Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiv
5. ABBREVIATIONS xvii
6. CONVENTIONS xxi
7. INTRODUCTION: “SUCH TALES AS GOES HERE OF HIM”: HISTORY, MEDICINE AND THE MURDER OF KING JAMES I PROLOGUE THE TRAVAILS OF CHRISTOPHER HOGG xxiii
8. PROLOGUE: OUT OF THE SPANISH LABYRINTH THE KING, HIS SON AND HIS FAVOURITE, 1618–24 1
9. PART I. THE AUTHORIZED VERSION 1625
10. PROLOGUE: THE KING’S GOOD DEATH 25
11. CHAPTER ONE. CRUEL FIRE THE PHYSICIANS EXPLAIN JAMES I’S DEATH 30
12. CHAPTER TWO. THE GREATEST FUNERAL THAT EVER WAS KNOWN: MEMORIALIZING JAMES I 44
13. PART II. MAKING THE SECRET HISTORY 1625–26
14. PROLOGUE: THE TRAVAILS OF CHRISTOPHER HOGG 65
15. CHAPTER THREE. STRANGE TRAGEDIES: FEVER AND POLITICS AT THEOBALDS, MARCH 1625 68
16. CHAPTER FOUR. THE KING’S BRAVE WARRIOR: THE MAKING OF GEORGE EGLISHAM, c. 1585–1620 92
17. CHAPTER FIVE. A DOCTOR SUSPECTED OF PAPISTRY: THE UNMAKING OF GEORGE EGLISHAM, 1620–25 115
18. CHAPTER SIX. AT THE SIGN OF ST ANNE: PRINTING THE SECRET HISTORY 137
19. CHAPTER SEVEN. “WHAT CAN BE FULLER OF WONDER?” THE FORERUNNER MAKES ITS CASE 164
20. PART III. IMPEACHING BUCKINGHAM, 1626
21. PROLOGUE: “THE FIRE IN THE LOWER HOUSE” 191
22. CHAPTER EIGHT. WHALE FISHING IN WESTMINSTER: THE FAVOURITE AND HIS CRITICS 194
23. CHAPTER NINE. A CRYING CRIME THE PARLIAMENT–MEN INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF JAMES I 208
24. CHAPTER TEN. THE DUKE’S PALLOR: THE FORERUNNER AND THE ASSAULT ON BUCKINGHAM 227
25. CHAPTER ELEVEN. A TRUE CLEARING? BUCKINGHAM’S DEFENCE 245
26. CHAPTER TWELVE. SINGING LESSONS: DISSOLUTION AND RETRIBUTION 264
27. PART IV. THE POISONOUS FAVOURITE, 1626–28
28. PROLOGUE: THE HUNTING OF BUCK, KING OF GAME 283
29. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE STAPLE OF NEWS: THE FORERUNNER AND THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND 286
30. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: RADICAL TALK AND THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE 304
31. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. LONDON ON FIRE: BUCKINGHAM THE POPISH POISONER 321
32. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. REVOLT AGAINST JEHORAM: THOMAS SCOTT READS GEORGE EGLISHAM 344
33. PART V. STRANGE APPARITIONS, 1629–49
34. PROLOGUE: “KING CHARLES HADD A HAND IN ITT” 363
35. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. NERO IN WARWICKSHIRE: THE SECRET HISTORY AFTER BUCKINGHAM, 1629–40 366
36. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. EGLISHAM REDIVIVUS: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE CASE FOR WAR, 1642 380
37. CHAPTER NINETEEN. ROME’S MASTERPIECE: CIVIL WAR POLEMIC AND THE MURDER OF JAMES I, 1643–45 396
38. CHAPTER TWENTY. THE HELLISH WESTMINSTERIAN LIE: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE CRISIS OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1648 414
39. CHAPTER TWENTY–ONE UNDER THE POWER OF THE SWORD: BLOOD GUILT AND THE REGICIDE, 1648–49 439
40. PART VI. SPEAKING REPROACHFULLY OF THE DEAD, 1649–63
41. PROLOGUE: AN ENGLISHMAN IN UPPSALA, 1653–54 461
42. CHAPTER TWENTY–TWO. TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT: THE SECRET HISTORY AND THE DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC, 1650–53 464
43. CHAPTER TWENTY–THREE. WORSE THAN RAVAILLAC: EXORCIZING EGLISHAM AND THE KING- KILLERS, 1655–63 492
44. EPILOGUE: SCANDALOUS AND LIBELLOUS DISCOURSES: THE MURDER OF JAMES I FROM PARTISAN HISTORY TO FORENSIC MEDICINE, 1663–1862 512
45. CONCLUSION: THE SHADOWS FROM THEOBALDS 527
46. NOTES 537
47. INDEX 605