Thursday, 20.--About ten at night we embarked [from Dublin] for Bristol, in a small
sloop. I soon fell asleep. When I awakened in the morning, we were many leagues from
land, in a rough, pitching sea. Toward evening the wind turned more against us, so that we
made little way. About ten we were got between the Bishop and his Clerks (the rocks so
called) and the Welsh shore; the wind blew fresh from the south, so that the captain, fearing
we should be driven on the rocky coast steered back again to sea. On Saturday morning we
made the Bishop and his Clerks again, and beat to and fro all the day. About eight in the
evening it blew hard, and we had a rolling sea; notwithstanding which, at four on Sunday
morning, we were within sight of Minehead. The greatest part of the day we had a dead
calm, but in the evening the wind sprang up and carried us into Kingroad. On Monday
morning we landed at the quay in Bristol.
Tuesday, 25.--I rode over to Kingswood and inquired particularly into the state of our school there. I was concerned to find that several of the rules had been habitually neglected. I judged it necessary, therefore, to lessen the family, suffering none to remain therein who were not clearly satisfied with them and determined to observe them all.
The Journal of John Wesley
Tuesday, 25.--I rode over to Kingswood and inquired particularly into the state of our school there. I was concerned to find that several of the rules had been habitually neglected. I judged it necessary, therefore, to lessen the family, suffering none to remain therein who were not clearly satisfied with them and determined to observe them all.
The Journal of John Wesley
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