History of Methodism in Ireland Author:Charles Henry Crookshank Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: at Donnington Park, in Leicestershire, requested the latter to wait on the Speaker of the House of Commons, in her name, and demand redress. He did so on Monday,... more » January 8th, being introduced by Dr. Andrew Gifford, the respected minister of the Baptist chapel, Eagle street, London, and was received with much courtesy. The Speaker "expressed great resentment at the indignities the poor sufferers had underwent;" and added that the Earl of Harrington, who was then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Chesterfield, the joint Secretaries of State, were the proper persons to be applied to, by whom her ladyship might expect to have the grievances redressed. Accordingly a well attested narrative of the persecutions was presented to the Lord Lieutenant; the matter was brought before the Secretaries of State, who expressed great displeasure at the proceedings of the magistrates and clergy of Cork; and through Lady Huntingdon's influence a memorial was likewise presented by the Countess of Chesterfield to his Majesty the King. Notwithstanding all these efforts little relief apparently was obtained, and that was of very brief duration. On January 27th Mr. Whitefield writes, " I am glad to find the storm is a little abated at Cork. I always thought it was too hot to last long." But from the beginning of February to the end of that month it raged as furiously as ever. Butler, helped by his mob, was as violent in spirit, and as destructive and cruel in conduct as heretofore. He several times assaulted the house of William Jewell, a clothier; and ultimately having taken forcible possession of it, swore he would blow out the brains of the first who resisted him, beat Mrs. Jewell, and then smashed all the windows. He abused Mary Philips in the grossest terms, and...« less