The Pilgrim's Progress (Word classics library) - Softcover

Bunyan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850092388 ISBN 13: 9780850092387

Publisher: Send The Light, 1991

Synopsis

Late Precentor and Canon of Lincoln. REVISED BY Miss MABEL PEACOCK. HHE birthplace of John Bunyan was .E lstow, a small JL village rather more than a mile to the south of the town of Bedford. The original form of the name of Elstow was Ellen-stow., the stow lor place of St. Helen, one of our few early British saints, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, under whose patronage the village was originally placed. Elstow was the seat of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in 1078 by Judith, niece to William the Conqueror, and -widow of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon ;and Elstow nunnery, or abbey, continued to rank among the most wealthy of similar foundations till the Dissolution. The abbey was surrendered to the crown A ug. 26JK 40V, The sisters had pensions granted to them out of the estates, and several of them continued to live quietly close to their old home in the town of Bedford. The register of the united parishes of St. Mary and St. Peter Dunstaple in that town contains the entry of the burial of four of them. The monastic property passed to Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe, brother to the Earl of Sussex, who made the convent his place of residence. He died there in 1566, and was buried in the chancel. From the Ratcliifes the property passed to the Hillersdens, by whom a mansion was erected early in the seventeenth century, which must have been a grand new house in Bunyan searly days. The ivy-clad ruins form a picturesque feature on the south side of the church. Attached to the south-west corner is a beautiful little apartment of the fourteenth century, vaulted from a central pillar, 1T he A nglo-S axon stow a dwelling-place or habitation, forms an element in many local names.
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"Next to the Bible, the book that I value most is John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" ... it is ... the Bible in another shape."--C. H. Spurgeon Famous 19th century preacher

'This wonderful work is one of the very few books which may be read over repeatedly at different times, and each time with a new and a different pleasure'--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Edition details

• Publisher: Send The Light
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850092388
• ISBN 13: 9780850092387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320