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Charles Williams. James I
James I
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. The Three Birthdays
CHAPTER TWO. The Education of the King
CHAPTER THREE. The Leopard among the Thistles
CHAPTER FOUR “Mortui non Mordent”
CHAPTER FIVE. The Queen and the Witches
CHAPTER SIX. The Falling and Rising
CHAPTER SEVEN. The King on the King
CHAPTER EIGHT. Gowrie
CHAPTER NINE. The Succession
CHAPTER TEN. The King among the Churches
CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Mortal Arcana
CHAPTER TWELVE. The Body of the House of Commons
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Authority Forgets
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Oration of John Donne
INDEX
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Charles Williams
Published by Good Press, 2021
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News of the plots in operation began to leak out. One of the Edinburgh ministers, John Durie, prophesied in his sermons against the courtiers who persuaded the King to write to France and Guise. Other ministers forced an interview with him and exhorted him to his face at great length. They offered to name godly men who could guide him, and they had the names ready. James, quite frankly, fled. He could face swords, though he never cared to use one; he could not face sermons, though as he grew older he came to like delivering them. Other troubles were the Bishop of Glasgow and the horses of the Duke of Guise. Bishops in the Reformed Kirk had been abolished; a few lingered. The King had given the bishopric of Glasgow to Lennox, who appointed a certain Robert Montgomery to be a tulchan Archbishop, the channel by which the revenue should flow in to the patron’s hands. It is said that he was scornful of Greek and Hebrew; that he condemned “the particular application” of Scripture, that he disparaged the ministerial commission to direct kings, and had even called the ministers “men of curious brains.” Durie threatened him with excommunication. The Duke of Guise sent the King a present of horses; they had hardly arrived before James found Durie on his threshold, bidding him refuse the papistical steeds; it was the will of God. James promised to obey the will of God, but he went to see the horses first, after which they disappear from history.
Some time between June 1581 and June 1582, he began indulgence in another delight. He experimented in verse. A “Song” exists which is said to be “the first verses that ever the King made,” and also “the King’s verses when he was fifteen years old.” If they are both (which seems unlikely), then Lennox was the godfather of his poetry. The “Song” runs:
