ADVERTISEMENT.

IN offering to the public the following work, the author deems it unnecessary to detain her readers with any preliminary remarks respecting its design or the mode of its execution. She has only to announce, that it is intended as a sequel to her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth; and to express her hope that the indulgence which has attended her former labors will not be found to have deserted her on the present occasion, when many circumstances, some of them connected with the subject of these pages, others of a personal nature, conspire to increase her anxiety and her diffidence.

Birth of James. He is set on the throne by a protestant

party.-Care taken of his education.-Buchanan his

tutor; character of him.-His treatment of James.-

Dedication of his book De jure regni; account of this

work.-Death of Buchanan.-Civil wars in Scotland.—

James assumes the government.-His favorites the duke

of Lenox and earl of Arran.-Ruin and death of regent

Morton.-Malversation of the favorites.-Bad principles

instilled into James.-Raid of Ruthven.-Conduct of the

French and English sovereigns.-James released from

control.-Return of Arran to power.-Mission of Wal-

singham. The church humbled.-Oppression of Arran.

-Rebellion.-King's person seized.-Arran disgraced.

Alliance with England.-James's commentary on the

Apocalypse.

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CHAPTER II.

1586 To 1603.

Death of queen Mary.-Administration of Maitland.-

Lenity of James towards catholic conspirators.-His

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voyage to Denmark.-His own account of his motives.

-His marriage.-Character of the queen.—King's pro-

fessions respecting presbytery.-His zeal against witch-

craft.-Rebellion of Bothwell.-Murder of Murray.-

Fresh attempt of Bothwell; of the catholic lords.-

Weak conduct of James.-Queen's faction.-Fresh re-

bellions.-Doleman's conference.-James conciliates the

catholics. His contests with the Scotch church.-Letter

to the pope.-Basilicon Doron.—Measures to secure

the English succession.-Gowrie conspiracy.-Birth of

prince Charles.-The queen of Scotland and the Gow-

ries. James's conduct towards her.-His transactions

with the earl of Essex, and sentiments respecting him.

-Sir Robert Cecil.-Earl of Northumberland,—his let-

ters to James.-Summary of James's Scotch reign and

character.....

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CHAPTER III.

1603.

Principal persons of the English court at the death of Eliza

beth.-Lord Buckhurst.-Sir Robert Cecil.-Sir Tho-

mas Egerton.-Raleigh.-Coke.-Sir Francis and sir

Horace Vere.-State of the church.-Hooker.-Hall.-

Andrews. Whitgift. - Cartwright.-Udal.-Political

state of the country, connected with religious parties.-

Church divided into puritans and prelatists.-James al-

lies himself with the last, and renounces presbyterianism.

-Catholics and puritans compared.—State of literature.

-Abuse of patronage.-Corruption of taste.-Poets.-

Dramatists-Shakespear, Jonson, Fletcher.-Sir Henry

Saville.-Camden.-Sir Robert Cotton.-Dr. Dee.-

Dedications. Painting.-Music.-State of manners.-

Court affectation.-Increase of drinking.-Ordinaries.

-Gamblers.-Usurers.-Small number of the nobility.

-Gentry rich and powerful.-Lavish distribution of

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honors.

honors. Changes introduced by James.-Ballad of the old and new Courtier....

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CHAPTER IV.

1603.

James proclaimed.-Foundation of his title.-Homage paid him.-Journey of sir Robert Cary to Edinburgh. -His memoirs and character.-Thomas Somerset,―sir Charles Percy,-sir John Davies, author of "Nosce te↓ ipsum.”—James takes leave of the Scotch,-enters Eng. land.-Sentiments of the people.-Descriptions of his person and manners.-Proclamation forbidding resort to him.-Reception of sir Robert Cecil,-his conduct as minister.-James discourages catholics,-hangs a thief without trial.-Incidents on his journey.-Mr. Oliver Cromwell.-Ceremony at Godmanchester.-Receives a deputation from Cambridge.-University poems.-Notice of lord-keeper Egerton,-of Bacon.-James at Theobalds. Privy-councillors.-Lords Montjoy-T. and H. Howard. New peers.-Lord Wotton. - Sir Henry Wotton.-Sir J. Harrington.-Letter of Cecil to Harrington...

CHAPTER V.

1603.

Embassy of Rosni to England.-His account of the court factions.-Particulars of James's reception of him.-Remarks on James's contempt for the memory of Elizabeth. -Conduct of the queen.-Anger of James.-Treatment of Tyrone.-Letter of sir J. Harrington.-Raleigh plot. -Unfavorable situation of Raleigh.-King's prejudice against him.-Title of Arabella Stuart.-Design of the pope in her favor.-Her inoffensive conduct.-Plot of

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