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Bonner (EDMUND an English prelate)

EDMUND, an English prelate of infamous notoriety, was born about 1495, of obscure parentage. He took a doctor's degree at Oxford, in 1525, notice of Cardinal Wolsey, received from him several offices in the church. On the death of Wolsey he acquired the favor of Henry VIII., who made him one of his chaplains, and sent him to Rome to advocate his divorce from Queen Catharine. In 1540 he was consecrated Bishop of London, but on the death of Henry ( 1547), having refused to take the oath of supremacy, he was deprived of his see and thrown into of Mary he was restored to his bishopric, and he distinguished himself during this reign by a persecution of the Protestants, 200 of instrumental in bringing to the stake. After Elizabeth succeeded he until his refusal to take the oath of supremacy, on which he was committed to the Marshalsea (1560), where he remained a prisoner until his death in 1569.

BONNEVAL publisher, born near Londonderry, Ire-