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    Basilikon Doron is a treatise on government written by King James VI of Scotland (who would later also become James I of England), in 1599. Basilikon...
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    The basilikon (Greek: βασιλικόν [νόμισμα], "imperial [coin]"), commonly also referred to as the doukaton (Greek: δουκάτον), was a widely circulated Byzantine...
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    such as Daemonologie (1597), The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598), and Basilikon Doron (1599). He sponsored the translation of the Bible into English later...
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  • βεστιάριον, from Latin: vestiarium, "wardrobe"), sometimes with the adjectives basilikon ("imperial") or mega ("great"), was one of the major fiscal departments...
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    murder of David Rizzio in the spring of 1566. King James VI in his 1599 Basilikon Doron mentions "palle maillé" among the "faire and pleasant field-games"...
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    to James VI and I of Scotland who wrote two political treatises called Basilikon Doron and The True Law of Free Monarchies: Or, The Reciprocal and Mutual...
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    "basil" comes from the Latin basilius, and the Greek βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phytón), meaning "royal/kingly plant", possibly because the plant was...
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    right of kings were written in 1597–1598 by James VI of Scotland. His Basilikon Doron, a manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old...
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    under James' successor to the English throne, Charles I of England. In Basilikon Doron, James called the Scottish Reformation "inordinate" and "not proceeding...
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    Half-tetarteron Fourth period (ca. 1300 – 1350s) Gold Hyperpyron Silver Basilikon Billon Tournesion (Politikon) Copper Trachy Assarion Fifth period (1367...
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