In 1611, a team of scholars delivered to King James I of England the new translation of the Bible that he had commissioned from them.
In 1603, King James VI of Scotland became also James I of England. A year later, he commissioned from leading scholars in the Church of England a new English translation of the Bible, to be ‘appointed to be read in churches’. After it was published in 1611, the Authorized Version quickly came to be recognised as one of the supreme masterpieces of the English tongue.