Hampton Court Again: The Millenary Petition and the Calling of the Conference

From: Anglican and Episcopal History | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

As King James I was traveling to London after his accession in the spring of 1603, a delegation of ministers presented to him the Millenary Petition, so called because it claimed to represent "more than a thousand" ministers desiring the reform of abuses in the English church. This petition requested a conference on these matters. The king is said to have promised that he would hold a conference, which finally met early the next year at Hampton Court. This fact is commonly found in histories of King James, but without any reference to contemporary documents.1 One might assume that like other ...

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