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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS xvi
NOTE ON DATES xvii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xix
INTRODUCTION xxi
I. POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY,
1603-29
James I and Robert Cecil 1
The first parliament, 1604- 11 3
Shirley's case 4
Purveyance and wardship 4
Apology of commons, 1604 6
The religious question 7
Attempted union with Scotland, 1606-7 8
Finance 10
Failure of the Great Contract, 1610 14
Why James disagreed with parliament 15
Rochester's ascendancy 16
Murder of Overbury, 1613 19
Fall of Sir Edward Coke, 1616 20
Rise of Buckingham 22
Meeting of parliament in 1621 24
Attack on monopolies 24
Impeachment of Bacon 26
The Protestation 27
Dissolution 27
Last Parliament, 1624-5 28
Importance of James's reign 29
Growth of committees in privy council 31
Theory of divine right of kings 31
Character and accession (27 March 1625) of Charles I 33
Early parliaments, 1625, 1626 34
War with France, 1627 38
Resistance to forced loans 38
Third parliament, 1628-9 39
Petition of Right 40
Importance of Petition 42
Buckingham's assassination, 1628 43
King and parliament quarrel about religion 44
Significance of dissolution of 1629 45

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Early Stuarts, 1603-1660. Contributors: Godfrey Davies - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1959. Page Number: vii.
    
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