After visiting an exhibition at Cambridge University Library last year about the making of the King James Bible, my attention was drawn to James VI of Scotland and I of England, not only as a monarch, but as an author in his own right. Before entering the exhibition, there was an unrelated marble statue of King George II, the last British monarch to personally lead an army into battle dressed as a Roman Emperor (thus crowned with a laurel wreath) positioned near the front door way of the library. The statue is no longer in the library and neither are the rare copies of the Bible from the temporary exhibition. A parallel can be drawn between this and the very little evidence surviving of the process between commissioning and publication of the King James Bible.