HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. ΤΟ THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR 1603-1642 BY SAMUEL R. GARDINER, LL.D. FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE AND HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD AND OF THE ROYAL BOHEMIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. V. 1623-1625 NEW EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET All rights reserved In the part of this volume relating to the Prince's journey to Madrid I have had nothing but verbal alterations to make. Later on I have had at my disposal the despatches of Inojosa, Coloma, and Lafuente, in Mr. Cosens' transcripts, and, with their help, have been able at last to give an account at first hand of the relations between the Spanish ambassadors and the King during the first half of 1624. The transcripts here referred to, which include the despatches of Spanish ambassadors and agents from 1613, have now been purchased for the Public Record Office, and may be consulted there. Towards the end of the volume appears occasionally a reference to the Melbourne MSS. They form a collection preserved at Melbourne Hall, a great part of which was originally made by Sir John Coke, and is now in the possession of Earl COWPER, for whose kind permission to examine the papers I wish to express my gratitude. I have also to thank Mr. W. D. FANE, the present tenant of Melbourne Hall, for the facilities which he accorded me for conducting my researches, and for placing in my hands the abstracts which he has drawn up of the greater part of the papers. |