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Methodism
In 1743 the Methodist preacher John Wesley delivered his first sermon in St Ives. Preach-
ing the virtues of temperance, piety and self-reliance, Wesley spent the next 20 years trav-
elling the county and preaching to ever-larger crowds (in his journal in 1781, Wesley
claims to have preached to around 20,000 people at Gewnnap Pit, near St Day). Many
Methodist chapels were built, including several by the famous Cornish Methodist Billy
Bray (a former miner), and methodism was rapidly established as the region's predominant
religion: by 1851 more than 60% of Cornwall's population classed themselves as Method-
ists.
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