Edmund Bonner
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Edmund Bonner was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms i
Edmund Bonner in a 19th-century engraving after 16th-century portrait
Bishop Bonner punishing a heretic from Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563)
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Thomas Cromwell
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Thomas Cromwell was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 until mid-1540, at which time he was beheaded on Henry's orders, a loss the King would lat
Edmund Bonner
…time and admitted doctor of civil law (DCL) in 1525. In 1529 he was Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's chaplain, which brought him to the notice of the king and Thomas Cromwell. After the fall of Wolsey he remained faithful to him and was with him at the time of his arrest at Cawood and death at Leicester in 1530. Subsequently…
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (1532–1533)
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Cromwell, c. 1532–1533, attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
Queen Anne Boleyn