passages are collected by the Rev. J. Copner, in his Hero of Elstow, pp. 36-38.

P. 423, 1. 21. the King was crowned. The coronation of Charles II took place in Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1661.

1. 34. Judge Hales. This was the eminently excellent Sir Matthew Hale. The utmost kindness the law would allow might be expected from one who was the friend of Richard Baxter, who looked with disfavour on the rigour of the Act of Uniformity, and who, while he preferred the Episcopalian form of Church government to any other, was unable to accept any as of absolute divine authority, and was therefore indisposed to prosecute those who dissented from the national form of religion.

P. 424, 1. 18. the Swan Chamber. The principal room in the Swan Inn. This chief house of public entertainment in the town of Bedford stood on the bank of the river Ouse, close to the bridge foot at the north-east corner. The old inn, long since pulled down, was a long, low, picturesque, half-timbered building, with projecting bow windows lighting the chief apartment overlooking the river, in which the judges and magistrates met.

P. 426, 1. 15. I am but mother-in-law to them. But for this passage we should have been left in ignorance of the death of Bunyan's first wife, and of his second marriage to this truly heroic woman, so well worthy of such a husband.

1. 19. I being smayed at the news, dismayed, terrified. According to Professor Skeat the Old French desmayer was early supplanted by esmayer, also meaning to dismay. Cf. the Italian smagare (put for dis-magare), to lose courage, also to dismay.

P. 428, 1. 8. I had, by my Jailor, some liberty granted me. It is plain by the church books of the Baptist congregation that Bunyan's imprisonment was by no means rigorous during the early period of his incarceration. We have his own authority for the fact of his being permitted to preach, and that not in Bedford and its neighbourhood only, but even in London. It may be to this period of comparative liberty that the story is to be assigned of a clerical justice of the peace sending a messenger to the jail at midnight to inquire whether John Bunyan was safe, in the hope of finding him absent from his prison, a few minutes after his return from one of his lengthened journeys, just in time to save both bis gaoler and himself from the consequences of his unlawful mercifulness.

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