" It was true that Methodists were the most strongly Anti-Catholic among the Nonconformists.4 Irish Methodists were known to speak at Brunswick Clubs, and there were Methodist preachers here. At Penenden Heath, however, Dr Jabez Bunting, a leading Methodist and one of the few who believed in Emancipation, deliberately chose to argue against the whole process of petitioning as a religious body.5 "
― Antonia Fraser , The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Religious Liberty in Georgian England