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Archbishop Richard Sterne

Courtesy of Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery

Mansfield
England

Richard Sterne was Archbishop of York from 1664 to 1683, and was born in Mansfield. Prior to his appointment as Archbishop, Sterne was Master of Jesus College Cambridge, where he was arrested and imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell for supporting the Royalist cause by subscribing pieces of its plate for the use of Charles I, and raising a loan of

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