Grand Remonstrance

British  

noun

1. English history the document prepared by the Long Parliament in 1640 listing the evils of the king's government, the abuses already rectified, and the reforms Parliament advocated

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Example Sentences

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

Then, in November, 1641, an Irish rebellion blazing into Irish massacre; and in Parliament, the Grand Remonstrance carried by a small majority.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

The year of the Grand Remonstrance and agitation for the suppression of Episcopacy. p.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

The last remain unpublished; but Mr.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

Out of that Bible were to come the "Petition of Right," the national anthem of 1628, the "Grand Remonstrance," and "Paradise Lost."

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville