Editing Edmund Bonner (section)

===Under Edward VI===
Bonner resisted the visitation of August 1547, and was committed to the [[Fleet Prison]]; but he withdrew his opposition, and was released in time to take an active part against the government in the parliament of November 1547. In the next session, November 1548-March 1549, he was a leading opponent of the first [[Act of Uniformity 1549|Act of Uniformity]] and [[Book of Common Prayer]]. When these became law, he neglected to enforce them, and on 1 September 1549 he was required by the council to maintain at [[St Paul's Cross]] that the royal authority was as great as if the king were forty years of age.{{sfn|Pollard|1911|p=210}}

He did so, but with such significant omissions in the matter which had been prescribed touching the king's authority, that after a seven days' trial he was deprived of his bishopric by an ecclesiastical court over which [[Thomas Cranmer|Cranmer]] presided, and sent as a prisoner to the [[Marshalsea]]. The fall of Somerset in the following month raised Bonner's hopes, and he appealed from Cranmer to the council. After a struggle the Protestant faction gained the upper hand, and on 7 February 1550 Bonner's deprivation was confirmed by the council sitting in the Star Chamber, and he was further condemned to perpetual imprisonment, where he remained until the accession of [[Mary I of England|Mary]] in 1553.{{sfn|Pollard|1911|p=210}}