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fent that the title of Univerfal Bi/hop fhould be conferred 
on no other than the bifhop of Rome. Bonitace IV- ob¬ 
tained from the 1'aine emperor’ the pantheon, a famous 
heathen temple built by Agrippa, and converted it into a 
church, which is now called Our Lady della Rotunda. Se¬ 
veral woiks are alfo attributed to him, but they appear to 
be fpurious. Boniface VII. had the title of antipope, be¬ 
cause, in 974, he caufed Benedict VI. to be Itrangled in 
prifon ; and, after the election of Benedict VII. removed 
the treafurcs of the church to Conftantinople. He, how¬ 
ever, at length returned after the death of Benedict, and 
caufed his fuccelfbr John XIV. to be murdered ; but died 
himlelf loon after, and was dragged naked by the feet 
about the ftreets. Boniface VIII. canonized St. Lewis m 
11 97, and, in 1300, appointed the jubilee to be folemnized 
every hundred years after. Boniface is ailo tl’.e name of 
a faint, who beiore betook tha name was called Winified , 
and was born at Crediton in Devonfhue. He chofe to go 
and preach the goipel among the barbarous nations; and, 
though created archbifhop of Memz, foon after refigned 
his office to go and preach in Eafl Frielland, wltere he was 
killed by the P ans on the 5th of June 754. His letters 
were publifhed by Senarius. 
BONIFA'CIO (Balthazar), a learned Venetian, arch- 
prefbyter of Rovigo, archdeacon of i revifa, and bifhop 
of Capo d’lllria, had originally been profeffor of law at 
Padua. To him is owing the inftitution of the academies 
of Padua and Trevifa for the young nobility. This pre¬ 
late died in 1659, aged leventy-five, leaving feveral works 
in prole and verfe: 1. Latin Poems, 1619. 2. Hiftoria 
Trevigiana, 410. 3. Hiftorra Ludicra, 1656 410. A diver- 
fified and interefling erudition is manifeft in thefe hiftories. 
BONIFA'CIO, a town in the iflandof Corfica, beyond 
the mountains, near the flrait called Bocca di Bonifacio. It 
js well fortified, and pretty populous. Lat. 41, 25. N. loa. 
9. 20. E. 
BO'NING, / in furveying and levelling, &c. is the 
placing three or more rods or poles, all of the fame length, 
in or upon tfie ground, in fitch a manner that the tops of 
them be all in one continued ftraigfit line, whether it be 
horizontal or inclined, fo that tlie eye can look along the 
tops of them all, from one end of the line to the other. 
BONjOU'R (Guillaume), an Augiiftine monk, born at 
Touloufe in 1670, was called to Rome by cardinal Noris 
in 1695. Clement XL honoured him with ins efteem, and 
employed him on leveral occafions. This pope having 
formed a congregation for the purpofe of examining the 
Gregorian calendar, Bonjoor furtufhed them with excel¬ 
lent materials for their undertaking. This learned monk 
died in China in 1714. He was deeply verfed in the ori¬ 
ental languages. He publifhed, 1. DifTertations on the 
Scripture. 2. DifTertations on the Copbtic Monuments in 
the Library of the Vatican, &c. 
BO'NIS NON AMOVEN'DlS,yi in law,a writ diredled 
to the fheriffs of London, &c. where a writ of error is 
brought; to charge them that the perfon againft w hom 
judgment is obtained, be not (offered to remove his goods, 
till the error is tried and determined. Reg.Oritr. 13 1. 
BONl'TO, or Macicarel, f. in ichthyology, fee 
Scomber. 
BONI'ZO, a tow n of Italy, in the duchy of Mantua, 
on the fouth fide of tfie Po, oppofite Ofliglia. 
BON'LIEU, a town of frame, in tfie department of the 
Ardecfie : five league north-nonfi-wef! of Tournon. 
