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King James I

King James I. King James James (1566-1625) was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567. In 1603, king of England and Ireland as James I; united the

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Page 1: King James I. King James James (1566-1625) was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567. In 1603, king of England and Ireland as James I; united the

King James I

Page 2: King James I. King James James (1566-1625) was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567. In 1603, king of England and Ireland as James I; united the

King James

• James (1566-1625) was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567.

• In 1603, king of England and Ireland as James I; united the Crowns of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England.

• He succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died without an heir.

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King James

• James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart

• Under James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Sir Francis Bacon.

• James himself was a talented scholar.

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Witchcraft• James's visit to Denmark, a country familiar with wit

ch hunts, may have encouraged an interest in the study of witchcraft.

• After his return to Scotland, he attended the North Berwick witch trials, a major persecution of witches

• Agnes Sampson, were convicted of using witchcraft to send storms against James's ship.

• James became obsessed with the threat posed by witches and, inspired by his personal involvement, in 1597 wrote the Daemonologie, a tract which opposed the practice of witchcraft and which provided background material for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth (1607).

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400th Year Anniversary of the King James Bible 1611-2011

• The Authorized King James Version is an English translation by the Church of England of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

• The newly crowned King James convened the Hampton Court Conference in 1604. That gathering proposed a new English version in response to the perceived problems of earlier translations as detected by the Puritan faction of the Church of England.

• In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew text.

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An image of Pocahontas being presented to King James I

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References

• http://www.biblicalscholarship.com/400th.htm

• http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/kingjames.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version

• http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-pocahontas.html