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John Bray

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John Bray

From University of Manchester we learn that Bray was "a poor uneducated layman, possessed of a deep religious faith. A brazier by trade, his house in the district of the city known as Little Britain was the centre for early Methodist/Moravian activities until it was superseded by the Fetter Lane meeting room."

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John Bray

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Bray's house

Adjoining this site stood the house of John Bray, scene of Charles Wesley's e...

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Waterloo churches / Commissioners' churches

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