James I of England

King James I of England expresses a rather different opinion in his Counterblast to Tobacco, which denies the substance has any real medicinal value. The king also tries to reduce the growing popularity of smoking by taxing tobacco, a practice that is soon taken up by other European nations. 

Tobacco, the primary source of nicotine, was used ceremonially in both pre- and post-Columbian America, imported to Europe where it was both embraced and reviled as a recreational drug, condemned by the court of James I of England, and today may be responsible for more than 400,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. Contrary to popular belief, although nicotine may help focus attention, it interferes with complex brain functions including access to long-term memory and the performing of multiple attention tasks. 

Prince Rupert of Bavaria (1619-1682) was the grandson of James I of England and nephew of Charles II. He introduced his drops to England in the 1640s, where they became party pieces in the court of Charles II. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about them in his diary on January 13, 1662. 

The association of smoking with health problems is almost as old as the use of tobacco. In 1604, King James I of England issued the first... 

Witch-finding by the water ordeal, or swimming as it was often called, became an accepted method in England during the first half of the seventeenth century, when it was recommended by King James. So it appears, proclaimed James I, that God has appointed, for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches, that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom, that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism and willfully refused the benefit thereof. ... 

When James I became the King of England, he did not like the mild Elizabethan laws against witches. He therefore found a defect in the statute. .. by which none died for witchcraft but they only who by that means killed, so that such were executed rather as murderers than witches. In other words, until then, alleged witches had been punished only for what they did James had the law changed so that they were punished for who they were. 

England did not prove a very safe refuge for the Rosicmcians. The Government of England was unstable because Charles I, son of James I, dismissed Parliament in 1629. He governed without Parliament... 

This, of course, is why filmmakers cast Celts or Antipodeans as Bond. There s nobody in the entire realm of England good looking enough really to pull the part off. So, in this respect. I m not afraid to assert that the statement James Bond is extremely handsome, and dresses extremely well bears no relation to the reality of Englishness at all. 

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