Tea will be served from 4.45.

Suggested preparatory reading:

Brennan C. Pursell, ‘James I, Gondomar and the Dissolution of the Parliament of 1621’, History, 85 (2000), 428-45; Simon Adams, ‘Foreign Policy and the Parliaments of 1621 and 1624’, in Faction and Parliament, ed. K. Sharpe (1978), 139-71; Glyn Redworth, The Prince and the Infanta (2003), 27-38; Conrad Russell, ‘The Foreign Policy Debate in the House of Commons in 1621’, Historical Journal, 20 (1977), 289-309.