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Edmund Bonner |
 | | Edmund Bonner (1500?-1569), bishop of London, was perhaps the natural son of George Savage, rector of Davenham, Cheshire, by Elizabeth Frodsham, who was afterwards married to Edmund Bonner, a sawyer of Hanley in Worcestershire. |
 | | Hitherto Bonner had been known as a somewhat coarse and unscrupulous tool of Cromwell--a 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. |
 | | After a struggle the Protestant faction gained the upper hand, and on February 7, 1550 Bonner's deprivation was confirmed by the council sitting in the Star Chamber, and he was further condemned to perpetual imprisonment. |
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