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Mr. Howell Harris.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Lady Huntingdon's Connexion in Ireland. Mr. Whitefield the first who visited Ireland.

Dr. Delany. Bishop of Limerick. Mr. Thomas Williams, Persecution of the Methodists.

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MR. HOWEL HARRIS, who had been with Lady Huntingdon at
Brighton, now returned to London, where he was most kindly
received by Lord Dartmouth, Lady Gertrude Hotham, Mrs.
Carteret, and Mrs. Cavendish. At their houses he often ex-
pounded with successful ability, and after preaching several
times at the Tabernacle and Tottenham-court Chapel, he visited
Bath, and preached at Lady Huntingdon's chapel, expounding
also at Lord Buchan's, and other houses. At her Ladyship's
request he spoke to Messrs. Hart, Jones, Johnson, and Jesse,
appointing them to meet her at Bath, in the month of May, when
she purposed going thither with Mr. Whitefield to devise fresh
schemes for the more extensive diffusion of Divine truth.

On the 30th of March Lady Huntingdon and Miss Orton

left Brighton for London, where they remained only a few days,

and thence proceeded to Bath. Mr. Venn had just set off

for Yorkshire, having spent two months there supplying her

Ladyship's chapel. By this means his sphere of action was

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