HST 632 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Millenary Petition, Richard Bancroft, Henry Jacob
6 Feb 2018
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James would end up as a fairly successful ruler, but he had his downfalls. James was as foreign to the english as if he was portuguese. James spoke english, with a scottish accent: he was a foreigner, he had different expectations of his people than what had traditionally been expected. It should be noted that james seemed to love men (as opposed to henry viii, who loved women) this doesn"t stop him from getting married and having children, as that was his duty as monarch. How james ruled: three different periods of james" reign, 1) salisbury years (1603-1612): robert cecil, 1st earl of salisbury, james" chief minister from. 1603-12: salisbury was the son of elizabeth"s chief minister, william cecil (lord burleigh, 2) the years of political drift (1612-1618, 3) the rule of james and buckingham (1616-1625) James" response to the millenary petition (signed by approx.
