bour, John Audland,
'the ruddy-faced linen-draper of Crosslands,' John Camm's own especial
comrade and pair among the 'Sixty.'

It may have been a prearranged plan that they should meet here; anyway
Camm turned aside with Audland and went on with him to Bristol, where
he had already begun to scatter the seed in the west of England, while
Edward Burrough pursued his journey in solitude towards London.[25]
But his days of loneliness were not to last for long. Either just
before or just after his arrival in the great city, two other
Publishers also reached the metropolis, one of whom, Francis Howgill,
was to be his own especial comrade and pair in the task of 'conquering
London.' This was that same Francis Howgill, a considerably older man
than Burrough, and formerly a leader among the Seekers, who had been
preaching that memorable day at Firbank when he thought George Fox
looked into the Chapel and was so much struck that 'you could have
killed him with a crab-apple.' Now that they had come together,
however, it would have taken more than many crab-apples to deter him
and Burrough from their Mission. Together the two friends laid their
plans for the capture of London, and together they proceeded to carry
them out. The success they met with was astonishing. 'By the arm of
the Lord,' writes Howgill, 'all falls before us, according to the word
of the Lord before I came to this City, that all should be as a
plain.'

Amidst their engrossing labours in the capital the two London
'Publishers' did not forget to send news of their work to Friends in
the North. Many letters written at this time remain. Those to Margaret
Fell, especially, give a vivid picture of their progress. These
letters are signed sometimes by Howgill, sometimes by Burrough,
sometimes by both together. But, whatever the signature, the pronouns
'I' and 'we' are used indiscriminately, as if to show that the writers
were not only united in the service of Truth but were also one in
heart.

'We two,' they say in one letter, 'are constrained to stay in this
city; but we are not alone, for the power of our Father is with us,
and it is daily made manifest through weakness, even to the stopping
of the mouths of lions and to the confounding of the serpent's
wisdom; eternal praises to Him for evermore. In this city, iniquity is
grown to the height. We have three meetings or more every week, very
large, more than any place will contain, and which we can conveniently
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