Tea will be served from 16:45

Suggested preparatory reading:

Diana Newton, The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603-1605 (2005); Richard A. McCabe, ‘Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession’; David Colclough, ‘”I have brought thee up to a kingdome”: Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I’ and Paulina Kewes, ‘“The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans”: Robert Persons’s Conference about the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart Britain’, in Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae (eds), Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations (2019).