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
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