FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES I. TILL THE DISSOLUTION OF HIS FIRST PARLIAMENT.
Containing a rapid sketch of some leading transactions at the close of the preceding reign—as the Bohemian War, with the ruin of the Elector Palatine and his familythe projected Spanish Match, and rupture of the treaties, &c. with the character of Buckingham-Death of James, and Accession of Charles-Religion-Marriage with Henrietta of France-the proceedings of his first Parliament—the Adjournment-Loan of Ships to France, to be used against the Protestants of Rochellereassembling of Parliament, with the rupture and dissolution.
HE particular state of affairs at the commencement of this reign cannot be understood without a rapid view of some leading transactions at the close of the last.
Elizabeth, the only daughter of James, had, in the year 1612, married Frederic, Elector Palatine; and as the marriage promised a league with the German protestants, it was extremely grateful to