Portraits of seven bishops of England Bending but not breaking Flectimur sed non frangimur (title on object), Portraits of seven bishops of England, placed in the Tower by King James II in 1688, because they openly turned away from its Declaration of Indulgence. In the center, in an oval, the portrait of the Archbishop William of Canterbury, around it, also in ovals, the portraits of William or St. Asaph, John or Chichester, Thomas or Peterborow, Jonathan or Bristol, Thomas of Bath and Wells and Francis or Ely. Above each bishop's portrait a bishop's throat, at the very top a cherub. At the bo

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