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(Former Archbishop of Canterbury) William Sancroft was the the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of a group of Seven Bishops, who were imprisoned by King James II for opposing his second Declaration of Indulgence. The bishops were charged with seditious libel but were acquitted in a trial. A rebellion by nature, he later lost his bishopric when he rejected William III’s claim to the throne.
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Birthday
January 30, 1617 (Aquarius)
Born InUfford Hall, Fressingfield, Suffolk, England
