The Wisest Fool in Christendom

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The discovery by the English of this plant was the saving of the colony due to it being so lucrative as a new hobby for Europeans smoking pipes. Ironically King James himself found the product so disagreeable that he wrote a book about tobacco called A Counterblast to Tobacco where he described it as ‘loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brains and dangerous to the lungs’ proving a somewhat prophetic analysis four hundred years ahead of its time. Bray, Alan (2003). The Friend. University of Chicago Press. pp.167–170. ISBN 0-2260-7180-4. ; Bray, Alan (1994). Goldberg, Jonathan (ed.). Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England. Duke University Press. pp.42–44. ISBN 0-8223-1385-5. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume Two: The New World (1956), p. 157-158

Villiers in turn showered honours on his own family, all of which James benignly approved, for, said he one day in the presence of the entire Villiers family, “I desire to advance you above all others.” When this kind of lead was being given by the King, bribery and corruption became understandingly rife in high places. He united the thrones of Scotland and England, changing the direction of English history. As the patron of Inigo Jones’s dazzling Banqueting House, he made an important contribution to English architecture. Kerr-Peterson, Miles; Pearce, Michael (2020). James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588–1596. Woodbridge. p.35. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)James’s controversial reign over two countries saw him in constant struggles with Parliament particularly when it came to spending treasury money. Parliament on the other hand was determined to control taxation. But James believed that he was only answerable to God alone and should be able to do as he liked. As James ignored Parliament for most of the decade, his personal relationships with favourites - offering them expensive gifts and high ranking titles - also irked the authorities. But few at the time were aware of the intimate nature of some of these relationships. Gay lovers

Croft 2003, p.45; George Nicolson quoted by Stewart 2003, p.154: "It is begun to be noted that the reports coming from the King should differ"; Williams 1970, p.61: "The two principal characters were dead, the evidence of eyewitnesses was destroyed and only King James's version remained"; Willson 1963, pp.126–130. understand and apply specialised research or professional skills, techniques and practices considered in the course Perry, Curtis (2006), Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-5218-5405-4 It is very likely that Overbury was the victim of a 'set-up' contrived by the earls of Northampton and Suffolk, with Carr's complicity, to keep him out of the way during the annulment proceedings. Overbury knew too much of Carr's dealings with Frances and he opposed the match with a fervour that made him dangerous, motivated by a deep political hostility to the Howards. It cannot have been difficult to secure James's compliance, because he disliked Overbury and his influence over Carr. [163] John Chamberlain reported that the king "hath long had a desire to remove him from about the lord of Rochester, as thinking it a dishonour to him that the world should have an opinion that Rochester ruled him and Overbury ruled Rochester". [164] Milling, Jane (2004), "The Development of a Professional Theatre", in Milling, Jane; Thomson, Peter; Donohue, Joseph W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-5216-5040-3e.g. Lee, Maurice (1990), Great Britain's Solomon: James VI and I in his Three Kingdoms, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-2520-1686-8.