ij6 BON 
liis divorce. On this occafion he threatened the pope with 
fo much refolution, that his holinefs talked of btiming him 
alive, or throwing him into a caldron of melted lead ; upon 
which Bonner thought fit to decamp. Hisjnfallihility did 
not forefee that the man whom he tints threatened was pre- 
deftined to burn heretics in England. In 1538, being then 
ambaffador at the court of France, he was nominated hi¬ 
lltop of Hereford ; but, before coniecration, was tranflated 
to the fee of London, and enthroned in April 1540. Hen¬ 
ry VIII. died in 1547, at which time Bonner was ambaf- 
fador with the emperor Charles V. During this reign he 
was conrtantly zealous in his oppofition to the pope ; and, 
in compliance with the king, favoured the reformation. 
Henry VIII. was not to be trifled with ; but, on the ac- 
cellion of young Edward, Bonner refilled the oath of fn- 
f iremacy, and was committed to the Fleet prifoil; however, 
le prontifed obedience to the laws, and was accordingly 
releafed. He continued to comply with the reformation, 
but with fitch manifeft reluctance, that lie was twice repri¬ 
manded by the privy council, and in 1549, after a long trial 
was committed to the Marlhalfea, and deprived of his bi- 
fltopric. The fucceedingreign gave him ample opportunity 
of revenge. Mary was fcarce fcated on the throne before 
Bonner was reftored to bis bifhopric ; and foon after appoint¬ 
ed vicegerent and prefident of the convocation. From this 
time he became the chief inltrument of papal cruelty : be 
is faid to have condemned no lefs than two hundred Pro- 
teflants to the flames in the fpace of three years. When 
queen Elizabeth came to the crown, he had the infolcnce 
to meet her, with the reft of the hilltops, at Highgate ; 
but the queen, looking upon him as a man flamed with 
blood, could fltew him no mark of her favour. In the 
fecund year of her reign, refilling to take the oath of alle¬ 
giance and fupremacy, he was again deprived, and com¬ 
mitted to the Marfhalfea ; where lie died in 1569, after 
ten years confinement. Several pieces were publilhed un¬ 
der his name. 
BON'NET,/". [bonet, Fr.] A covering for the head ; a 
hat ; a cap.—They had not probably the ceremony of 
vailing the bonnet in their falutations; for, in medals they 
Hill have it on their heads. Addifon. —In a general fenfie, 
it denotes a cover for the head, in common life before the 
introduction of hats. Bonnets are ftill tiled in many parts 
of Scotland. 
BON'NET, f in fortification, a finall work confiding 
of two faces, having only a parapet with two rows of pal- 
lifadoes, at about ten or twelve feet difiance ; it is generally 
raifed before the faliant angle of the counterfcarp, and has 
a communication with the covered way, by a trench cut 
through the glacis, and pallifadoes on each fide. 
BON'NET a PRE'TRE, or Priest’s Cap, is an out¬ 
work, having three faliant aagles at the head, befides two 
inwards. It differs from the double tenaille only in this, 
that its Tides’, inftead of being parallel, grow narrower, or 
clofer, at the gorge, and opening at the front; from whence 
it is called queue d’aronde , or fwallow’s tail. 
BON'NET, a river of Ireland, which runs into the 
Lough Gill, five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Sligo. 
BONNETA'BLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tricl of la Ferte Barnard, anciently called Malejlable ; three 
leagues weft of la Ferte Bernard. 
BONNE'TI A,y. [fo named in honour of Monf. Charles 
Bonnet , of Geneva.] In botany, a genus of the clafs po- 
lyandra, order monogynia. The generic characlers are— 
•Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, five-parted ; parts con¬ 
cave, acute ; two larger. Corolla : petals five, ovate, 
lomewTiat obtufe, concave, longer than the calyx, of 
which the three fmaller are upright: the two larger decli- 
nate, gaping. Stamina: filaments very many, (170,) in- 
ferted into the receptacle, fiiorter than the corolla, dilated 
at the tip ; antherae oblong, tetragonal. Piftillum : germ 
oblong, fuperior; ftyle, length of the germ, incurved; 
ftigma threc-lobed. Pericarpittm : capfule oblong, three- 
fejled, three-valved ; valves fliarp-pointed. Seeds: very 
BON 
many, very final], oblong, involved in-a coloured mem¬ 
brane, affixed to the thred-fided 1 'r«ceptacle.— Bffintial C/ia. 
