The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain

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  54. J’s speech to Parliament, [30] January 1621. PRO SP 14/119/47; CSPD 1619–21, 217.

  55. Notestein, Commons Debates 1621, 2: 92–3.

  56. Bushell, Abridgment, A3r. On Bacon’s fall see Jardine and Stewart, Hostage to Fortune, ch. 16.

  57. Peiresc to Barclay, 21 April 1621, Paris. Lettres de Peiresc, 7: 456.

  58. Rushworth, Historical Collections, 1: 36.

  59. Lando to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 8/18 June 1621, London. CSPV 17: 68.

  60. Willson 420.

  61. Account of J’s coming to PC, [30 December 1621]. PRO SP 14/124/83; CSPD 1619–2?, 326–7.

  62. Joseph Meade to Sir Martin Stuteville, 11 January 1622, London. Ellis, Original Letters. 1st ser., 3: 116–17.

  63. Tillières to Puisieux, 24 January 1622. Quoted in Willson 462 n.19.

  64. ‘The Warre of the Gods’, BL Add. MS 22603, f. 33r. On these libels see Farmer, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript’; Knowles, ‘“To scourge the arse”’.

  65. ‘As I went to Walsingham’. Salisbury MS 140/125.

  66. J to GV, [17 May 1620]. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 180; Akrigg 374.

  67. ‘Heaven Bless King James our Joy’.

  NOTES TO CHAPTER NINETEEN

  1. Cit. Lockyer, Buckingham, 135.

  2. Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1: 114.

  3. LJ 209.

  4. Hyde, History, 1: 20–21.

  5. Chamberlain believed that Cottington rode with them from New Hall to Dover, and that Greames joined them at Dover, but it was the other way around. JC to DC, [22 February 1623, London]. McClure 2: 480.

  6. J to C and GV [27 February 1623] BL Harley MS 6987 f. 13; Bergeron 151.

  7. BL Harley MS 837 ff. 72v–73r; James VI and I, Poems, ed. Craigie, 193.

  8. JC to DC, [22 February 1623, London]. McClure 2: 480.

  9. JC to DC, [22 February 1623, London]. McClure 2: 480–81.

  10. JC to DC, [8 March 1623, London]. McClure 2: 482.

  11. GV and C to J, [March 1623]. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 19; Bergeron 185.

  12. GV to J, [early March 1623]. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 23; Bergeron 186.

  13. GV to J, 10 March 1623, Madrid. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 212; Bergeron 166–8.

  14. J to C and GV, 17 March [1623], Newmarket. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 29; Akrigg 397.

  15. J to C and GV, 25 March [1623]. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 41; Akrigg 400–401.

  16. C and GV to J, 27 March 1623, Madrid. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 46; Bergeron 189–90.

  17. Lockyer, Buckingham, 145–6.

  18. GV to C to J, 27 April 1623, Madrid. BL Harley MS 6987 ff. 88–9; Bergeron 190.

  19. J to C and GV, 11 May [1623], Greenwich. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 94; Bergeron 166.

  20. Lockyer, Buckingham, 154–5.

  21. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 214.

  22. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 216–17; Lockyer. Buckingham, 146–7.

  23. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 220–23; Lockyer, Buckingham, 147–8.

  24. Lockyer, Buckingham, 148–9.

  25. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 228–30.

  26. Lockyer, Buckingham, 162. In early April, James had authorised Buckingham to raise the issue of the Palatinate. See Goodman 2: 273–5.

  27. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 230–33, 241; Rushworth, Historical Collections, 122; Lockyer, Buckingham, 149–50.

  28. Quoted in Lockyer, Buckingham, 151.

  29. Lockyer, Buckingham, 151.

  30. Correr to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 21 June/1 July 1623, Madrid. CSPV 18: 53.

  31. J to C and GV, 14 June [1623], Greenwich. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 100; Bergeron 167–8.

  32. Lockyer, Buckingham, 157.

  33. Francisco de Jesus, Hecho, 243–4; BL Harley MS 6987 f. 107; Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1: 137, 145; Lockyer, Buckingham, 157.

