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c. 1659
 
    
John Bunyan marries his second wife, Elizabeth       
1660
 
  
John Bunyan is arrested for preaching without a licence     
1661
 
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John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol      
1666
 
    
John Bunyan publishes his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, written in Bedford Gaol       
1672
 
   
John Bunyan is released from Bedford Gaol as a result of the Declaration of Indulgence      
1677
 
  
John Bunyan is imprisoned again, for about six months, in a new wave of persecution of Nonconformists     
1678
 
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Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular       
John Bunyan, by Sadler, 1678
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1680
 
    
John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel       
1682
 
   
John Bunyan publishes The Holy War, an allegory of the devil laying siege to the human soul      
1684
 
  
John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress