Canon Richard Dixon: History of Church of England from the Abolition of ...

1549. Sir Thomas Smith commits the Bread-Worshipping Bonner to the Marshalsea Prison for contempt. He is finally deprived of his bishopric and is remanded to prison. This story has more chapters forthcoming and Bishop Bonner’s memory will shape the Bread-Worshipper’s red-hot malice under Queen Mary. BREAD-WORSHIPING LADY MARY. The troubles extend to Lady Mary for her Mass. She is required to conform to the 1549 Act of Uniformity. She tells the Council her opinion of them. She is again required to conform (146). The Council tries to implicate her in the Sussex and Devonshire Uprisings. She begs off from that imputation. Finally, the Bread-Worshiping Mary is granted a dispensation to have Cannibalism-service privately. Foreign affairs: Scotland and France are a threat to the English crown, it is felt. Somerset tries to enlist the Roman Imperator to enter the sweaty buffer-zone, but that fails. Somerset has offended many on the Council declaiming that he as served himself well, but not others. The fall of Somerset is pending, to wit, the conflict was being waged long before the disputants came to open disruptions. Cranmer was not a key-player although he was clear-sighted about self-servers. Wriothesley comes back to the Council. Somerset is teetering. The victors toss Somerset and Somerset packs his bags and is off to the Tower. He is treated leniently and restored, in part. A New Council of Regency is established under Northumberland. Don’t forget the Bread-Worshipper Bonner is sleeping in his straw-bed in Marshalsea.