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	The Grand Remonstrance 1641
		Drafted by Pym and his supporters between August and November 1641, the Grand Remonstrance was a long, wide-ranging document that listed all the grievances perpetrated by the King's government in Church and State since the beginning of his reign.
		The Remonstrance called for the setting up of an Assembly of Divines, nominated by Parliament, to supervise reform of the Church, and it demanded that the King's ministers should first be approved by Parliament.
		The Remonstrance was presented to the King on 1 December 1641.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /glossary/grand-remonstrance.htm (0 words)

	Taking Sides - Parlement and King
		However, he had reckoned without the intransigence of Pym and other opposition MPs who were reluctant to give Charles command of an army.
		Charles looked to Parliament for supply and soldiers in a time of crisis; what he received was the Grand Remonstrance, a document outlining his alleged religious and political abuses over the preceding decade.
		The Grand Remonstrance represented a direct attack on royal authority and Charles responded by launching an attack on Parliament.
	www.open2.net /civilwar/3.2.takingsides.html (211 words)

	Gardiner: Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution
		The Grand Remonstrance, with the Petition accompanying it.
		The Petition of the House of Commons, which accompanied the Remonstrance of the state of the kingdom, when it was presented to His Majesty at Hampton Court, December 1, 1641.
		And that Judges and Justices be very careful to give this in charge to the grand jury, and both the Sheriff and Justices to be sworn to the due execution of the Petition of Right and other laws.
	www.constitution.org /eng/conpur043.htm (0 words)

	The "Grand Remonstrance" (1641)
		Drawn up by the commons, the "Grand Remonstrance" consists of a review of the personal government of Charles I as well as an account of measures already passed by the Long Parliament.
		The root of all this mischief we find to be a malignant and pernicious design of subverting the fundamental laws and principles of government, upon which the religion and justice of this kingdom are firmly established.
		Whereupon new canons and a new liturgy or pressed upon them, and when they refused to admit to them an army was raised to force them to it, towards which the clergy and the papacy were very forward in their contribution.
	www.historyguide.org /earlymod/remonstrance.html (552 words)

	channel4.com - Monarchy - The Grand Remonstrance - text only
		The creators of the Remonstrance also recommended restricting the power of the bishops and the reformation of the Church by a synod of Protestants.
		All 204 clauses of the Remonstrance – 'the evils under which we have now many years suffered' – were nominally addressed to the king.
		The Remonstrance was presented to Charles on 1 December.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/M/monarchy/documents/remonstrance_t.html (407 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Grand Remonstrance was a list of grievances presented to King Charles I of England by the English Parliament on December 1, 1641, during the Long Parliament; it helped to foment the English Civil War.
		Although the Remonstrance reflected the mistrust of the King by Parliament it only passed the House of Commons by 11 votes, 159 votes to 148, and helped to create pro-Royal feeling in a number of MPs who had previously opposed many of Charles's policies.
		In particular it accused the despised Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (already executed in May 1641) and Archbishop Laud (imprisoned and finally beheaded 1645) of misleading the King and misrepresenting Parliament, and demanded that the King appoint counselors only with Parliamentary approval.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Grand_Remonstrance (189 words)

	Amazon.com: remonstrance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		[Remonstrance to the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the memorial and remonstrance of the undersigned, citizens of Massachusetts...
		The Debates on the Grand Remonstrance, November and December 1641, with an Introductory Esaay on English Freedom Under Plantagenet and Tudor Sovereigns.
		Remonstrance aux Francois pour les induire a vivre en paix a l'advenir (1576).
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Grand
		grand theory A term coined by C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination (1959) to refer to the form of highly abstract theorizing in which the formal organization and arrangement of concepts takes priority over understanding the social world.
		Grand jury concludes West Palm perceived as a 'pay-to-play city'.
		Grand jury clears officers in death of man in custody.
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	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Grand Remonstrance" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Grand Remonstrance was a list of grievances presented to King Charles I of England by the English Parliament on December 1, 1641, during the Long Parliament.
		Although the Remonstrance reflected the mistrust of the King by Parliament it only passed the House of Commons by 11 votes and helped to create pro-Royal feeling in a number of MPs who had previously opposed many of Charles's policies.
		In particular it accused the despised Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (already executed in May 1641) and Archbishop Laud (imprisoned and finally beheaded 1645) of misleading the King and misrepresenting Parliament.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=grand_%52emonstrance (144 words)

	SparkNotes: Oliver Cromwell: The Rise from Obscurity
		The second important event was the passage of the Grand Remonstrance on November twenty-two, 1641.
		The Grand Remonstrance was a bill which spelled out Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, and its passage was a triumph for Pym, Hampden, and their allies, such as Cromwell.
		The Grand Remonstrance, however, was also the focus of heated and dramatic controversy.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/cromwell/section3.rhtml (786 words)

