[79] This was Sir Samuel Luke of Cople-Wood-End, a Parliamentary leader and a man of probity and distinction, supposed to have been the particular subject of Butler’s lampoon. His own letter-book, however (_Egerton Magazine_, cited by John Brown in his recent _Life of Bunyan_, p. 45) shows him to have been much more a man of the world than was Butler’s caricature of a “Colonel.” [80] Samuel Pepys--whom those well up in cockney ways of speech persist in calling “Mr. Peps”--was born 1633; died 1703. His _Diary_, running from 1660 to 1669, did not see the light until 1825. Since that date numerous editions have been published; that of Bright, the best. See also Wheatley, _Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in_. [81] Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, b. 1609; d. 1674. He was a man of large literary qualities, and his _History_ is chiefly prized for its portraits. [82] John Evelyn, b. 1620; d. 1706. [83] B. 1628; d. 1688. Editions of the _Pilgrim’s Progress_ are innumerable. Southey and Macaulay have dealt with his biography, and in later times Mr. Froude (“English Men of Letters”) and John Brown (8vo, London, 1885). [84] Mr. Froude (“English Men of Letters”) entertains an opposite opinion--as do Offor (1862) and Copner (1883). Mr. Brown, however, who is conscientious to a fault, and seems to have been indefatigable in his research, confirms the general opinion entertained by most accredited biographers. See _John Bunyan; his Life, Times, and Work_, by John Brown, chap. iii., p. 45. [85] Reference is again made to _Life, Etc._, by John Brown, Minister of the Church at Bunyan Meeting, Bedford. The old popular belief was strong that Bunyan’s entire prisonship was served in the jail of the bridge. Well-authenticated accounts, however, of the number of his fellow-prisoners forbid acceptance of this belief. Froude alludes to the question without settling it; Mr. Brown ingeniously sets forth a theory that explains the traditions, and seems to meet all the facts of the case. [86] There was a _quasi_ charge of plagiarism against Bunyan at one time current, and particulars respecting it came to the light some sixty years ago in a correspondence of Robert Southey (who edited the _Major_ edition of _Pilgrim’s Progress_) with George Offor, Esq., which appears in the _Reminiscences_ of Joseph Cottle of Bristol. The allegation was, that Bunyan had taken hints for his allegory from an old Dutch book, _Duyfkens ande Willemynkyns Pilgrimagee_ (with five cuts by Bolswert), published at Antwerp in the year 1627. Dr. Southey dismissed the allegation with disdain, after examination of the _Dutch Pilgrimage_; nor do recent editors appear to have counted the charge worthy of refutation. [87] Thomas Fuller, b. 1608; d. 1661. _The Worthies of England_ is his best-known book--a reservoir of anecdote and witty comments upon “men and manners.”