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The End the Englo-Spanish war
Despite not knowing how to manage Parliament, he was able to establish peace within English and Spain. Was a dispute between Queen Elizabeth and King Phillip II. -
Laws against Parliament
Without Parliament's consent, James gave custom duties to merchants as they did not grant his special fund, and his debt, which threatened Parliament's control. -
Termination of Parliament
The Great Contract did not help in benefiting the king and was taking more of the king's feudal rights, which king James I saw as a grievance and wrongfully took action upon -
Return of Parliament
The king had to learn his way around Parliament as a new chief minister, which made a lot of changes, especially to adopt unpopular expedients like monopolies (raise funds) -
3rd Round of Parliament
He called for Parliament again to raise funds for his design and to make England and Spain get even. Due to the refusal of not receiving the money, out of anger, he dissolved Parliament once again