always refused to allow her heir to be designated; but as death approached she indicated her preference for James, as having claim to the inheritance by descent from her own eldest aunt, Margaret (see p. 411). "My seat," she said, "hath been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me." "And who," she added, "should that be but our cousin of Scotland?" _Books recommended for further study of Part V._ BREWER, J. S. The Reign of Henry VIII. from his Accession to the Death of Wolsey. DIXON, CANON R. W. History of the Church of England from the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction. FROUDE, J. A. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vols, v.-xii. MOTLEY, J. L. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. ------- The History of the United Netherlands. MULLINGER, J. B. History of the University of Cambridge. Vol. ii. STRYPE, J. Annals of the Reformation. ------- Life and Acts of Aylmer. ------- " " Grindal. ------- " " Whitgift. NICOLAS, SIR W. H. Life of Sir C. Hatton. ------- " W. Davison. SPEDDING, J. Letters and Life of Francis Bacon. Vol. i.-iii. p. 58. EDWARDS, E. The Life of Sir W. Raleigh. FISHER, H. A. L. The Political History of England. Vol. v. From the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of Henry VIII. (1485-1547). POLLARD, A. F. The Political History of England. Vol. vi. From the Accession of Edward VI. to the Death of Elizabeth (1547-1603). PART VI THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. 1603-1660 CHAPTER XXXI JAMES I. 1603-1625 LEADING DATES Accession of James I. 1603 The Hampton Court Conference 1604 Gunpowder Plot 1605 Foundation of Virginia 1607 The Great Contract 1610 Beginning of the Thirty Years' War 1618 Foundation of New England 1620 Condemnation of the Monopolies and fall of Bacon 1621 Prince Charles's visit to Madrid 1623 Breach with Spain 1624 Death of James I. 1625