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123 ians, but the Rector fancies them to have been the invention of some clever Hall-porter, who handed them down to his descendants in the lodge for the sake of the shillings which still pour in from the reverent pilgrims—especially American pilgrims—who visit them now, for Wesley's sake. The pilgrims are determined to see "Wesley's Rooms," and these Rooms, where ignorance is bliss, will do as well as any others—for a shilling a head!

Southey, in his "Life of Wesley," speaks of the scoffing crowds who surrounded Wesley on public occasions, and of the attention he attracted because of his long and flowing hair, which he refused to let the barbers touch, on the ground that the money spent for dressing it—no small item then—would do more good if given to the poor and to the needy than to the hair-dressers, who needed it not. A pupil, and a friend and follower of Wesley at Lincoln was John Hervey, author of a once famous and exceedingly popular book, with a not very cheerful title, "Meditations Among the Tombs." He was sent to Lincoln in 1731; and he is said to have lived there a somewhat idle life until he came under the influence of the Methodists in 1733. He is credited with having been one of the quietest, gentlest, most unworldly of