  34. Lockyer, Buckingham, 158.

  35. GV to Middlesex, 8 July 1623. Quoted in Lockyer, Buckingham, 158.

  36. D’Ewes, Diary, 147–8.

  37. C and GV to J, 29 July [1623], Madrid. BL Harley MS 6987 ff. 126–7; Bergeron 194.

  38. Lockyer, Buckingham, 161–2.

  39. Correr to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 3/13 June and 18/28 August 1623, Madrid. CSPV 18: 37, 101.

  40. Lockyer, Buckingham, 162.

  41. Lockyer, Buckingham, 163–4.

  42. D’Ewes, Diary, 162–3.

  43. Cogswell, Blessed Revolution, 6–7.

  44. JC to DC, 11 October 1623, London. McClure 2: 515–16.

  45. Finett, Finetti Philoxenis, 121; Pett, Autobiography, 128–9; JC to DC, 11 October 1623; London. McClure 2: 516.

  NOTES TO CHAPTER TWENTY

  1. [Conway] to DC, 9 October 1623, Royston. CSPD 1623–1625, 91.

  2. Dudley Carleton (Clerk of the Council) to DC, 10 November 1623, London. PRO SP 14/154/19, quoted in Lockyer, Buckingham, 171.

  3. Rusdorf, Mémoires, 1: 147; my translation.

  4. Alvise Valaresso to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 23 January/2 February 1624, London. CSPV 18: 207, 208.

  5. Valaresso to Doge and Senate, 16/26 January 1624 and 23 January/2 February, London. CSPV 18: 207, 208, 201.

  6. Lockyer, Buckingham, 180.

  7. Quoted in Willson 441–2.

  8. D’Ewes, Diary, 181 [entry for 16 February 1624].

  9. D’Ewes, Diary, 192 n. 408.

  10. On the 1624 Parliament see Ruigh, Parliament of 1624; Russell, Parliaments and English Politics.

  11. Fuller, Church History, 3: 328.

  12. BL Harley MS 159, ff. 10–12; cit. Ruigh, Parliament of 1624, 154–6.

  13. Ruigh, Parliament of 1624, 189; Weldon, Court and Character, 155; Lockyer, Buckingham, 185.

  14. GV to J, [2 March 1624]. BL Harley MS 6987 ff. 196r–v.

  15. Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS English 980 [Sir William Spring: Proceedings in the Commons 19 February – 27 May 1624]: 11 March 1624, quoted in Lockyer, Buckingham, 185.

  16. LJ 266.

  17. Valaresso to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 19/29 March 1624, London. CSPV 18: 254.

  18. Ruigh, Parliament of 1624, 213–16; Lockyer, Buckingham, 186.

  19. LJ 282, 275, 283; Lockyer, Buckingham, 187.

  20. ‘The Heads of that Discourse which fell from Don Francisco, 7. Die Aprilis, 1624.’ Cabala 275–6. For similar accusations, see Eglisham, Fore-runner, B3v–B4r.

  21. Valaresso to Doge and Senate, 12 April 1624, London. CSPV 18: 268.

  22. Gardiner, History of England, 5: 229. For Middlesex, see Prestwich, Cranfield.

  23. Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1: 189–90.

  24. Hyde, History of the Rebellion, 1: 28.

  25. Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1: 190.

  26. Ruigh, Parliament of 1624, 279–81; Lockyer, Buckingham, 194.

  27. ‘A Memorial to the King of Spain by Sir Walter Aston, Ambassadour in Spain’. Cabala 13.

  28. Hacket, Scrinia Reserata, 1: 196–7.

  29. JC to DC, 13 May 1624, London. McClure 2: 558; John Coke to Lord Brooke, 19 May 1624, Greenwich. HMC, Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, 1: 163.

  30. Lockyer, Buckingham, 197.

  31. GV to J, n.d.. Bergeron 180; Lockyer, Buckingham, 197–8.

  32. Pesaro to the Doge and Senate of Venice, 4/14 June 1624, London. CSPV 18: 343–4; C to GV, n.d.. BL Harley MS 6987 f. 207r.

