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Some Catholic Opinions of King James VI and I1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Robert Peters
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“I am a Christian, who never changed that Religion, that I drank in with my milke: nor ever, I thanke God, was ashamed of my profession”, James declared in 1608, in his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance. Five years earlier he had reminded the members of his first English Parliament that as “I am no stranger to you in blood, no more am I a stranger to you in Faith, or in matters concerning the house of God. And although this my profession be according to mine education wherein (I thanke God) I sucked the milk of God’s trewth, with the milke of my nurse: yet do I here protest unto you, that I would never … have so firmly kept my first profession if I had not found it agreeable to all reason and to the rule of my conscience.”

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , April 1970 , pp. 292 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1970

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Footnotes

1

A paper read to the 13th Conference on Post-Reformation Catholic History, at St Anne's College, Oxford, 7 August 1970.

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12 The importance of commonplace books during the Reformation cannot be over-exaggerated. They were handbooks of quotations which, because of their convenience and price, enjoyed a relatively wide circulation; and inevitably they provided many of the parish clergy with authoritative sayings, though not infrequently divorced from their original context. Therein lay their danger.

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36 Ibid., ff. 35v-36r.

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