...autobiography, does not specify his peculiar calling,* simply remarking that his father's house was of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land. His native cottage is still standing, though it has undergone such modifications and modernizations...

...descent, to use his own words, " of a low inconsiderable generation, my father's house," he says, " being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land." It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked as...

...men. For my descent, then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsidable generation, my + , + of the land. Wherefore I have not here, as others, to boast of nobl.'i blood, and of any high-born...

...men. ' For my descent then, it was, as is well known by manj, of a low inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest,...and most despised of all the families in the land. Wherefore, I have not here as others, to boast of noble blood, or of any high-born state, according-...

...descent, to use his own words, ' of a low, inconsiderable, generation ; my father's house,' he says, ' being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.' It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked as...

...unpropitious to alb moral and mental culture. He was, he tells us, " of a low, inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land." * He learnt, indeed, " according to the rate of other poor men's children, but soon lost...

...descent, to use his own words, " of a low inconsiderable generation, my father's house," he says, " being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land." It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked as...

...in the year 1628. His descent, to use his own words, was " of a low and inconsiderable generation," his " father's house being of that rank that is meanest...and most despised of all the families in the land." The craft to which he was born and bred, like his father before him, was that of a brazier or tinker...

...descent, to use his own words, " of a low, inconsiderable generation; my father's house," he says, " being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land." It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire, that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked as...

...connexion with the gypsy tinkers. Bunyan Bays, indeed, " My father's house (meaning his descent) was of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land." This implies that they had somewhat identified themselves with the gypsies, or allowed...