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  John Bunyan timeline
     
1628
 
    
John Bunyan is born the son of a brass-worker in the Bedfordshire village of Elstow       
1649
 
  
John Bunyan marries a woman whose only possessions inspire him - they are two religious books inherited from her father     
1653
 
    
John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers       
1656
 
   
John Bunyan engages in a fierce war of pamphlets with the Quakers, with whose doctrines he profoundly disagrees      
c. 1656
 
  
John Bunyan's first wife dies, leaving him with four young children     
c. 1657
 
  
John Bunyan becomes an itinerant preacher, supporting himself by mending pots and pans