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A Footnote on Methodism in Oxford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Catharine K. Firman
Catharine K. Firman
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The Honnold Library, Claremont, California
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The crime of being “righteous overmuch”—of singing psalms, of expounding the scriptures, of praying extempore— was considered sufficiently grave two hundred years ago to expel six students from the University of Oxford. There were, it is true, alleged extenuating circumstances—illiteracy and low birth—but the basis of the prosecution was that six undergraduates of St. Edmund Hall were “reputed methodists.”

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Church History , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 1960, pp. 161 - 166
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1960

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