Grand Remonstrance
Britishnoun
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Members quoted from thumb-marked copies of the Bill of Rights and the Grand Remonstrance, which the House addressed to Charles I in 1641.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Grand Remonstrance was only carried by eleven votes in the House of Commons, 159 to 148, after wild scenes.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph
The last remain unpublished; but Mr. Forster has drawn much from them in his two works, "The Grand Remonstrance" and "The Arrest of the Five Members."
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard
When the civil war was actually imminent, in December, 1641, the Grand Remonstrance was issued as a statement of the contentions of the leaders in Parliament.
From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts
By the "Grand Remonstrance" the parliament tried to seize on the royal power. p.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
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