1. The Peace with Spain. 1603-1604 481 2. The Hampton Court Conference. 1604 481 3. James and the House of Commons 482 4. Gunpowder Plot. 1604-1605 483 5. The Post-nati. 1606-1608 483 6. Irish Difficulties. 1603-1610 483 7. Bate's Case and the New Impositions. 1606-1608 484 8. The Great Contract. 1610-1611 484 9. Bacon and Somerset. 1612-1613 486 10. The Addled Parliament. 1614 486 11. The Spanish Alliance. 1614-1617 488 12. The Rise of Buckingham. 1615-1618 488 13. The Voyage and Execution of Raleigh. 1617-1618 489 14. Colonisation of Virginia and New England. 1607-1620 489 15. The Beginning of the Thirty Years' War. 1618-1620 490 16. The Meeting of James's Third Parliament. 1621 490 17. The Royal Prerogative. 1616-1621 492 18. Financial Reform. 1619 492 19. Favouritism and Corruption 494 20. The Monopolies Condemned. 1621 494 21. The Fall of Bacon. 1621 495 22. Digby's Mission, and the Dissolution of Parliament. 1621 496 23. The Loss of the Palatinate. 1622 497 24. Charles's Journey to Madrid. 1623 497 25. The Prince's Return. 1623 498 26. The Last Parliament of James I. 1624 500 27. The French Alliance 501 28. Mansfeld's Expedition, and the Death of James I. 1624-1625 501 CHAPTER XXXII THE GROWTH OF THE PERSONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHARLES I. 1625-1634 1. Charles I. and Buckingham. 1625 502 2. Charles's First Parliament. 1625 502 3. The Expedition to Cadiz. 1625 502 4. Charles's Second Parliament. 1626 503 5. The Forced Loan. 1626 505 6. The Expedition to Ré. 1627 506 7. The Five Knights' Case. 1627 506 8. Wentworth and Eliot in the Third Parliament of Charles I. 1628 508 9. The Petition of Right. 1628 508 10. Tonnage and Poundage. 1628 509 11. Buckingham's Murder. 1628 510 12. The Question of Sovereignty. 1628 510