Even if the Millenary Petition had been presented to the King and read by him on his way to London in the spring of 1603,[1] there is good reason to think that its influence has been exaggerated if it is held, as is often stated, that the Hampton Court Conference was called “in response to the Millenary Petition so that the issues raised by it could be discussed in a formal setting”[2] or that the Millenary Petition as “the original blueprint for discussion” at the conference. It is c...
