miles of Northampton, and on the grave is a memorial brass, bearing the Washington coatÄofÄarms and on it are the stars and bars of heraldry which gave us the "Stars and Stripes," our national flag. Here in Northampton also is the Cromwell House, so called because tradition says Oliver Cromwell slept in it the night before the great battle of Naseby. Associated with Northampton is Robert Brown, founder of the Brownists, (afterwards known as Independents and then as Congregationalists) also Philip Doddridge, hymn writer and teacher William Carey, shoemaker and founder of modern missions; the Rylands, father and son. In Northampton is the oldest newspaper in Europe, `The Northampton Mercury," founded in 1720 by Robert Raikes and Wm. Dicey. This Robert Raikes' son, Robert Raikes, founded the Sunday Schools in the old country about one hundred and twenty-five years ago. The old Washington home is now part of the estate of the present Earl Spencer. From here I went over to Bedford, 16 miles distant, and went to the old original cottage of John Bunyan, where his family lived while he lay in Bedford jail 12 years for no other crime than preaching the Gospel, and during which time Bunyan wrote his immortal "Pilgrim's Progress," the book that is recognized throughout the civilized world as next the Bible. Here too, is the old building "Moot Hall," where Bunyan was working as a tinker, when he was converted. This is a large and quaint old building, with a number of different craftsmen at work in it. The old jail is gone and a tree now grows where it stood. The new Bunyan Church is an imposing structure, and in one of the back rooms are two of the old iron jail doors with iron casing and iron bars built in the wall. In another room upstairs is Bunyan's library of books and private papers, his will and many articles that were his personal property; among them his chair, jug, book of martyrs, church book, cane, mug; cushion and the original order for his arrest, etc.

On the public square in Bedford, is a large and imposing granite monument. with statue of Bunyan on top, that was erected by the same authorities that had him put in prison. My! my! I could but think how times have changed for the better.

While in London, I went out to Bunhill Fields, where Bun-

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