On the seventh day, the seven priests sounding the seven trumpets of rams'horns before the Ark compassed the city seven times and, with a great shout, Jericho's wall fell down flat and the people took the city ( Josh . 6 : 16-20 ).
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Elizabeth's proclamation of the sentence announced that " the said Mary, pretending title to the same Crown, had compassed and imagined within the same realm divers things tending to the hurt, death and destruction of our royal person . " On 8 February 1587, Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire.
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And so it follows of necessity that kings were the authors and makers of the laws, and not the laws of the kings . " James was ambitious to build on the personal union of the crowns of Scotland and England ( the Union of the Crowns ) to establish a complete and permanent union of the two realms under one monarch, one parliament and one law, a plan which met opposition in both countries . " Hath He not made us all in one island, " James told the English parliament, " compassed with one sea and of itself by nature indivisible ? " In April 1604, however, the Commons refused on legal grounds his request to be titled " King of Great Britain ".
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James was ambitious to build on the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and England to establish a single country under one monarch, one parliament, and one law, a plan which met opposition in both realms . " Hath He not made us all in one island, " James told the English parliament, " compassed with one sea and of itself by nature indivisible ? " In April 1604, however, the Commons refused his request to be titled " King of Great Britain " on legal grounds . . } } In October 1604, he assumed the title " King of Great Britain " by proclamation rather than statute, though Sir Francis Bacon told him that he could not use the style in " any legal proceeding, instrument or assurance ".
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This version of the scene corresponds to Holinshed, where Richard plays no part in Clarence's decision; " the Duke of Clarence began to weigh with himself the great inconvenience into the which as well his brother King Edward, as himself and his younger brother the Duke of Gloucester were fallen through the dissension betwixt them ( which had been compassed and brought to pass by the politic working of the Earl of Warwick ) . " The argument here is that the difference in " 3 Henry VI " could not simply be the result of faulty reporting, or even interpolation on the part of a reporter, but must represent authorial agency, hence, " True Tragedy " must represent an earlier draft of " 3 Henry VI ".