rabler. Calyx, five-parted, two parts larger ; corolla, five- 
petalled, three fmaller, upright, two larger/ decimate; 
capfule, oblong, three-celled, three-valved, many-feeded- 
There is bur one fpecies, called bonnetia mahuria. It 
grows in marfiiy places in Cayenne and Guiana. It is a 
tree about fifteen feet high, branching chiefly towards the 
top : the branches are upright in their growth ; leaves al¬ 
ternate, Imooth, ovate, entire ; flowers borne on terminal 
fpikes, and of a purple colour. In its native climate it 
flowers in Align ft, and ripens its feeds in October. 
BON'NETS,/". in the fea-language, fmall fails fet on 
the courfes on the mizzen, mainfail, and forefail, of a 
(hip, when thefe are too narrow or (hallow to clothe the 
mad, or in order to make more way in calm weather. 
BONNEVAL' (Claudius Alexander count de), known 
in the latter part ol his life by the name o t Ofman Bajhazv, 
defeended from a family related to the blood-royal of France, 
entered kimfclf at the age of fixteen in the fervice of that 
crown, and married the daughter of marfha! de Biron. He 
made the campaign in Flanders in 1690 ; but foon after left 
the French army, and entered into the imperial fervice 
under prince Eugene, who honoured him with an intimate 
(t iendlhip. The intrigues of the marquis de Prie, his in¬ 
veterate enemy, ruined his credit, however, at the court 
of Vienna, and caufed him to be banilhed the empire. He 
then offered his fervice to the republic of Venice, and to 
Ruflia ; which being declined, his next tender was to the 
grand fignior, who gladly received him; it was ftipuiated, 
that he ftiould have a body of 30,000 men at his difpofal; 
that a government fhould be conferred on him, with the 
rank of" bafhaw of three tails, and a (alary of 10,000 afpers 
a-day, equal to 45,000 livres a-year; and that, in cafe of 
a war, lie ftiould be commander in chief. The fil'd expe¬ 
dition lie engaged in after his arrival at Conlfantinople, 
was to quell an infurreftion in Arabia Petraea, which he 
happily eftedled ; and at his return had large offers made 
him by Kouli Khan, but he did not choofe to accept them. 
Some time after, he commanded the Turkifti army againft 
the emperor, over whofe forces he gained a victory on the 
banks of the Danube. But fuccefs does not always protect 
a perfon againft difgrace ; for Bonneval, notwithftanding 
his fervice, was firft imprifoned, and then banifhed to the 
ifland of Chio. The fultan, however, continued his friend, 
and the evening before his departure made him bafhaw- 
general of the Archipelago, which, with his former ap¬ 
pointment of beglerbeg of Arabia, rendered him one of 
the moft powerful perfons in the Ottoman empire. In this 
ifland lie found a retirement quite agreeable to his willies; 
but did not long enjoy it, being fent for back, and made 
topigi. or mafter of the ordnance, a poll of great honour and 
profit. He died in this employment, aged feventy-five, in 
1747 ; and wrote the memoirs of his own life. 
BONNEVAL/, a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the: 
diftricl of Chateaudun, on the Loire. It contains about 
1800 inhabitants: five leagues fouth of Chartres, and two 
and a half north of Chateaudun. 
BONNEVIL'LE, a town of Savoy, and capital of Fau- 
cigny, liruated on the Arve. 
BONNEVIL'LE-LES-BOUCHOUX, a town of France, 
in the department of Jura, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Sr. Claude: two leagues fouth of St. Claude. 
BON'NILY, adj. Gaily; hand Comely ; plumply. 
BONN I'NESS, J. Gaiety; handfomenefs ; plumpnefs, 
BON'NY, adj. [from bon, bonne, Fr. It is a word now al- 
moft confined to the Scottifh dialeft. ] Handfoiiie beautiful: 
Thus wail’d the louts in melancholy ftrain, 
Till bonny Sufan fped acrofs the plain. Gay. 
Gay ; merry ; froliefome ; cheerful ; blithe : 
Then figli not fo, but let them go, 
And be you blithe and bonny. Shahefpeare. 
It feems to be generally tiled in converfation for plump, 
HON'NY, 
