These answers are made up from the answers received by the several
quarterly meetings from their respective monthly meetings. Besides these
they are to carry with them other documents, among which are accounts of
sufferings in consequence of a refusal of military service, and of the
payment of the demands of the church.
[Footnote 27: Viz. numbers 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11,12]
The deputies who are now generally four in number for each quarterly
meeting, that is, four of each sex (except for the quarterly meetings of
York and London, the former of which generally sends eight men and the
[28] latter twelve, and each of them the like number of females) having
received their different documents, set forward on their journey.
Besides these many members of the society repair to the metropolis. The
distance of three or four hundred miles forms no impediment to the
journey. A man cannot travel at this time, but he sees the Quakers in
motion from all parts, shaping their course to London, there to
exercise, as will appear shortly, the power of deputies, judges, and
legislators in turn, and to investigate and settle the affairs of the
society for the preceding year.
[Footnote 28: The quarterly meeting of London includes Middlesex.]
It may not be amiss to mention a circumstance, which has not
unfrequently occurred upon these occasions.
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