A shorter history of England and greater Britain . he need of recruiting a large army to deal with the situation, but theleaders feared to trust unreservedly any considerable force to the King,because it would give him just the weapon he needed to recover thepower which he had been obliged to yield. So Pym carried a motionthat Charles should either employ such Councilors and Ministers asshould be approved by his Parliament or Parliament would raise anarmy subject to its own control, and as a means of appealing to thepeople in a more detailed and formal manner than they had yet done,he and his
A shorter history of England and greater Britain . he need of recruiting a large army to deal with the situation, but theleaders feared to trust unreservedly any considerable force to the King,because it would give him just the weapon he needed to recover thepower which he had been obliged to yield. So Pym carried a motionthat Charles should either employ such Councilors and Ministers asshould be approved by his Parliament or Parliament would raise anarmy subject to its own control, and as a means of appealing to thepeople in a more detailed and formal manner than they had yet done,he and his followers pushed through the celebrated Grand Remon-strance. The Grand Remonstrance (1641).—During the first week afterthe opening of the Long Parliament a motion had been introduced todraw up such a remonstrance to the King as should be a faithfuland lively representation of the state of the kingdom. It was August,however, before the proposal was adopted, and the discussion mighthave dragged on interminably if the Rebellion had not brought the. IREIiAND SINCE THEACCESSION OF THE STUARTS SCALE OF ENGLISH MILES0 20 40 CO 80 100 West 7 from 6 Greenwich 5 &Ct).lENafi8, FROM LONG PARLIAMENT TO OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR 325 matter to a head. The Remonstrance finally passed the Commons,22 November, and was shortly after presented to the King and addressed to the Crown, the Grand Remonstrance was, inreality as well as in intention, an appeal to the nation, a statementof the case of the Commons against the King. It consists of a pre-amble and 204 clauses, which trace in considerable detail the Kingsmisgovernment, from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parlia-ment ; describe the abuses which the Commons had abolished sincethe opening of the session, the reforms which they had prepared andeffected and the obstacles they had met with; explain and defendthe scheme of the Church reform of the parliamentary leaders; andoutline the other remedial measures demanded
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