Thomas Chaloner (statesman)
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Sir Thomas Chaloner was an English statesman and poet.
Sir Thomas Chaloner
Woodcut portrait of Sir Thomas Chaloner, frontispiece to his 1579 De Rep. Anglorum instauranda libri decem.
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
Thomas Chaloner (statesman)
…and was knighted, after the battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, by the protector Somerset, whose patronage he enjoyed. In 1549 he was a witness against Edmund Bonner, bishop of London; in 1551 against Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester; in the spring of the latter year he was sent as a commissioner to Scotland…
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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