The Wisest Fool in Christendom

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Barroll, J. Leeds (2001), Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, ISBN 978-0-8122-3574-6

Dr. Williams has, in essence, lost it. He has lost the will to carry on being the Archbishop of a church divided along the lines of two opposing and mutually exclusive theologies that are threatening to erupt into a full schism. He is a thinker (and that’s fine and necessary), but he is not a healer. I would suggest he is tired and has lost interest in trying to keep two warring factions together. He has, rather, moved on to loftier and more interesting things. Enter Sharia. 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. Croft 2003, pp.129–130; "Great Britains Salomon A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty king, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. At the Collegiat Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, the seuenth of May 1625. By the Right Honorable, and Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, &c". quod.lib.umich.edu . Retrieved 1 April 2021.

The wisest fool in Christendom

Richard Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History (2009), p. 217-218 On the morning of 15 May 1607 a hundred and forty-three men (there were no women in this expedition) disembarked from having been crowded aboard Captain Christopher Newport's three ships during the past four months of their tedious sea passage. They found themselves on an island near the north bank of a tidal river, where they then set about establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America. With their exuberant native patriotism having bounded with them onto the shore of this largely-unknown continent, these alien settlers immediately named both the sparkling river and their little fortress settlement for their young sovereign of the Stuart dynasty, James I of England (also known as James VI of Scotland). Whenever King James was living in Scotland he dutifully worshipped with the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland- a group he did not especially like- and whenever he was living in England he rather disdainfully worshiped in the Anglican Church- a group which overwhelmingly distrusted him... and vice versa. The way to do this, he thought, was to arrange a marriage between his son Charles and the Infanta Maria of Spain and so, on a mission half of business and half of pleasure, Charles set out to Spain accompanied by the King’s faithful “Steenie.” They went, surprisingly, not as Prince and nobleman, but as two common travellers, and once the Spanish had got over this peculiarity they were well received. James’s family situation was complicated. He was born in Edinburgh Castle on 19 June 1566, the only son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The marriage was falling apart and Mary's position as Queen was very insecure. Two months before James was born his father Lord Darnley sided with the rebels against his wife and became involved in the brutal and murder of Queen Mary’s Catholic private secretary David Rizzio, who was stabbed to death in front of the terrified and pregnant queen. Darnley himself was later murdered in an explosion at Kirk o’ Field in Edinburgh in February 1567 prompting Mary to move on to her second lover who was a suspect in her previous husband’s murder. Her new marriage wasn’t popular with the Protestant rebels who then imprisoned Mary at Loch Leven Castle near Perth in Scotland which resulted in her never seeing her son James again. As for a replacement, much as I like Wright, I don’t think we want another eminent theologian. If not Nazir-Ali, I would propose Sentamu, who is at least a man of decisive action.

Röhl, John C. G.; Warren, Martin; Hunt, David (1998), Purple Secret: Genes, "Madness" and the Royal Houses of Europe, London: Bantam Press, ISBN 0-5930-4148-8. 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) 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) demonstrate a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning the ideas and writings of James VI & IHerein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Willumsen, Liv Helene (1 December 2020). "Witchcraft against Royal Danish Ships in 1589 and the Transnational Transfer of Ideas". International Review of Scottish Studies. 45: 54–99. doi: 10.21083/irss.v45i0.5801. S2CID 229451135– via www.irss.uoguelph.ca. Velde, Francois, Proclamation by the King, 20 October 1604, heraldica.org , retrieved 9 February 2013. James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. Both Mary and Darnley were great-grandchildren of Henry VII of England through Margaret Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII. Mary's rule over Scotland was insecure, and she and her husband, being Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by Protestant noblemen. During Mary's and Darnley's difficult marriage, [8] Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and conspired in the murder of the queen's private secretary, David Rizzio, just three months before James's birth. [9] once you ask for the first step of Sharia law you are going to get to the last of it. By 1960 when Nigeria got Independence, it began as penal code. Once it came to this generation they upgraded it to full blown Sharia. So it is only a matter of time when you begin from somewhere that you get to the real thing. Alas, James rarely put a foot right after the Gunpowder Plot. Financially he was a poor King who nevertheless loved extravagance and was soon deep in money troubles. He was a hard drinker and was seen drunk in public on at least one occasion. He appointed weak and worthless men like Robert Carr, a squire whom he made Earl of Somerset, to high office, with disastrous consequences. While the people trumpeted their discontent the King proclaimed his belief in the Divine Right of Kings –“I will govern,” he announced, “according to the common weal*; not according to the common will.”

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 Meanwhile Michael Daley of the very unofficial Lambeth Conference blog has gone one step further than I have. I, like several General Synod members, have called on Archbishop Williams to resign. Michael has actually predicted that he will resign, even that he is deliberately planning his departure: Spine in dark brown leather, divided into seven compartments by raised bands. Gold-tooled fillet line on either side of the raised bands, with double fillet on head and tail of spine. Second compartment contains red leather label with gold-tooled title: 'KING JAMES I WORKS.'; '1616' gold-tooled on tail end of spine. He was less than a year old when he saw his mother for the last time, and thirteen months old when he was crowned King of Scots in Stirling after her forced abdication.

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. James was ambitious to build on the personal union of Scotland and England to establish a single country under one monarch, one parliament, and one law, a plan that met opposition in both realms. [96] "Hath He not made us all in one island," James told the English Parliament, "compassed with one sea and of itself by nature indivisible?" In April 1604, however, the Commons refused his request to be titled "King of Great Britain" on legal grounds. [h] In October 1604, he assumed the title "King of Great Britain" instead of "King of England" and "King of Scotland", though Francis Bacon told him that he could not use the style in "any legal proceeding, instrument or assurance" and the title was not used on English statutes. [98] James forced the Scottish Parliament to use it, and it was used on proclamations, coinage, letters, and treaties in both realms. [99] Croft 2003, pp.134–135: "James wrote well, scattering engaging asides throughout the text"; Willson 1963, p.132: " Basilikon Doron is the best prose James ever wrote". When the Earl of Salisbury died in 1612, he was little mourned by those who jostled to fill the power vacuum. [m] Until Salisbury's death, the Elizabethan administrative system over which he had presided continued to function with relative efficiency; from this time forward, however, James's government entered a period of decline and disrepute. [158] Salisbury's passing gave James the notion of governing in person as his own chief Minister of State, with his young Scottish favourite Robert Carr carrying out many of Salisbury's former duties, but James's inability to attend closely to official business exposed the government to factionalism. [159]Gaudiani, Claire Lynn (1981), The Cabaret poetry of Théophile de Viau: Texts and Traditions, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp.103–104, ISBN 978-3-8780-8892-9 , retrieved 9 December 2015. The King knew that he would have to keep his plan a secret because if they heard about it the Scots people would raise a chorus of justifiable disapproval. He appears to have succeeded; moreover, he made the trip fairly uneventfully and dispensing with all regal formalities married Anne in Norway. Then, after a trip to the Danish court, he returned to Scotland with his bride.