| 单词 | humble petition and advice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHumble Petition and Advice Petition and Advice n. (also more fully Humble Petition and Advice) the remonstrance presented by Parliament to Cromwell on 4 April 1657, which offered him the crown and proposed a constitutional basis for his position as head of the Commonwealth. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [noun] > specific instance of Petition and Advice1657 1657 (title) The humble Petition and Advice presented unto his Highness the Lord Protector..at the Parliament begun..September 1656. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 168 I shall not say the Petition and Advice was unduly, but unseasonably and importunately obtained. 1724 I. Kimber Life O. Cromwell iii. vi. 308 (heading) His being Confirm'd Protector, by the humble Petition and Advice. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 115 The fundamental charter of the English commonwealth under..Cromwell..was now changed to the petition and advice. 1884 C. H. Firth in J. M. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. 818/1 On the whole the Petition and Advice established a far more workable distribution of political power than the instrument of government. 1913 J. Willcock Life Sir H. Vane xvi. 275 About half the members of the Commons were Protectorists or supporters of the constitution prescribed in The Petition and Advice. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 79/2 Though he was opposed to the offer of the Crown to Cromwell..he came round in support of the revised draft of the Humble Petition and Advice. < as lemmas |
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