Western Association

Francis regularly attended the Western Association from the time of his coming to Horsley. These are the places where it met 1755-1799.

1755 Exeter c 100 mls
1756 Pithay, Bristol c 30 mls
1757 Bradford, Wilts c 30 mls
1758 Broadmead, Bristol
1759 Wellington, Somerset c 75 mls
1760 Bath, Somerset 25 mls
1761 Exeter
1762 Pithay, Bristol
1763 Tiverton, Devon c 90 mls
1764 Horsley, Gloucestershire
1765 Frome, Somerset c 40 mls
1766 Broadmead, Bristol
1767 Plymouth c 140 mls
1768 Wellington, Somerset
1769 Salisbury, Wilts c 65 mls
1770 Pithay, Bristol
1771 Bratton, Wilts c 40 mls
1772 (Chipping) Sodbury, Gloucestershire c 15 mls
1773 Broadmead, Bristol
1774 Yeovil, Somerset c 70 mls
1775 Bradford, Wilts
1776 Kingsbridge, Devon c 140 mls
1777 Prescott, Collumpton, Devon (M) c 85 mls
1778 Horsley, Gloucestershire
1779 Exeter
1780 Frome, Somerset
1781 Pithay, Bristol
1782 Salisbury, Wilts
1783 Tiverton, Devon
1784 Calne, Wilts c 26 mls
1785 Yeovil, Somerset
1786 Broadmead, Bristol
1787 Wellington, Somerset (M)
1788 Portsmouth Common (Portsea), Hampshire c 107 mls
1789 Horsley, Gloucestershire
1790 Plymouth
1791 Wotton-Under-Edge c 7 mls**
1792 Lyme (Regis), Dorset c 92 mls
1793 Bradford, Wilts
1794 Chard, Somerset c 80 mls
1795 Frome, Somerset
1796 Exeter*
1797 Bath, Somerset
1798 Salisbury, Wilts
1799 Pithay, Bristol

The Western Association first met in 1653.

Francis appears to have been the Moderator in 1777 and 1787
and author of the letter in 1765, 1772, 1778, 1762 and 1796.

The distances are the approximate distances from Horsley.

** NB ‘At Wotton-under-edge, seven miles from Horsley, he kept up a monthly lecture for 30 years and preached there 394 times. At Uley, five miles distant, he maintained another stated lecture for many years, and had preached 350 Sermons there.’