  33. Ruigh, Parliament of 1624, 384–5.

  34. Life of Waller, quoted in Nichols 4: 976–7.

  35. PRO 31/4 (Crisp Transcripts), 2. 14v–15 as rendered in Lockyer, Buckingham, 200.

  36. Maidstone, Kent Archive Office, Sackville MS ON.245 as cit. Lockyer, Buckingham, 201–2; JC to DC, 24 July 1624, London. McClure 2: 571.

  37. See for example JC to DC, 9 October 1624, London. McClure 2: 581.

  38. JC to DC, 4 December 1624, London. McClure 2: 588–9.

  39. Lockyer, Buckingham, 209.

  40. See Kellie to Mar, 15 December 1624, Cambridge. HMC Mar & Kellie 216. JC to DC, 18 December 1624, London. McClure 2: 591.


  41. JC to DC, 18 December 1624, London. McClure 2: 591–2.

  42. J to GV, [December 1624?]. Halliwell, Letters, 2: 236.

  43. JC to DC, 8 January 1625, London. McClure 2: 594, 596.

  44. Nichols 4: 1010.

  45. Finet, Finetti Philoxenis, cit. Nichols 4: 1011; JC to DC, 8 January 1625, London. McClure 2: 594–7 at 594, 596. The masque is printed in Nichols 4: 1012–26.

  46. C to GV, 24 January 1625. BL Harley 6987 ff. 203v–204r.

  47. C to GV, 24 January 1625. BL Harley 6987 f. 203r.

  48. Lockyer, Buckingham, 227–9.

  49. GV to J, [January 1625?]. Bergeron 216–17.

  50. Nichols 4: 1028.

  51. Countess of Bedford to Jane Lady Cornwallis, 23 March 1625 [writing of the early stages of the illness], More Lodge. Cornwallis, Correspondence, 120.

  52. JC to DC, 12 March 1625, London. McClure 2: 604–6 at 606.

  53. On James’s ‘impatience and irregularities’ and ‘excess in drinking’ during his illness, see Zuane Pesaro to Doge and Senate of Venice, 18/28 March and 25 March/4 April 1625, London. CSPV 1623–1625, 620, 623.

  54. Conway to Carlisle, 23 March 1625, Theobalds. Yorke, Miscellaneous State Papers, 1: 562.

  55. Conway to Carlisle, 23 March 1625, Theobalds. Yorke, Miscellaneous State Papers, 1: 564.

  56. Quoted in Willson 445.

  57. HMC, Manuscripts of the Earl of Lonsdale: ‘Notes in Parliament’, 2–3, 4–6, 8–9, 13, 18, 28; Harley, ‘Political Post-Mortems’, 9–10.

  58. See Eglisham, Prodromvs Vindictæ; Eglisham, The Fore-Runner of Revenge.

  59. Meade to Stuteville, [March 1625], cit. Nichols, Progresses, 4: 1032.

  60. Conway to Carlisle, 24 March 1625, Theobalds. Yorke, Miscellaneous State Papers 1: 566, cit. Nichols, Progresses, 4: 1029.

  61. Meade to Stuteville, [March 1625] cit. Nichols, Progresses, 4: 1032.

  62. JC to DC, 9 April 1625. McClure 2: 608.

  63. Conway to DC, March 1625. Collet, Relics of Literature, cit. Nichols, Progresses, 4: 1029.

  64. Paddy’s memorandum, cit. Nichols, Progresses, 4: 1031–2.

  65. Williams, Great Britains Salomon, Kv–K2r.

  66. JC to DC, 9 April 1625, London. McClure 2: 609.

  67. JC to DC, 9 April 1625, London. McClure 2: 609.

  68. Countess of Bedford to Jane Lady Cornwallis, 12 April [1625], More Lodge. Cornwallis, Correspondence, 125–6.

  69. JC to DC, 9 April 1625, London. McClure 2: 609.

  70. Zuane Pesaro to Doge and Senate, 22 April/2 May 1625, London. CSPV 19: 26–7.

  71. JC to DC 9 April 1625, London. McClure 2: 609. Fortescue Papers, ed. Gardiner (1871), 213–14; Birch, Charles, 4. Lockyer 234.

