Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 75
nwhich he makes to this portion of his experience is byway of illustration of the goodness of God in preserving him on occasionsof peril. He was born atElstow, in Bedford-shire, in 1628; and,to use his ownwords, his fathershouse was of therank which is themeanest and mostdespised of all thefamilies… … Buntans Cottage at Elstow. John Bunyan 49 which the tinker and his occupation were held, in theseventeenth century, may be learned from the quaintand humorous description of Sir Thomas Overbury. The tinker, saith he, is a movable, for he hathno abiding in one place; he seems to be devout, for…
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