Bellany Alastair James - The Murder of King James I

Copyright 2015 Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bellany, Alastair James, 1968

The murder of King James I / Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-300-21496-3 (cl : alk. paper)

1. James I, King of England, 1566-1625Death and burial. I. Cogswell, Thomas, 1952- II. Title.

DA391.B45 2015

941.06'1dc23

2015023635

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To

Lucy Cogswell Stewart, Ned Cogswell,
David Yaffe-Bellany and Rachel Yaffe-Bellany

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, King James VI and I (c. 1620), with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Plates

Daniel Mytens, King James I of England and VI of Scotland (1621), National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Larkin, George Villiers (c. 1616), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Daniel Mytens, Prince Charles (1623), Royal Collection Trust/ Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.

Daniel Mytens, James Hamilton, 2nd Marquis Hamilton (1624), Royal Collection Trust/ Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.

Michael Jansz van Miereveld, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (162526), Art Gallery of South Australia.

Figures

James Russell & Sons, Samuel Rawson Gardiner (c. 1900), National Portrait Gallery, London.

G. Jerrard, Deputy Surgeon-General Norman Chevers , Wellcome Library, London.

Anon., Frederick V and Elizabeth, King and Queen of Bohemia (1619), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Anon., Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria (1622), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Willem de Passe, Triumphus Jacobi Regis Augustaeque ipsius Prolis (1622), British Museum, London.

Simon de Passe, George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham (1620), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Anon., King Charles I when Prince of Wales (c. 1620), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Scott, Vox Regis (1624), frontispiece, British Museum, London.

Sir William Paddys note in his copy of the Book of Common Prayer , St Johns College Library, Cpd.b.2, reproduced by permission of the President and Fellows of St Johns College, Oxford.

William Elder, Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne (late seventeenth century), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Funeral effigy of King James I, Westminster Abbey, London, Dean and Chapter of Westminster, London.

Reconstruction of James Is funeral effigy in procession, College of Arms MS Royal Funerals 1618 to 1738, p. 54, reproduced by permission of the Kings, Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms.

Inigo Jones, Design for the catafalque of James I (H&T 25), Worcester College, Oxford, reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford.

Thomas Jenner (publisher), Bishop John Williams (c. 162125), National Portrait Gallery, London.

John Williams, Great Britains Salomon (London, 1625), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Hugh Holland, A Cypres Garland (London, 1625), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Thomas Heywood, A Funeral Elegie (London, 1625), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

John Taylor, A Living Sadnes (London, 1625), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Abraham Darcie and Robert Vaughan, Maiesties Sacred Monument (1625), British Museum, London.

Johan Bara, Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox and Richmond (1624), British Museum, London.

Martin Droeshout, James, 2nd Marquis of Hamilton (1623), British Museum, London.

Simon de Passe, Lucy Russell (ne Harington), Countess of Bedford (c. 1618), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Francis Delaram, Ernst von Mansfeld, Count von Mansfeld (1620s), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Breda Fortified With New Workes After the Comming of Spinola, in Herman Hugo, The Siege of Breda (1629), with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Simon de Passe, Don Diego de Sarmiento, Conde de Gondomar (1622), British Museum, London.

George Eglisham, Crisis Vorstiani Responsi (1612), Balliol College Library, 305 h 5(1), title page, reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford.

George Eglisham, Hypocrisis Apologeticae Orationis Vorstianae (1612), Bodleian 4o W 9(4) Art., title page, The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford.

George Eglisham, Accurata Methodus erigendi thematis natalitii (1616), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

George Eglisham, Duellum Poeticum (1618), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Noble Street and neighbourhood, from the Agas Map of the 1560s, London Metropolitan Archives.

Floor plans of Bacon House, from C. L. Kingsford, On some London Houses of the Early Tudor Period, Archaeologia 71 (1921), fig. 1, p. 34.

Thomas Jenner (publisher), No Plot, No Powder (1623), British Museum, London.

The true portrature of the Iesuits and prists, in Thomas Scott, The Second Part of Vox Populi (1624), British Museum, London.

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, frontispiece to Thomas Scott, Vox Dei (1624), British Museum, London.

Peter Paul Rubens, Drawing of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1625), Albertina Museum, Vienna.

Anon., Veritas Odiosa ([Brussels], 1626), Bodleian Antiq. E. N. 1626.1, title page, The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford.

Simon Gribelin (16621733), William Trumbull, Agent of Kings James I and Charles I at the Court of Brussels , with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Plantin-Moretus bookshop ledger, Museum Plantin-Moretus Archive MS 744, fo. 347r, with permission of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp UNESCO, World Heritage.

Albertus Miraeus, Stemmata Principum Belgii (Brussels, 1626), title page, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague.

George Eglisham, Prodromus Vindictae In Ducem Buckinghamiae (Frankfurt [Brussels], 1626), Bodleian (OC) 226 k. 46, title page, The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford.

George Eglisham, The Forerunner of Revenge Upon the Duke of Buckingham (Frankfurt [Brussels], 1626), title page, with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Jan Ruysbroeck, T Cieraet der Gheestelycker Bruyloft (1624), title page, Library of the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Jan Ruysbroeck, T Cieraet der Gheestelycker Bruyloft (1624), p. 12, ornamental capital S, Library of the University of Ghent, Belgium.

George Eglisham, Prodromus Vindictae In Ducem Buckinghamiae (Frankfurt [Brussels], 1626), Bodleian (OC) 226 k. 46, sig. A2r, ornamental capital S, The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford.