BOOK IV.

FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. FIRST DISTURBANCES
UNDER THE STUARTS.

INTRODUCTION 359

CHAP. I. James VI of Scotland: his accession to the
throne of England 361

Origin of fresh dissensions in the Church 361

Alliance with England 364

Renewal of the Episcopal Constitution in Scotland 368

Preparations for the Succession to the English
Throne 375

Accession to the Throne 381

II. First measures of the new reign 386

III. The Gunpowder Plot and its consequences 403

IV. Foreign policy of the next ten years 418

V. Parliaments of 1610 and 1614 436

VI. Survey of the literature of the epoch 450

BOOK V.

DISPUTES WITH PARLIAMENT DURING THE LATER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF
JAMES I AND THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.

INTRODUCTION 467

CHAP. I. James I and his administration of domestic
government 469

II. Complications arising out of the affairs of the
Palatinate 484

III. Parliament of the year 1621 497

IV. Negotiations for the marriage of the Prince of
Wales with a Spanish Infanta 509

V. The Parliament of 1624. Alliance with France 522

VI. Beginning of the reign of Charles I, and his First
and Second Parliament 537

VII. The course of foreign policy from 1625 to 1627 554

VIII. Parliament of 1628. Petition of Right 566

IX. Assassination of Buckingham. Session of 1629 580

FIRST BOOK.

THE CHIEF CRISES IN THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

As we turn over the pages of universal history, and follow the
shifting course of events, we perceive almost at the first glance one
comprehensive process of change going on, which, more than