CHAPTER XXXI

JAMES I. 1603-1625

1. The Peace with Spain. 1603-1604 481

2. The Hampton Court Conference. 1604 481

3. James and the House of Commons 482

4. Gunpowder Plot. 1604-1605 483

5. The Post-nati. 1606-1608 483

6. Irish Difficulties. 1603-1610 483

7. Bate's Case and the New Impositions. 1606-1608 484

8. The Great Contract. 1610-1611 484

9. Bacon and Somerset. 1612-1613 486

10. The Addled Parliament. 1614 486

11. The Spanish Alliance. 1614-1617 488

12. The Rise of Buckingham. 1615-1618 488

13. The Voyage and Execution of Raleigh. 1617-1618 489

14. Colonisation of Virginia and New England. 1607-1620 489

15. The Beginning of the Thirty Years' War. 1618-1620 490

16. The Meeting of James's Third Parliament. 1621 490

17. The Royal Prerogative. 1616-1621 492

18. Financial Reform. 1619 492

19. Favouritism and Corruption 494

20. The Monopolies Condemned. 1621 494

21. The Fall of Bacon. 1621 495

22. Digby's Mission, and the Dissolution of Parliament. 1621 496

23. The Loss of the Palatinate. 1622 497

24. Charles's Journey to Madrid. 1623 497

25. The Prince's Return. 1623 498

26. The Last Parliament of James I. 1624 500

27. The French Alliance 501

28. Mansfeld's Expedition, and the Death of James I. 1624-1625 501