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Hace 5 días · James married Anne of Denmark in 1589. The royal couple had 6 children (some sources say 9), but basically James was homosexual. His first favourite was a Scotsman married to Frances Howard, the daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. This man rose to power in 1610, but after being accused of murder in 1616, his influence on the King came to its end.
Hace 4 días · Another estimate gave Chelsea at least 95 private schools and Kensington 75. Masters included Richard Bailey of no. 10 Manor Terrace, King's Road, (fn. 73) who was presumably the man of that name at no. 9 Adam's Place, King's Road, in 1838, where John Paxton Hall had succeeded him by 1844. (fn. 74) Hall's day preparatory school by 1861 was ...
Hace 5 días · The key to understanding James is one of the Seven Deadly Sins – avarice, or greed by another name. Having defeated his enemies within Scotland, mostly by rigged trials and executions, James showed early in his reign that he was motivated by power, land and money. The £29,000 ransom money that was to be paid in instalments to free him was ...
Hace 6 días · There are also some entrenched uses, for example St James's Park (in London) (but the Newcastle stadium displays its name spelled St James' Park), St James's Palace (and the Court of St James's), St. James's Hospital (in Dublin), King James's School, Knaresborough and King James's School, Almondbury (but there is no genitive at all ...
Hace 5 días · We are grateful for David Coast’s perceptive review of The Murder of King James I and for his interesting questions about further research. As he suggests, a properly historicized approach to how contemporaries imagined that political life operated is essential to further progress in the field, and, in the past few months, our understanding of this particular issue has come into even sharper ...
Hace 5 días · The next task of the College was to acquire land to the south of its court: Cosyn's Place, Bolton's Place, St. Thomas's Hostel, still on lease from St. John's in 1954, a strip belonging to a chantry in St. Mary the Less, finally in the 18th-century Crossings Place; so that in the end it had all the space between the main streets and a lane running from nearly opposite Free School Lane to ...
Hace 3 días · In 1864 Christie's purchased the former Nos. 12 and 13 Great Ryder Street. Here they built a block of residential chambers with an entrance on the ground floor leading to their King Street premises. The firm's present Ryder Street entrance was built to the east of the original one in 1900–1 (see page 319).
