The Forerunner of Revenge, also published in Latin and in German as Prodromus Vindictæ, was a pamphlet accusing George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham of having caused the death of King James I of England by poison. It was written by George Eglisham, who had attended upon King James as a physician, and was first published anonymously with a Frankfurt address."Account of a Tract concerning the Death of King James I", Belfast Magazine and Literary Journal 1:6 (July 1825), pp. 575-578. Available on JSTOR It was in fact printed in Brussels by Jan van Meerbeeck.Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell, The Murder of King James I (Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 137-158. It contributed to the aura of suspicion that led to the Duke of Buckingham's murder, and was reprinted in 1642 to bring Charles I of England into discredit.Jason Peacey, Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 79.
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