Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the reader
- Introduction: canon law and the Anglican church
- 1 Texts with commentary
- 2 Supplementary texts
- 1 The articles on doctrine, 1555*
- 2 A paper for the convocation of 1563
- 3 General notes of matters to be moved by the clergy, 1563
- 4 Articles for government, 1563
- 5 The assertions of Ralph Lever, touching the canon law, 1563
- 6 Articles from the lower house of convocation, 1580
- 7 Archbishop Whitgift's articles, 1583
- 8 The parliamentary petition of 1584 with the archbishops' answers
- 9 Archbishop Whitgift's statutes for the ecclesiastical courts, 1587*
- 10 Additional articles concerning the ecclesiastical laws, 1591
- 11 Archbishop Whitgift's orders of 1593
- 12 The millenary petition, 1603
- 13 The reforms agreed at the Hampton Court conference, 1604
- 14 The five articles of Perth, 1618
- 15 Proposals for the reform of the canons of 1603, 1640
- 16 Constitutions and orders for the Church of Scotland, 1670
- 17 The injunctions of William III, 1695
- 18 The supplementary Irish canons of 1711
- 19 The draft canons of 1714
- 20 The Irish canons of 1871
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of references
- 5 Thematic indexes
- 6 Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
12 - The millenary petition, 1603
from 2 - Supplementary texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the reader
- Introduction: canon law and the Anglican church
- 1 Texts with commentary
- 2 Supplementary texts
- 1 The articles on doctrine, 1555*
- 2 A paper for the convocation of 1563
- 3 General notes of matters to be moved by the clergy, 1563
- 4 Articles for government, 1563
- 5 The assertions of Ralph Lever, touching the canon law, 1563
- 6 Articles from the lower house of convocation, 1580
- 7 Archbishop Whitgift's articles, 1583
- 8 The parliamentary petition of 1584 with the archbishops' answers
- 9 Archbishop Whitgift's statutes for the ecclesiastical courts, 1587*
- 10 Additional articles concerning the ecclesiastical laws, 1591
- 11 Archbishop Whitgift's orders of 1593
- 12 The millenary petition, 1603
- 13 The reforms agreed at the Hampton Court conference, 1604
- 14 The five articles of Perth, 1618
- 15 Proposals for the reform of the canons of 1603, 1640
- 16 Constitutions and orders for the Church of Scotland, 1670
- 17 The injunctions of William III, 1695
- 18 The supplementary Irish canons of 1711
- 19 The draft canons of 1714
- 20 The Irish canons of 1871
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of references
- 5 Thematic indexes
- 6 Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
Most gracious and dread sovereign:
Seeing it has pleased the divine majesty, to the great comfort of all good Christians, to advance your highness, according to your just title, to the peaceable government of this church and commonwealth of England, we, the ministers of the gospel in this land, neither as factious men affecting a popular parity in the church, nor as schismatics aiming at the dissolution of the state ecclesiastical, but as the faithful servants of Christ and loyal subjects to your majesty, desiring and longing for the redress of divers abuses of the church, could do no less in our obedience to God, service to your majesty, love to his church, than acquaint your princely majesty with our particular griefs, for as your princely pen writeth: The king as a good physician must first know what peccant humours his patient is most naturally subject unto, before he can begin his cure', and although divers of us that sue for reformation have formerly, in respect of the times, subscribed to the book - some upon protestation, some upon exposition given them, some with condition rather than the church should have been deprived of their labour and ministry - yet now we, to the number of more than a thousand of your majesty's subjects and ministers, all groaning as under a common burden of human rites and ceremonies, do with one joint consent humble ourselves at your majesty's feet, to be eased and relieved in this behalf. Our humble suit then, unto your majesty is that these offences following, some may be removed, some amended, some qualified:
In the church service:
1. That the cross in baptism, interrogatories ministered to infants, confirmation, as superfluous, may be taken away;
2. Baptism not to be administered by women, and so explained;
3. The cap and surplice not urged;
4. That examination may go before the communion;
5. That it be ministered with a sermon;
6. That divers terms of priests, and absolution, and some other used, with the ring in marriage and other such like in the book, may be corrected;
7. The longsomeness of church service abridged, church songs and music moderated to better edification;
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- The Anglican Canons, 1529–1947 , pp. 817 - 819Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 1998