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122 1648, and he was reinstated at the Restoration, in 1660.

John Wesley was a Fellow of Lincoln for some years, during which period, according to tradition, he occupied the rooms variously described in the guide-books as being " Over the passage from the First Quadrangle into the Chapel Quadrangle," or "Between the First and Second Quadrangles"; or "Between the Outer Quadrangle and the Chapel Quadrangle."

His life there was a quiet, but a very busy, one. And then and there, he, and his followers, were first called "Methodists," on account, it is said, of what even their detractors considered to be the Method of their madness. The head of the MetHodists lectured upon Greek and Philosophy; while he studied, and diligently, Divinity and Mathematics.

Wesley's pulpit, so styled, is still preserved in the ante-chapel of Lincoln; and the earliest duty assigned to him after his election to a Fellowship of Lincoln, was to preach the St. Michael's Sermon, on Michaelmas day in 1726.

Dr. Murray, the present Rector of Lincoln, knows of no reason, or authority, for ascribing "Wesley's Rooms" to Wesley. They may, of course, have been Wesley's; they have been so called by more than one generation of Lincoln-