Fuller and Heylyn at face value. Screech considered that the reasons given do not add up to enough to explain burning rather than revision. Clegg puts the incident in the context of the divisive church politics of the Netherlands—–the Calvinist-Arminian debate ahead of the Synod of Dort of 1618–9—and the tensions among bishops at court (agreeing in part with the direction of the comments in Fuller and Heylyn). On the assumption that Doctrina et Politia was directed at overseas Protestants, the rendering of Article 20 had the misfortune to contradict the King's policy for handling the Dutch Remonstrants, by weakening the case for a conciliar solution to the theological issues under dispute. Late in 1617 Sir Dudley Carleton reported to Thomas Lake the circulation of a Dutch book Weeg-schaal by Jacob Taurinus, contrasting King James's actions at the Hampton Court Conference to his advocacy of a council in the Netherlands. Clegg points out that the historical record of the burning is very slender; and argues that the likely reason is embarrassment to the king of this tactical kind. References Attribution External links CERL page Excerpts from God and the King 1577 births 1618 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Wardens of All Souls College, Oxford