Nevertheless I ask, were the great mass of Bunyan's character names the creation of his own brain, or were they suggested by the nomenclature of his friends or neighbours in the days of his youth? It is the peculiarity of the names in the "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Siege of Mansoul," that they suggest the incidents of which the bearers are the heroes. But, in a large proportion of cases, these names already existed. Born in 1628, Bunyan saw Puritan character names at their climax. Living at Elstow, he was within the limits of the district most addicted to the practice. He had seen Christian and Hopeful, Christiana and Mercy, of necessity long before he was "haled to prison" at Bedford. The four fair damsels, Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence, may and must have in part been his companions in his boyish rambles years before he met them in the Valley of Humiliation; and if afterwards, in the Siege of Mansoul, he turned Charity into a man, he was only doing what godfathers and godmothers had been doing for thirty years previously. The name and sweet character of _Faithful_ might be a personal reminiscence, good Father _Honest_ a quondam host on one of his preaching expeditions, and _Standfast_, "that right good pilgrim," an old Paedo-Baptist of his acquaintance. The shepherds _Watchful_, _Sincere_, and _Experience_, if not _Knowledge_, were known of all men, in less pastoral avocations. And as for the men that were panelled in the trial of the Diabolonians, we might set them side by side with the Sussex jury, and certainly the contrast for oddity would be in favour of the cricketing county. Messrs. Belief, True-heart, Upright, Hate-bad, Love-God, See-truth, Heavenly-mind, Thankful, Good-work, Zeal-for-God, and Humble have all, or well-nigh all, been quoted in this chapter, as registered by the church clerk a generation before Do-right, the town-clerk of Mansoul, called them over in court. "Do-right" himself is met by "Do-good," and the witness "Search-truth" by "Search-the-Scriptures." Even "Giant Despair" may have suffered convulsions in teething in the world of fact, before his fits took him in the world of dreams; and his wife "Diffidence" will be found, I doubt not, to have been at large before Bunyan "laid him down in a den." Where names of evil repute come--and they are many--we do not expect to see their duplicates in the flesh. _Graceless_, _Love-lust_, _Live-loose_, _Hold-the-world_, and _Talkative_ were not names for the Puritan, but their contraries were. _Grace_ meets the case of _Grace-less_, _Love-lust_ may be set by "Fly-fornication," and _Live-loose_ by "Live-well" or "Continent." _Hold-the-world_ is directly suggested by the favourite "Safe-on-high;" _Talkative_, by "Silence."