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Title: The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kendall, H. B. (Holliday Bickerstaffe), 1844-1919
Subjects: Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) Methodists
Publisher: London : E. Dalton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Prom his Journals we learn that Clowes visited Derby during this early period. Hebrings in his reference to it just after he has described the missioning of Belper and the THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 199 opening of the chapel there, and Derby is introduced in such a way as to lead one tosuppose that it was visited by him when he made his first visit to Belper in September,1817, or a little later when he took part in the opening services of the new chapel.Probably he did visit Derby and neighbourhood on both these occasions; for it is clearClowes has thrown together recollections of visits made at different times and at differentstages of the societys progress. He was there when there were difficulties to perplex Jwhen friends were few, and homes and hospitable entertainment not too plentiful. Hemakes kindly mention of a soldier of the Royal Artillery, who took him to his quartersin the Armoury. Properly speaking, the Armoury was the central part of the Ordnance
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THE GBAVEL PIT, MERCASTON, WHERE THE CAMP MEETINGS WERE HELD. Depot, completed in 1805. It was a room large enough to contain 15,000 stan^ ofarms, arranged as in the Tower of London, so as to make a fine and impressive show.On the north and south sides of this central building were the magazines capable ofholding 1,200 barrels of gunpowder. The central part still stands in Ambrose Street,off Normanton Road, and is now used as a brewery, while the magazine on the southside has given place to cottages, and that on the north side to shops fronting themain thoroughfare leading to Normanton. These were Clowes quarters for the time,and surely rather strange quarters for a preacher of the gospel of peace. At first, heconfesses, he felt it rather a trial to have to clamber up into one of the bunks lying tierabove tier which had to be his sleeping-place. But says he: I remembered I wasa missionary, and it behoved me not to demur about little matters of convenience and 200 PRIMITIVE METHODIST C

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