  72. JC to DC 9 April 1625, London. McClure 2: 609.

  73. HMC, Manuscripts of the Earl of Lonsdale: ‘Notes in Parliament’, 2–3, 4–6, 8–9, 13, 18, 28; Harley, ‘Political Post-Mortems’, 10.

  74. Advices from London, 3/13 February 1648. CSPV 28: 44.

  75. James VI and I, Poems, ed. Craigie, 2: 182–91 and notes at 2: 262–5.

  Bibliography

  1. WORKS BY JAMES VI AND I

  (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF PUBLICATION)

  The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie (Edinburgh: Thomas Vautrollier, 1584)

  Ane Frvitfvll Meditatioun contening ane plane and facill expositioun of ye 7.8.9 and 10 versis of the 20 Chap. of the Reuelatioun in forme of ane sermone (Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 1588)

  Ane Meditatiovn vpon the xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, and xxix verses of the xv. chapt. of the first buke of the Chronicles of the Kingis (Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 1589)

  His Maiesties Poeticall Exercises at vacant houres (Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, 1591)

  Daemonologie, in forme of a Dialogue (Edinburgh: R. Walde-graue, 1597)

  A Covnter-blaste to Tobacco (London: R.B., 1604)

  His Majesties Speech in this last Session of Parliament, as neere his very words as could be gathered at the instant. Together with a discourse of the maner of the discovery of this late intended treason, joyned with the examination of some of the prisoners (London: Robert Barker, 1605)

  Triplici nodo triplex cuneus. Sive Apologia pro ivramento fidelitatis, Aduersus duo Breuia P. Pavli Qyinti, & Epistolam Cardinalis Bellarmini, ad G. Blackvellvm Archipresbyterum nuper scriptam (London: Robert Barker, 1607)

  An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance. First set foorth withovt a name: And now acknowledged by the Author, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames … Together with a Premotion of his Maiesties, to all most Mightie Monarches, Kings, free Princes and States of Christendome (London: Robert Barker, 1609)

  The Workes of the most high and mighty Prince, Iames … Printed by Iames, Bishop of Winton & Deane of his Ma[jes]t[ie]s Chapell Royal (London: Robert Barker and John Bill, 1616 [i.e. 1617])

  New Poems by James I of England, ed. Allan F. Westcott (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911)

  The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, 2 vols (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1944–1950)

  Letters of King James VI & I, ed. G.P.V. Akrigg (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)

  Political Writings, ed. Johann P. Sommerville (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

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  Anonymous, Honor Trivmphant. Or The Peeres Challenge … Also The Monarches meeting: or The King of Denmarkes welcome into England (London: Francis Burne, 1606)

  Anonymous, The King of Denmarkes welcome (London: Edward Allde, 1606)

  Adamson, John ed., The Mvses Welcome to the High and Mightie Prince Iames … (Edinburgh: T. Finlason 1618)

  Adamson, Patrick, Serenissimi ac Nobilissimi Scotiae, Angliae, Hyberniae Principis, Henrici Stuardi inuictissimi herois, ac Mariae Reginae amplissimae filij Genethliacum (Paris: Carolus Perier, 1566)

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  Barlow, William, The summe and substance of the conference, which, it pleased his majestie to have with the lords, bishops, and other clergie, at Hampton Court (London: John Law, 1604)

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  Brahe, Tycho, Opera omnia, ed. I.L.E. Dreyer, 15 vols (Hauniæ: Gyldendaliana, 1913–1929)

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George, The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, trans. Charles Flinn Arrowood (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1949)

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  A fourme of Prayer with Thankesgiuing, to be vsed by all the Kings Maiesties louing Subiects euery yeere the fift of August: Being the day of his Highnesse happy deliuerance from the traiterous and bloody attempt of the Earle of Gowry and his brother, with their Adherents. Set foorth by Authoritie (London: Robert Barker, 1603)

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