The Summe and Substance of the Conference which it Pleased His Excellent Majestie to Have with the Lords, Bishops, and Other of His Clergie... at Hampton Court, January 14, 1603 (1604)

viii, 103 pp. In January of 1604 James I decided, for whatever reason, to accede to the famous Millenary Petition of 1603, in which the Puritan signatories asked the king for a sort of petit church council. To the meeting at Hampton Court were summoned the important bishops, the leading deans, and four Puritan divines to settle certain problems of doctrine and conscience which were troubling the three realms. James, we may sincerely believe, hoped to establish conformity among the Scots, the English, and the Irish. But religious uniformity is hard to come by, and in 1604 James was rather new at the business of ecumenism.--Introduction