After shewing the letter to Mr. Lambart and Mr. Hall, I asked their counsel on the business (being a stranger to the whole affair) who advised me to take the letter to some of the principal-persons of the meeting; accordingly I went with them to Mr. J. Gardenner and others, to whom Mr. Garrett’s letter was shown, when it appeared that several letters of inquiry had been sent them from different persons in London, but they from delicacy had declined giving any answer; however, they now determined that a Meeting should be held of the principal persons belonging to the congregation. {8} I did not attend that Meeting; however, the day following, I was informed that they had concluded to draw up an impartial statement of the whole matter, and send it with copies of all the letters that had passed between them and Mr. Church; I was requested to transcribe a correct copy of the whole, which I did, and from that copy the following extracts were impartially made:— It appears that Mr. Church, while at Banbury, was very popular as a preacher; he seemed fond of preaching at many places round the neighbourhood, and was always well received: among other places, he was in the habit of preaching at Kingham, at which place he was held in very high esteem, and had many marks of the peoples’ favour. He had made an engagement to go to Birmingham; but a few days before he set off for that place, Mr. T. Gardenner also received a letter, from a gentleman at Kingham, at whose house Mr. Church was usually entertained, directed for Mr. Church, requesting that it should be delivered into his own hand and to no other person. Mr. T. Gardenner accordingly waited on him, and put it into his hand; on opening it he changed countenance; on reading further he became quite confused, and appeared very much agitated and alarmed, but endeavoured to conceal it as much as possible. Mr. Gardenner perceiving this, requested an explanation. This he obtained by Church shewing him the contents of the letter: this letter, it seems, reprimanded his indelicate conduct towards two boys in the family, the gentleman’s son and a servant boy, who had both, at his request, been his bed-fellows in their turns; and finally it forbid his coming to preach at Kingham again. Mr. Gardenner, thunder-struck at this, entreated him to go directly to Kingham and clear up the point, which Church said had no foundation but in the falsehood and malice of the boys; but Church declined going, alleging that it was of little consequence what two false boys would say, and that his going to Kingham would derange his plan of going to Birmingham, and that by the time he returned the rumour would be done away. Mr. Gardenner thought otherwise, and used every argument to prevail on him to go, offering to accompany him with other friends to clear him if possible, before the report got farther abroad.—However, he still _refused going with his friends_, but promised to call and settle