The Cradle King (81 page)

Edmondes, Sir Thomas

Edward III, King of England

Edward VI, King of England

Eedes, Richard

Egerton, Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor

Eglinton, Hugh, Earl of, see Montgomery, Hugh

Eglisham, George

Elizabeth I, Queen of England; supports Scottish Protestants; and James’s baptism; interest in James’s upbringing; alliance with Bothwell; Kirk attacks on; death of; funeral of; relations with James; relations with Mary; relations with Anna

Elizabeth, Princess of Denmark

Elizabeth, Princess; marriage plans for; marriage to Frederick; leaves England; and Bohemia; flees Prague

Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor see Egerton, Thomas

Elphinstoun, James, later Lord Balmerino

Elsinore

Eltham Park

Elwes, Sir Gervase

England, Scottish relations with; after Mary’s execution

Eric XIV, King of Sweden

Erskine, Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth

Erskine, Alexander, of Gogar

Erskine, David, Commendator of Dryburgh

Erskine, John, Earl of Mar, Regent; guardian of James; Regent; death of

Erskine, John, Master of (‘Jocky o’ Sclaittis’), later Earl of Mar; as Henry’s guardian; wife of; son of; joins English Privy Council

Erskine, Sir Thomas

Everard, Dr John

Exchequer, Court of the

Fairbarne, William

Falkland

Fargison, Alexander

Farnham Castle

Fawkes, Guy

Felton, John

Fenton, Viscount

Ferdinand of Styria, Archduke; elected Emperor; daughter of

Fife

Five Articles of Perth, see Perth

Fleetwood, Sir Miles

Flekkerø

Florence, Grand Duke of

Florio, John

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Fortescue, Sir John

Forth, Firth of

Fotheringay Castle

Foulden

Foulis, James

Fowlartoun, William

Fowler, Thomas

Fowler, William

Francisco de Jesus, Father

François II, King of France

François, duc d’Anjou

Frederic Ulric of Brunswick

Frederick II, King of Denmark

Frederick V, Count Palatine; marriage negotiations of; marries Elizabeth; approached by Bohemia; seeks James’s advice; accepts Bohemian throne; enters Prague; denounced by James; flees Prague; continues to fight

Frederick Henry, son of Elizabeth and Frederick

Fuentes, Count

Fuller, Nicholas

Fyvie, Alexander, Lord President, see Seton, Alexander

Galileo

Galloway, Patrick

Gammel Sellohe (Norway)

Geneva

Giustinian, Zorzi

Glamis, Thomas, Master of, see Lyon, Thomas

Glamis Castle

Glasgow; University of

Glasgow, Bishop of, see Boyd, James; Montgomery, Robert; Law, James

Gledstanes, George, Bishop of Caithness, later Archbishop of St Andrews

Glencairn, Alexander, fifth Earl of, see Cunningham, Alexander

Glenlivet, battle of

Golden Act

Goodman, Godfrey

Goodwin, Sir Francis

Gordon, George, fourth Earl of Huntly

Gordon, George, fifth Earl of Huntly

Gordon, George, sixth Earl of Huntly; part of Gowrie’s faction; becomes Privy Councillor; rise of; correspondence with Spain; imprisoned; favoured by James; James’s attack on; at Brig o’ Dee; murder of Moray; Spanish Blanks affair; son of

Gordon, Father James

Gordon, Lady Jean, Countess of Bothwell

Gordon, Sir Patrick, of Auchindoun

Gordons, the

Goring, Sir George

Gowrie Plot

Graham, Sir James, patron of Villiers

Graham, John, Earl of Montrose

Graham, Ritchie

Gravelines

Gravesend

Gray, Nanis

Gray, Patrick, Master of; fall of

Greames, Richard

Great Contract

Greenwich

Gregory XV, Pope

Gresley, Walsingham

Greville, Fulke

Grey, Katherine

Grey, Thomas, Lord

grievances, parliamentary

Guise, duc de

Gunnarrssøn, Halvard

Gunpowder Plot

Hackerston, Captain

Hacket, John

Haddington

Hall, John

Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrews

Hamilton, Lord Claud

Hamilton, James, second Earl of Arran, Duke of Châtelhérault; widow of

Hamilton, James, of Bothwellhaugh

Hamilton, James, Marquis of

Hamilton, Lord John

Hamiltons, the

Hampton Court

Hampton Court Conference

Hamsfort, Cornelius

Harding, John

Harington, Sir John

Harington, Sir John, of Exton

Harrison, Stephen

Harvey, William

Hatfield House

Hatton, Christopher

Hay, Francis, eighth earl of Errol

Hay, Sir James, later Viscount Doncaster, Earl of Carlisle

Hay, John

Hay, Robert

Hayes, surgeon

Hegy, Andrew

Heidelberg

Hemmingsen, Niels

Henderson, Andrew

Henderson, William

Henri III, King of France

Henri of Navarre, later Henri IV, King of France

Henrietta Maria, Princess of France, later Queen of England; negotiations to marry Charles; marries Charles

Henry, King of Scots (Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley); marries Mary; proclaimed King of Scots; attacked by Knox; Chaseabout Raid; quarrels with Mary; jealousy towards Riccio; signs bond against Riccio; and Riccio’s murder; escapes with Mary to Dunbar; rumours of divorce; birth of James; embarrassing behaviour of; deteriorating relations with Mary; at James’s baptism; falls ill; moved to Kirk o’Field; murder of

