Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury expressed his gratitude elevating Cecil to the peerage. Cecil also served as both the third chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, and chancellor of the University of Cambridge, between 1601 and 1612. In 1603, his brothers-in-law, Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham and Sir George Brooke, along with Sir Walter Raleigh, were implicated in both the Bye Plot and the Main Plot, an attempt to remove King James I from the throne and replace him with his first cousin, Lady Arbella Stuart. Cecil was one of the judges who tried them for treason: at Raleigh's trial, Cecil was the only judge who appeared
History of the English penny (1603–1707) History of the English penny (1603–1707) The history of the English penny from 1603 to 1707 covers the period of the House of Stuart, up to the Acts of Union of 1707 which brought about the Union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland. When Elizabeth died unmarried and childless in 1603, the throne passed to James VI of Scotland, a great-grandson of Henry VII, who ruled in England as James I. James's silver coinage changed little from that of Elizabeth in production and style. The most notable feature was the introduction of a copper farthing to