James VI and I had a way with a quill ... When 18-year-old Henry died of typhoid fever in 1612, the book was passed to James’s second son, who later became King Charles I. 5.

You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded. His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, had been brought to the scaffold in 1587, her death ...