ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE FIRST
Category: 17th centuryElizabeth’s “cousin of Scotland” was ugly, awkward, and shuffling both in mind and person. His figure presented a most ridiculous appearance, dressed in thick padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed (of which he lived in continual fear), of a grass- green colour from head to foot, with a hunting-horn dangling at his side instead […]