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.