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<p> Son of Mary, [[Queen]] of Scots, and Darnley, born in [[Edinburgh]] Castle; was proclaimed king of [[Scotland]] when only 13 months old, in 1567; entrusted to the [[Earl]] of Mar, and educated by [[George]] Buchanan; Moray, Lennox, Mar, and Morton were successively regents, till James assumed the government in 1581, executing Morton and choosing [[Arran]] and [[Lennox]] for his advisers; plots and counter-plots, the Raid of Ruthven, the siege of [[Stirling]] by some of the nobles with 10,000 troops, mostly from England, the surrender of the king and the fall of Arran in 1585, the insurrection of the [[Catholic]] nobles 1491-94, and the Gowrie [[Conspiracy]] in 1600, betrayed the restlessness of the kingdom, and the weakness of the king; James married Anne of [[Denmark]] 1589; on the death of Elizabeth, in 1603, he succeeded to the throne of [[England]] as </p> <p> as at first popular, but soon forfeited all confidence by his favouritism; he governed through creatures like Carr, Earl of Somerset, and the infamous Buckingham, whose indiscretion brought about a war with Spain in 1624; James died immediately afterwards; he has been described by Sully as "the wisest fool in Christendom"; his conduct was certainly much less creditable than his conversation; he held absurdly high views of the royal prerogative; but he sold patents of nobility, and was careless of the misdeeds of his ministers; he did not live to see revolution, but he saw its precursor in the loosening of the bonds of sympathy between sovereign and people (1566-1625). </p>

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