Copy letter from Leeds, Yorkshire, to Francis Asbury in the United States, re the disclosure of the contents of Coke's letter of 24 April 1791 to Bishop William White [PLP/28/7/13].
He denies that he had applied to the Convention for reconsecration, or that Coke and Asbury would have had to give up their 'Episcopal Ordination'. Nothing would have been done without Asbury's consent.
Coke asks that Asbury prevent Coke's character from being attacked at the General Conference. Work in Britain is proceeding well, despite the demands of the war against France.
[Publication record: Robert Paine, The life and times of Bishop McKendrie, i (1874), 237ff.]