Wesley Corpus

Morgan, at Mitchel, “You are in hell; you are damned already.” Secondly, that I asked her to live upon free cost. Thirdly, that she deter mined to admit no more Methodists into her house. At first I thought so silly and improbable a story neither deserved nor required a confutation; but when my friends thought otherwise, I called on Mrs. Morgan, who denied she ever said any such thing. I wrote down her words; part of which I transcribed in my letter to your Lordship, as follows:- “On Saturday, August 25, 1750, Mr. Trembath, of St. Gin nys, Mr. Haime, of Shaftesbury, and I, called at Mr. Morgan's, at Mitchel. The servant telling me her master was not at home, I desired to speak with her mistress, the ‘honest, sensible woman.’ I immediately asked, ‘Did I ever tell you or your husband, that you would be damned if you took any money of me?’ (So the story ran in the first part of the ‘Comparison;’ it has now undergone a very considerable alteration.) ‘Or did * The Bishop of Exeter's Letter, pp. 2, 3. you or he ever affirm,” (another circumstance related at Truro,) ‘that I was rude with your maid?' She replied, vehemently, ‘Sir, I never said you was, or that you said any such thing. And I do not suppose my husband did. But we have been belied as well as our neighbours. She added, “When the Bishop came down last, he sent us word he would dine at our house; but he did not, being invited to a neighbouring gentleman's. He sent for me thither, and said, Good woman, do you know these people that go up and down * Do you know Mr. Wesley * Did not he tell you, you would be damned if you took any money of him 2 And did not he offer rudeness to your maid 2 I told him, No, my Lord; he never said any such thing to me, nor to my husband that I know of. He never offered any rudeness to any maid of mine.