. Historical portraits ... J3 w 5. o = o s s >o p. O Q2 s Q ^ ■a I ■S o •aoo> So I EDMUND BONNER 139 remained in prison till Mar3s accession. On that event he wasat once restored to his See of London, which had been given toRidley; and from the commencement of the persecution in 1555 hehad to bear a leading hand in it. It was he who degraded Cran-mer from the priesthood in Februar} 1556. But, unhke Gardiner,he was not felix opportunitate mortis: stained with loathsomememories of bloodshed, he lived to meet Elizabeth as she enteredLondon; she looked upon him with horror and refused him he
. Historical portraits ... J3 w 5. o = o s s >o p. O Q2 s Q ^ ■a I ■S o •aoo> So I EDMUND BONNER 139 remained in prison till Mar3s accession. On that event he wasat once restored to his See of London, which had been given toRidley; and from the commencement of the persecution in 1555 hehad to bear a leading hand in it. It was he who degraded Cran-mer from the priesthood in Februar} 1556. But, unhke Gardiner,he was not felix opportunitate mortis: stained with loathsomememories of bloodshed, he lived to meet Elizabeth as she enteredLondon; she looked upon him with horror and refused him herhand to kiss. Though he sat in Parliament and Convocation in1559, he refused to take the oath of supremacy, was deprived andimprisoned and died in prison in 1569. T40 JOHN HOOPER {d. 1555) Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, and afterwards martyr, wasof Somersetshire extraction, possibly educated at Merton College,and possibly a monk at Gloucester. An early convert to thedoctrines of the Reformation, though rather of the Swiss than theLuthera
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