bonington's

Updated: July 3, 2025

All the lonely ones, and all the childless ones, did not turn parsons we may be sure; yet it is good for us to believe that John Bonington's was not a solitary instance of a man coming out of the furnace of affliction softened, not hardened; purified, not merely blistered, by the fire. Was Thomas Porter at Little Cornard somewhat past his prime when the plague came?

Augustus Jessopp - The Coming of the Friars