英语词汇“root and branch petition”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Root and Branch Petition n. (also with lower-case initials) historical a petition presented to Parliament on 11 December 1640, calling for the abolition of the episcopal government of the Church of England.The petition was entitled ‘The First and Large Petition of the Citie of London and other Inhabitants thereabouts’. It was subsequently known as the ‘Root and Branch Petition’ from its wording; see the note and quot. 1640¹ at sense A.

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1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. viii. 411 The petitions against the Hierarchy were of two Sorts; some desiring that the whole Fabrick might be destroyed; of these, the Chief was the Root and Branch Petition.

1856 Q. Rev. June 149 ‘The root and branch petition’..was signed by 15,000 persons, many of them Anabaptists and Brownists.

1907 F. C. Montague Hist. Eng. from Accession James I. to Restoration xi. 243 Since the presenting of the root and branch petition in December, other petitions for reform in the Church had crowded upon the commons.

1994 F. J. Bremer Congregational Communion vi. 130 While debate over the Root and Branch Petition continued into the summer of 1641, pressure from the Puritan provinces mounted.

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