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oppieffion was not temporary, nor lim.tc'd cither to pla.v. w. 

 time, but becaufe there was every where a continual war, 

 either o.Tenlive or defenfive, and every lord of a country, and 

 every marcher, made war and peace at his pleafure, it be- 

 came univerfal and perpetual, and was indeed the moll heavy 

 opprenion that ever was ufed in any Chnllian or Heathen 

 kintrdom." The curious reader w 

 whole paffage in fir J. Davis's Hiftorical Trads, p. IJ2, ct 

 fcq of the edition printed in Svo. Dubhn, 1767. ims 

 praftice was forbidden by the ftatute of Kilkenny Pelted in 

 14-0, and bv feveral fucceeding ads, in one of vvhich 

 (uiidcr t^enry VII.) it is called a ilamiiahk cujom. Spen- 

 ler, in his " View of the ftate of Ireland," feems, however, 

 to think the ftatute unnecefiarily fevere in making it treafon. 

 Hollinglhead. Irifh Statutes. Spenfer's State of Ire- 

 land 



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vioufnefs and eflcminacy. His poems in heroic verfe have 

 alfo been efteemed. The Pancliaris was publilhed at Paris 

 in 15S8, and tranflated into French by La Bergerie ; and all 

 the poems of Bonnefonius are printed after thofe of Beza, in 

 Barbou's edition of the latter, Paris, 1757. There are 

 London editions in 1720 and 1727. A foil of Bonnefonius 

 ill do wtU to confult the diftinguifhed himfelf by Latin poetry, chiefly written on 

 public charafters and events. Nouv. Ditl. Hift. 



BCvNNER, Edmund, i\n Englidi prelate of deteftable 

 memory as a pcrfecutor of Protellants, was born, as it is 

 generally believed, of poor parents at Hanky, in Worcefter- 

 fliire ; but fome havcafiirmed that he was the natural Ion of 

 George Savage, reftor of Davenham, in Chefliire. About 

 the year I 'J 12, he was admitted a ftudent of Broadgate hall 

 (now Pembroke college) in the univerfity of Oxford, fa- 

 mous at that time for the education of civilians and canonifts. 

 BONNART, John, in Bio^raphv, barber furgeon, and In 1519, he took his degrees of bachelor of the canon, and 

 marterofthecoll'egeof furgeonsat Pans, pubhftitd, in 1629, bachelor of the civil law ; and about the fame time entered 

 "La Semain des medicaracns obfervee, et chefs d'ceuvres into holy orders. In i '525, he was created doftor of the 

 des maitres barbiers chirin-gieus de Paris," Svo. It contains canon law. More diftinguidied by his talents for bufinefs 

 a courfe of ftudy neceflary for young men previous to their than for his learning, he was appointed comniiffary of the 

 being eleAed into the college, with obfervations on the me- faculties by cardinal Wolfey, who conferred upon him a 

 thod of treating fuch complaints as come under their care, plurality of ecclefiaftical benefices. After the cardinal's 

 The author ft^ronglyrecornniends opening the jugular vein death, he contrived to infinuate himfelf into the favour of 

 in cafes of quinfey. " Methcde pour bien feigner les acci- king Henry VIII. , and became a zealous promoter of the 

 dens qui arrive pour etre mal fait," Svo. 1628. Haller Bib. reformation, as well as an advocate for the king's divorce 

 Med Elov. from queen Catharine, and a ftrer.uous fupporter of the 



BONNAT, in GcoTaph^, a town of France, and chief meafures that were adopted for abolifliing the pope's fupre- 

 place of a canton, in the department of the Creufe, and di- macy in this kingdom. He was alfo patronized by Crom- 

 llritt of Gueret ; the place contains 20J2, and the cant<in well, fccretary of llate, and employed as ambalfador at feveral 

 10,804 inhabitants ; the territory comprehends 2572 kiho- courts. In I'Jp, he was deputed on an enibalTy to Rome, 

 metres and 12 communes. to excufe the king's appearance to a citation at that court ; 



BONNAUD, in Biography, publiftied, in 1770, " De- and in 15,; 3, lie was fent to pope Clement VII. then at 

 gradation de I'efpece humaine par I'ufage des corps de ba- Marfeilles, to deliver the king's appeal fiom the pope to the 

 leine " i2mo. Paris. In this very fenfible and ingenious next general council agaitift his excommunication ; and on 

 little work, the author forcibly reprefents the various evils this occafion he expoled himlelf by his boldnefs and inde- 

 confequent on ufing ftays ftiffened with whale-bone : thefe cent warmth to pcrfonal danger. He was iikeviifc em- 

 are indigeftion, and other diforders of the ftomach, ruptures, ployed in other embaffies to the kings of Denmark and 

 and difficult refpiration, often terminating in confumptions ; France, and to the emperor of Germany. Being recalled 

 befides, they not unfrequently occafion deformity of the from France in 15,38, on account of the boldnefs with which 

 body, which they are fuppofed by their admirers to contri- he remonftrated againft the proteftion afforded to an Englifli 



bute in preventing. Haller. Bib. Med 



BONNAY, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftrict of Befanjon, 2 leagues N. of Befangon. 



BONNE, a town of Savoy, in the Lower Faucigny, 10 

 miles E. S.E. of Geneva. N. lat. 46° 11'. E. long. 



6° 7'. 



Bonne, a bay on the weft coaft of Newfoundland, 



traitor, he was nominated to the bifliopric of Hereford, and, 

 before his confecration, tranflated to the fee of London 

 in 1539. At the time of the king's death in 1547, he was 

 ambaffador at the' court of Charles V. Till this time 

 he appears to have concurred in promoting the reformation ; 

 and by the fubferviency of his principles to his intcrell, as 

 well as by his capacity for public bufinefs, he fecured the 

 favour and confidence of his tyrannical mailer. But from his 



N. lat. 49° 35'. W. long. 53°. — Alio, a bay on the coaft fubfequent condutt it is evident that he was feeretly attached 



of Spain in the Mediterranean, ntarly eaft from Malaga, to the Romilli religion; for foon after the acceflion of Edward 



N. lat. 36° 42'. W. long. 2° 40'. VI., he feruplcdtotitketheoath that was required forrcnounc- 



BONNEBOSQ, a town of France, in the department ing the pope's authority, and he protefted againft theking'sin- 



ef the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift junctions and homilies, which, however, he had never read. 



of Pont I'Eveque, 2 leagues S.W. of Pont I'Eveque. But being committed to prifon for difobedience, he after- 



BONNEFONS, John, or Bonnefonius, in Biography, wards recanted, and was releafed. Whilft he outwardly 

 was born, in 1554, at Clermont in Auvergne, became an ad- profeffed zeal for the reformation, he privately ufed all the 

 vacate in Paris, and, in 1584, lieutenant-general at Bar- means in his power for obftrufling its progrefs and eftablifii- 

 {ur-Seine, and died in 1614. He was diftinguifhed as a ment. His conduft warranted the fulpicions that were en- 

 Latin poet, and particularly by that kind of poetry, which tertained of his fincerity ; and in order to bring it to a tclt, 



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