ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



1857-8.— Bolton (Wesley), from Bridge Street. 



1859. — Waterloo, from Liverpool North. 



i860.— Manchester (Gravel Lane), from Irwell Street. 



1 86 1 -2. — Padiham, from Burnley. 



1863. — Accrington, formed from Haslingden. 



1863. — Liverpool (Wesley), from Liverpool South. 



1863-4.— Liverpool (Pitt Street): Wesley Circuit, formed 1863; Grove Street 

 Circuit, formed 1875 ; Liverpool Mission, 1875-8 ; Liverpool Mission (Pitt Street), 1870. 



1863-4.— Manchester (Cheetham Hill), from Oldham Street. 



1865.— Liverpool (Brunswick) : Cranmer Circuit, formed 1865 ; Great Homer Street 

 Circuit, formed 1883. 



1865. — Liverpool (Cranmer), from Brunswick. 



1865-6. — Bolton (Park Street), from Bridge Street. 



1865-6. — Nelson, from Colne : Barrowford, head of Circuit to 1876. 



1866. — Preston (Lune Street) : Wesley Circuit, formed 1866. 



1866-7. — Rawtenstall, from Bacup. 



1866-8. — Preston (Wesley), from Preston. 



1867. — Manchester (Radnor Street), from Oxford Road. 



1868. — Hyde, from Ashton-under-Lyne. 



1868.— Rochdale (Wesley), from Rochdale. 



1868-9. — Bolton (Farnworth), from Wesley. 



1868-9. — Rochdale (Union Street) : Wesley Circuit, formed 1868. 



1869-70. — Oldham (Manchester Street) : Wesley Circuit, formed 1860. 



1869-70.— Oldham (Wesley). 



1 87 1. —Liverpool (Shaw Street Welsh), Chester Street Circuit, formed 1871, 



1871-80. — Liverpool (Mount Sion Welsh), called Chester Street Circuit. 



1872. — Cadishead, from Leigh, Lancashire. 



1872. — Manchester (City Road), from Great Bridgewater Street. 



1875. — Manchester (Regent Road), from Irwell Street. 



1875-6. — Liverpool (Grove Street), from Pitt Street. 



1878. — Blackburn (Clayton-le-Moors), from Blackburn. 



1878. — Manchester (Victoria), from Oldham Street. 



1878-9. — Blackburn (Clayton Street) : Darwen and Clayton-le-Moors Circuit, formed 

 1878. 



1878-80. — Blackburn (Darwen), from Blackburn. 



1879. — Manchester (Longsight), from Grosvenor Street. 



1882. — Liverpool (St. John's), from Wesley. 



1882-4. — Manchester (Oldham Road), from Oldham Street. 



1883-4. — Liverpool (Great Homer Street), from Brunswick. 



1883—5. — Lytham, from Blackpool. 



1888. — Rochdale (Littleborough), from Union Street. 



1889 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 



, — Radcliffe, from Bury. 



, — Millom, from Ulverston. 



, — Manchester (Pendleton), from Union Street. 



, — Morecambe, from Lancaster. 



, — Woolton, from Liverpool (St. John's). 



The New Connexion 



The origin of the New Connexion body, as the first schism within 

 Methodism, has been already referred to. It originated from a desire to give 

 to the lay element within Methodism equal rights of governance and repre- 

 sentation in the administration of the church. That the polity of the new 

 body ultimately took a Presbyterian shape, so that the New Connexion 

 represents a Presbyterian Methodism as opposed to the Independent or 

 Congregational Methodism of the United Free Churches on the one hand 

 and to the hierarchical Methodism of the Wesleyans on the other, was 

 inevitable from the underlying basis of the agitation itself. But the immedi- 

 ately determining cause was probably the acquaintance which Alexander 



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