Had Reeve and Muggleton taken their own pretensions more seriously, they might have seen preaching in a better light.

In temperament and talent, he seemed much more the natural successor to Reeve than Muggleton was-or cared to be.

The rebels alleged that Muggleton had made ' nine assertions ' contrary to'all sober reason '.

Yet two persons, Lodowicke Muggleton and John Reeve, are appointed the Last Witnesses to fulfill the prophecy of Revelation 11: 3 where no distinction is drawn between one witness and the other.

Muggleton fell away from the Puritan faith, " for all the zeal we formerly had was quite worn out ," and this cost his business dearly in terms of lost customers from that congregation.

He does not receive a straight answer although Muggleton says that faith in a time of innocence is one thing, but that faith through knowledge of good and evil is a higher state of consciousness altogether.

" Muggleton stresses he writes " without the help of other men's labours, but only as the revelation did arise in me from the seed of faith ".

Muggleton seeks not only to explain the text of Revelation on its own terms but also to appropriate the text as a foundation for the Muggletonian faith.

These principles derive from Lodowicke Muggleton, who would have added one other matter as being of equal importance, namely, that God takes no immediate notice of doings in this world.

Here he would have encountered an annual cricket match against a team formed of men with the name Muggleton, from the next village of Wilbaston.

In turn, Muggleton asks what Quakers would have said to St. Peter after he had been given the keys to the kingdom, the power to bind and to loose, the power to remit or to retain sin, all whilst still a man?

In a similar vein, Muggleton is reminded there is nothing in scripture foretelling the coming of one Lodowicke Muggleton, to which the reply is, " For, if there had been such a name written in scripture, many men would have named their sons Lodowicke Muggleton.

Muggleton was advised to get Ann Lowe to sue him for debt so that a writ of habeas corpus would remove him from Newgate to the Fleet prison.

Recent years have seen a reliance on weekend celebrity-hosted content and large cash prizes to entice listeners-the award of £ 110, 600 to Nicola Diss, the winner of the popular Magic Mystery Voices contest on 12 January 2006 was the largest cash prize given away on UK radio since 1999, a sum surpassed just a few months later by the prize collected by listener Dawn Muggleton in the Smooth Secret Song competition on London rival 102. 2 Smooth FM, scooping £ 118, 454 on 19 April 2006.

And I have given thee Lodowick Muggleton to be thy mouth.

" And I have given thee Lodowicke Muggleton to be thy mouth: at that very moment the holy spirit brought into my mind that scripture of Aaron given unto Moses.

Whilst Reeve was alive, we have no evidence that anyone took Lodowicke Muggleton very seriously except as Reeve's ever-present sidekick.

Certainly, Muggleton appears to have written nothing whilst Reeve was alive.

" I have had nine or ten of them at my house at a time ," reports Muggleton, nonchalantly.

" I do not speak this from hearsay of others ," says Muggleton in his autobiography, " but from a perfect knowledge which I have seen and heard.

Throughout the period until the death of John Reeve in 1658, Muggleton seems to have acted only as Reeve's ever-present sidekick.

Muggleton seems only slowly to have grasped that if he wanted to be taken seriously as an individual prophet, he had to write, to publish and to show himself outside his immediate neighbourhood.

Muggleton does not allow that the Quakers themselves may have been well aware of the dangers.

As a result, Muggleton dismisses Quakers as warmed-over Ranters, " for you have got your Christ all within you.

The song also featured in an ITV documentary series about recording techniques, where Tzuke and her producers Mike Paxman and Paul Muggleton showed how the song had been constructed using sound bytes of her voice which were transposed into a synthesizer range.

Richard Farnesworth ( 1662 ) brusquely tells Muggleton that his commission has been faked and that he is trying to act as judge in the stead of Christ.

Muggleton and Dennis Olsen also devised and co-produced Marvellous Party !, a production that celebrates the words and music of Noël Coward, and which had two sell-out shows at the Concert Hall in the Victorian Arts Centre, a highly successful Victorian tour and has been seen at Capers, Melbourne ( 2003 and 2004 ), Friends Restaurant ( Hyatt ) Perth, Edwards Waterfront Mandurah WA ( 2004 ) and Canberra's Teatro Vivaldi ( 2004 ).

Thomas Macaulay in his History of England ( 1849 ), describes Lodowicke Muggleton as " a mad tailor who wandered from pothouse to pothouse, tippling ale and denouncing eternal torments against all who refused to believe.

" Richard Farnesworth also taxes Muggleton about the failure of John Reeve and himself to live out their part from the book of Revelation.

At the time, Muggleton was in hiding at the house of Ann Lowe, a believer, from an arrest warrant of the Stationers Company.

Muggleton was bailed to appear to answer charges arising from his book The Neck of the Quakers broken, specifically that he did curse Dr Edward Bourne of Worcester, therein.

At each of his three two-hourly appearances in the pillory ( at Temple Gate, outside the Royal Exchange and at the market in West Smithfield ) a selection of the books seized from Muggleton were burnt by the common hangman.

Definitely painted from life is the work by William Wood of Braintree, who was a friend of Lodowicke Muggleton.

Muggleton himself says his intention is to prophesy anew: " whereby is unfolded, and plainly declared, the whole counsel of God concerning Himself, the Devil and all Mankind from the foundation of the world to all eternity.

After a short break, Muggleton will take over the role of ' Mrs Peachum ' in " The Threepenny Opera " alongside Paul Capsis for the Sydney Theatre Company, from 1 September 2011 to 24 September 2011, and then head for Perth ( WA ), where she will play the role of ' Mrs Johnstone ' in " Blood Brothers ", from 9 November 2011 to 4 December 2011-a role that she has longed to play.

Edward Bourne asks Muggleton if the two seeds theology does not make God the harbinger of evil in the world?

In 1964 they wrote a 13 episode comedy series for Australian TV, Barley Charlie, which revolved around two sisters, Sheila Bradley as Joan Muggleton and Robina Beard as Shirley Muggleton, who inherit a run down garage complete with its one bone-idle employee, Edward Hepple as Charlie Appleby, it was produced by Rod Kinnear for the Nine Network.

The Muggletonians, named after Lodowicke Muggleton, were a small Protestant Christian movement which began in 1651 when two London tailors announced they were the last prophets foretold in the biblical Book of Revelation.

The Muggletonians, named after Lodowicke Muggleton, were a small Protestant Christian movement which began in 1651 when two London tailors announced they were the last prophets foretold in the biblical Book of Revelation.

" Muggleton, discovering these men to be honest and courteous, sent a bribe after them when they had gone.

When the bribe was returned, Muggleton knew for certain he was in serious trouble.