. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . IERNE told again of the camp meeting held at Preston on Maudlin Sunday and what came ofit. From time immemorial it had been the custom for a football-match to be played onSt. Magdalene or Maudlin Sunday between the villages of Hedon and two villages stood for the respective goals, and the object of each village-team wasto kick the ball through the windows of the first public-house they came to that had notits windows guarded by shutters. The ball was urged hither and thither, amid the. PRESTON-IN-HOLDERNE
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . IERNE told again of the camp meeting held at Preston on Maudlin Sunday and what came ofit. From time immemorial it had been the custom for a football-match to be played onSt. Magdalene or Maudlin Sunday between the villages of Hedon and two villages stood for the respective goals, and the object of each village-team wasto kick the ball through the windows of the first public-house they came to that had notits windows guarded by shutters. The ball was urged hither and thither, amid the. PRESTON-IN-HOLDERNESS. 390 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. partizan cries of the onlookers of both sexes, and the oaths and shouts of the contestants,many of whom were bruised and maimed in the struggle, from the fact that some of theplayers had their boots tipped with hard leather or steel in order to make their kicksmore telling. Blood flowed freely, and so did strong drink. The whole countrysidewas stirred, and vocal with the rival cries of, Now Preston! Now Hedon ! PrestonChurch has been known to empty as the ball drew near, and the parson, after hurryingthrough tho service, would stand treat to the victors. True to their principle vice on its own chosen ground, the Hull friends determined to hold a campmeeting on Knowl Hill on Maudlin Sunday (August), 1820. Preston had been visitedfor the first time but a short while before by preachers who were returning from a campmeeting at Iveyingham, and who preached from the cart in which they had person drew out the linchp
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