Editing Spanish match (section)

==The Privy Council==
From 1617 the negotiations for the match had been handled by the [[Privy Council of England|Privy Council]]. In fact it was considered that there was a need for confidential dealings with Spanish counterparts, and a subcommittee of the council was set up for that reason; which later became a vehicle for discussion of foreign policy more generally, and persisted into the next reign.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Robson Tanner|author-link=Joseph Robson Tanner|title=Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I, A.D. 1603-1625|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkk4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA129|year=1961|publisher=CUP Archive|page=129|id=GGKEY:H4D5R61RT8L}}</ref> The last word on the Spanish Match was the vote in the Privy Council to reject the Spanish terms, taking place in January 1624.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=12085|title=Hamilton, James|first=David|last=Stevenson}}</ref>