Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 6
Burrough's mission writings — his accounts of Quaker ministry in Ireland, his addresses to the people of London, and his writings from the years of growing persecution as the Restoration brought new dangers to Friends.
- Volume 6 of 7
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This edition
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- Time to read6.4 hours
- Length90,685 words
- Files1 EPUB, DRM-free
How we get 6.4 hours
This figure is here so you can compare one book against another. Every title on the site is timed from its own word count at the same reading speed — nothing is adjusted book by book — so if this edition says 6.4 hours and another says half that, the second one really is about half the reading. It is a measure of size, in the way a page count is. Your own pace is your own: at the speeds typical adult readers actually manage, this edition runs anywhere from 5 hours to 8.6 hours.
What is in this edition
| Modernized text | 88,538 words |
|---|---|
| Introduction, chapter summaries and notes written for this edition | 2,147 words |
| Total | 90,685 words |
The introduction, the chapter summaries and the notes on people, places and unfamiliar terms were written for this edition. They are 2,147 of the 90,685 words above, and they are part of what you are buying.
Counted from the text of the EPUB you receive. Navigation, the title page, the table of contents and the licence page are excluded — they are packaging, not reading.
The reading rate
238 words per minute, for adult silent reading of non-fiction, applied unchanged to every title on the site. We did not pick the number; it is the pooled result of a published meta-analysis. Nothing is adjusted book by book — that consistency is what makes two of these figures worth comparing.
Brysbaert, M. (2019). How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104047. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104047
190 studies, 18,573 participants.
The same paper puts most adult readers between 175 and
300 words per minute, and those two speeds give the
5 hours and 8.6 hours above.
Because time is words divided by speed, an even range of speeds produces an
uneven range of times, so 6.4 hours sits nearer the fast end of that
range than the middle of it.
If it were a paperback
Roughly 259–363 pages.
Words per printed page is a typesetting convention, not a measurement — it moves with trim size, type size and leading. The range above assumes 250–350 words a page. Friends Illuminated publishes no print edition of this book; the figure is here only because pages are a more familiar size than words.
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About This Edition
Edward Burrough was among the first Friends to carry the Quaker message beyond England. This sixth volume collects his writings from his time in Ireland — where he and Francis Howgill together established Quaker meetings that would survive centuries of persecution — as well as his major public addresses to the citizens of London. These texts show Burrough at full maturity as a preacher and writer, his voice combining prophetic urgency with pastoral care in a way that only comes from years of ministry.
The latter writings in this volume were composed under the shadow of the Restoration. When Charles II returned to England in 1660, the brief window of relative toleration closed. Friends faced new legislation specifically designed to suppress them. Burrough responded with characteristic boldness, addressing both the king and Parliament in documents that rank among the finest arguments for religious liberty produced in seventeenth-century England. He would be arrested and die in Newgate within three years of the Restoration. These writings are his testament.
