ABSTRACT
As the 1650s ended, so did Thomas White’s influence, on two fronts. First, the Restoration deprived White of the support of his political patrons; secondly, it hastened and completed his condemnation by the Catholic Church. In this section I would like to analyze more specifically the reasons and the significance of White’s change of fortune, and will start by examining the relationship between the Blackloist leader and the Church of Rome in the late 1650s and 1660s.
