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are so many. But James was not as yet fully conscious of their strength. While he was in his progress to London, more than seven hundred of them presented the millenary petition for a redress of ecclesiastical grievances. He was never disposed to show them Chap. VIII.} favor; but a decent respect for the party to which he had belonged, joined to a desire of displaying his talents for theological debate, induced him to appoint a conference at Hampton Court. The conference, held in January, 1604, was dis- 1604. tinguished on the part of the king by a strenuous vindication of the church of England. Refusing to discuss the question of its power in things indifferent, he substituted authority for argument, and where he could not produce conviction, demanded obedience: I will have none of that liberty as to ceremonies; I will have one doctrine, one discipline, one religion in substance and in ceremony. Never speak more to that point, how far you are bound to obey. The Puritans