Fifth Viscount Torrington in Church of St Alkmund, Shrewsbury - 21 July, 1793, in the morning
from A Tour to North Wales, 1793, page 234:
According to my intentions of devotion, I enquired for the Church of St. Alkmund (who was he?) where a famous preacher holds forth. So I went soon after ten o’clock; and was shewn into the Corporation seat, (I believe); and well I came early, as the church was crowded to hear their famous preacher.―The service was drowsily perform’d by a sick looking curate. A Psalm, and a hymn were decently sung.
John Byng, A Tour to North Wales, 1793. In C. Bruyn Andrews (ed.), The Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Throughout England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) Between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 3 (London, 1936), p. 234. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546539526172 accessed: 18 November, 2024
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Date/Time | 21 July, 1793, in the morning |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |