History of England, Vol. III.
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History of England, Vol. III.
1616–1621
Samuel
Rawson
Gardiner
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Table of Contents
Note on the Text
Chapter XXII.
The Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke.
Relations between Coke and the King
Bacon’s views on the constitutional position of the judges
Coke’s aggressive spirit
The case
de rege inconsulto
Coke’s quarrel with the Chancery
Case of commendams
The judges ordered to defer proceedings
They disobey the order
They are summoned before the King
Coke’s protest
The judges give way
Bacon becomes a Privy Councillor
The King’s address to the judges
Coke suspended
Is ordered to review his reports
Is dismissed
Montague made Chief Justice
Rise of Villiers
Bacon’s advice to him
Villiers created a viscount
Affair of Roper’s office
Prince Charles created Prince of Wales
Chapter XXIII.
The Spanish Marriage Treaty.
Progress of the negotiation
Opinion of the Theologians
Sarmiento protests against Raleigh’s voyage
Inexpediency of the voyage
Commission given to Raleigh
Raleigh’s projects
Preparation of his fleet
Talks of seizing the Mexico fleet
James takes part with Savoy against Spain
Raleigh proposes to attack Genoa
James accepts the proposal
Abandonment of the project
Raleigh’s communications with the French Protestants
Desmarets visits Raleigh
Sarmiento’s renewed protests against the voyage
Raleigh gives security that he will not injure Spain
He leaves London
Commissioners named to consider the marriage treaty
Their report
Digby’s instructions
Sarmiento created Count of Gondomar
Bacon proposes additional instructions for Digby
The Barbary pirates
The renegades
Story of Ward
Attempts to suppress the pirates
The Earl of Southampton’s proposal to lead an expedition against them
Gondomar’s opposition to it
Consultations on it
Digby ordered to recommend it at Madrid
Chapter XXIV.
The Privy Council and the Favourite.
Composition of the Privy Council
Official corruption
Patronage in the hands of Villiers
Character of Villiers
Brackley’s resignation and death
Bacon made Lord Keeper
Buckingham opposes Yelverton’s promotion
Yelverton made Attorney-General
Other legal promotions
James sets out for Scotland
Bacon’s correspondence with Buckingham
Coke’s behaviour after his disgrace
The Hatton estate
Coke quarrels with his wife
Proposed marriage between Sir John Villiers and Frances Coke
Bacon’s objections to the marriage
Lady Hatton supported by Bacon in her opposition to the marriage
Coke’s assault upon Oatlands
Lady Hatton appeals to the Council
Bacon’s letter to the King
Irritation of the King and Buckingham
Coke’s visit to the King
Yelverton’s report of Buckingham’s feeling
Bacon restored to favour
Marriage of Frances Coke
Coke restored to the Council table
Death of Winwood
Naunton succeeds him as Secretary.
The marriage articles prepared in Spain
Additional proposals of the Theologians
Digby’s conferences with Aliaga
The negotiations suspended
Negotiations on the expedition against the pirates
Chapter XXV.
Raleigh’s Last Voyage.
Raleigh joins his ship
Murder of Ancre
Raleigh sends Faige to France
His communications with France betrayed
His plans for the voyage
His proceedings at the Canaries
Desertion of Bailey
Raleigh’s sufferings on the voyage
His arrival in America
He prepares to ascend the Orinoco
He gives instructions to Keymis, and remains at the mouth of the river
Keymis ascends the river
San Thomè taken and burnt
Failure of the expedition
Suicide of Keymis
Raleigh proposes to attack the Mexico fleet
The expedition returns to England
Gondomar demands justice
His interview with James
James offers to surrender Raleigh to Spain
Gondomar leaves England
Attack upon the Spanish Embassy
Arrest of Raleigh
He attempts to escape
His interview with La Chesnée
His
Apology
A commission appointed to examine him
Investigation into his proceedings
A spy set on him
He acknowledges his dealings with the French
The commissioners propose a trial
James rejects the proposal
Raleigh brought before the commissioners
Proceedings in the Court of King’s Bench
Raleigh’s last hours
His execution
The King’s Declaration
Fate of Stukely
Death of Cobham
Chapter XXVI.
Virginia, and the East Indies.
Dale’s administration in Virginia
Visit of Pocahontas to England
Her death
The cultivation of tobacco introduced into Virginia
Tyranny of Argall
Recall of Argall
The first Colonial Parliament
English and Dutch in the East
The Dutch in the Bandas
The
Mare Liberum
The English claim free trade
The Dutch attack Puloway
The Dutch take Puloway
Courthope at Pularoon
Dale sent out
The herring fishery
Negotiations in London on the East India trade
Signature of a treaty with the Dutch
Dale defeats the Dutch at Jacatra
The Dutch capture English vessels
Death of Courthope
Chapter XXVII.
The Fall of the Howards.
The Peacemaker
Buckingham’s vacillations
His quarrel with the Howards
James takes his part
Charges against Suffolk
Lake endangered
Suffolk deprived of the Treasurership
Quarrel between Lord and Lady Roos
Star Chamber proceedings against the Lakes
Death of Lord Roos
Sentence on the Lakes
Calvert succeeds Lake as Secretary
Dismissal of Wallingford
The City loan
Rise of Cranfield
Financial reforms
Hay’s courtship and marriage
He resigns the Mastership of the Wardrobe
The Navy Commission
Proposal for the increase of the Navy
Nottingham resigns the Admiralty to Buckingham
Administrative reforms
Star Chamber proceedings against Suffolk and his wife
Corruption at Court
Cranfield’s marriage
The sale of honours
The King’s interference with the election of the Recorder of London
Chapter XXVIII.
Ecclesiastical Parties in Scotland and England.
The establishment of Episcopacy in Scotland ratified by Parliament
The King orders that the Communion shall be received at Easter
The Assembly at Aberdeen
The King proposes five articles
Resistance to the carvings at Holyrood
James visits Scotland and enforces kneeling at the Communion
James attacks the heritable jurisdictions at the opening of Parliament
Proposed Act on ecclesiastical affairs
Hewat’s Liturgy
The King’s speech at St. Andrews in favour of his five articles
Unpopularity of his wish that the Communion shall be received kneeling
The Assembly at St. Andrews
Opinion of Patrick Forbes
James threatens the ministers
The Assembly at Perth
The five articles adopted
The articles enforced
Religious condition of England
Systems in politics and theology
The Puritan conformists
School of Andrewes and Laud
Laud changes the position of the communion-table at Gloucester
The Puritan Sabbath
Enforcement of its observance in Lancashire
James applies to Morton for advice
The
Declaration of Sports
ordered to be read by the clergy
Resistance of the clergy
Selden’s
History of Tithes
The clergy appeal to the King against it
Selden compelled to profess regret for its publication
A quiet time in the history of the Church
Arminianism in Holland
The Revolution at the Hague
Execution of Barneveld
Chapter XXIX.
The Bohemian Revolution.
Growth of the House of Austria
Protestantism in the Austrian dominions
The Bohemian aristocracy
The Royal Charter of Bohemia
Ferdinand of Styria accepted by the Bohemians as their future king
Character of Ferdinand
The Revolution at Prague
Commencement of hostilities
State of opinion in Germany
John George, Elector of Saxony
Policy of the Lutherans
Policy of the Calvinists
Frederick V. Elector Palatine
The Saxon offer of mediation
Schemes of the Duke of Savoy
Successes of the Bohemians
Condition of Spain
The Spaniards propose that James shall mediate
James accepts the mediation
Attempts made to induce James to break with Spain
James refuses to quarrel with Spain
Gondomar’s report on English affairs
The English mediation formally accepted
Mission of Christopher Dohna
The Spanish armaments
Naval preparations in England
Proposed attach on Algiers
Doncaster sent as ambassador to Germany
Death of the Emperor Matthias
Frederick’s intrigues
Wake’s mission to Turin
Illness and death of the Queen
Illness of the King
Marriage proposed for Christopher Villiers
The new Whitehall
The great comet
Chapter XXX.
Doncaster’s Mission to Germany, and the Bohemian Election.
Doncaster’s instructions
Wotton at Heilbronn
Frederick and his advisers
James refuses to aid him
Ferdinand’s successes
Doncaster’s negotiation with Ferdinand and Oñate
Rejection of Doncaster’s proposals
Efforts of the anti-Spanish party in England
Ferdinand elected Emperor
Frederick elected King of Bohemia
Frederick accepts the crown, and sends Dohna to England
The Privy Council summoned
On the news that Frederick has accepted the crown, James announces that he must take time to consider what he will do
Abbot’s letter to Naunton
Frederick leaves Heidelberg
The assembly at Nuremberg
Confidence of the German Catholics
Ferdinand’s compact with the Duke of Bavaria
The defence of Vienna
Maximilian’s diplomacy
Gondomar prepares to return to England
Fines imposed on the exporters of gold
Doncaster sent to congratulate the Emperor
James’s irresolution
Dissatisfaction in England
State of James’s mind revealed by his Meditation on the crown of thorns
Chapter XXXI.
The Invasion of the Palatinate.
Division of opinion at Madrid on the proposed attack on the Palatinate
Buwinckhausen’s mission to England
James investigates Frederick’s title
Proposed loan for Bohemia
Buwinckhausen’s reception by James
Gray allowed to levy troops
Gondomar returns to England
His interviews with Digby and the King
Volunteers allowed to go to the defence of the Palatinate
Voluntary contributions raised
James at Paul’s Cross
Progress of the contribution
Political suicide of James
Resumption of the marriage treaty
James declares his intentions about the Catholics
Expedition of Captain North
Fresh application from the Union
James under the influence of Gondomar
Unsatisfactory communication from the Archduke Albert
James refuses the offers of the Dutch
Buckingham deserts the war party
His courtship of Lady Catherine Manners
Rise of Williams
He converts Lady Catherine
Buckingham’s marriage
Vere appointed to command the volunteers for the Palatinate
Plan for the partition of the Netherlands
Embassies of Wotton, Conway, and Weston
James believes the Palatinate to be safe
The Treaty of Ulm
Embarkation of Vere
Conway and Weston at Brussels
The invasion of Austria
Spinola’s march up the Rhine
He attacks the Palatinate
Chapter XXXII.
The Loss of Bohemia.
James’s reception of the news from the Palatinate
His promises to the Princes of the Union
A Benevolence raised
Commissioners appointed to prepare for a Parliament
The fleet against the pirates sent to the Mediterranean
Gondomar uses high language
The Marriage Treaty pressed forward
Bacon’s draft of a proclamation summoning Parliament
The Benevolence pressed
Parliament summoned
Ill-success of the Bohemians
Frederick’s cause hopeless
His defeat at Prague, and flight from Bohemia
The new Austrian monarchy
Excitement in London
Fresh embassies sent
Renewed efforts of diplomacy
A French marriage proposed for the Prince of Wales
Cadenet’s mission to England
Naunton’s disgrace
The
Vox Populi
Bacon created Viscount St. Alban
Appearance of the
Novum Organum
Bacon’s philosophical position
His political ideas