The 2nd edition of Early Modern England will have a detail from the following painting on the cover: Charles Stoop, Charles II's Cavalcade through the City of London (1661)? A contemporary engraving of the entry for his coronation is
Compare this with discussion on Early Modern England, ch. 8 to show the increase in tracts in the 1640s and 1650s. From David Cressy, "Revolutionary England 1640-1642," P & P 181 (2003): 61.
This placard denounced Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell soon after the Darnley murder, and certainly suggests a popular reaction to the murder in Scotland if not a fully developed public sphere there in the mid-sixteenth century.
Compare the portrait of James VI and I in Early Modern England (2nd. ed., p. 218) withthis portrait, from 1595, when only James VI, by Adrian Vanson as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Newton Key, Professor emeritus, Eastern Illinois University, is co-author of Early Modern England, 3rd ed. 2020, and co-editor of Sources and Debates in English History, 2nd ed., 2009. Follow on Academia, or Twitter,