Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bonner, Richard

1313237Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 05 — Bonner, Richard1886Augustus Robert Buckland

BONNER, RICHARD (fl. 1548), was the author of a black-letter treatise on ‘The Right Worshipping of Christ in the Sacrament of Bread and Wine,' published in 1548. In the preface, addressed to Thomas (Cranmer), archbishop of Canterbury, the author styles himself ‘your obedyent diocesan and dayly orator.’

[Maunsell's Cat. of English Bookes, 1595, p. 22; Ames's Typographical Antiqq.. ed. Herbert, 1790, ii. 752; Strype's Eccles. Memorials, 1822, ii. i. 229.]