Note 322 — Chapter X

Bonner had been sent to prison for what he had failed to say in a sermon at Paul’s Cross, namely, that “the king’s authority was as great during the minority as if he were thirty or forty years old,” a doctrine which the Council had ordered him to preach. He obeyed on all other points, but passed this one over in silence. Hooper and Latimer laid information against him; he was examined on seven different days before Cranmer, and was in the end deprived and thrown into prison, to remain there perpetually at the King’s, in other words, the Council’s, pleasure (Dictionary of National Biography, Art. “Edmund Bonner”).