In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. ... After the restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail as he refused to give up preaching.

Why was Bunyan jailed?

On 12 November Bunyan is arrested for illegal preaching at the hamlet of Lower Samsell (Bedfordshire), and is sent to prison in Bedford to await trial. His wife Elizabeth gives premature birth to an infant who dies shortly afterwards.

When was Bunyan imprisoned?

As a 'common upholder of unlawful meetings and conventicles', Monica Furlong remembers, the great preacher was imprisoned for twelve years in 1660. The decade of the 1650s had taken John Bunyan through intense personal storms and brought him to a kind of harbour in Bedford.