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The Murder of King James I

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015

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A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

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Alastair Bellany is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England. Thomas Cogswell is professor of history at UC Riverside. His books include The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    ILLUSTRATIONS

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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    ABBREVIATIONS

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    CONVENTIONS

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    INTRODUCTION: “SUCH TALES AS GOES HERE OF HIM”: HISTORY, MEDICINE AND THE MURDER OF KING JAMES I PROLOGUE THE TRAVAILS OF CHRISTOPHER HOGG

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    PROLOGUE: OUT OF THE SPANISH LABYRINTH THE KING, HIS SON AND HIS FAVOURITE, 1618–24

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  • PART I. THE AUTHORIZED VERSION 1625
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    PROLOGUE: THE KING’S GOOD DEATH

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    CHAPTER ONE. CRUEL FIRE THE PHYSICIANS EXPLAIN JAMES I’S DEATH

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    CHAPTER TWO. THE GREATEST FUNERAL THAT EVER WAS KNOWN: MEMORIALIZING JAMES I

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  • PART II. MAKING THE SECRET HISTORY 1625–26
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    PROLOGUE: THE TRAVAILS OF CHRISTOPHER HOGG

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    CHAPTER THREE. STRANGE TRAGEDIES: FEVER AND POLITICS AT THEOBALDS, MARCH 1625

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    CHAPTER FOUR. THE KING’S BRAVE WARRIOR: THE MAKING OF GEORGE EGLISHAM, c. 1585–1620

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    CHAPTER FIVE. A DOCTOR SUSPECTED OF PAPISTRY: THE UNMAKING OF GEORGE EGLISHAM, 1620–25

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    CHAPTER SIX. AT THE SIGN OF ST ANNE: PRINTING THE SECRET HISTORY

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    CHAPTER SEVEN. “WHAT CAN BE FULLER OF WONDER?” THE FORERUNNER MAKES ITS CASE

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  • PART III. IMPEACHING BUCKINGHAM, 1626
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    PROLOGUE: “THE FIRE IN THE LOWER HOUSE”

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    CHAPTER EIGHT. WHALE FISHING IN WESTMINSTER: THE FAVOURITE AND HIS CRITICS

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    CHAPTER NINE. A CRYING CRIME THE PARLIAMENT–MEN INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF JAMES I

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    CHAPTER TEN. THE DUKE’S PALLOR: THE FORERUNNER AND THE ASSAULT ON BUCKINGHAM

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    CHAPTER ELEVEN. A TRUE CLEARING? BUCKINGHAM’S DEFENCE

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    CHAPTER TWELVE. SINGING LESSONS: DISSOLUTION AND RETRIBUTION

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  • PART IV. THE POISONOUS FAVOURITE, 1626–28
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    PROLOGUE: THE HUNTING OF BUCK, KING OF GAME

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    CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE STAPLE OF NEWS: THE FORERUNNER AND THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND

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    CHAPTER FOURTEEN. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: RADICAL TALK AND THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE

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    CHAPTER FIFTEEN. LONDON ON FIRE: BUCKINGHAM THE POPISH POISONER

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    CHAPTER SIXTEEN. REVOLT AGAINST JEHORAM: THOMAS SCOTT READS GEORGE EGLISHAM

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  • PART V. STRANGE APPARITIONS, 1629–49
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    PROLOGUE: “KING CHARLES HADD A HAND IN ITT”

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    CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. NERO IN WARWICKSHIRE: THE SECRET HISTORY AFTER BUCKINGHAM, 1629–40

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    CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. EGLISHAM REDIVIVUS: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE CASE FOR WAR, 1642

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    CHAPTER NINETEEN. ROME’S MASTERPIECE: CIVIL WAR POLEMIC AND THE MURDER OF JAMES I, 1643–45

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    CHAPTER TWENTY. THE HELLISH WESTMINSTERIAN LIE: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE CRISIS OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1648

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    CHAPTER TWENTY–ONE UNDER THE POWER OF THE SWORD: BLOOD GUILT AND THE REGICIDE, 1648–49

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  • PART VI. SPEAKING REPROACHFULLY OF THE DEAD, 1649–63
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    PROLOGUE: AN ENGLISHMAN IN UPPSALA, 1653–54

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    CHAPTER TWENTY–TWO. TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC, 1650–53

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    CHAPTER TWENTY–THREE. WORSE THAN RAVAILLAC: EXORCIZING EGLISHAM AND THE KING- KILLERS, 1655–63

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    EPILOGUE: SCANDALOUS AND LIBELLOUS DISCOURSES: THE MURDER OF JAMES I FROM PARTISAN HISTORY TO FORENSIC MEDICINE, 1663–1862

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    CONCLUSION: THE SHADOWS FROM THEOBALDS

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    NOTES

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    INDEX

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