Monica wrote: >As for the later period... maybe. Charles I was notoriously sympathetic to >Catholics because of Henrietta Maria, his wife.
Yes, but he was emphatically not one himself. Supporters of Archbishop Laud's policies in the Church of England were accused by the Puritans of being "Papist", but would have been at pains to stress that they were actually good Protestants. I don't remember a cross being a common item of jewellery in mid-17th century portraits. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
