Bunyan's Native House at Elstow.

The justly-celebrated Author of the "Pilgrim's Progress," a work which ranks
as a Theological Classic, was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in the Cottage
represented above, in 1628. His father, in this humble dwelling, followed the
employment of a Tinker, but gave his son such education as qualified him for
Pastor of a Baptist congregation at Bedford, in the performance of which duty,
he was convicted of holding an unlawful conventicle, and to the eternal disgrace
of the government and ministers of the profligate and infamous Charles the
Second, was imprisoned TWELVE YEARS AND A HALF in Bedford Goal, where
he wrote his "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS," and many other works.

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Yale Center for British Art, 2017