LUDOWICK, the founder of the sect of the Muggletonians, was born in 1609, and was bred to be a tailor. Abandoning his trade in 1651, he set up himself and his companion John Reeves as the "two last witnesses" mentioned in the Apocalypse as having power to prophesy and to smite mankind with plagues. They began to fulfil their "commission" by denouncing all religious sects, and especially the Ranters and the Quakers. An exposition of their doctrines was published in 1656 under the title of The Divine Looking-Glass. In this work, among other wild vagaries, were propounded the views that the Trinity are merely the three different names, and not the three distinct persons, of one God; that God has a real human body; and that he left Elias as his vicegerent in heaven when he came down to the earth to die on the cross. Such profane heresies provoked much opposition. They were attacked by the famous Quaker William Penn in a book entitled The New Witnesses proved Old Heretics, 4to, 1672. Muggleton himself, in 1676, was arraigned at the Old Bailey on the charge of blasphemy. He died in March 1698. His collected works were published in 1756. In 1832 appeared a complete collection of the works of Reeves and Muggleton, together with tracts by others of the same sect, in 3 vols. 4to.