIf£ RISE AND PROGRESS OF NONCONFORMITY IN HISTORY OF THE FLINT CATHOLIC MISSION. We are indebted to the Rev. Michael Jones, NonconformistMinister, for the following account of the rise and progress ofNonconformity in Flint, which we have no doubt will proveinteresting to some of our readers, The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists.—This denomination was firstintroduced into Flint between 1784 and 1788, by an Excise Officer thenresiding in the Town. He attempted to hold a preaching meeting; butthis, being opposed by the leading men of the place, was abandoned. Thenext atteiTipt was made in 1788: at that time Flint was a notedbathing-place, and among the visitors was a preacher named WilliamLewis, a native of Anglesey, but then residing at Adwy-r-Clawdd, nearWrexham, who was persuaded to preach at Flint. Lewis stood up ona horseblock close to the Swaji Inn, when a motley crowd gathered in theopen space before him, to jeer at him ; one man had a frying-pan, whic
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