| A | B |
|---|
| Court of High Commission | An ecclesiastical court |
| Freedom from arrest | An MP's privilege |
| Extraordinary revenue | Taxes granted by Parliament |
| Subsidy | A tax on land and goods |
| Benevolence | Free Gift |
| 24th March 1603 | Death of Elizabeth I |
| Treaty of London | 1604 |
| Beati Pacifici | Motto of James I |
| Robert Cecil | Earl of Salisbury |
| Lionel Cranfield | Earl of Middlesex |
| Prince Henry | Elder brother of Charles I |
| Henrietta Marria | Wife of Charles I |
| Anne of Denmark | Wife of James I |
| Elizabeth | Married to Frederick, the Elector Palatine |
| The Protestation | Torn from the Commons Journal by James I |
| Justice of the Peace | Key figure in local government |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot |
| Sir John Eliot | Author of the Three Proposals |
| Count Mansfeld | Led an expedition to recover the Palatinate |
| Addled Parliament | 1614 |
| Granted to Charles I for one year only | Tonnage and Poundage |
| Treaty of Xanten | Ended the Cleves-Julich dispute |
| The 'grievance of grievances' | Duke of Buckingham |
| 1618 | Start of the Thirty Years' War |
| Anne Boleyn | Mother of Elizabeth I |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada |
| 1628 | Petition of Right |
| 1621 | Monopolies Act |
| Prerogatives | Royal powers |
| Sheriff | Had to reside in his county while in office |
| Assizes | Held twice a year in each county town |
| Privy Council | Chosen by the Monarch |
| Purveyance | The Crown's right to buy food and supplied for the Household at reduced prices |
| Arminians | 'High Church' Anglicans |
| Puritans | The 'hotter sort of Protestants' |
| Basilikon Doron | A manual on kingship published by James I |
| Five Knights' Case | 1627 |
| Personal Rule | Eleven Years' Tyranny |
| Valentine | Held down the Speaker in 1629 |
| George Villiers | Duke of Buckingham |
| George Abbot | Archbishop of Canterbury, 1610 |
| Bate's Case | Gave the Crown the legal right to collect impositions |
| Great Contract | An attempt to reform the royal finances |
| Papists | Roman Catholics |
| Millenary Petition | 1604 |
| Book of Sports | 1618 |
| Impeachment | A judicial process revived by Parliament |
| Chief Justice Crewe | Dismissed for not supporting the legality of the forced loan |
| John Felton | Assassinated the Duke of Buckingham |
| Apology and Satisfaction | Presented to James I in 1604 |
