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This article uses the digital humanities approach to analyse the first English Parliament (1604-10) of James I in an entirely new way. Utilizing the most comprehensive data on the parliament - the Journal of the House of Commons- and, through computer programming and database manipulation, integrating it with what is known of individual Members of Parliament (MPs), it explores the reactions of parliament-men en masse and by a number of demographic categories to some of the most important issues of James's early reign: finance, religion, prerogative against privilege, the grievances of impositions, purveyance and wardship, and the Anglo-Scottish Union. In doing so, it shines new light on some of the biggest questions asked by historiography: who were the parliament-men of the first Jacobean Parliament, did they act in predictable ways, and can any of them be considered to represent some form - religious, 'country' or cultural - of 'opposition'? Not only does it suggest some startling conclusions, reopening old debates with new insights, but it also provides another approach to our understanding of the crisis of the mid-seventeenth century, and to the history of parliaments as a whole.