Note 227 — Chapter IX
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A declaration of the grievances of the kingdom, and the remedies proposed, dated April 1, may be found in the Parliamentary History, p. 1155. But that work does not notice that it had passed the Commons on Feb. 19, before the king had begun to move towards the north. Commons' Journals. It seems not to have pleased the House of Lords, who postponed its consideration, and was much more grievous to the king than the nineteen propositions themselves. One proposal was to remove all papists from about the queen; that is, to deprive her of the exercise of her religion, guaranteed by her marriage contract. To this objection Pym replied that the House of Commons had only to consider the law of God and the law of the land; that they must resist idolatry, lest they incur the divine wrath, and must see the laws of this kingdom executed; that the public faith is less than that they owe to God, against which no contract can oblige, neither can any bind us against the law of the kingdom. Id. 1162.