Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 7
The final volume of Burrough's collected works — his last writings from captivity, his farewell letters to Friends, and the testimonies of those who witnessed his death in Newgate Prison at the age of twenty-nine.
- Volume 7 of 7
- EPUB format
This edition
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- Time to read6.9 hours
- Length99,162 words
- Files1 EPUB, DRM-free
How we get 6.9 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 6.9 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 5.5 hours to 9.4 hours.
What is in this edition
| Modernized text | 96,745 words |
|---|---|
| Introduction, chapter summaries and notes written for this edition | 2,417 words |
| Total | 99,162 words |
The introduction, the chapter summaries and the notes on people, places and unfamiliar terms were written for this edition. They are 2,417 of the 99,162 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
5.5 hours and 9.4 hours above.
Because time is words divided by speed, an even range of speeds produces an
uneven range of times, so 6.9 hours sits nearer the fast end of that
range than the middle of it.
If it were a paperback
Roughly 283–397 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
This final volume of Edward Burrough’s collected writings is the most affecting of the seven. It gathers the writings from his last years — the period of his imprisonment in Newgate, where he was confined with hundreds of other Quakers in conditions of deliberate brutality. He wrote from prison with undiminished force until his strength finally failed. The letters to Friends from these years are among the most moving documents in Quaker history: a young man who knew he was dying, still urging his brothers and sisters to be faithful, still confident in the sufficiency of the Light.
Also included in this volume are the testimonies written by those who knew Burrough and witnessed his death in 1663. George Fox, Francis Howgill, and others set down their recollections of a man they had loved and depended upon. These testimonies serve as both biography and memorial — and as an implicit challenge to every reader: what would it look like to live, and to die, with this quality of faithfulness?
