1. Kevin Sharpe, ‘The Image of Virtue: The Court and Household of Charles I, 1625–1642’, in David Starkey (ed.), The English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War (London, 1987), p. 227;
2. Thomas Cogswell, The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 62.
3. Maurice Ashley, The House of Stuart: Its Rise and Fall (London, 1980), p. 116.
4. Similarly, see David Willson, King James VI and I (Oxford, 1956), p. 95.
5. A welcome corrective to this standard view is provided by Leeds Barroll, ‘The Court of the First Stuart Queen’, in The Mental World of the Jacobean Court, ed. Linda Levy Peck (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 191–208.