The peculiarity of his character made him affect a plainness of dress unusual to the day, and approaching to the simplicity, but not the neatness, of quakerism.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
1-17. See also Sewel's 'History of the Quakers,' and 'Beginnings of quakerism,' by W.C. Braithwaite.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin