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James's and attempt
Charles and the Duke of Buckingham, James's favourite and a man who had great influence over the prince, together travelled incognito to Spain in 1623 in an attempt to reach agreement on the long-pending Spanish Match.
The low church Whigs had failed in their attempt to pass the Exclusion Bill to exclude James from the throne between 1679 and 1681, and James's supporters were the high church Anglican Tories.
James's attempt to introduce religious toleration to England's Roman Catholics alienated his Protestant subjects.
The battle is seen as the decisive encounter in a war that was primarily about James's attempt to regain the thrones of England and Scotland, resulting from the Immortal Seven's invitation to William and James ' daughter, Mary, to take the throne.
Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.
The admirably fresh and breezy " Ladies of St James's " has precisely the qualities we have traced in his other 18th-century poems ; there are ballades and rondeaus, with all the earlier charm ; and in " A Revolutionary Relic ," as in " The Child Musician " of the Old-World Idylls, the poet reaches a depth of true pathos which he does not often attempt, but in which, when he seeks it, he never fails.
Its development followed an unsuccessful attempt by members of the Anglican church to incorporate the earlier St James's College within the new University of Sydney, and was led by Sir Alfred Stephen ( Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ).

James's and laws
Pope Eugenius instructed his legate, Bishop Antony Altani of Urbino, to raise the issue of James's controversial restrictive laws of 1426.
Alexander Grant repudiates James's reputation as the ' law giver ' and explains that nearly all of the king's legislation were reconstructs of laws laid down by previous monarchs and concludes that the notion of James's return to Scotland in 1424 was a sea change in the development of Scots law is ' an exaggeration '.
The Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad was incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida to build, maintain, and operate a railroad from a point on the line between the cities of Tallahassee, in the State of Florida, and Thomasville, in the State of Georgia, through the counties of Leon, Wakulla and Franklin, in the State of Florida, passing through Tallahassee and terminating on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, at or near Carrabelle, on James's Island, in Franklin county, a distance of about seventy miles.

James's and alienated
James's greatest political problem was his Catholicism, which left him alienated from both parties in England.

James's and natural
The author mainly expands upon details in Barrie's original play and novel, while changing a few key points-he ascribes James's strange colouring and yellow blood to a blood disorder ; James's long dark hair is natural, rather than the usual wig ; James is christened " Hook " after murdering the quartermaster of the Sea Witch, rather than in reference to his prosthetic hand ( in the original novel, Hook was known as " Hook " before he lost his hand, so this is consistent ).
True reality ( or God ) is, in James's view, thoroughly spiritual, in a way that denizens of the natural world can scarcely comprehend.

James's and supporters
James's supporters controlled much of Ireland and the Irish Parliament.
James's loss of nerve and speedy exit from the battlefield enraged his Irish supporters, who fought on until the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 ; he was derisively nicknamed Seamus a ' chaca (" James the shit ") in Irish.
His elevation, however, led to accusatory rumours from King James's supporters that Marlborough had disgracefully betrayed his erstwhile king for personal gain ; William himself entertained reservations about the man who had deserted James.
The next regent was James's paternal grandfather, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who a year later was carried fatally wounded into Stirling Castle after a raid by Mary's supporters.
James's supporters were defeated in battle on 25 June 1413 outside of Lleida.
By the time of King James's death in 1625, many Puritan landowners had forbidden their workers to attend such festivities ; the increasing tensions between the supporters of the king and the Puritans resulted in the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, bringing the Games to an end.

