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The Real Arthur Brett

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

J. P. Ferris
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‘IFICAN trust oaths, he is mine as much as I can expect any Papist to be’. With this double-edged compliment, Charles 1 silenced the misgivings of Secretary Windebank and in 1635 despatched Captain Arthur Brett to the Vatican, ostensibly as personal representative of Queen Henrietta Maria, but actually on ‘the greatest and most active employment your Majesty [the King] hath in foreign parts’. The purpose was to frustrate the Roman Catholic mission to England by establishing a mole in its headquarters, but it was never accomplished. On 30 January 1636 Brett reported that he was detained in England by adverse weather and ill-health, and on 17 March he died.’

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British Catholic History , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , May 1986 , pp. 34 - 41
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1986

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