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	millenary petition - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about millenary petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Petition presented to James I by moderate Puritans in 1603, requesting reform of the Church of England.
		The petition, presented as James travelled to London after his accession to the throne, he was disclaimed any desire to abolish episcopacy or abandon a national church, but sought the removal of certain ceremonies and ecclesiastical vestments.
		At the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, James rejected most of the petition but arranged for a new translation of the bible and made some small alterations to the liturgy.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /millenary%20petition (145 words)

	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - LoveToKnow Article on BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the Litany the following petition found in both the Edwardian Prayer Books was omitted from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord deliver us 4.
		A petition called the millenary petition, because signed by no less than one thousand ministers, was soon presented to him, asking, among other things, for various alterations in the Prayer Book and specifying the alterations desired.
		A prayer for the royal family was added after the prayer for the king, and a petition was added in the Litany to the same effect, both exhibiting slight verbal differences from the prayer and petition as used to-day.
	94.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PRAYER_BOOK_OF_COMMON.htm (4355 words)

	Diocese of London -
		In April after some efficient canvassing in the localities, the King was presented with the Millenary Petition, supposedly signed by a thousand ministers, “desiring and longing for the redress of divers abuses of the church”.
		The Petition was a moderate document designed to unite a wide range of reformist opinion and to test the temper of the new regime.
		In the event, the prime movers of the Petition were not included in the puritan delegation who met with the king and the bishops.
	www.london.anglican.org /SermonShow_3193 (4736 words)

	Search Results for millenary - Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The Millenary Petition (1603) initiated a debate over the religious establishment that James intended to defend.
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	www.britannica.com /search?query=millenary&submit=Find&sourc (317 words)

	The Hampton Court Conference of 1604
		They arranged for a petition on their behalf be sent from the King of France to the new English King.
		The Puritan Petition, known as the Millenary Petition, was one he could not overlook.
		It was signed by 10% of all the clergy in England, thus having a thousand signatures and giving the name Millenary to the petition.
	www.scionofzion.com /hampton.htm (921 words)

	"Bible Versions" - Descriptions Of Various Different Text
		In some quarters today it is the only acceptable translation, even though the translators in 1611 explicitly stated that they looked forward to future scholarship to correct whatever errors they may have made.
		The King James Version originated when a group of Puritans ambushed King James while he was on a journey and presented him with a petition requesting a new translation of the Bible.
		Since the petition had a thousand signatures, it was called the Millenary Petition.
	www.our.homewithgod.com /biblepaths/index_3.html (2306 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nonconformists
		Their system of doctrine and government was dominant in Scotland, and they hoped that the Scottish King James might be induced to extend it to England.
		So they met him on his way to London with their Millenary Petition, so called though the signatories numbered only about eight hundred.
		In this document they were prudent enough not to raise the question of episcopal government, but contented themselves for the time with a request that the ritual customs which they disliked might be discontinued in the State Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11095b.htm (1591 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : The Hampton Court Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Puritans were pressing both for a number of liturgical changes and for the bishops to be deprived of a share of parochial tithes.
		Their demands were set out in what was known as The Millenary Petition, of which the full text is available at:
		At the outset the king had been minded to agree to the latter request, to the consternation of the bishops.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=22 (284 words)

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		Eight hundred Puritan ministers, a tenth of all the clergy, signed the "Millenary Petition," asking that the practices which they most abhorred, such as the sign of the cross in baptism, the use of the surplice, the giving of the ring at marriage, and the kneeling during the communion service, should be done away with.
		James replied to the petition by promising a conference of prelates and of Puritan ministers to consider their demands; but at the conference it was found that he had summpned it only to air the theological knowledge upon which he so greatly prided himself.
		His answer to the petition was that he would have "one doctrine, one religion, in substance and in ceremony," and of the remonstrants he added, "I will make them conform or I will harry them out of the land." The harrying began.
	www.knowledgerush.com /pg/etext05/7rcon10.txt (15650 words)

	ENGLAND - LoveToKnow Article on ENGLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An act of the last reign granting the king all chantries and gilds was enlarged and enforced with cruel injustice to the poor.
		On the petition of convocation parliament allowed the marriage of priests; and it further ordered that the laity should receive the cup in communion.
		On the accession of James I. the Puritans expressed their desire for ecclesiastical change in the Millenary Petition which purported to come from 1000 clergy; their requests were moderate, a sign of the success of Whitgifts The policy, but some could not have been granted without ~ causing widespread dissatisfaction.
	76.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EN/ENGLAND.htm (16096 words)

