Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Volume 26

Download or read book Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Volume 26 written by Michael C. Questier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newsletters printed in this volume were written by Catholics who had access to the Court of Charles I and Henrietta Maria during the 1630s. The letters' principal concern was the factional strife among English Catholics, particularly over the issue of whether they should be subject to the authority of a Catholic bishop appointed by the papacy to live and rule over them in England. But these letters also contain Court news and gossip, information about foreign policy issues, and comment on the contemporary Church-of-England controversies over theology and clerical conformity. They are an important source for the study of the ideological tone of the Caroline Court, and of the ambition of certain sections of the Catholic community to secure a form of legal tolerance from the crown.