James's and however
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
St. James's Church was built in 1763, replacing the old chapel however it did not achieve parochial status until as late as 1870.
Soon however, James's policy of religious tolerance caused tensions to rise between them.
In 1893, however, he responded to a request from actor-manager George Alexander for a serious play for the opening of his renovated St. James's Theatre, and James wrote a long drama, Guy Domville, which Alexander produced.
Since the latter half of the twentieth century, however, historians have revised James's reputation and have treated him as a serious and thoughtful monarch.
Until Salisbury's death, the Elizabethan administrative system over which he had presided continued to function with relative efficiency ; from this time forward, however, James's government entered a period of decline and disrepute.
Since Willson, however, the stability of James's government in Scotland and in the early part of his English reign, as well as his relatively enlightened views on religion and war, have earned him a re-evaluation from many historians, who have rescued his reputation from this tradition of criticism.
It was a risky venture ; any of Black James's heavily armed men could have hacked the Earl's arm off ; however, James shook his hand and ended the dispute.
I met Henry James the other night at Emerson's, at an Alcottian conversation, at which, however, Alcott did not talk much, being disturbed by James's opposition.
The Act, however, declared that they would be followed by James I & VI's granddaughter Sophia, Electress and Dowager Duchess of Hanover ( the daughter of James's daughter Elizabeth Stuart ) and her heirs.
James's wish is eventually granted, however, in the form of the magical, anthropomorphic insects he meets in the giant peach.
Mary, however, married on 22 July 1816, to her first cousin, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the son of George III's brother, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace.
In 1688 however James's young second wife Mary of Modena gave birth to a boy, Prince James who was promptly baptized a Roman Catholic.
He desired to have an original work performed, however, and to this end wrote The River over a period of 20 years before taking it to St James's Theatre, where it was accepted and performed in June 1925.
The case is, however, referred to Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard ( the protagonist of most of P. D. James's murder mysteries ), and Cordelia is called in for questioning.
He was, however, no supporter of the House of Orange, advocated a regency in James's name, and was one of the few who in the House of Commons opposed the famous vote that James had broken the contract between king and people and left the throne vacant.
This was the only way, in those days, of making the document swiftly and generally known, which was James's straightforward object ; the Anglican Clergy, however, felt it a challenge to themselves, for many of them were opposed to the toleration of Roman Catholics and Nonconformists, as were very many of the population of England at that time.
By the time the Prince Regent and Henry Holland parted company in 1802, Carlton House was a spacious and opulent residence, which would have been designated a palace in many countries ; however, when the Prince Regent became King George IV in 1820 he deemed that his own residence, the official royal residence of St. James's Palace and his father George III's Buckingham House were all inadequate for his needs.

James's and because
Public anger also increased because of the trial of seven bishops who had publicly opposed James's Declaration of Indulgence granting religious liberty to his subjects, a policy which appeared to threaten the establishment of the Anglican Church.
It cannot have been difficult for the conspirators to secure James's compliance because he disliked Overbury's influence over Carr.
These were never built, supposedly because of an outcry that they would reduce the dominance of Nicholas Hawksmoor's west towers at Westminster Abbey in views from St. James's Park.
Even Ainsworth's own work, St James's, was damaged because it was written in haste.
In Sweden, the show was put on hold for a period of six years, deemed " unsuitable " because of James's heavy drinking.
The theory is dismissed by some experts, particularly in James's case, because he had kidney stones, which can lead to blood in the urine, colouring it red.
William of Orange refused to attend James's coronation largely because George would take precedence over him.
" Long before there were postal codes the James's St Postal Sorting Office looked after the Phoenix Park because it was considered to be closer and more convenient than Phibsborough ( Dublin 7 ).
These feathers are easily distinguished in James's flamingo's because they're the only black feathers on the bird.
" James's English coronation took place on 25 July, with elaborate allegories provided by dramatic poets such as Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson, though the festivities had to be restricted because of an outbreak of the plague.
But the Hampton Court Conference also bore fruit for the Puritans, who insisted that man know God's word without intermediaries, as it led to James's commissioning of that translation of the Christian Bible into the English vernacular, which would be known as the Authorised Version because it alone was authorised to be read in Churches.
Lord St John of Fawsley remarked that " Basil Spence's barracks in Hyde Park ruined that park ; in fact, he has the distinction of having ruined two parks, because of his Home Office building, which towers above St. James's Park ".

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