Entries for the tag ‘Wesley, John (1703-91)’
Cleric and leader of a evangelical revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. 
- 6 May 1744: John Nelson, one of the first Methodist preachers, finds the welcome from gaoler James Barber at Leeds prison superior to the accommodation
- 19 April 1747: The Methodist John Nelson is attacked by an affluent mob while preaching at Heworth Moor and Acomb (York) on Easter Sunday
- 28 April 1747: John Wesley visits “the new house of the Germans” (the Moravians) at Pudsey, which is financed by overseas donations
- 2 June 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip (“like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder”) of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills)
- 9 May 1757: John Wesley rides into Huddersfield in the Wild West Riding
- 22 June 1761: John Wesley is troubled by fish at Guisborough
- 24 June 1761: A cat joins John Wesley’s street congregation at Robin Hood’s Bay
- 3 July 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle
- 19 July 1761: John Wesley speaks at the first love-feast at Birstall
- 24 July 1761: Jonas Rushford (14) of Bradford tells a perhaps envious John Wesley how the Skipton magician Timothy Crowther helped him find a missing man
- 24 July 1766: Hats off for Jesus at Pateley Bridge
- 10 August 1766: John Wesley crowd-counts 20,000 at Daw Green, Dewsbury
- 24 July 1771: Actor-manager Tate Wilkinson opens Puritan Leeds’ first proper theatre with comic impressions of leading Methodists
- 27 May 1776: Samuel Hick, apprentice blacksmith, overcomes his pacifist leanings to rescue the Wesleyan Richard Burdsall from an Anglican assailant at York
- 15 August 1781: The ineffably peripatetic John Wesley discovers a movable pulpit in Sheffield
- 18 July 1784: Wesley finds children “restrained from open sin” at one of the first Sunday schools, at Bingley
- 12 November 1819: The first, nocturnal vision of Prophet Wroe in one of his fields at Tong Street, Bradford following his near-fatal fever
- 17 May 1828: Joseph Pickles of Wilsden, a Methodist convert, dies, having partially recovered his sight, and helped produce 410 descendants
- 25 August 1840: Debating the teetotal vegetarian Frederic Lees at Rotherham, the Wesleyan James Bromley calls the pledge unchristian, and “alcohol-free” wine undrinkable
- 18 June 1847: A local historian tells the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine that Guisborough is not – as an evangelist claims – “a nest of atheists and infidels”
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
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