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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6054

Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, 1688, Cast and Chased AR Medal, by J. Smeltzing after G. Bower, GVIL. SANCROFT. ARCHIEPISC. CANTAVR. 1688, clerically robed bust right, rev. Seven friezes containing the busts of William Lloyd, Francis Turner, John Lake, Henry Compton, Thomas Ken, Thomas White and Sir John Trelawney, a field of stars, edge plain, 51mm (Eimer 288b; MI 622/37), tooled in fields, otherwise a bolder very fine

This medal commemorates the imprisonment of the Seven Bishops for sedition against King James II for their opposition to his Declaration of Indulgence and its attempt to restore religious freedoms and thereby relax the penalties on practicing Catholicism.

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