	Misc - Puritan Revolution, The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 ToC: The Online Library of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		D. The remonstrance and petition of the Peers on the restraint of the Earl of Arundel.
		43. The Grand Remonstrance, with the Petition accompanying it.
		As there was to be no toleration of Nonconformity, the plan of the framers of the Grand Remonstrance was to substitute the general enforcement of their own form of Church government and worship for that which had recently been enforced by the authority of the King and the Bishops.
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	World history and events in 1641 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Charles I must accept the Grand Remonstrance and allow circulation of its copies, a document that outlines the crimes that officials had accused Charles of committing during his reign
		The Grand Remonstrance is passed in Parliament by 11 votes
		The Grand Remonstrance is passed in Parliament by 11 votes, 159 to 148
	www.badley.info /history/1641.year.html (1062 words)

	The Calling of the Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the autumn and winter of 1641 there was prepared what is known as the Grand Remonstrance of the House of Commons.
		In this remonstrance the desire was expressed that there should be "a general Synod of the most grave, pious, learned and judicious divines of this island, assisted by some from foreign parts professing the same religion with us, to consider all things necessary for the peace and good government of the Church."
		In 1642 a declaration of the Parliament of England was sent to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/assemb1.html (2067 words)

	remonstrance remonstrance - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Flushing Remonstrance Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing to Governor Stuyvesant, December 27, 1657
		The Grand Remonstrance 1641 A Remonstrance against King Charles I was first proposed by George Digby, MP for Dorset, soon after the Long Parliament assembled in November 1640.
		SRM1 - Remonstrance addressed to the Attorney General of the State of SRM 1 - This remonstrance is addressed to the Attorney General of Missouri for his disregard of the proper role of his office, for his intrusion in the proper functions of the legislative branch, and
	duodenitis.blog2.theviewblog.com /1143831088.html (789 words)

	Arminian Articles
		The following is one of 2 documents held by the Remonstrants (Arminians) as a statement of their faith in response to "reformed" teaching.
		This document has been condemned as heresy by the reformed churches at the Synod of Dordt, 1618-1619.
		These Articles, thus set forth and taught, the Remonstrants deem agreeable to the Word of God, tending to edification, and, as regards this argument, sufficient for salvation, so that it is not necessary or edifying to rise higher or to descend deeper.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Creeds/ArminianArticles.htm (245 words)

	The Life of a Grand Old Liberal: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		At the July term, they were told the weather was too hot to present the charges against them to the grand jury.
		The grand jury indicted Lucifer on 270 counts of obscenity, which were eventually quashed because neither the judge nor the district attorney could discern a legally intelligible charge in any one of the counts.
		Not to be thwarted, the district attorney procured a new set of indictments, totaling 216 counts in all.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=17 (2529 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of
		Elected (1640) to the Short and Long parliaments, he was at first associated with the opposition to Charles I and helped prepare the impeachment of the earl of Strafford.
		The increasing radicalism of the opposition, however, led him to offer his services to the king, whom he aided by drafting a reply to the Grand Remonstrance.
		After the outbreak of the civil war, Hyde was appointed (1643) chancellor of the exchequer, and he represented (1645) Charles in the unsuccessful Uxbridge negotiations to end the war.
	www.reference.com /browse/columbia/ClarendoE (361 words)

	Grand Remonstrance
		At midnight on November 22nd, 1641 the Grand Remonstrance passed a vote in the Commons by 11 votes (159 - 148).
		The publication of the Remonstrance was initially opposed.
		In December, Charles I made his response...a firm rejection but with a conciliatory tone...probably to try to persuade moderate members of parliament to the Royalist side.
	www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk /ecivil/grand_remonstrance.htm (0 words)

	Taking Sides - Parlement and King
		However, he had reckoned without the intransigence of Pym and other opposition MPs who were reluctant to give Charles command of an army.
		Charles looked to Parliament for supply and soldiers in a time of crisis; what he received was the Grand Remonstrance, a document outlining his alleged religious and political abuses over the preceding decade.
		The Grand Remonstrance represented a direct attack on royal authority and Charles responded by launching an attack on Parliament.
	open2.net /civilwar/3.2.takingsides.html (211 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Voices of the Powerless - 22/08/2002 featuring the Siege of Chester (1645 - 46) during the English Civil ...
		When it was clear that no agreement was going to be found between the King and Parliament some of the Parliamentary leaders drafted 'The Grand Remonstrance' ostensibly a petition from Parliament to the King asking him to get rid of evil counsellors.
		Really it was an appeal to the people and in the debates on whether the Grand Remonstrance should be printed or not swords were first drawn in the House of Commons - so strongly did men feel about the issue.
		Concern about the Grand Remonstrance drove some moderates to the King's side.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/voices/voices_chester.shtml (0 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - -
		The Iranian media is reporting that Grand Ayatollah Lankarani's followers inside the republic of Azerbaijan wrote to him asking for advice about what they called "the apostate writer".
		I thank Ali Eteraz, who is organizing a Muslim remonstrance against Lankarani's fatwa, and to InstaPundit, who linked to Eteraz's work, for the pointers to the Grand Ayatollah's statements.
		The Times then brought the present action seeking a declaratory judgment that phone records of its reporters in the hands of third party telephone providers are shielded from a grand jury subpoena by reporter's privileges protecting the identity of confidential sources arising out of both the common law and the First Amendment.
	volokh.com /archives/archive_2006_11_26-2006_12_02.shtml (0 words)

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