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Auction 150  5-6 September 2015
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Lot 676

Starting price: 600 GBP
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Archbishop Sancroft and the Bishops 1688 51mm diameter and struck (not cast) in silver, Eimer 288a Obverse: Bust facing right wearing a cap and clerically robed GVIL.SNCROFT.ARCHIEPISC.CANTAVR.1688. Reverse Seven medallions containing busts, clerically robed, of William Lloyd, Francis Turner, John Lake, Henry Compton, Thomas Ken, Thomas White, and Sir John Trelawney, a field of stars, edge: Plain. EF with lustre and scarce thus. Cataloguers Note : William Sancroft (1617-1693) Archbishop of Canterbury refused to read James II's 'Declaration of Indulgence' exempting Catholics and dissenters from penal statutes. The bishops were committed to the Tower for opposing the edicts of James II

Estimate: 600-1200 GBP
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