The United Kingdom（Period 2 Reading）
king james was an evangelist of the true gospel, which automatically made him an enemy of rome.king james strongly delineated the errors of roman superstition and spurned them yet he treated romanist subjects fairly.catholic ambassador nicolo molin said this of king james: “he is a protestant...the king tries to extend his protestant religion to the whole island. the king is a bitter enemy of our religion.he frequently speaks of it in terms of contempt.he is all the harsher because of this last conspiracy against his life...he understood that the jesuits had a hand in it.”success in kingship.despite his detractors, king james the ⅵ of scotland and ⅰ of england was a highly successful king.as a lover of the theatre, king james became patron to the troop of one of his most famous subjects—william shakespeare the playwright.shakespeare’s troop came to be known as the king’s men.shakespeare and the king held a special relationship as they both loved literature. shakespeare even wrote his famous play, “macbeth”specifically for king james.another little recognized fact is that king james the ⅵ and ⅰ is the founding monarch of the united states.under his reign, we have the first successful colonies planted on the american mainland—virginia, massachusetts, and nova scotia (latin for new scotland) in se canada.the king himself ordered, wrote and authorized the evangelistic grant charter to settle the colony of virginia: “to make habitation...and to deduce a colony of sundry of our people into that part of america, commonly called virginia...in propagating of christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness...to bring a settled and quiet government.”