It is very likely that Overbury was the victim of a 'set-up' contrived by the earls of Northampton and Suffolk, with Carr's complicity, to keep him out of the way during the annulment proceedings. Overbury knew too much of Carr's dealings with Frances and he opposed the match with a fervour that made him dangerous, motivated by a deep political hostility to the Howards. It cannot have been difficult to secure James's compliance, because he disliked Overbury and his influence over Carr. [163] John Chamberlain reported that the king "hath long had a desire to remove him from about the lord of Rochester, as thinking it a dishonour to him that the world should have an opinion that Rochester ruled him and Overbury ruled Rochester". [164]

demonstrate a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning the ideas and writings of James VI & I The King knew that he would have to keep his plan a secret because if they heard about it the Scots people would raise a chorus of justifiable disapproval. He appears to have succeeded; moreover, he made the trip fairly uneventfully and dispensing with all regal formalities married Anne in Norway. Then, after a trip to the Danish court, he returned to Scotland with his bride.

Röhl, John C. G.; Warren, Martin; Hunt, David (1998), Purple Secret: Genes, "Madness" and the Royal Houses of Europe, London: Bantam Press, ISBN 0-5930-4148-8. Keay, John; Keay, Julia (1994), Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland, London: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-0025-5082-6 I am glad that our brother’s horse does please you, and that my dog Steenie does well . . . and when he comes home I will treat him better than any other dog.” demonstrate in research reports and essays a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning the ideas and writings of James VI & I Perry, Curtis (2006), Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-5218-5405-4

A crypto-Catholic was someone who outwardly conformed to Protestantism but remained a Catholic in private. The Archbishop’s comments on sharia law have apparently generated easily the biggest response the BBC has had to any story – 17,000 comments in 24 hours, the great majority critical of Williams. Yes, there has been a lot of misunderstanding and a lot of bigotry, but also a lot of concern about the principle that Williams is conceding to Muslims a place in our society which not even Christians can properly claim. He is not just rejecting the secular understanding of society, he is also not upholding the Anglican one. The one solid idea that came out of the conference was a new translation of the English Bible. It was created by forty-eight translators and became the authorised King James Bible and one of the biggest selling books in the English language. This was a huge achievement for King James; his influential text remains with us to this day and copies of the bible can often be found in the bedside drawers of hotels throughout England and Scotland. Everyday phrases used today originate from this bible such as sayings ‘To see eye to eye’, ‘A fly in the ointment’, ‘The blind leading the blind’ and ‘To give up the ghost’, as well as hundreds of other phrases. The Gunpowder PlotIn summer 1615, however, it emerged that Overbury had been poisoned. He had died on 15 September 1613 in the Tower of London, where he had been placed at the king's request. [162] [o] Among those convicted of the murder were the Earl and Countess of Somerset; the Earl had been replaced as the king's favourite in the meantime by Villiers. James pardoned the Countess and commuted the Earl's sentence of death, eventually pardoning him in 1624. [165] The implication of the king in such a scandal provoked much public and literary conjecture and irreparably tarnished James's court with an image of corruption and depravity. [166] The subsequent downfall of the Howards left Villiers unchallenged as the supreme figure in the government by 1619. [167] Health and death [ edit ] Portrait by Daniël Mijtens, 1621, in the National Portrait Gallery This course will examine the ideas and writings of King James VI & I, beginning with his rule over Scotland and including England after 1603. Labelled 'the wisest fool in Christendom', and long regarded as one of the British Isles' less successful rulers, more recently he has been effectively rehabilitated by 'revisionist' historians who argue that he was a highly intelligent and politically astute monarch. The focus here will be mainly on James' ideas, as expressed though his own writings and those of his contemporaries. William E. Thompson, Her Walls Before Thee Stand: The 235-Year History of the Presbyterian Congregation at Hampden-Sydney, Virginia (2010), revised 2011 edition, p. 15 A young scholar who enjoyed studying and not naturally inclined towards sport the teenage James revelled in reading and learning languages from Greek to Latin and French as well as composing poetry and translating the bible. Not known to be a social creature James nevertheless cultivated a close friendship with the married 37-year-old Esme Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, to who he also dedicated a poem. What was more likely a crush for the then 14-year-old James than a friendship is the first indication of the Scottish king’s latent homosexuality which Protestant nobles disdained given James's enjoyment of demonstrating public displays of affection with the earl.