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.
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