Hourly History gives us a concise hour-long history of the good and bad of one of the kings of England. It informs us of the important events of his reign: the mystery of the Gowrie plot, his search for a wife, his difficulties with the people of Scotland, the murder of many women accused of being witches – which fascinated James, his insistence that he had the divine right to do with his subjects whatever he pleased to do, His male favorites, the thirty-year war, the famed King James Bible, and the unresolved difficulties between the Protestants and Catholics.
He was born in 1566 in Scotland. At age one, he was crowned King James VI of Scotland after the murder of his father and the imprisonment of his mother Mary Queen of Scots. His great-grandmother’s brother was Henry VIII of England.
He assumed the crown of England in 1603 after the death of Queen Elizabeth I of England when he was 37-years-old as King James I, and officially united England, Ireland, and Scotland for the first time despite each being very different and each having as a principle religion a different religion than the other two. The union was not very successful during his lifetime. James was dictatorial and wanted more power than Parliament gave him and more taxes. He died in 1625 at age 59.
His son Charles I became king in 1625 with the same attitude and had severe problems with Parliament. The first civil war, his war with Parliament, was in 1642-1646. The second war was in 1648 when Charles I was executed by Parliament. His son Charles II became king in 1649 and there was a third war from 1649 to 1651. In 1651, England established a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell and changed the English constitution and the role of monarchy and Parliament. Charles II then resumed the role of king. All told over 800,000 people died in these wars
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This is a small, children’s booklet. Disappointed
This book doesn’t even have numbed pages. There are not very many at all. There are 10 chapters in this VERY thin book and each chapter is about a page or two long. There is absolutely no way they covered everything from King Jame’s life “beginning to end” like it says on the cover. I’m so disappointed and wish I would have looked more into Hourly History books. Which when I type that I guess I should have known. This is something more for children. Like a small booklet. I’m now going through my list of Hourly History books I planned on buying and deleting all of them. I guess I’ll have to keep looking for an actual long and informational more detailed book on King James I. Oh and the picture on the cover is blurry and looks like it has possibly broken copyright laws.
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