Wesley Corpus

At halfan hour after six, I preached in the market place, to a numerous. congregation: but they were not so serious as those at Portsmouth. Many children made much noise, and many grown persons were talking aloud, almost all the time I was preaching. It was quite otherwise at five in the morning. There was a large congregation again; and every person therein seemed to know this was the word whereby God would judge them in the last day. In the afternoon, I walked to Carisbrook Castle ; or rather, the poor remains of it. It stands upon a solid rock on the top ofa hill, and commands a beautiful prospect. There is a well in it, cut quite through the rock, said to be seventy-two yards deep ; and another in the citadel, nearahundred. They drew up the water by an ass, which they assured us was sixty years old. But all the stately apartments lie in ruins. Only just enough of them is left, to show the chamber where poor King Charles was confined, and the window through which he attempted to escape. In the evening the congregation at Newport was more numerous and more serious than the night before. Only one drunken man made a little disturbance. But the mayor ordered him to be taken away. : Thur. 12.--We set out early from Newport, and crossed over from Cowes to Southampton. In the afternoon we came to Salisbury ; and on Saturday, rode on to Shaftesbury. I preached in the new house in the evening ; on Sunday afternoon, at Deverel Long Bridge; and on Monday, 16, before noon, praised God with our brethren at Bristol. Tues. 1'7.--Ai their earnest desire, I preached to the poor colliers confined in Newgate on account of the late riot. They would not hear the Gospel while they were at liberty. God grunt they may profit by it now! Wed. 18.--We set out for the west; and on Friday, 20, came