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chap. Scotland, and who had now, at last, excited anl,v. open and bloody rebellion in IrelandM4i, This remonstrance , so full of acrimony andviolence , was a plain signal for some fartherattacks intended on royal prerogative , and adeclaration, that the concessions, already made,however important, were not to be regarded assatisfactory. What pretensions would be advanced,how unprecedented, how unlimited , were easilyimagined ; and nothing less was foreseen, whateverancient names might be preserved , than an aboli-tion, almost total, of the monarchical governmentof England. The opposition, therefore , whichthe remonstrance met with in the house of com-mons, was great. For above fourteen hours , thedebate was warmly managed; and from theweariness of the king’s party, which probablyconsisted chiefly of the elderly people, and menof cool spirits, the vote was at last carried by asad Not. small majority of eleven 5 \ Some time after , theremonstrance was ordered to be printed andpublished, without being carried up to the houseof peers, for their assent and concurrence.

Unisons on When this remonstrance was dispersed, it ex-k«Ui sides. c jted every-where the fame violent controversy,which attended it when introduced into thehouse of commons. This parliament, said thepartisans of that assembly, have at length profitedby the fatal example of their predecessors; and

° Rufhworth, vol. v. p. 4 j g. Nelson , vol. ii. p. 694.

-*•* Whitlogke, p. 49.Dugdale,f>. 7 l. Nelson, vol. ii. p. 668-