The history of Methodism . sts, replied the mayor, are to be tolerated,but you are not. The mob. gave a huzza, and threw stones faster than be-fore. At the next Cork Assizes twenty-eight presentmentswere made against the rioters, but were thrown out by thegrand jury. This jury made a memorable presentment,still on the city records, that we find and present CharlesWesley to be a person of ill fame, a vagabond, and a commondisturber of his majestys peace, and we pray that he maybe transported. A new face was given the affair at the Lent Assize, whenthe trial of the indicted preachers as vagabond
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The history of Methodism . sts, replied the mayor, are to be tolerated, but you are not. The mob. gave a huzza, and threw stones faster than be-fore. At the next Cork Assizes twenty-eight presentmentswere made against the rioters, but were thrown out by thegrand jury. This jury made a memorable presentment, still on the city records, that we find and present CharlesWesley to be a person of ill fame, a vagabond, and a commondisturber of his majestys peace, and we pray that he maybe transported. A new face was given the affair at the Lent Assize, whenthe trial of the indicted preachers as vagabonds was attempted, with Butler, a self-confessed vagabond, as chief witness. Theindignant judge declared it an insult to the court to bringsuch a case before him, and the preachers were liberated. The notorious Butler lost an arm in a riot, and fled to Dub-lin, where he dragged out the remainder of his life in misery.The man who had cried, Five pounds for the head of aSwaddler! was kept from starving by the Dublin Methodists.. CHAPTER LXXVII An Irish Scholar, Apostle, and Saint •That Blessed Max. Thomas Walsh.—A Convert from Romanism.—Speak to Them in Irish.—From the Study to the Syna-gogue.-- Seraphic Saintliness. THE two most distinguished and typical saints ofearly Methodism were born outside of England. JohnFletcher was a Swiss, and that blessed man, ThomasWalsh, as Wesley called him, was an Irishman, born atBallylinn, about ten miles from Limerick, in 1730. He wasa carpenters son, taught to speak the native tongue, and tohold the creed of his parents, who were rigid Roman Catho-lics. Southey says that his life might alone convince aCatholic that saints are to be found in other communions aswell as in the Church of Rome. . As a Romanist hemight have retired to a cell or a hermitage, contented withsecuring his own salvation by perpetual austerity and prayerand a course of continual self-tormenting. But he could nothave been more dead to the world nor more entirely posse