Organisation and Conferences
Organisationally, the Prims followed many precedents from the Wesleyans, including grouping local societies into Circuits, and then (from 1824) grouping Circuits into Districts. By 1824 there were 72 Circuits and four Districts — Tunstall, Nottingham, Hull, and Sunderland.
From 1820, the Primitive Methodists held an annual conference, which was nominally the church's ultimate legal authority. However from 1843 to 1876 the District Meetings grew in power and popularity at the expense of Conference (Lysons:22 and ch.4).
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