Wesley Corpus

Sun. 23.--The room was so crowded in the morning, that I thought it best to begin before the usual time in the evening. Yet were a multitude of people got tegether, in the house, yard, and street, far more than my voice could reach. I cried aloud to as many of them as coula hear, “ All things are ready: come ye to the marriage.” I had then delivered my message: so before ten we took boat, and about eleven reached the ship. The wind was right ahead. Then succeeded a dead Sept. 1747. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 407 calm; so that we did not get out of the bay till Monday evening ; nor within sight of Wales till Wednesday, 26. By this means we had an opportunity of talking largely both with our fellow passengers and the sailors, many of whom received our words with gladness. About two in the afternoon we landed at Holyhead. Between three and four we took horse, and came in the evening to Thomas Thomas’s, near Rydy-Spardon. He had before desired Jonathan Reeves to call there in fico return ; but we were at a great loss, none in the house understanding English, and none of us understanding Welsh; till Mr. Morgan, a neighbouring schoolmaster, came, who took us to his own house ; and in the morning, Thursday, 27, rode with us to the passage. We reached Carnarvon before ten, T'annabull in the evening, and Llanidloes, Friday, 28.