William Sancroft Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
William Sancroft NPG D30877
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Michael Vandergucht, after Edward Lutterell (Luttrell), after Robert White
As Dean of St Paul's Cathedral he contributed to the rebuilding after the Great Fire of London in 1666. He was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1677. Anti-Catholic, he crowned King James II, the last Catholic monarch, in 1685. In 1688 he was one of the seven bishops who signed a petition asking James to reconsider his policy of religious tolerance to Catholics. All were sent to the Tower. Later that year seven members of the House of Lords asked William, Prince of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