	James I, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		James’s reliance on favorites whose qualifications consisted more of personal charm than talent for government, the extravagance and moral looseness of the court, and the scandalous career of James’s favorite Robert Carr, earl of Somerset, all furthered discontent.
		On his arrival in England, the king was presented with the Millenary Petition, a plea for the accommodation of Puritans within the Established Church.
		However, at the Hampton Court Conference (1604), called to consider the petition, James displayed an uncompromising anti-Puritan attitude, which aroused great distrust.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/James1Eng.html (988 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #181: King James Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The document was known as the Millenary Petition and had over 1,000 clergy signatures, representing about ten percent of England's clergy.
		This petition was the catalyst for the Hampton Court Conference.
		From the beginning the petition sought to allay suspicions regarding loyalty to the crown.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses2/glimpses181.php (1902 words)

	ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN ENGLAND
		In Tudor political theory this was a distortion of the proper function of Parliament, which was meant to beseech and petition, never to command or initiate.
		The House of Commons was growing as local communities petitioned for the right to be represented in Parliament and local gentry scrambled for the prestige of being chosen.
		It was only extremists that he intended to "harry from the land," those who, unlike the supporters of the Millenary Petition, sought to tear down the established church.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/macro/5009/49.html (7863 words)

	The King James Version of the Bible
		The petition was signed by about a thousand clergyman and therefore called the Millenary Petition.
		It was on account of that petition that James had called the conference to hear and determine things pretended to be amiss in the Church.
		In the midst of their struggle Dr. John Reynolds, the Puritan president of Corpus Christi College, suddenly petitioned the king, that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the original.
	www.prca.org /pamphlets/pamphlet_9.html (8639 words)

	Millenary magnificence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Millenary Petition (1603) Gee, Henry, and William John Hardy, ed., Documents Illustrative of English Church History.
		At least, Millenary claims to be louder than Quiet Riot.
		between The Clash and The Go-Go's stands Lansing's Millenary, a three-piece outfit led by singer/guitarist Sarah...
	www.thingsthatstartwithm.com /millenary.html (335 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		During the course of his journey south from Scotland, James was presented with the Millenary Petition, signed by a thousand clergymen.
		The Petition called for relaxation of ecclesiastical rules in favour of Nonconformist (i.e.
		The king called the Hampton Court Conference to hear arguments on the points raised by the Petition.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/stuart/gunpowder.htm (1105 words)

	The James Begg Society
		Next, the bishops and clergy in petition styled the King 'the protector and supreme head of the Church and clergy of England.' That title was converted into a reality.
		The two root principles of Popery, sacramental regeneration of the religion and apostolical succession of the hierarchy, were planted in the Liturgy and beliefs of the Church, and by the fostering hand of absolutism these brought forth much bitter fruit.
		On the ascension of James I. in 1603, he was presented with a petition from the Presbyterians, which declared, 'That they, to the number of more than a thousand, groaned under the burden of human rites and ceremonies, and cast themselves at his Majestie's feet for relief.' This 'Millenary Petition' was in vain.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~jbeggsoc/porteous3-08.html (6895 words)

	The Liberal Igloo: 2004-11-21
		A year later, the Puritans were back at it, producing a petition titled "The Millenary Petition" for the King, demanding more concessions to their ideology.
		The next section in the petition is titled "Concerning Church Ministers," which has the following nugget in its first sentence: "That none hereafter be admitted into the ministry but able and sufficient men," which historians generally note as a comment meant to prevent the poor and fls from preaching.
		Four years after King James defeated the petition, the Puritans were still up to their kooky schemes: in 1608, they left England, citing persecution for their "beliefs," and moved to the Netherlands.
	politicaligloo.blogspot.com /2004_11_21_politicaligloo_archive.html (5205 words)

	The Millenary Petition (1603) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		THIS petition was presented to James on his way to London after his accession.
		The question of the number of the signatories is discussed by Gardiner, Hist.
		No original of this petition is known to exist.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/ENGref/LXXXVIII.htm (86 words)

	1587. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		James I was proclaimed king; he entered London on May 7 and was crowned on July 25.
		Presentation of the millenary petition immediately after James's arrival in London, signed by 1,000 ministers, asking for the reform of abuses.
		Hampton Court Conference, between the bishops and the Puritans, James presiding.
	www.bartelby.com /67/589.html (679 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		- Millenary Petition (petition given to James as soon as he reached the capital signed by 1,000 churchmen which asked James to move the Anglican Church further away from Catholicism (no popery, no bishops) and to simply and “purify” the services instead.
		But, in England, Parliament was able to (in response to the petitioning of large landowners) enclose all the land in a village, even against the will of the village itself.
		Middle Class(the most confident and assertive class, the middle class ranged from the great bankers to the petit bourgeoisie (clerks, shopkeepers, etc.) and was held together by shared ideals and common interests 97 all were opposed to special privileges and saw themselves as the beneficiaries of careers open to talent.
	www.historyteacher.net /APEuroCourse/Readings-Open/THE%20GIANT%20EHAP%20REVIEW.doc (22852 words)

