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A letter from number "7" mentions a list of English gentlewomen of the "greatest account" sent to King James. This was written when Elizabeth had a "rheum" in her arm and was losing sleep through grief for her former favourite, the Earl of Essex. "7" wanted Foulis to carry King James' letters to London. [32]
Other influential anti-James histories written during the 1650s include: Edward Peyton's Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts (1652); Arthur Wilson's History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James I (1658); and Francis Osborne's Historical Memoirs of the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James (1658 ...
"A critical dissertation concerning the murder of King Henry...". The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. Volume 2. 14th edition. pp. 315–384. Strickland, Agnes (1843). Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. Volume 3. London: Henry Colburn. pp. 278–285. Thomson, George Malcolm (1967). The Crime of Mary Stuart ...
Reviewing James's letters and poems and focusing on desire rather than actions, David M. Bergeron sees James's relationships with Lennox, Somerset and Buckingham comprising a "special intimacy, including, but not restricted to, homoerotic desire", [18]: vii–viii with James's letters to his male favourites as "signs of erotic desire [and] same ...
Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI, a double portrait made in 1583, possibly to promote the "association", Blair Castle. [1] The Association was the name given to plans in the 1580s for Mary, Queen of Scots, to return to Scotland and rule jointly with her son, King James VI. [2] The plans came to nothing, despite diplomatic efforts. [3]
James VI was seized while he was hunting near the castle of Ruthven in Perthshire on 22 (or 23) August. [4] Some sources, including the letters of Robert Bowes, an English diplomat sent to Scotland after the event, state the King was captured at Ruthven Castle on 23 August. The Ruthven lords presented the King with a lengthy "supplication" to ...
Sir William Keith of Delny (died 1599) was a Scottish courtier and Master of the Royal Wardrobe. He also served as ambassador for James VI to various countries. He was an important intermediary between George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal and the king, the king and courtiers, and the king and foreign governments.
Valentine Thomas (died 1603) was an English servant or soldier whose confession in 1598 as a would-be assassin of Elizabeth I caused tension between England and Scotland. [1] Thomas's confession implicated James VI of Scotland, who wrote several letters to Elizabeth to ensure his rights to English throne were unharmed. [2]