Civil War: The History of England Volume III (81 page)
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Authors: Peter Ackroyd
1. James I of England and James VI of Scotland, in the characteristically regal pose of hand on hip.
2. Anne of Denmark, James’s spouse, who became a key artistic patron in the ‘Jacobean’ age.
3. James in front of his lords, temporal and spiritual.
4. The title page of the King James Bible, one of the lasting memorials of his reign.
5. The title page of John Milton’s
Areopagitica
, an eloquent plea against censorship.
6. George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, loved by two sovereigns and hated by the people.
8. Charles, the future Charles I, as the prince of Wales in armour.
10. A double portrait of the unhappy Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria.
11. Three out of seven of Charles I’s children, painted by Anthony Van Dyck.
13. What the Cavaliers are supposed to have done with the Puritans.