. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . bria, 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, p. 155. 398 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUKCH. 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 . bria, 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, p. 155. 398 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUKCH. 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,. KANTER CHAPEL LODGING-HOUSE. THE OLD <JHAPEL, MARKET WEIGHTON. Elvington^ and Riverbridge, in the early part of May, 1819. But Herod does not quoteSarah Harrisons own words, or give the precise dates, and, moreover, his bias against,rather 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 day (May 27th,) I made my way to oj^en Market Weighton. I preached in the * On a large farm at Elvington, resided George and Alexander Bond, who joined our society atthat village, and became great helps in spreading Primitive Methodism throughout the wholeof the Ouse and Derwent division of the East Riding of Yorkshire. They also rendered greathelp to the infant cause in the city of York, by becoming responsible for the rent of the first chapelwe took. They afterwards emigrated to Canada West, and laboured, during life, in connec
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