Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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I walked round the old Abbey, which, both with regard to its size, (being, I judge, a hundred yards long,) and the workmanship of it, is one of the finest, if not the finest ruin in the kingdom. Hence we rode to Robinhood’s Bay, where I preached at six, in the Lower-street, near the Key. In the midst of the sermon, a large cat, frighted out of a chamber, leaped down upon a woman’s head, and ran over the heads or shoulders of many more; but none of them moved, or cried out, any more than if it had been a butterfly.

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Does Wesley experience animals as part of his flock, or were there simply a lot around? See e.g. the Doncaster donkey, the Gainsborough rooster…

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Does Wesley experience animals as part of his flock, or were there simply a lot around? See e.g. the Doncaster donkey, the Gainsborough rooster…

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Two years later, on 23 July 1759,

I preached near Huddersfield, to the wildest congregation I have seen in Yorkshire: yet they were restrained by an unseen hand, and I believe some felt the sharpness of His word. I preached at Halifax in the evening, but the preaching-house was like an oven.

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