KING JAMES STUART VI OF ENGLAND (JAMES I)  

*A Descendant of Robert Bruce, and a member of the Knights Templar
*Reigned in Scotland from 1567 until he ascended the British throne as James I in 1603 at the request of
   the child-less Queen Elizabeth I.
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ned in England from 1603 until 1625 (bk-2,76)
*Succeeded the throne of the unmarried Elizabeth I (1558-1603), who was lacking an heir and designated
   James her successor on her deathbed. (bk-2,84)
*James arrived in London with a contingent of Scottish Templars and their first Lodge opened at York
   in northern England. The Knights who travelled from Scotland to reside in London purchased property
   there, which they still own today. On top of this land today exists the financial district of London, which
   currently clears most international banking transactions daily.
*James Stuart helped produce the King James version of the bible, the first official English translation.
*During James Stuart’s reign, the embyos of both the Scottish and York Rites of Freemasonry developed in
   England. At that time it was called “Jacobite Freemasonry”, in memory of Jacques de Moley.
*James and his descendants were members of the Royalist Jacobite Lodges, which practiced Templar
   rituals. The Templars also infiltrated the “Operative” or the workingman’s Lodge at York. Later, it’s
   rituals became known to Masons as the York Rite. (bk-2,76)
*Later, these rituals became known  to Masons in England and America as the “York Rite” and in France
   and America as the “Scottish Rite”. (bk-2,18-19)