James I Shadwell with figures unloading a barge

with figures unloading a barge in the foreground

we have failed utterly in our course of Action

and there is an annual summer festival dedicated to honouring and pacifying the snakes

Waiting to distribute the remains of the Lord Mayor's banquet to the poor and needy

James I Shadwell with figures unloading a bargeJames I, King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1603, (1932). James Stuart (1566 1625) was the first King of Great Britain and the first Stuart monarch. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 1567, and he ruled England and Ireland as James I from 1603 until his death. With a picture of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. From Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, 1932.