Note by AB—The following extract from a subsequent letter from
J N Darby to Sir Edward Denny confirms this account—

The question of Ryde was raised at the London monthly meeting by Mr Anstey’s stating that he had received one from that meeting (Temperance Hall) and had been blamed by another for it. I got up at that time and said he was quite right, as without pretending to decide the merits of the case, the meeting had never been disowned by brethren and he had no right to refuse a person on his own private opinion; and then Mr McAdam, and others, defended their (Temperance Hall) cause; Mr Kelly having spoken nearly the whole meeting, to prove they ought not to be owned; a pretty plain proof that it was not the case yet.

Taken from A Review of Certain Contentions for the Faith—G W Ware

See also Mr Anstey’s notes in these volumes on the purging of leaven (Part 1 pages 326 and 343) AB