Bonivard
FRANÇOIS DE (bō-nëvär'), a younger son of a family which held large possessions under the House of Savoy, was born about 1496 at Seyssel, on the Rhone, and in 1513 became prior of St. Victor at Geneva. Falling under the suspicion of the Duke of Savoy, he was taken prisoner by him in 1519. After 20 months' imprisonment he was set free, but i 1530 he was again seized, and taken to the castle of Chillon, Lake of Geneva, where he was imprisoned for six years, the last four in that subterranean vault which the genius of Byron has made famous by his poem. He died in 1570. His chief works are his "Chroniques de Genève" (1551; new ed., 2 vols., 1831), and "De l'Ancienne et Nouvelle Police de Genève" (1555).
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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, and, attracting the 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 rrison. On the accession of Mary he was restored to his bishopric, and he distinguished himself during this reign by a persecution of the Protestants, 200 of whorn he was instrumental in bringing to the stake. After Elizabeth succeeded he remained unmolested 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. publisher, born near Londonderry, Ire-
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Bonner (ROBERT an American land April)
ROBERT, an American land, April 28, 1824. He came to the United States in early youth, and learned the trade of a printer. In moved to New York, and, in 1851, pur- In 1844 he rechased the "Ledger," then an insignificant paper . By energy and talent he made it remarkably successful, adding to its reputation by securing the contributions of Fanny Fern, Edward Everett, Henry Ward Beecher, and other eminent persons. He became very wealthy, and gratified his taste for fast horses by purchasing the most celebrated trotters in and "Maud S." He made large gifts of the world. Among them were "Dexter" widely known for his many benefactions. money to Princeton University and was He died in New York City, July 6, 1899. covering for the head worn by women;
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Bonnevault, Maturin de
Father of the preceding also accused of sorcery, visited by experts who found upon his right shoulder a mark resembling a small rose, and when a long pin was thrust into this he displayed such signs of distress that it was judged that he must be a sorcerer, indeed, he confessed that he had espoused Berthomée de la Bedouche, who with her father and mother practised sorcery, and how he had gone to seek serpents and toads for the purposes of their sorceries. He said that the Sabbath was held four times yearly, at the feasts of Saint John the Baptist, Christmas, Mardi gras and Páques. He had slain seven persons by sorcery, and avowed that he had been a sorcerer since he was seven years of age. He met a like fate with his sons.
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Bonnevault, Pierre
A sorcerer of Poitou in the seventeenth century, who was arrested as he was on his way to the Devil 's Sabbath. He confessed that on the first occasion he had been present at that unholy meeting he had been taken thither by his parents and dedicated to the Devil, to whom he had promised to leave his bones after death, but that he had not bargained to leave his infernal majesty his immortal soul. He admitted that he called Satan master, that the Enemy of Man had assisted him in various magical acts, and that he, Bonnevault, had slain various Book of the Dead persons through Satanic agency. In the end he was condemned to death. His brother Jean , accused of sorcery at the same time, prayed to the Devil for assistance, and was raised some four or five feet from the ground and dashed back thereon, his skin turning at the same time to a blue-black hue. He confessed that he had met at the Sabbath a young man through whom he had promised one of his fingers to Satan after his death. He also told how he had been transported through the air to the Sabbath how he had received powders to slay certain people whom he named, and for these crimes he received the punishment of death.
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Bonneville
LAKE, a lake that once filled a now desert basin of Utah; at its greatest dimensions had an area of feet 30,000 square miles, and was 1,000 deep.
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Bonsal
STEPHEN, an American journalist, born in Baltimore in 1865. He was educated at Concord and Heidelberg. In the Bulgarian-Serbian War he was special correspondent dent of the New York "Herald," serving in the same capacity has been in Macedonia and Cuba. He Secretary of Legation of the United States in Pekin, Madrid, Tokio, and Korea. He was secretary to the governor of Porto Rico in 1913, and served in various capacities in Mexico and the Philipin the years following. In 1917 he pines was appointed a Major in the National Army, and saw service in France. He was intrusted with special missions to Austria and Bohemia in 1919. He has written "The Real Condition of Cuba": "The Fight for Santiago," etc.
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Bontebok
the pied antelope alcelaphus pygarga), an antelope of South Africa, with white markings on the face, allied to the blesbok.
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Bony Pikes
a recent fish, genus lepidosteus, of great interest from its being of the order ganoidei, of which nearly all the species are extinct. It belongs to the sub-order holosteæ, and the family lepidosteidæ. Among other peculiarities the bony pikes have the antique pattern of heterocercal tail, so common in the Old Red Sandstone period. They and is the source of our English word inhabit the rivers and lakes of temperate and tropical America, some of them growing 3 feet in length, and are used for food. Called also gar pikes.
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