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THE WESLEY AN CHAPEL. 335 the chapel, and it forms the site or part of the site of what has long been the Sunday School-house, and the entrances to the galleries. In the year 1815a third gallery was erected within the chapel. In 1 87 1 all the buildings were rearranged and refitted at a cost of £600. It will now accommodate 600 persons. On the 23rd November, 1882, the following were appointed trustees for the Society, viz., Messrs. John Geake, Joseph Beard Geake, James Treleaven, Henry Hayman, William Cater, Thomas Jenkin, jun., Joseph Ford Geake, Samuel Jones Langman, Matthew Fraser, Alexander McCracken, Benjamin Hancock Balkwill, Alexander Fraser, William Smale Cater, Edward Rovve, and Charles Congdon. On the 23rd December, 1882, these trustees purchased the fee of a dwelling-house and garden on the east side of Northgate Street, opposite to their chapel, and on the site of this dwelling-house and garden they, in the year 1884, built and opened a commodious and very substantial school-house. Clje ftOeslepan Cijapel, The Rev. John Wesley was born at Epworth 27th June, 1703. He was educated at the Charterhouse, and was afterwards entered of Christ Church College, Oxford. In 1726 he was chosen Fellow of Lincoln. In 1729-30 he and his brother Charles, with other students, formed them- selves into an association for strict religious exercises, and thus obtained the name Methodists. In 1735 John Wesley went to Georgia, but returned to England two years later, and began itinerant preaching. By the 1st May, 1738, the Wesleyan Methodists had become a distinct society, and on the 1 2th May in the following year they established at Bristol their first meeting-house. Wesley subsequently