British History-7
' John Wesley ' RHODA POWER
In a letter dated October 12, 1743, the Staffordshire magistrates informed the constables of that county that 'certain disorderly persons styling themselves Methodist preachers, go about raising routs and riots ', and ordered them to arrest John Wesley and his preachers for a breach of the peace.
The charge was quite untrue. For, though there had been disturbances in other parts of the country, Wesley had preached at Wednesbury without molestation. The colliers in the neighbourhood had listened to him peaceably, and several hundred persons had formed themselves into a society as Methodists. On the contrary, an agitation was stirred up against them; their doors were broken open, their houses plundered. Both preachers and congregation were maltreated and pelted with eggs. You are to hear about John Wesley and his difficulties this afternoon.
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