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Nevers had evidently given up the point , and intended to withdraw all opposition to the advancement of Richard . Nevers and his friends seemed to be sincere , and the hatchet appeared to have been actually buried . Richard was so well treated by them , that he came to the conclusion that the Regulators had been dissolved , or at least that they had turned their attention to some more promising field of labor . On the first of November , when the boys assembled for morning prayers , the principal announced a new regulation , requiring every member of the Institute to be in-doors during the off time , from seven till nine in the evening . Before , they had been permitted to go where they pleased during these hours , as long as they did not leave the estate . But some of the boys had been seen in the village of Tunbrook after eight in the evening ; and all efforts to discover who they were had been unavailing . The prohibition had been made to correct this evil .