Religion

• Distinguished beween 'quiet and factious' Catholics

  Imposed recusancy fines in 1603 and persecuted Jesuits in 1604

  This leniency worried English Protestants and Parliament
• James Called Hampton Court Conference to establish his type of church and deal with puritans' millenary petition

  Organised the new translation of the Bible
• Introduced oath of allegiance after Gunpowder plot

  Didn't harshly impose restrictions
• Approved of Bancroft canons which maintained conformity and Anglicanism~

  Alienate puritans over Books of Sports in 1618
• James did not ally with any religious faction and kept out of the Arminian debate

  Only tension came in 1621-24 over Spanish marriage