. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ted and weakened by the long civil wars. Thus he came to England in 1603 already an old King, as heonce called himself, firm in the resolve that he would not be taughthis office . He had his convictions based on experience, and meantto act up to them. He was determined to suffer no dictation froma prating assembly of clergy, and he consequently became a strongsupporter of that aggressive and sacerdotal episcopacy which wassoon to find little support in England outside the Kings , he regarded the English Houses of Parli
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ted and weakened by the long civil wars. Thus he came to England in 1603 already an old King, as heonce called himself, firm in the resolve that he would not be taughthis office . He had his convictions based on experience, and meantto act up to them. He was determined to suffer no dictation froma prating assembly of clergy, and he consequently became a strongsupporter of that aggressive and sacerdotal episcopacy which wassoon to find little support in England outside the Kings , he regarded the English Houses of Parliament as far lessformidable than the Scottish nobility, and he therefore meant to behis own master. But any chance of popularity which he might havepossessed was destroyed by the extravagance encouraged bya comparison of the wealth of England with his former penury inScotland. Thus on three points James was in constant antagonismto his people, whose interests he believed himself to be promotingaccording to the best traditions of benevolent Monarchy. He did. JAMES 1From the portrait probably by a German artist in tlie National Portrait_GalIcry Face p. 34 JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND 35 not realize the strength of Puritanism, or the weakness of hisfinancial status ; while his intellectual pride would not permit him torecede from his tenets so far as to admit any justification, or evenany necessity, for Parliamentary independence. lie treated politicalquestions from an abstract point of view, and was therefore mistakenby the Commons as much as he mistook them. Thus, not throughindifference, but through mere failure to perceive its approach, hedid nothing to avert the deluge which was to sweep away his foreign policy was equally blind. With his genuine love ofpeace, he would not continue the anti-Spanish tradition. If this waslaudable, which is at least doubtful, it was certainly unpopular ; butJames fondly imagined that he would be able to secure the peace ofEurope and put an end
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