Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Aldersgate Street
Major north-south street on the east end of the map
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JOHN WESLEY and Aldergate Street.
The founder of Methodism was, as is well known, the son of a clergyman of the Established Church, and became such himself, attaining his thirty-fifth year without doing anything remarkable, beyond a missionary excursion to the American Indians. Being in London on the 24th of May 1738, he went, ‘very unwillingly’ to a meeting in Aldersgate Street where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. Listening to the reader, ‘at about a quarter before nine o’clock,’ light flashed upon his mind, and he was converted. Until that evening, he used to say, that although a teacher of others, he had never known what Christianity really was.
more on this Area, including 1670 print of the Gate:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45092&strquery=petre%20%20April%201664