Portraits of seven bishops of England; Bending but don't break; FLECTIMUR SED NON FRANGIMUR. Portraits of seven bishops of England, put by King James II in the Tower in 1688, because they appeared openly from his declaration or indulgence. In the middle, in an oval, the portrait of the Archbishop William or Canterbury, around it, also in ovals, the portraits of William or St. Asaph, John of Chichester, Thomas or Peterborow, Jonathan or Bristol, Thomas of Bath and Wells and Francis or Ely. Above every bishop portrait a bishop's mushroom, at the very top of a cherub. At the bottom of a four-line
Portraits of seven bishops of England; Bending but don't break; FLECTIMUR SED NON FRANGIMUR. Portraits of seven bishops of England, put by King James II in the Tower in 1688, because they appeared openly from his declaration or indulgence. In the middle, in an oval, the portrait of the Archbishop William or Canterbury, around it, also in ovals, the portraits of William or St. Asaph, John of Chichester, Thomas or Peterborow, Jonathan or Bristol, Thomas of Bath and Wells and Francis or Ely. Above every bishop portrait a bishop's mushroom, at the very top of a cherub. At the bottom of a four-line text, links in Dutch and right in French, with two medallions in the middle. One shows an image of the tower, the other one image of a scales with a sun and a moon.
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Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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