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other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller |
Section |
No. of Refs. |
Charles
Wesley |
Apr. 3 - Sept. 22, 1741: Bristol and S. Wales again
|
13 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester
|
13 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire
|
12 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland
|
11 |
Charles
Wesley |
1745: London, Bristol and South Wales
|
10 |
John
Wesley |
1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales
|
10 |
William
Gilpin |
Bristol to London
|
9 |
William
Camden |
Dorset and Somerset
|
8 |
John
Wesley |
1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield
|
8 |
John
Wesley |
1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy
|
7 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol
|
6 |
Charles
Wesley |
1749: Marriage to Sally Gwynne
|
6 |
John
Wesley |
1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery
|
6 |
John
Wesley |
1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions
|
6 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 2 - Aug. 31, 1744: Cornwall
|
5 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1 - Aug. 31, 1746: Bristol and Cornwall
|
5 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales
|
5 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Appendix to the second volume
|
5 |
John
Wesley |
1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners
|
5 |
Henry
Vincent |
Feb. 28 to Mar. 9: Bristol, Cirencester and Stroud
|
5 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 1 - Nov. 6, 1739: Preaching around Bristol and Bath
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 3 - Dec. 28, 1747: Wales and Ireland
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol
|
4 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands
|
4 |
John
Wesley |
1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs
|
4 |
Henry
Vincent |
Apr. 15 to 20: Bristol and Newport
|
4 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 7 - Dec. 31, 1740: First visit to South Wales
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
1750: Bristol and London
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north
|
3 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester
|
3 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire
|
3 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland
|
3 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Shrewsbury to Bristol
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland
|
3 |
Henry
Vincent |
Mar. 24 to Apr. 1: Newport and Stroud
|
3 |
George
Borrow |
To Swansea
|
2 |
William
Camden |
Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
|
2 |
William
Camden |
Ireland (1)
|
2 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham
|
2 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol
|
2 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire
|
2 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Bristol to Plymouth
|
2 |
Robert
Gammage |
Election to the Chartist National Convention in 1852
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon
|
2 |
Feargus
O'Connor |
O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839
|
2 |
Henry
Vincent |
Mar. 16 to 23: Wye valley, Newport and Devizes
|
2 |
William
Camden |
The Division of Britaine
|
1 |
William
Camden |
Wiltshire and Hampshire
|
1 |
William
Camden |
Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 4 - Dec. 30, 1736: Massachusetts, and back to England
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 2 - Apr. 30, 1739: London and Oxford
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Jan. 2 - Feb. 27, 1743: Bristol and Bath
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1743: The Midlands
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
July 8 - Aug. 13, 1754: Norfolk
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. MRS GRIFFITHS
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
To Herefordshire
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1697 Tour: York and Scarborough
|
1 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Plymouth to Penzance
|
1 |
Robert
Gammage |
Touring South Wales
|
1 |
Robert
Gammage |
Standing for Parliament in Cheltenham, 1852
|
1 |
William
Gilpin |
Ross to Monmouth
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life
|
1 |
Karl
Moritz |
Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Wybunbury to Darlaston
|
1 |
Henry
Vincent |
Apr. 22 to 27: the Welsh Valleys
|
1 |
Henry
Vincent |
Apr. 29 to May 4: Trowbridge and London
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
1st to 10th September 1776: Galway, Clare, Limerick and Cork
|
1 |
Arthur
Young |
11th to 20th September 1776: Cork
|
1 |