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Thomas Cogswells dramatic new biography brings James to life as a complex, learned, curious man and a great survivor, one who drastically changed court life in London and presided over the Authorized Version of the Bible and the establishment of English settlements across the globe. Cogswell tells the story of Jamess personal life and private passions as much as his public achievements. James was often accused of being too informal and insufficiently regalbut when his son, Charles I, decided to redress these criticisms in his own reign, he was destroyed. This is a vivid portrait of an often underappreciated monarch.

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Contents Acknowledgements I am grateful to Simon Winder for asking me to write - photo 1
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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Simon Winder for asking me to write this volume and then for gently nudging me to finish it. On the editorial side, Anna Herv effortlessly sorted out several thorny issues, and Kate Parker admirably succeeded in the unenviable task of smoothing out my unruly prose.

It was my extraordinary good fortune to have written it while at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, amid its exemplary collection of English and Scottish materials. For their good humour while I repeatedly pestered them, I am much obliged to the Research Director, Steve Hindle; to his staff, Juan Gmez and Carolyn Powell; and to my neighbours in the Upper Munger, Dena Goodman, Amanda Herbert, Daniel Immerwahr, Adam Mosley, and Carol and Franois Rigolot. High praise is due to Norm Jones, who provided me with Elizabethan comparisons and much advice, and to Will Cavert who, over coffee at the library, supplied a wonderful reference to Jamess obsession with dogs. Every morning as I badgered them for entrance as early as possible, the guards, especially Lou Ann Bonanza, James Michre, Marco Prez and Patricia Vanley, daily taught me that it is possible to be dutiful and kind.

Finally, this book owes a great deal to many conversations with Alastair Bellany and to our recent work, The Murder of King James I. Richard Cust, Ken Fincham, James Knowles, Peter Lake, Roger Mason and Michael Questier gave me invaluable assistance with early drafts and Georgia Warnke with life.

The book is dedicated in memory of my brother, who would have enjoyed reading about King James.

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THE HOUSES OF WESSEX AND DENMARK
AthelstanTom Holland
Aethelred the UnreadyRichard Abels
CnutRyan Lavelle
Edward the ConfessorJames Campbell
THE HOUSES OF NORMANDY, BLOIS AND ANJOU
William IMarc Morris
William IIJohn Gillingham
Henry IEdmund King
StephenCarl Watkins
Henry IIRichard Barber
Richard IThomas Asbridge
JohnNicholas Vincent
THE HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET
Henry IIIStephen Church
Edward IAndy King
Edward IIChristopher Given-Wilson
Edward IIIJonathan Sumption
Richard IILaura Ashe
THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK
Henry IVCatherine Nall
Henry VAnne Curry
Henry VIJames Ross
Edward IVA. J. Pollard
Edward VThomas Penn
Richard IIIRosemary Horrox
THE HOUSE OF TUDOR
Henry VIISean Cunningham
Henry VIIIJohn Guy
Edward VIStephen Alford
Mary IJohn Edwards
Elizabeth IHelen Castor
THE HOUSE OF STUART
James IThomas Cogswell
Charles IMark Kishlansky
[CromwellDavid Horspool]
Charles IIClare Jackson
James IIDavid Womersley
William III& Mary IIJonathan Keates
AnneRichard Hewlings
THE HOUSE OF HANOVER
George ITim Blanning
George IINorman Davies
George IIIAmanda Foreman
George IVStella Tillyard
William IVRoger Knight
VictoriaJane Ridley
THE HOUSES OF SAXE-COBURG & GOTHA AND WINDSOR
Edward VIIRichard Davenport-Hines
George VDavid Cannadine
Edward VIIIPiers Brendon
George VIPhilip Ziegler
Elizabeth IIDouglas Hurd
Further Reading

Anyone trying to understand James VI and I should begin by examining his remarkable output of poetry and prose, and in this task it is useful to begin with Jane Rickard, Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002). Fortunately there are several excellent modern editions, and chief among them are: The Letters of King James VI and I, edited by G. P. V. Akrigg (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1984); King James VI and I: Political Writings, edited by Johann Sommerville (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); and The Poems of James VI of Scotland, edited by James Craigie, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1955 and 1958). His personal letters to Somerset and Buckingham are particularly revealing, and pending the publication of a careful edition of these with contemporary spellings and an analysis of their provenance, there is much to applaud in King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire, edited by David Bergeron (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999).

Given D. H. Willsons palpable dislike of James, a sentiment that runs through his King James VI and I (New York: Henry Holt, 1956), we badly need a new, full-scale biography of the man. Until then, Willsons book should be read together with Alan Stewarts perceptive The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003). Those readers in more of a hurry will enjoy Pauline Croft, King James I (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and Roger Lockyer, James VI and I (Harlow: Longman, 1998). Of the many older biographies, few can surpass the insights in Caroline Bingham, The Making of a King: The Early Years of James VI and I (London: Collins, 1968).

Jenny Wormald began the Jamess scholarly re-evaluation with James VI and I: Two Kings or One?, History, 67 (1983), pp. 187209, and Alan Stewart presented a new appreciation of him in Government by Beagle: The Impersonal Government of James VI and I, in Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans and Other Wonderful Creatures, edited by Erica Fudge (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004), pp. 10115. Jamess sexuality has attracted much recent attention; among the new works, see Michael Young, King James VI and I and the History of Homosexuality (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and David Bergeron, Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of Scotland and England

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