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Originally Posted by issybird
Now hold on there. King James VI? Generally when referring to King James in the seventeenth century he's James I, his English number. James VI refers to his Scottish title. But in any case, not only was James long dead in 1656, there wasn't even a king at all. Hence the Puritan blue laws; it was the period of the Commonwealth in England.
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I like the Joan Aiken version of British History, where James II/VII isn't replaced by a Dutch Prince married to his daughter, so she has a James III and Hanoverian pretenders.