To the Kings most excellent Majesty.  

The true Copy of M. john Dee his Petition to the kings most excellent Majesty, exhibited: Anno 1604. Junii 5. at Greenwich.  IN most humble and lamentable manner beseecheth your Royal Majesty, your highness most distressed Servant, john Dee: That, as, by the grace and providence of the Almighty, you are our King, our earthly Supreme Head, and judge: So it may please your sacred Majesty, either in your own royal presence and hearing; Or, of the Lords of your majesties most honourable privy Counsel: Or, of the present assembled Parliament States, to cause your Highness said Servant, to be tried and cleared of that horrible and damnable, and to him, most grievous and damageable Slander: generally, and for these many years last passed, in this Kingdom raised, and continued, by report, and Print, against him: Namely, That he is, or hath been a conjuror, or Caller, or Invocator of devils: Upon which most ungodly, and false report, so boldly, constantly, and impudently avouched: yea, and uncontrolled, and hitherto unpunished, for so many years, continuing: (Albeit, your Majesties said Suppliant, hath published in Print, divers his earnest Apologies, against it) yet some impudent and malicious foreign enemy, or English traitor to the flourishing State and Honour of this Kingdom, hath in Print (Anno 1592. 7. januarij) affirmed your Majesties said Suppliant, to be the conjuror belonging to the most Honourable Privy Counsel, of your majesties most famous last Predecessor, (Queen Elizabeth) So that, seeing the said abominable Slander, is become so highly heinous, and disgraceful, that it pretendeth great discredit, and disliking to be had, also, of the said most Honourable Lords, of your majesties privy Counsel (as to use any conjurers advise: and your said Suppliant to be the man.) It, therefore, seemeth, (upon divers respects,) to be very needful, due and speedy Order, to be taken herein: by your majesties wisdom, and Supreme Authority: (by one, of the three foresaid means, or any other,) to have your Highness said Suppliant, to be tried, in the premises: Who offereth himself willingly, to the punishment of Death: (yea, either to be stoned to death: or to be buried quick: or to be burned unmercifully) If by any due, true, and just means, the said name of conjuror, or Caller, or Invocator of Devils, or damned Spirits, can be proved, to have been, or to be, duly or justly reported of him, or attributed unto him: Yea, (good, and gracious King) If any one, of all the great number, of the very strange and frivolous fables, or histories reported and told of him (as to have been of his doing) were True: as they have been told, or reasonably caused any wondering among, or to, the many headed Multitude, or to any other, whosoever, else. And, then, your Highness said Suppliant, (upon his said justification, and Clearing, made herein,) will conceive great and undoubted hope, that your Majesty will, soon after, more willingly, have Princely regard of redressing, of your Highness said Suppliant his farther griefs, and hindrances; no longer, of him, possibly to be endured: So long, hath his utter undoing, by little and little, been most unjustly, compassed. The Almighty and most merciful God, always direct, your majesties royal heart, in his ways of justice and Mercy, as is to him, most acceptable: and make your Majesty to be the most blessed and Triumphant Monarch, that ever this British Empire, enjoyed.  
Amen.