We are now to see them repairing to the metropolis of the kingdom.
As deputies were chosen by each monthly meeting to represent it in the quarterly meeting, so the quarterly meetings choose deputies to represent them in the yearly meeting.

These deputies are commissioned to be the bearers of certain documents to London, which contain answers in writing to a [27]number of the queries mentioned in the last chapter.
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.