	English Dissenters: Jacobites
		Thomas Cartwright, Jacob and others were instrumental in facilitating the Millenary Petition (1603), a thousand signature wish list of puritan reforms to be submitted to the new king
		The new Scottish King was thought to be sympathetic to religious reforms similar to those of the Church of Scotland.
		The Hampton Court Conference (1604) debated the Millenary Petition (1603) in front of James I and a panel of Church divines.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/jacobites.html (2893 words)

	A Brief Historical Survey of the Westminster Assembly and Standards
		The Puritans presented him with a petition supposedly signed by a thousand clergymen (hence the name the Millenary Petition), in which they asked for the removal of Romish practices that still remained in the Church.
		King James wasn’t too pleased with the petition and called a Conference in 1604 at Hampton Court, in which Anglican Bishops debated with Puritan Clergy on disputed matters in the presence of the King.
		The petition was rejected and the Conference soon broke up.
	www.pilgrimcovenant.com /westminster/HistoricalSurveyOfWestminster.htm (2348 words)

	Where the Scriptures Speak
		On his way from Scotland to London, the Puritans presented him with a petition signed by supposedly one thousand Puritan clergymen to repeal the laws again the dissenters.
		This petition was named “Millenary Petition,” named for its supposed signature of one thousand clergymen.
		James declared that the petition was rebellion, and he then arrested the bishops and confined them in the Tower.
	www.astheoracles.org /index-263.htm (11358 words)

	It's About Time 1600
		1593 - In the Parliament which was summoned for 1593, the speaker, Edward COKE, presented the usual petition to the queen, asking for liberty of speech for freedom from arrest, and for access to her majesty.
		For answer he was told that privilege of speech was granted, but it consisted in saying "yea" or "no;" and that members of Parliament could have access to her majesty at times convenient, and when she was at leisure from other important causes of the realm.
		Elder William BREWSTER was chosen their leader, and while he was in England petitioning the Virginia Company of London, for a land patent and passage to the New World, an order for his arrest went out at the instance of the English ambassador in Holland; however he escaped.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ctnewlon/billc1600.html (6099 words)

	AuthorizedBible5
		After the life and death struggles with Spain, and the hard fought battle to save the English people from the Jesuit Bible of 1582, victorious Protestantism took stock of its situation and organized for the new era which had evidently dawned.
		A thousand ministers, it is said, sent in a petition, called the Millenary Petition, to King James who had now succeeded Elizabeth as sovereign.
		"The petition craved reformation of sundry abuses in the worship, ministry, revenue, and discipline of the national Church...
	www.temcat.com /Wilkinson/authorizedbible5.htm (5328 words)

	The Hampton Court Conference by Laurence M. Vance
		After the bishops and the Privy Council were directed to form themselves into committees to implement the decisions made at the conference, the Puritan delegation was admitted and informed of them.
		He insisted at the end of the conference that he "would have the bishops to govern and the ministers to obey." Although most of the reforms decided on at the Hampton Court Conference had been mentioned in the Millenary Petition, the principal objections of the Puritans were ignored.
		The alterations made in the Prayer Book were in many respects considered to be matters of indifference to the Puritans.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig4/vance3.html (3143 words)

	Scott Clark's Glossary of the Medieval and Reformation Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was thought possible by some medieval theologians for one not in the state of grace to perform works worthy of congruent merit.
		Millenary Petition (1603) An attempt by English Puritans to gain relief from the Elizabethan settlement (conformity) rejected by King James I. Modalism A Trinitarian heresy, which treats the three persons of the Trinity as different "modes" of the Godhead.
		He refused the Puritan petition for relief from uniformity; ordered the translation of the Authorized Version of the Bible which was first published in 1611.
	public.csusm.edu /public/guests/rsclark/Glossary.html (15121 words)

	King James Bible Translation
		Shortly after he became King of England, James received the Millenary Petition from the Puritans
		The petition received its name from the fact that it had 1,000 signers making up one-tenth of the English clergy
		The petition requested the removal of all popish elements from the worship of the church and the adoption of hyper-Calvinistic articles of faith
	www.learnthebible.org /preservation_king_james.htm (737 words)

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