William Godwin's Diary

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Remonstrance (19  October  1827) Unable to identify specific title.
WG's History of the Commonwealth (7:291-7) discusses the remonstrance (never published) of one hundred members excluded from Parliament in 1656. He cites the following sources:
Journals [of the House of Commons] (see annotation to WG's diary for 1822-01-27)
Whitlocke [Memorials of English Affairs] ( 1804-07-12)
Echard [History of England…] ( 1815-04-06)
Thurloe [Collection of State Papers] ( 1818-08-26)
WG's History (8:334-56) discusses a different remonstrance, a bill submitted to the Parliament by Sir Christopher Pack in 1657, called The Humble Address and Remonstrance of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses assembled in Parliament (later called the Petition and Advice). WG cites the following materials:
Journals [of the House of Commons] (see annotation to WG's diary for 1822-01-27)
Whitlocke [Memorials of English Affairs] ( 1804-07-12)
Thurloe, Vol. VI [Collection of State Papers] ( 1818-08-26)
Burton's Diary, Vol. I ( 1824-06-16)
WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The British Library holds editions of these materials. Burton would have been at the London Institution.

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