HIST 1003 Lecture : HIST 1003 Notes 9 10 2015
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1603-1625: commissioned the first english bible king james translation. Cabinet would sit at dinner: hoped to use it to reestablish catholicism in england, deeply worried extreme protestants, many english were become extremely calvinism, became known as puritans, ***the religious issue becomes revisited once again. James"s problems: did not want to pick fights, alcoholic wife, expensive taste, he loved being king, he never allowed the struggle between him and parliament go too far. In many ways, charles was the perfect king: never believed it would last, kept a bag packed in case of necessity to live, was king for a quarter century, died popular. James ii becomes king because he had no children. James ii: wife had died (anne hyde, was a protestant, two daughters: anne and mary, mary was married to william of orange, most important man in the netherlands, extremely protestant.
