James I of England
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James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James Stuart) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was a king who ruled over England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously.
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- "A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the the pit that is bottomless."
- A Counterblaste to Tobbacco (1604)
- "Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweatness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
- A Counterblaste to Tobbacco (1604)
- "I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors."
- On Roman Catholics, at the opening of parliament in 1604.
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- "No bishop, No King!"
- On the structure of the Church, in 1604.
- "If this be all that they have to say, I shall make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse."
- Addressed to Puritans, 1604. Emigrant Puritans would later be a major source of settlement in England's American colonies.
- "That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God"
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