Remonstrance to the House of Commons
DISPLAY_TITLE:The Remonstrance to the House of Commons
Document text, 1769
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THE
REMONSTRANCE
TO THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS
To the Honourable the KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, and BURGESSES of GREAT-BRITAIN, in Parliament assembled,
THE Council, and the House of Burgesses, the sole constitutional REPRESENTATIVES of his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the PEOPLE of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, having taken into their most serious Consideration the State of this Colony, with due Deference and Respect to the Wisdom of the Representatives of the Commons of Great-Britain, remonstrate as follows:
It is with equal Grief and Amazement that the Remonstrants have learnt, that they have been represented in Great-Britain as disloyal to their Most Gracious Sovereign, and disaffected to his Government, since,
