'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.' [Illustration] 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 reached London together. [26] Sewel's _History of the Quakers_. [27] Sewel's _History of the Quakers_. XVII. LITTLE JAMES AND HIS JOURNEYS