Entries for the tag ‘Bonner, Edmund (ca. 1500-69)’
Bishop of London (1539-49 and 1553-59), instrumental in Henry VIII's schism from Rome but returned to Catholicism and slaughtered Protestant dissidents under Mary I, ended his life a prisoner under Elizabeth I. 
- 1 November 1530: Dining at Cawood on All Hallows’ Day, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s ex-Lord Chancellor, receives divine warning that his time is nigh
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