REMONSTRANCE, THE

REMONSTRANCE, THE
   the name given to a list of abuses of royal power laid to the charge of Charles I. and drawn up by the House of Commons in 1641, and which with the petition that accompanied it contributed to bring matters to a crisis.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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