James II. 1685-1688. Cast Silver Medal 1688, 22.43 g. Archbishop Sancroft and the Bishops. By G. Bower. Bust, wearing a cap and clerically robed. GVIL . SANCROFT . ARCHIEPISC . CANTVAR . 1688. Rv. Seven medallions containing busts, clerically robed, and names of the six imprisoned bishops around that of the Bishop of London. Below: GB.F. Plain edge. 47.5 mm. Eimer 288b. MI i 622/37. van Loon II, 339. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1688-7. Sehr schön / Very Fine.

From the auction Münz Zentrum Albrecht + Hoffmann GmbH 47, Cologne, November 1982, lot 3643.

William Sancroft (30 January 1617 - 24 November 1693) was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, and was one of the Seven Bishops imprisoned in 1688 for seditious libel against King James II, over his opposition to the king's Declaration of Indulgence. Deprived of his office in 1690 for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary, he later enabled and supported the consecration of new nonjuring bishops leading to the nonjuring schism.