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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XLVIII Bonner's Articles for London Diocese. 1554 Ph1l1p and Mary were married on July 25, 1554. This was the prelude to the restoration of the Roman jurisdict1on. Pole reconciled the kingdom to Rome in the following November, and the third parliament, summoned in the same month by a writ from which the title Supreme Head was omitted, passed the Second Act of Repeal (1 and 2, Ph. and Ma., c. 8), which restored the religious status quo before 1529. Bonner's visitation, lasting from September 3, 1554, to October 8, 1555, stands out prominently in this period, not only for the storm of opposition which aroused it in London, but for the minuteness of its administration,and the severe criticism which it encountered from Bishop Bale. Wriothesley records " that the Bishop of London visited all his diocese and had sermons in every parish and place where he sat" (Chronicle, 11, p. 122). Several persons were appointed in the parishes to carry on the investigation, and Bonner himself travelled through a large part of his diocese. Bale's criticism on the first thirty-seven of these articles was entitled, "A declaration of Edmund Bonner's Articles concerning the clergy of London diocese: whereby that execrable Antichrist is in his right colours revealed." Every epithet that has vitriolic force, every analogy that could be pressed into service, every instance where a previous position is contradicted is used with sarcastic indifference, falling alike upon what is evil and good. (Extracts from the comperta of this visitation are printed in Hale, Precedents in Criminal Causes; London, 1847). Bonner draws upon the vast source of Reformation inquiries and orders, at times adding or changing to suit the new regime, besides going back frequently to pre-Reformation Canons a...
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