Explanation:
after restoration of monarch, when the freedom of nonconformist was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail as he refused to give up preaching
The correct answer to complete the sentence above is <span>A. </span><span>whoever. The objective pronoun whoever is used when it is the subject who does the action as the verb demands it while whomever is used as an object of a verb or preposition.</span>
I think it means that they were ready to prove it no matter what it took but not really sure since I haven’t read the whole story
A is the answer to your question