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338 THE WESLEY AN CHAT EL. defines Methodism : " It requires of its members no con- formity, either in opinions or modes of worship, but barely this one thing, to fear God, and work righteousness." In the year 1794 Launceston became the head of a circuit, which included Tavistock, Callington, Looe, Hols- worthy, Kilkhampton, Gunnislake, and Liskeard. Each of these places now forms an independent circuit. To obviate Wesley's complaint that the new house at Launceston was "still too small," the trustees, on the 21st November, 1796, bought from John Collins and others part of a garden which adjoined that house, forty feet in length, and fourteen feet in breadth. This additional land was conveyed upon trusts for the Methodists, similar to those contained in the deed of 6th April, 1789, and the trustees forthwith enlarged their meeting-house. It would seem that, by the year 18 10, even those enlarged buildings were insufficient for the requirements of the Wesleyans in Launceston; for, on the 2nd July in that year they purchased from Mr. Henry Nicolls two messuages in Castle Street, on the site of which they erected a chapel — " The Methodist Chapel " — and a preacher's house in front of it. The property was to be held upon the trusts of Mr. Wesley's deed of the 28th February, 1784. When the chapel of 18 10 was completed the Methodists began to use the old meeting-house in Tower Street as a Sunday schoolroom, and they continued to so use it until about the year 1861, when we find it occupied as a British School for Girls. On the 29th September, 1865, the old meeting-house was sold into private hands, and now three new dwelling-houses stand on its site. On the 28th November, 1827, the Wesleyans purchased other sites in Castle Street, and they afterwards made additional purchases there, so that, by the year 1870, they had space for the capacious and elegant chapel, spire, and schoolrooms which they then built, and which now grace