Note 209 — COMMENCEMENT OF OUTDOOR PREACHING. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The Weekly Miscellany for May 19th says: "On Sunday last, during the time of Mr. Whitefield's preaching on Kennington Common, a well-dressed man dropped down dead, who was said to be a householder near the Park, Southwark. Two or three others fainted away in the crowd, with the heat."