. Walks in London . ished in thereign of Edward L The artillery grounl here is the CampusMartins—the Champ de Mars—of London. Just beyond the Barracks (divided by the street) is th% vast burial-ground of Bunhill Fields, Anthony Woods ** fanatical burial-place,* and Southeys Campo Santo ol the Dissenters,* originally called Bone-hill Fields from having been one of the chief burial-places during the Great Plague. Open, Week-days, 9 to 7 in summer, 9 to 4 in , I to 7 in summer, l to 4 in winter. The burial-ground is now closed as a cemetery, but the(brest of tombs on the left, shade
. Walks in London . ished in thereign of Edward L The artillery grounl here is the CampusMartins—the Champ de Mars—of London. Just beyond the Barracks (divided by the street) is th% vast burial-ground of Bunhill Fields, Anthony Woods ** fanatical burial-place,* and Southeys Campo Santo ol the Dissenters,* originally called Bone-hill Fields from having been one of the chief burial-places during the Great Plague. Open, Week-days, 9 to 7 in summer, 9 to 4 in , I to 7 in summer, l to 4 in winter. The burial-ground is now closed as a cemetery, but the(brest of tombs on the left, shaded by young trees, remains 304 WALKS IN LONDON, a green oasis in one of the blackest parts of the centre of the Puritan NecropoHs a whitefigure, lying aloft upon a high (modern) altar-tomb, marksthe Grave of John Buriyati (1628—1688), whither all willat once direct their steps, for who does not, with Cowper— ** Revere the man whose pilgrim marks the road,And guides the progress of the soul to John Bun5ans Tomb. Bunyan wrote as many books as the sixty years of his life,but is chiefly honoured as the author of The PilgrimsProgress, which was written during his imprisonment as adissenter in Bedford jail, where with only two books—theBible and * Foxes Book of Martyrs—he employed histime for twelve years and a half in preaching to, and pray-ing with, his fellow-prisoners, in writing several of hisworks, and in making tagged laces for the support of him- yOHN BUNYANS TOMB. 305 ielf and his family. * Being released in 1672, he spenthis remaining years in exhorting his dissenting brethren toholiness of life, and, when James II. proclaimed Hberty ofconscience for dissenters, opened a meeting-house at Bed-ford. He died on Snow Hill from a cold taken on a mis-sionary excursion, m the house of John Studwick, a grocer,who was buried near him in 1697. I know of no book, the Bible excepted, as above all comparison,which I, according to my judgment and experience,
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