James I chronology 1603-1625 Flashcards
Accession of James I
March 1603
James VI of Scotland became James I of England at 37 years old.
Treaty of London
August 1604
Ended Elizabeth’s war with Spain.
Bate’s case
July 1606
New Book of Rates and impositions
March 1608
Failure of the Great Contract
November 1610
Marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick of the Palatinate
February 1613
Cockayne’s scheme
December 1614
Outbreak of the Thirty Years War
May 1618
Acceptance of the Bohemian Crown by Frederick
November 1619
Protestation of the Commons
December 1621
Failure Spanish Match
February 1623
Charles I and Buckingham travelled to Spain to woo the Infanta Maria. The expedition was very expensive and the Spanish terms were too high, Charles never actually saw the Infanta. James had been considering The Match since 1616.
Marriage of Charles and Henrietta Maria
June 1624
Death of James I
March 1625
James’s first Parliament
1604-1610: areas of conflict
- Finances: Purveyance and wardship, impositions, James’s extravagance, Great Contract.
- Parliamentary privileges
Dismissed over Parliament’s refusal to pay another £200,000 lump some as part of The Great Contract.
The Addled Parliament
1614: areas of conflict
- Refusal to vote subsidies for Elizabeth’s wedding and the funeral of James’s son for discussion of impositions.
- Attacks on the Lords and Court by the Commons.
- MPs thought that the Crown was interfering in elections using ‘undertakers’.
Dissolved over their refusal to help and attacks on the Court.