Henry VI, King of England

Henry VIII, King of England

Henry Frederick, later Prince of Wales; birth of; baptism of; raised at Stirling;
Basilikon Doron
dedicated to; James’s letter to (1603); Anna attempts to remove from Stirling; popular with the English; chivalric interests of; increasing independence of; becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester; moves into St James’s Palace; marriage plans for; illness and death of; funeral of; posthumous reputation of

Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Hepburn, James, fourth Earl of Bothwell; marries Mary, Queen of Scots

Herbert, Sir Philip, later Earl of Montgomery

Herbert, Earl of Pembroke

Hermitage Castle

Herries, John, fourth Lord, see Maxwell, Sir John

Herries, Dr

Hertford, Edward, Earl of, see Seymour, Edward

Hewatt, Peter, minister

Hiegait, William

Hobbes, Thomas

Hoby, Sir Edward

Holles, Gervase

Holles, Sir John

Holyroodhouse, Palace of; Bothwell’s raids on

Holyrood, Abbey of

Home, Sir George, of Sprot, later Earl of Dunbar

Hooker, Richard;
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie

Hoskins, John

Howard, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottingham

Howard, Lady Frances, later Countess of Essex, Countess of Somerset; and murder of Overbury; trial of

Howard, Lord Henry, later Earl of Northampton; death of

Howard, Lord Thomas

Hudson, James

Hudson, James, English agent

Hudson, Robert

Hudson, Mekill Thomas;
The Historie of Judith

Hudson, William

Hume, Alexander

Hume, Sir Patrick, of Polwarth

Hume, William

Hunsdon, Henry, first Lord, see Carey, Henry hunting

Huntingtower [Ruthven]

Huntly, Earl of, see Gordon, George

Huntly, dowager Lady

Hutton, Matthew, Archbishop of York

Hveen (Denmark) James’s visit to

Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon

impositions

Inchaffray, Lord of

Indernyty, Scottish gentleman

Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

James III, King of Scots

James V, King of Scots

James VI, King of Scots and I, King of England:

(1566–1583)

birth of; guardianship of; baptism; threats of abduction; placed at Stirling; Mary’s last encounter with; coronation; household at Stirling; at 1571 Parliament; death of Lennox; education of; and Buchanan; entrusted to Erskine of Gogar; meets with Morton; assumes government; Morton’s attack on Stirling; meets Esmé Stuart; enters Edinburgh; relationship with Esmé Stuart; 1580 progress; ‘corrupted’ by Lennox; relations with England; death of Morton; Act of Association; Ruthven Raid; reactions to Lennox’s death

(1583–1603)

escapes from Ruthven Raiders; Fontenay’s assessment of (1584); negotiations over Mary; reactions to Mary’s death; relations with Huntly; Spanish Armada; treachery of Huntly; marches against Huntly; marriage negotiations; resolves to collect Anna; letter to the Privy Council; sails for Norway; marries Anna; visits Denmark; meets Tycho Brahe; returns to Scotland; appoints Melville to Anna’s household; interest in witchcraft; dealings with Bothwell; murder of Moray; ‘Spanish Blanks’ affair; birth of son Henry; quarrels with Anna over Henry’s upbringing; death of Maitland; finances of; Edinburgh riots; Gowrie Plot; English succession; dealings with Essex; dealings with Cecil; proclaimed King of England

(1603–1616)

travels to England; allows Anna to take Henry; initial reactions to; coronation celebrations; forms Privy Council; household arrangements; concerns over hunting and style of government; Millenary Petition; admiration for Hooker; and Church of England; Hampton Court Conference; King James Bible; Royston Petition; 1604 Parliament; and Union of Kingdoms; 1607 Parliament; attitude towards Henry; Gunpowder Plot; policy towards English Catholics; and Ralegh plot (1603); controversial writings; and English Common Law; finances of; 1610 Parliament; and Salisbury; and death of Henry; 1614 (Addled) Parliament; and Sarmiento; meets Carr; rise of Carr; facilitates Carr’s marriage; commission into Essex marriage; meets Villiers; rise of Villiers; quarrels with Somerset; and Overbury affair; sends letters to Somerset; rejects Monson

(1616–1626)

visit to Scotland; attempts to reform Kirk; and Spanish marriage negotiations; Ralegh’s 1617 mission; approached by Bohemia; as ‘Peacemaker’; death of Anna; serious illness; anger towards Frederick; scheming with Gondomar; turns against Gondomar; isolated from public opinion; 1621 Parliament; libels against James and Buckingham; and Charles and Buckingham’s trip to Spain; breakdown of negotiations with Spain; 1624 Parliament; decline in health; fall of Middlesex; falls out with Buckingham; marriage negotiations with France; rebuffs Brett; final illness of; death of

anger of; attitude towards women; depiction as nursing father; as physician; as Solomon; fearful nature of; health of; intellectualism of; hunting, love of; libels against; relations with Anna; relations with Elizabeth; relations with England; relations with Kirk; relations with Mary

writings of:

Apologie (Triplici nodo); Basilikon Doron; Counter-Blaste to Tabacco; Daemonologie; Monitory Preface; Poetical Exercises;
poetry; Psalms, translation of;
Trew Law of Free Monarchies, The; Workes

Jedburgh

Jones, Inigo

Jonson, Ben;
The Fortunate Isles and their Union

Keith, George, fifth Earl Marischal

Keith, William, of Delnies

Kennedy, Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis

Ker of Ferniehurst

Kerr, Andrew, of Fawdonsyde