and was much concerned at his father’s estrangement as well as at the prospect of being disinherited.  He begged Mr Bunyan’s friendly interposition to propitiate his father, and prepare the way for his return to parental favour and affection.  The kind-hearted man undertook the task, and having successfully achieved it, was returning from Reading to London on horseback, when he was thoroughly drenched with excessive rains.  He arrived cold and wet at the house of Mr Strudwick, a grocer on Snow Hill.  Here he was seized with fits of shivering, which passed off in violent fever, and after ten days’ sickness, on the 31st of August 1688, his pilgrimage ended, and he went in by the gate into the city.