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

The newsletters 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.