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  • With these cryptic words, a conspiracy is set into motion that threatens the new translation of the Bible ordered by King James I, and the lives of the scholars working on it.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Jeff C 2010

  • With these cryptic words, a conspiracy is set into motion that threatens the new translation of the Bible ordered by King James I, and the lives of the scholars working on it.

    New Espionage/Mystery/Thriller Releases: Week of May 11, 2010 Jeff C 2010

  • Working our way from the British Robert Peake's exquisite yet stiff and self-conscious portrait (c. 1606) of a young Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of King James I, to the glory of van Dyck's "Charles I on Horseback with M. de St. Antoine" (1633), we see the ways in which the Flemish painter used paint not just for the glory of the king but for our delectation as well.

    Contemporaries a World Apart Tom L. Freudenheim 2009

  • 'Thou shall get kings, though thou be none.' the Weird Sisters tell Banquo, and indeed when Macbeth visits the Weird Sisters for a last time he is shown, by an apparition, a line of many kings stretching from Banquo down to the very time of the performance of the play before King James I, who took pride in his descent from Banquo.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • She had remembered that the royal arms had been introduced into England by that oddity King James I on the strength of his believing the rhyme to be a Scottish story, a strangely patriotic gesture for the son of the half-English Lord Darnley and the half-French Mary, Queen of Scots.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • It was the London Company, created by King James I, in 1606, that laid during the following year the foundations of Virginia at Jamestown.

    History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917

  • In Scotland, however, the followers of Chaucer, of whom the chief were King James I, Dunbar Henryson, and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • When King James I was about to visit Cambridge, the

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • The two captains reached England in September 1584, bringing with them the natives of whom King James I, in his

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • Typical as to the attitude both of Scotch and English Protestants were the theory and practice of King James I, himself the author of a book on Demonology, and nothing if not a theologian.

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

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