| Description Of Item | Notes on Edmund Bonner, ‘alias Savage’, Bishop of London. He was born in Elmly, in Worcestershire, but his father was John Savage, a priest in Cheshire, and his mother was Savage’s concubine. She was ‘a Dainty wench in her youth, and a jolly woman in her age, she was sent out of Cheshire to cover her shame, & laid Down her burden at Elmly, where this bonny bouncing babe bonner was born’.
Copied from R. B., Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland (1682).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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