medal
- Museum number
- M.7696
- Description
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Silver medal. (whole)
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Bust of Archbishop Sancroft, right, wearing cap and canonical robes. (obverse)
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Medallions with portraits and names of the six imprisoned Bishops arranged round that of the Bishop of London; stars interspersed. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1688
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 49.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Not rare.
This medal refers to the seven Bishops committed to the Tower for opposing the Declaration of Indulgence issued by James II, and for refusing to allow it to be read in their churches. The Bishops committed to the Tower were Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lloyd of St. Asaph, Ken of Bath and Wells, Turner of Ely, Lake of Chichester, White of Peterborough, and Trelawney of Bristol. To their portraits is here added that of Compton of London, who on account of his opposition to Popery had been removed from the Council table and Deanery of the Chapel Royal, and suspended from the execution of his episcopal office.
See Van Loon, Gerard, ‘Histoire Métallique des XVII. Provinces des Pays-Bas’, 5 vol. La Haye, 1732-1837 (fol) [There is also an edition in Dutch, but with different paging], III. 339; Evelyn, John, ‘A Discourse of Medals ancient and modern, &c’, London, 1697 (fol.), 155; Lochner, Johann Hieronymus, ‘Samlung merkwürdiger Medaillen’, 8 vol., Nürnberg, 1737-1744, V. 417; ‘Old England, a Pictoral Museum of Antiquities’, London (C. Knight), III. 192.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Imprisonment of the Seven Bishops
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7696
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (622) (37)
