. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ress, andwhen it reached Hull, it set foot in a country with a different history, and its courselay open to ancient Northumbria. Because of its position, Gainsborough has memories THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 411 of our Saxon and Danish forefathers. Sweyn landed here; Canute was born in theancient palace that preoccupied the site of the Old Hall; and here the captains of hisships acclaimed him king. Here, too, King Alfred was married to the daughter of theEalderman of the Gainas, and later memories are associate
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ress, andwhen it reached Hull, it set foot in a country with a different history, and its courselay open to ancient Northumbria. Because of its position, Gainsborough has memories THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 411 of our Saxon and Danish forefathers. Sweyn landed here; Canute was born in theancient palace that preoccupied the site of the Old Hall; and here the captains of hisships acclaimed him king. Here, too, King Alfred was married to the daughter of theEalderman of the Gainas, and later memories are associated with the names of John ofGaunt and Cromwell. In 1818, Gainsborough was a busy and, relatively, a much more considerable placethan it is to-day. Its position, not far from inland waterways—such as the canalisedrivers Don and Idle—brought it into touch with Rotherham and Sheffield. In theNapoleonic war-times tons of shot and shell were weekly shipped at Gainsborough;and from it the old bridge at Yauxhall was in 1815-16 conveyed in twenty-seven GAINSBOEOUGH HALL. Thanks to the graphic descriptions of some who spent their boyhood-days in Gains-borough, eighty years ago, we can picture the old town and the life that went on in it.^Even yet there are touches of old-time quaintness about it, but in 1818,—what with itsfluted tiles, its yellow-ochred doorsteps, its green outside shutters, and especially thesight of spars and masts standing out above the corn-fields—it was the most foreign-looking town in England. Gainsborough has other memories- making a still more powerful appeal to Free * See Thomas Mozleys Reminiscences chiefly of Towns, Villages and Schools, 1885,Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself. Thomas Millers Our Old Town. The 412 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Churchmen. In its ancient Manor Hall, standing on the site of a still earlier building,lived the Hickmans who befriended the cause of religious liberty in the days of theStuarts. Probably the Separ
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