The Care . . . of Subjects' Good: Pericles, James I, and the Neglect of Government | Ii
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Let us turn to the record of a very different set of travels, the progresses and hunting trips that marked the residence of King James I in England during the period of Pericles' composition, around 1606-08.10 Endeavoring to "sample" James' "wanderings" in the course of one year, 1605, D. H. Willson writes that the King left Royston for Whitehall for the Christmas season 1604-05, returned to Royston in mid-January 1605, and then moved to Huntingdon and Hinchinbrook.
He came to London early in February but soon returned to Royston, travelled thence to Ware, Newmarket and Thetford, then back to Newmarket and Royston, then to London about the middle of March. For some four months he remained in the vicinity of the capital, moving between Greenwich, Richmond, Windsor and Oatlands, hunting as he went. A progress in July and August took him towards Oxford. Thence he came to Windsor and to Hampton Court for part of September. In...
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