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her personal Chaplain at her Manor. She now started withregular Divine Services in her home. She took part inbuilding Chapels round about in England. It is told thatwhen she built the Chapel in Brighton 1760, she sold herjewels to finance the building. Sometimes she gotcontribution to the building of Chapels with money localgroups had collected. She kept only a few of the 64 Chapel,which she built, as her personal property.She opened new Chapels throughout the Country,but her most famous Chapel was in the health resort Bath.Both Wesley and Whitefield preached here.According to the letters of Wesley from June1743, it was Lady Huntingdon who got Wesley to preachfor the miners near Newcastle.Lady Huntingdon built 64 Chapels during herlifetime, as mentioned above, and she appointed preacherswho agreed to cooperate with her. She needed morepreachers, and for this reason she founded TreveccaCollege 1768. The College was located in South Wales.She rented an old manor for this purpose. The Estate hadenough buildings for a College with a boarding School. TheSchool opened on Lady Selina´ s 61 st birthday. For theopening the Welsh author of hymns William Williams hadwritten his most famous hymn: “Guild me, O Thou GreatJehovah”. One of his hymns are included in the newSwedish hymnbook number 298.George Whitefield was the preacher for the day.John Wesley was not present at the opening ceremony, buthe came later. One can read about this in his Journals. Inhis Journals there is also a picture of the manor and theCollege Trevecca.95