This is CBS, Eye on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

I'm speaking to Professor Claire Jackson of Cambridge University, the history faculty,

and her new book is The Mirror of Great Britain, the Life of James I,

born in the 16th century, surrounded by violence and murder,

his father is murdered,

his mother is penned up and awaiting to be murdered.

He, of course, has regents representing him, but he is extremely well educated.

French and English and Latin and Greek, and he's sensitive, and he's a big reader,

and he's quite precocious in all directions,

and recognized that way, not only by his tutors, but also by Elizabeth I, who's corresponding

about him. She's childless, but she looks upon him as someone who may be in the future, maybe.

His relationship to the succession we will address, however right now it can be argued to be tenuous.

At the same time, when he does succeed to become not only King James' sixth of Scotland,

but King James I of Britain, the first of the Stuart line in the British

Crown. He, in 1604, I believe, falls in with a group of men, and the topic comes up of the

Bible. The Bible is in different pieces. In other words, there are different translations everywhere,

and there's no organizing principle for the Protestants of Britain. Protestants extended in the

north of Europe, Denmark, for example, in the Scandinavian countries. But the Catholics were

all powerful in Madrid and in Paris and in Rome, very

powerful. And so the Protestants wanted their own Bible, hence the idea of the King James Bible.

But professor, these men who drew up the King James Bible with their committees, taking pieces of

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