ABSTRACT
Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda is still, despite the massive efforts, over more than five decades, of Professor José Ignacio Tellechea, only beginning to be fully recognized as a historical figure, even in his native Spain. Bartolomé Carranza came to England as an experienced researcher into the Synods and Councils of the Catholic Church, who had published a book on the subject in Venice in 1546. Carranza and his Spanish companions in England came from a country which had experienced the 'conversion' of tens of thousands of Jews into baptized Christians and, since 1502, the beginnings of a similar process among Spanish Muslims. In terms of 'common ground' between the Catholic Spaniards and their Evangelical English opponents, there was an acceptance of the Crown as a main agent of Church reform.
