See also:EDMUND See also:BONNER (1500?—1569)
, See also:bishop of See also:London, was perhaps the natural son of See also:George See also:Savage, See also:rector of Davenham, See also:Cheshire, by See also:Elizabeth Frodsham, who was afterwards married to See also:Edmund See also:Bonner, a See also:sawyer of See also:Hanley in See also:Worcestershire
.
This See also:account, which was printed with many circumstantial details by See also:Strype (See also:Eccles
.
Mein
.
III. i
.
172-173), was disputed by Strype's contemporary, See also:Sir Edmund Lechmere, who asserted on not very satisfactory See also:evidence (ib
.
See also:Annals, I. ii
.
300) that Bonner was of legitimate See also:birth
.
He was educated at Broadgates See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, now See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, graduating See also:bachelor of See also:civil and See also:canon See also:law in See also:June 1519
.
He was ordained about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and admitted D.C.L. in 1525
.
In 1529 he was See also:Wolsey's See also:chaplain, and he was with the See also:cardinal at Cawood at the time of his See also:arrest
.
Subsequently he was transferred, perhaps through See also:Cromwell's See also:influence, to the service of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and in See also:January 1532 he was sent to See also:Rome to obstruct the judicial proceedings against See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry in the papal See also:curia
.
In See also:October 1533 he was en-trusted with the unmannerly task of intimating to See also:Clement VII., while he was the See also:guest of See also:Francis I. at See also:Marseilles, Henry's See also:appeal from the See also:pope to a See also:general See also:council; but there seems to be no See also:good authority for See also:Burnet's See also:story that Clement threatened to have him burnt alive
.
For these and other services Bonner had been rewarded by the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of several livings, and in 1535 he was made See also:archdeacon of See also:Leicester
.
Towards the end of that See also:year he was sent to further what he called " the cause of the See also:Gospel" (Letters and Papers, 1536, No
.
469) in See also:North See also:Germany; and in 1536 he wrote a See also:preface to See also:Gardiner's De See also:vera Obedientia, which asserted the royal, denied the papal, supremacy, and was received with delight by the See also:Lutherans
.
After a brief See also:embassy to the See also:emperor in the See also:spring of 1538, Bonner superseded Gardiner at See also:Paris, and began his See also:mission by sending Cromwell a See also:long See also:list of accusations against his predecessor (ib
.
1538, ii
.
144)
.
He was almost as See also:bitter against See also:Wyatt and See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason, whom he denounced as a " papist," and the violence of his conduct led Francis I. to threaten him with a See also:hundred strokes of the halberd
.
He seems, however, to have pleased his See also:patron, Cromwell, and perhaps Henry, by his See also:energy in seeing the king's " See also:Great " See also:Bible in See also:English through the See also:press in Paris
.
He was already king's chaplain; his See also:appointment at Paris had been accompanied by promotion to the see of See also:Hereford, and before he returned to take See also:possession he was translated to the bishopric of London (October 1539)
.
Hitherto Bonner had been known as a somewhat coarse and unscrupulous See also:tool of Cromwellra sort of ecclesiastical Wriothesley,
He is not known to have protested against any of the changes effected by his masters; he professed to be no theologian, and was wont, when asked theological questions, to refer his interrogators to the divines
.
He had graduated in law, and not in See also:theology
.
There was nothing in the See also:Reformation to appeal to him, except the repudiation of papal See also:control; and he was one of those numerous Englishmen whose views were faithfully reflected in the Six Articles
.
He became a staunch Conservative, and, apart from his embassy to the emperor in 1524—1543, was mainly occupied during the last years of Henry's reign in brandishing the " See also:whip with six strings."
The See also:accession of See also:Edward VI, opened a fresh and more See also:credit-able See also:chapter in Bonner's career
.
Like Gardiner, he could hardly repudiate that royal supremacy, in the See also:establishment of which he had been, so active an See also:agent; but he began to doubt that supremacy when he saw to what uses it could be put by a See also:Protestant council, and either he or Gardiner evolved the theory that the royal supremacy was in See also:abeyance during a royal minority
.
The ground was See also:ski,lfully chosen, but it was not legally nor constitutionally tenable
.
Both he and Gardiner had in fact sought fresh licences to exercise their ecclesiastical See also:jurisdiction from the See also:young king; and, if he was supreme enough to confer jurisdiction, he was supreme enough to issue the injunctions and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order the visitation to which Bonner objected
.
