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  • 14 February 1551: Stephen Gardiner deprived of his see

    On this day in 1551, 11 years after he had preached against the new Protestant doctrines at Paul’s Cross, Stephen Gardiner was officially stripped of his position as Bishop of Winchester. Gardiner had been summoned to appear before the Privy Council early in the reign of Edward VI, the young Protestant King, and had been

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  • 6 February 1550: Bishop Bonner’s appeal dismissed

    Bishop Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London under Henry VIII, and seen here in caricature, was quick to fall foul of the new regime of the young Protestant King, Edward VI. He had been called before the Privy Council and sent to the Fleet prison on 18 September 1547 for refusing to observe the Royal Injunctions

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