After this a letter was received from Mr. Burton, of Warwick, stating, that he had at last prevailed upon Church to accompany him to Kingham, and that he had examined the boys before Church, who told the same story as before, when all that he offered as an excuse was, that “it was possible for such things to have happened when he was asleep;” and that Church appeared to him deeply sensible of and humble for his imprudent conduct. What Church wished to be understood by imprudent conduct was this, he is afflicted with a rupture, and grants that he had asked his bed-fellows either to look at or feel the difference of the rupture at night after preaching and in the morning after a night’s rest. About the same time that Mr. Burton wrote to Banbury, as mentioned above, Church also wrote, and in this letter he acknowledges that the boys kept to their story in his presence, but excuses himself as before—that what passed was when he was asleep, and that the boys owned to him that they neither of them spoke a word to him at the time those things happened. He also owns that he had been carried too much away with the vain desire of popularity, and lifted up with pride by the caresses of the people, and that the Lord had suffered this trial to befal him to humble him and empty him of self; that he now saw and lamented his folly; he acknowledges that he had been too gay and trifling, and too fond of young, light, and trifling company, with a great deal more self-crimination; then he proceeds to draw up a long set of rules for his future conduct, and promises, if restored to Banbury, to forsake the company of the young, and associate with the aged and grave—to revere their counsel and advice—to receive kindly their seasonable admonitions and rebukes—to give up the pursuit of popularity—to be content at home among his own people—to abandon all village preaching, and never again to sleep out of his own bed, nor away from his wife—and, in short, to change his conduct all through. He also tells them how much he feels interested in their welfare, and proposes to send them a supply for a season; but begs them, for God’s sake, _not to let the real cause of his expulsion be made known_. In concluding he hopes that his confessions, promises of amendment, and professions of repentance will, at length, restore him to Banbury.