BONN, ac.ty of Germany, in the circle of the Lower 
Rhine, and eledftorate of Cologne, fituated on tfie weft fide 
of tfie Rhine. Bonn is a beautiful town, the ftreets are 
wide, and the fortifications in repair; here is a palace be¬ 
longing to the eietffor of Cologne, who ufed to keep his 
court here. The city is built in a fertile plain, covered 
by uninclofed corn, and neai ly fttrrounded by a vaft amphi¬ 
theatre of mountains, whofe ftupendotis precipices rife in 
ntajeftic grandeur over the Rhine, diverfified with rich 
tuftings of wood that embofs the rocks, or lurk within the 
abrupt recedes, while the fpiry fummits, and ruined caf- 
tles which crown them, are faintly difcerned among the 
cliffs. To the fouth of this plain, the long perfpective is 
eroded by further ranges of mountains, which open to 
gfimpfesol others ftill beyond; an endlefs fucceftion of 
fummits, that lead the imagination on to unknown vales 
and regions of folitary obfeurity. In 1673, this city hav¬ 
ing been put into the hands of Lewis XIV. by the elector, 
William prince of Orange laid ftege to it, and in a few 
days compelled the garrifon to furrender. In 1689, it was 
taken by the marquis of Brandenburgh; and in 1703 it was 
taken by a detachment of the duke of Marlborough's army, 
under the command of general Bulau : the fie<.e con¬ 
tinued from the 24th of April to the 13th of May, and 
2000 men loft their lives on both (ides. It was alfo taken 
by the French republican army on the 6th of OHober, 1794. 
It is fourteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Cologne, thirty calf 
of Aix-la-Chapelle, and twenty-eight north-north-weft of 
Coblentz. Lat. 50. 57. N. Ion 24. 27. E. Ferro. 
BON'NA, one of the fifty citadels built by Drufus on 
the Rhine ; fttppofed by fome to be the fame with the Ara 
Ubionum, now Bonn. 
BONN AY', a town of France, in the department of tfie 
Doub*, and chief place of a canton, in tfie diltrict of Be- 
fanjon : two leagues north of Befancon. 
BONNE, a town of Savoy, in Lower Fauffigny : ten- 
miles eaft-fbutfi-eaft of Geneva. 
BONNE BAY, a bay on tfie weft coaft of Newfound, 
land. Lat 49. 35. N Ion. 53. W. Greenwich. 
BONNE ESPERANCE, an abbey of Hainan, near 
which tfie French republican army, obtained a victory over 
tfie allied troops, on tfie 21ft of May, 1794; one league 
fouth-fouth-.welt or Binche. 
BONNFCBOSQ(_, a town of France, in the department 
of tfie Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in tfie dif- 
tritf of Pont l’Eveque : two leagues louth-weft of Pont 
1 ’E veqtie. 
BON'NEFONS, or Bonnefonius (John), aceiebrated 
Latin poet, born in 1554, at Clermont in Auvergne, anil 
filled the poll of lieutenant-general of Bar-fur-Seine. His- 
Pancfiaris, and his pfiaieutic verles, in tfie ftyle of Catul¬ 
lus, are, of all modern performances, the neareft to the 
graces, the eafy pencil,, the delicacy and foftnefs, of that 
ancient poet. La Bergerie has tranflared the Pancfiaris 
into French verfe, very inferior to the Latin. Tfie poems, 
of Bonnefons are at tfie end of tfiofe of Beza, in tfie edition- 
of that at author given at Paris by Baibou, 1757, j21110. 
There is alfo one of London, 1720, and 1727, 121110. Bon¬ 
nefons died in 1614, leaving a. Ion, who likew ile cultivated 
fuccefsfully Latin poetry. 
BON'NER (Edmund), bifhop of London, was the font 
of an fioneft poor man, and born at Hanley in Worcefter- 
ftiire. He was put to fchool by an anceft.or of Nicholas. 
Lecfimore, Efq. a baron of tfie exchequer ; and about tfie 
year 1.512 fie entered Undent of Broadgate Hall, now Pem¬ 
broke College, in. Oxford. In 1519, fie was admitted ba¬ 
chelor of the canon and civil law . About the fame time, 
fie took orders, and obtained preferment in the d-ioiefe of 
Worcefter. In 15*5, fie was created doctor of canon law.. 
Having now acquired the.reputation of a fhrewd politician, 
and civilian, iie was foon diftinguifhed by cardinal Wolfey,. 
who made him his commilfary for the faculties, and heaped; 
upon him a variety of church-preferments. He polfeified, 
at the fame time the livings of Blaydon and Cherry-Burton 
in York/hire, Ripple in Worcefterfthre, Eaft Dereham in 
Norfolk, prebend of St. Paul’s, and the archdeaconry of 
Leicefter. Bonner was with the cardinal at Cawoud, when, 
he was arrefted for high-treaftm. After the death of that 
minifter, he foon found means to infmuate himfelf into the 
favour of Henry VIII who made him one of his chaplains,, 
and employed him in feveral embaffies abroad, particularly 
to the pope. In 1532, he was fent to Rome, with Sir Ed-, 
ward Karne, to arifwer for the king, whom his holinefs 
had cited to appear in perfon.or by proxy. In 1533, he 
was again difpatcht’d to pope Clement V 1 L at Marfeilles,. 
upon the excommunication of king Henry on account of 
