Chapter XVIII: REIGN OF JAMES I (concluded)

Reign of Favourites--Robert Carr--His Marriage--Death of
Overbury--Venality at Court--The Addled Parliament--George
Villiers--Fall of Somerset--Disgrace of Coke--Bacon becomes
Lord Chancellor--Position of England Abroad--The Scottish
Church--Introduction of Episcopacy--Andrew Melville--Visit
of James to Scotland--The Book of Sports--Persecution of the
Irish Catholics--Examination into Titles--Rebellion of the
Chiefs--Plantation of Ulster--Fresh Confiscations--Quarrel
between Bacon and Coke--Prosperity of Buckingham--Raleigh's
Last Voyage--His Execution--Beginning of the Thirty Years'
War--Indecision of James--Despatch of Troops to the
Palatinate--Parliament of 1621--Impeachment of Bacon--His
Fall--Floyd's Case--James's Proceedings during the
Recess--Dissolution of Parliament--Reasons for the Spanish
Match--Charles and Buckingham go to Spain--The Match is Broken
Off--Punishment of Bristol--Popularity of Buckingham--Change of
Foreign Policy--Marriage of Charles and Henrietta Maria--Death
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CHAPTER XIX.

REIGN OF CHARLES I.

Accession of Charles--His Marriage--Meeting of Parliament--Loan
of Ships to Richelieu--Dissolution of Parliament--Failure of
the Spanish Expedition--Persecution of the Catholics--The
Second Parliament--It appoints three Committees--Impeachment
of Buckingham--Parliament dissolved to save him--Illegal
Government--High Church Doctrines--Rupture with France--Disastrous
Expedition to Rhé--The Third Parliament--The Petition of
Right--Resistance and Final Surrender of Charles--Parliament
Prorogued--Assassination of Buckingham--Fall of La
Rochelle--Parliament Reassembles and is Dissolved--Imprisonment
of Offending Members--Government without Parliament--Peace
with France and Spain--Gustavus Adolphus in Germany--Despotic
Proceedings of Charles and Laud 508