More-over, if a minority involved an abeyance of the royal supremacy in the ecclesiastical See also:sphere, it must do the same in the temporal sphere, and there could be nothing but anarchy
.
It was on this question that Bonner came into conflict with Edward's See also:government
.
He resisted the visitation of See also:August 1547, and was committed to the See also:Fleet; but he withdrew his opposition, and was released in time to take an active See also:part against the government in the See also:parliament of See also:November 1547
.
In the next session, November 1548—See also:March 1549, he was a leading opponent of the first See also:Act of Uniformity and See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer
.
When these became law, he neglected to enforce them, and on the 1st of See also:September 1549 he was required by the council to maintain at St See also:Paul's See also:Cross that the royal authority was as great as if the king were See also:forty years of See also:age
.
He failed to comply, and after a seven days' trial he was deprived of his bishopric by an ecclesiastical See also:court over which See also:Cranmer presided, and was sent to the See also:Marshalsea
.
The fall of See also:Somerset in the following See also:month raised Bonner's hopes, and he appealed from Cranmer to the council
.
After a struggle the Protestant See also:faction gained the upper See also:hand, and on the 7th of See also:February 1550 Bonner's deprivation was confirmed by the council sitting in the See also:Star Chamber, and he was further condemned to perpetual imprisonment
.
He was released by See also:Mary's accession, and was at once restored to his see, his deprivation. being regarded as invalid and See also:Ridley as an intruder
.
He vigorously restored See also:Roman Catholicism in his See also:diocese, made no difficulty about submitting to the papal jurisdiction which he had forsworn, and in 1555 began the persecution to which he owes his fame
.
His apologists explain that his See also:action was merely " See also:official," but Bonner was one of those who brought it to pass that the condemnation of heretics to the See also:fire should be part of his See also:ordinary official duties
.
The enforcement of the first Book of Common Prayer had also been part of his official duties; and the fact that Bonner made no such protest against the burning of heretics as he had done in the former See also:case shows that he found it the more congenial See also:duty
.
Tunstal was as good a See also:Catholic as Bonner; he See also:left a different repute behind him, a clear enough indication of a difference in their deeds
.
On the other hand, Bonner did not go out of his way to persecute; many of his victims were forced upon him by the council, which sometimes thought that he had not been severe enough (see Acts of the P.C
.
1554-1556, pp
.
115, 139; 1556-1558, pp
.
18, 19, 216, 276)
.
So completely had the See also:state dominated the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church that religious persecutions had become state persecutions, and Bonner was acting as an ecclesiastical See also:sheriff in the most refractory See also:district of the See also:realm
.
Even See also:Foxe records instances in which Bonner failed to persecute
.
But he had
no See also:mercy for a fallen foe; and he is seen at his worst in his brutal jeers at Cranmer, when he was entrusted with the duty of degrading his former See also:chief
.
It is a more remarkable fact that, in spite of his prominence, neither Henry VIII. nor Mary should ever have admitted him to the privy council
.
He seems to have been regarded by his own party as a useful See also:instrument, especially in disagreeable See also:work, rather than as a desirable colleague
.
On her accession Elizabeth refused to allow him to See also:kiss her hand; but he sat and voted in the parliament and See also:convocation of 1559
.
In May he refused to take the See also:oath of supremacy, acquiring like his colleagues consistency with old age
.
He was sent to the Marshalsea, and a few years later was indicted on a See also:charge of See also:praemunire on refusing the oath when tendered him by his diocesan, Bishop See also:Horne of See also:Winchester
.
He challenged the legality of Horne's See also:consecration, and a See also:special act of parliament was passed to meet the point, while the charge against Bonner was withdrawn
.
He died in the Marshalsea on the 5th of September 1569, and was buried in St George's, See also:Southwark, at midnight to avoid the See also:risk of a hostile demonstration
.
See Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. vols. iv.-xx.; Acts of the Privy Council (1542–1569) ; Lords' See also:Journals, vol. i
.
; See also:Wilkins' Concilia; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, ed
.
Townsend; Burnet, ed
.
See also:Pocock; Strype's See also:Works; See also:Gough's See also:Index to See also:Parker See also:Soc
.
Publ.; S
.
R
.
See also:Maitland's Essays on the Ref.; See also:Froude's and R
.
W
.
See also:Dixon's Histories; See also:Pollard's Cranmer and See also:England under Somerset; other authorities cited in See also:Diet
.
Nat
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Biogr
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