As Bad as Poisoned
Blair Worden: James I, 3 March 2016
The Murder of King James I
by Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell.
Yale, 618 pp., £30, October 2015,978 0 300 21496 3 Show More
by Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell.
Yale, 618 pp., £30, October 2015,
“... special frisson to death by poison. In 1612 the death of James’s heir, Charles’s elder brother Henry, was ascribed to poison. The charge was false, but in the following year the political world was rocked by the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower by agents of the wife of the king’s then leading ... ”