. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . e and uninterruptedpresence of God.—MS. Journal. 296 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. President of the first Conference at Hull in 1820. Precisely when and under whatcircumstances Sileby was first entered we are not informed ; but it already had, in 1^1*,a vigorous society, and Hugh Bourne, W. Clowes, J. Wedgwood, and J. Harrison allvisited it during the first six months of the year. On March 20th, Hugh Bourne wasat Sileby about a chapel, and the chapel must have been erected soon after, for thesecond and last number of the Quarterly Maga
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . e and uninterruptedpresence of God.—MS. Journal. 296 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. President of the first Conference at Hull in 1820. Precisely when and under whatcircumstances Sileby was first entered we are not informed ; but it already had, in 1^1*,a vigorous society, and Hugh Bourne, W. Clowes, J. Wedgwood, and J. Harrison allvisited it during the first six months of the year. On March 20th, Hugh Bourne wasat Sileby about a chapel, and the chapel must have been erected soon after, for thesecond and last number of the Quarterly Magazine (July, 1818) says: A new chapelhas been opened this quarter at Sileby and another at Queniborough, both in Leicester-shire. Hence it appears that Sileby must have run Loughborough pretty close for thehonour of having the first chapel in the county. At Sileby, too, the September quarterlymeeting of the young Loughborough Circuit was held. The strength and importance ofthis society was no doubt largely owing to George Hanfords connection with it. As a. KIKST IKEACHINC. PLACE, SILEBY. lace manufacturer, he must have occupied a fairly good position, and his contributionsto the early Magazines and the prominent part he subsequently took in Connexional affairsall indicate thai he was a man of considerable ability and force of character. He signs asa trustee of Loughborough new chapel; is one of the representatives of the Circuit tothe Preparatory Meeting of 1819; is Piesident of the first Conference; is at the secondand fourth < inferences, and though not expressly named, was probably a delegate to thethird, held at Loughborough. He is the second local preacher on the 1823 plan,delegate to the Nottingham District Meeting in 1825, and then he disappears—whetheras the result of his withdrawal or death there is no evidence to show. Alike in his firstappearance and hi- disappearance there is a singular, and rather disconcerting, abruptness,perhaps accounted for hy the paucity
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