James V1 becomes James 1

I should be writing about Bubbles in the Cauldron, the novel set in the 1820 insurrection but, as usual, I’m looking to the future and researching the Stuart era, especially after James V1 became James 1. One imagines James, finding himself among the rich English courtiers being glad of some company from the country his ancestors had ruled for centuries but that was not the case. He was appalled at the difference between the dress and manners of his old countrymen and his new subjects but instead of feeling sympathy with them, or angry at the way they were treated he wrote to the Scottish Privy Council telling them that no more of the “idle rascals and poor miserable bodies” were to be allowed out of Scotland. The Privy Council proclamation intimated that some of the rascals that they were in London to try to recover payment of debts incurred by His Majesty and this was most unpleasing to the king.
One imagines when word came to Edinburgh that James, who had to borrow clothes to look presentable for a visit by the Spanish Ambassador, sending his Chief of Staff round the town to get decent clothes for him to present himself in London; after all, he was now the head of the Church of England. The tailors know Jimmy is broke and ask about payment and are promised that the King of England will pay. There’s no sign of payment, so the idle rascals, needing money to buy bread trek to London.