JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND AND I OF ENGLAND (1566-1625)

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JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND AND I OF ENGLAND (1566-1625)
One-page letter, signed 'James R', from Falkland, 17 January 1583, 4°, allowing James Menzies who 'is vexit almaist continually with ane number of painful diseases and infirmities' and cannot travel without great risk, to remain quietly at home from all riding to any raids, assemblies, etc, countersigned by Arran, Compton Hay, Robert Melville, remains of seal (creased on folds, one fold repaired, some small tears and pinholes).

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James VI of Scotland was proclaimed King in 1567 after his mother's forced abdication and there followed a succession of regencies. Captain James Stewart (d.1595) instigated the arrest and execution of the pro-English regent James Morton and was created Earl of Arran in 1580 (despite the existence of the true, although insane, incumbent of the title). The young King was seized by the protestant faction in the Ruthven Raid of 1582 but within ten months had escaped, helped, in part, by Robert Melville (1527-1621), Ruthven's clerk and treasurer who took no part in the raid. Arran instigated a counter-coup but was deposed in 1585. Melville was appointed Privy Councillor in 1582.