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    The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne...
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    ministers gave him the Millenary Petition calling for the full excision of Catholic influence from the church's religion. Among the petition's demands were the...
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    collected signatures for a petition, known as the Millenary Petition because it was signed by 1,000 Puritan ministers. The Petition was careful not to challenge...
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    James's arrival in London, the Puritan clergy presented him with the Millenary Petition, allegedly signed by a thousand English clergy, requesting reforms...
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    After passing the Commons, the Supplication was presented to the King as a petition for reform on 18 March. On 26 March, the Act in Conditional Restraint of...
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    At the start of his reign, Puritans presented the Millenary Petition to the King. This petition for church reform was referred to the Hampton Court...
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    reform. The accession of James I to the English throne brought the Millenary Petition, a Puritan manifesto of 1603 for reform of the English church, but...
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    people listed in the 1709 petition (there were seven additional people who had been convicted but had not signed the petition, but there was no reversal...
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    I and religious issues History of the Puritans under King James I Millenary Petition Hampton Court Conference Book of Common Prayer (1604) King James Version...
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    called in response to a series of requests for reform set down in the Millenary Petition by the Puritans, a document which supposedly contained the signatures...
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