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2113.—James I.’s Cradle. (From a Print inNichols’s Progresses.) more
This engraving shows the finaely carved oak cradle in which the infant James lay. It is still kept at his mother’s house, Stirling Castle.
King James VI of Scotland, also King James I of England, was born in 1566 in Edinburgh Castle. He became King of Scotland in 1567, and of England in 1603, uniting England and Scotland.
This is the same King James who ordered the Authorized Version of the Bible, known popularly as the King James Bible, to be made.
The mothers of the present day may, perhaps, feel interested in knowing what kind of article a cradle was about three centuries ago: their curiosity may be gratified, if they will look at our drawing (Fig. 2113), where no doubt they have as handsome a specimen before them as the time could produce: the cradle being that which was used for the infant James of Scotland, afterwards King of the united countries.
The book cited in the caption is probably The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, his royal consort, family, and court : collected from original MSS., scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochials registers, &c., &c by John Nichols (1745‒1826), although the 1828 copy at archive.org is not illustrated. Nichols also wrote a similarly titled book about Elizabeth.
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