English polemics at the Spanish Court Joseph Creswell's "Letter to the Ambassador from England" ; the English and Spanish texts of 1606

In 1606 when the Spanish court learned about the recent Draconian laws against the Catholics in England in the aftermath of the notorious Gunpowder Plot, Joseph Creswell, a well-known Jesuit living in Madrid, wrote a public letter to Sir Charles Cornwallis, the ambassador of James I. His carefully r...

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