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Visitors remarked on his piety and good manners, again very unlike James: Henry even seems to have invented the ‘swear box’, ordering that boxes be put in all his residences, ‘causing all those who did swear in his hearing to pay money for the same, which were after duly given to the poor.’ The French ambassador noted that, even at thirteen, Henry was always in company ‘with persons older than himself, as if he despised those of his own age.’ Perhaps because he spent time with adults and because of his serious mien, Henry was quickly seen as a threat to James’s control of state business.

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