chard Brown,
who imprisoned me, if he may be forgiven.' Later on he said, 'I have
served my God in my generation, and that Spirit, which has lived and
ruled in me shall yet break forth in thousands.' 'The morning before
he departed his life ... he said, "Now my soul and spirit is centred
into its own being with God; and this form of person must return from
whence it was taken...."' A few moments later, in crowded Newgate, he
peacefully fell asleep. 'This was the exit of E. Burrough, who in his
flourishing youth, about the age of eight and twenty, in an unmarried
state, changed this mortal life for an incorruptible, and whose
youthful summer flower was cut down in the winter season, after he had
very zealously preached the gospel about ten years.'[27]

Francis Howgill, now left desolate and alone, poured forth a touching
lament for his vanished 'yoke-fellow.'

'It was my lot,' he writes, 'to be his companion and fellow-labourer
in the work of the gospel where-unto we were called, for many years
together. And oh! when I consider, my heart is broken; how sweetly we
walked together for many months and years in which we had perfect
knowledge of one another's hearts and perfect unity of spirit. Not so
much as one cross word or one hard thought of discontent ever rose (I
believe) in either of our hearts for ten years together.'

George Fox, no mean fighter himself, adds this comment: 'Edward
Burrough never turned his back on the Truth, nor his back from any out
of the Truth. A valiant warrior, more than a conqueror, who hath got
the crown through death and sufferings; who is dead, but yet liveth
amongst us, and amongst us is alive.'

But it is from Francis Howgill, who knew him best and loved him most
of all, that we learn the inmost secret of the life of this mighty
wrestler, when he says:

'HIS VERY STRENGTH WAS BENDED AFTER GOD.'

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FOOTNOTES:

[21] _Story of Quakerism_, E.B. Emmott.

[22] _Story of Quakerism_, E.B. Emmott.

[23] _England under the Stuarts_, G.M. Trevelyan.

[24] Sewel's _History of the Quakers_.

[25] I have followed Thomas Camm's account of his father's journey
with Edward Burrough, and of their meeting with John Audland in the
Midlands, as given in his book, _The Memory of the Righteous Revived_.
W.C. Braithwaite, however, in his _Beginnings of Quakerism_, thinks it
more probable that Francis Howgill was E. Burrough's companion from
the North, and that the two friends reac