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Traditionally
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Apart from his preaching activities, Bennet will be remembered for his marriage to the widow, Grace Murray on 3 October 1749, a woman who at the time of Bennet's proposal was already apparently engaged to no less a person than John Wesley himself. This
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Chapel of Dr James Clegg. Having received a good education at the school at Chapel-en-le-Frith and at the hands of private tutors, at the age of about seventeen Bennet attended
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