Editing 1616 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 25]] – Sir [[John Coke]], in the [[Court of King's Bench (England)]], holds the King's actions in a case of ''[[In commendam]]'' to be illegal.
* [[May 3]] – The [[Treaty of Loudun]] is signed, ending a series of rebellions in France.<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor L. Tapié|title=France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPM3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA76|date=12 July 1984|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-26924-7|pages=76–}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – King [[James I of England]]'s former favourite, the [[Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset|Earl of Somerset]], and his wife [[Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset|Frances]], are convicted of the murder of [[Thomas Overbury]] in [[1613]]. They are spared death, and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London (until [[1622]]).<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Alastair|last=Bellany|title=Carr, Robert, earl of Somerset (1585/6?–1645)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4754|access-date=2012-10-09|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4754}}</ref> Although the King has ordered the investigation of the poet's murder and allowed his former court favorite to be arrested and tried, his court, now under the influence of  [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham|George Villiers]], gains the reputation of being corrupt and vile. The sale of peerages (beginning in July)<ref name="CBH1616">{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 170–172|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> and the royal visit of James's brother-in-law, [[Christian IV of Denmark]], a notorious drunkard, add further scandal.
* [[June 12]] – [[Pocahontas]] (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, [[John Rolfe]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert S. Tilton|title=Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idPhpg0PxtAC&pg=PA45|date=25 November 1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-46959-3|pages=45}}</ref> their one-year-old son, [[Thomas Rolfe]], her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law ''[[Tomocomo]]'', the [[shaman]] also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten [[Powhatan]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]] are brought by Sir [[Thomas Dale]], the colonial governor, at the request of the [[Virginia Company]], as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes ''A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616'', in a successful effort to redeem his leadership. Neither Pocahontas or Dale see Virginia again.