The paper is concerned with the religious issues in England at the time when James VI Stuart, King of Scotland, ascended to the throne. The reign of the land dominated by the Anglican confession, with the king as the supreme head of the Church, going into the hands of a ruler who had grown up in a Presbyterian environment posed number of questions and challenges before the monarch and his subjects as well.
In the last fifty or so years, Grand Tour has become a very popular and extensively researched phenomenon. Although mainstream researchers have analyzed various aspects of the Grand Tour, they have tended to adopt a narrow definition limited to the experiences of young English gentlemen undertaking a study tour of Italy and France. This article poses a somewhat provocative question: was the Grand Tour feasible as a study tour of an English gentleman visiting Poland- Lithuania? Based on contemporary travel writing, the author reveals the challenges and the difficult logistics of such an undertaking.