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The Grand Remonstrance was a list of grievances presented to King Charles I of England by the English Parliament on 1 December 1641, but passed by the House of Commons on 22 November 1641, during the Long Parliament. [1] It was one of the chief events which was to precipitate the English Civil War. [2]
Full Text of the Grand Remonstrance, with the Petition accompanying it. 22 November 1641; Full text of the King's Answer to the Petition Accompanying the Grand Remonstrance 23 December 1641; Full text of The Solemn League and Covenant 25 September 1643; Full text of the Ordinance appointing the First Committee of both Kingdoms 16 February 1644
In November 1641, the House of Commons passed the Grand Remonstrance, a long list of grievances against actions by Charles's ministers committed since the beginning of his reign (that were asserted to be part of a grand Catholic conspiracy of which the King was an unwitting member), [186] but it was in many ways a step too far by Pym and passed ...
Pym then turned his attention to Henrietta Maria as a way of placing further pressure on Charles. The Grand Remonstrance, passed by Parliament at the end of 1641, for example, did not mention the Queen by name, but it was clear to all that she was part of the Roman Catholic conspiracy the remonstrance referred to and condemned. [68]
1 December – the Grand Remonstrance is presented to the King, [1] who makes no response to it until Parliament has the document published and released publicly. 7 December – a bill for the Militia Ordinance is introduced by Arthur Haselrig , an anti-monarchist member of the House of Commons, proposing for the first time to allow Parliament ...
The Grand Remonstrance marked a second moment at which a number of the more moderate, non-Puritan members of Parliament (e.g. Viscount Falkland and Edward Hyde) felt that Parliament had gone too far in its denunciations of the king and was showing too much sympathy for the rebellious Scots.
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Remonstrance Bureau, a government agency during the Song and Jurchen Jin dynasties Grand Remonstrance , a list of grievances presented to King Charles I of England in 1641 Five articles of Remonstrance , a doctrine, from 1610, observed by followers of the Dutch Protestant theologian Jacobus Arminius