They dated their letters "from Great Trinity Lane, at a Chandler's shop, against one Mr.
Millis, a brown baker, near Bow Lane End;" and the editor of _Mercurius Politicus_, who had received one of their letters so dated, had the curiosity to go to see them, with some friends of his, in the end of August 1653.

He found them "at the top of an old house in a cockloft," and made a paragraph of them thus:--"They are said to be a couple of tailors: but only one of them works, and that is Muggleton; the other, they say, writes prophecies.

We found two women there whom they had convinced; whom we questioning, they said they believed all.

Besides there was an old country plain man of Essex, who said he had been with them twice before; and, being asked whether he were of the same opinion and did believe them, he answered, Truly he could not tell what to say, but he was come to have some discourse with them in private." Two mouths after this interview (Oct.

1653), they were brought before the Lord Mayor and Recorder for their letters to ministers, and sentenced to six months of imprisonment each.