ABSTRACT
In 1964 Idígoras José Ignacio Tellechea published, in the Rome journal Anthologica Annua, a long article entitled 'Bartolomé Carranza and the English Catholic Restoration'. In 1975, Tellechea published a series of letters which Bartolomé Carranza wrote from the Low Countries to England in the years 1557-8. Carranza, taken to England by Philip II, appears as a highly-placed figure in Court circles, enjoying particular esteem on the part of the King and Queen and the Papal Legate, Cardinal Reginald Pole. Carranza had an active role in preparing the way for the arrival of Pole in England and would recall that the King personally gave him the news of the Cardinal's imminent arrival in Whitehall. Among Carranza's activities in England are some that relate to the repression that marked the second period of Mary's reign.
