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Title: Slanted but pretty good
Review: The late Archbishop Mathew was Apostolic Delegate to East and West Africa, a friend of Graham Greene, and a descendant himself of several regulars at the Tudor court. This somewhat slender volume is a collective biographical portrait (not quite a study) of more than two dozen important figures surrounding the king, from the Catholic chaplains of his early reign to the calculating older men in his later years who made their fortunes from the acquisition of monastic lands. He also draws sharp distinctions between the pietistic old Yorkist families and the much more subtle "modern" families of the next generation. Though there is an inevitable emphasis on religious figures, especially Bishop Fisher, the author's breadth of knowledge and humanitarian style make this a useful and highly readable volume.
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