G. P. V. Akrigg. Jacobean Pageant: The Court of King James I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962. xi+431 pp. $7.75.

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
James I ◽  
King James I

XLIII. Original Letters of King James I. to Sir George More, Lieutenant of the Tower, respecting the Trial of the Earl of Somerset. Communicated by William Bray, Esq. Treasurer, in a Letter to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. V.P.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 352-358
Author(s):  
William Bray
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
The Public ◽  
Great Fear ◽  
King James I

The conduct of King James the First, respecting the trials of the Earl and Countess of Somerset, for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower, and his great fear, that if Somerset was brought to a public trial, some things might be told which he most anxiously wished to prevent, has been represented by Weldon in so strong a light, that the candid Rapin seems almost to doubt the truth of the representation. But I am enabled to lay before the Society copies which I have made from some original letters of the King to Sir George More, then Lieutenant of the Tower, which strongly corroborate what Weldon has said. They were written during the King's anxiety and suspense, whether Somerset could be prevailed on to confess his guilt, which would have prevented the public appearance of the witnesses, and any thing which Somerset might reveal.

XII. Copies of Two Manuscripts on the most proper Method of Defence against Invasion, by Mr. Waad. Communicated by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1800 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Samuel Ayscough
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
James I ◽  
Proper Method ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
King James I ◽  
In The Beginning

In my researches amongst the MSS. in the British Museum I met with the two following, which under the present circumstances I am induced to think will be acceptable communications to our Society, and for that purpose have transcribed them. They are both written by Mr. William Waad, of whom Dr. Birch, in his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, (Vol. I. p. 45,) gives the following account. “Mr.William Waad was son of Armigel Waad, Esq. a gentleman born in Yorkshire, and educated at St. Magdalen College in Oxford, who was clerk of the council to king Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and employed in several campaigns abroad, and died at Belsie or Belsise House, in the parish of Hampstead, near London, on the 20th of June 1568. His son William succeeded him in the place of Clerk of the Council, and was afterwards knighted by king James I. at Greenwich, May 30, 1603, and made Lieutenant of the Tower. The occasion of his journey into Spain in the beginning of the year 1583−4, was upon the discovery of the Spanish ambassador Mendoza being concerned in the plot of Francis Throgmorton, and other English catholics, in favour of the queen of Scots, and being ordered to depart England immediately, of which he loudly complained, as a violation of the law of nations.

Stuart Royal Proclamations. Vol. 1. Royal Proclamations of King James I, 1603-1625

1975 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
David S. Berkowitz ◽  
James F. Larkin ◽  
Paul L. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
King James I

Spenser and the English literary system in the 1590s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Hile
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
James I ◽  
King James I ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Shepheardes Calender

With Chapter 3, the discussion moves from Spenser to a wider circle of influence, starting with two somewhat reductive views from contemporaries of what Spenser “meant” in the literary system of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Two friends, Joseph Hall and William Bedell, wrote works that suggest an image of Spenser as an uncomplicated, straightforwardly decorous poet. Hall repeatedly alludes to well-known Spenserian images, which he imports into his own satires in Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes in order to contrast them with his own disgusting imagery, suggesting an impatience with Spenser’s well-known delicacy and decorum. The less truculent Bedell implies a similarly uncomplicated view of Spenser in his poorly executed Spenserian poem, The Shepherds Tale of the Pouder-Plott, which takes as inspiration the Spenserian pastoral satire of The Shepheardes Calender and produces instead pastoral panegyric for King James I. In these two views of what “Spenser” meant to the writers of his time, we see the side of Spenser that Karl Marx later immortalized as “Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet.”

Accountability of Judges

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-151
Author(s):  
Sudhanshu Ranjan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
James I ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
King James I

Judges are not above the law. Like the other institutions of the State, the judiciary must be accountable. Chief Justice Edward Coke told King James I point blank that was not above the law and quoted jurist Bracton, Non-sub homine sed sub deo et lege. (The King is under no man, save under God and the law.) Ironically, judges themselves don’t appear to be following this dictum giving an impression that they are above the law. The judiciary should be accountable according to its own reasonings employed for holding all other institutions to account. But it abhors the idea of accountability for itself in the name of its independence. It is a misnomer as independence and accountability are complementary, not antagonistic.

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