单词 | root and branch bill |
释义 | > as lemmasRoot and Branch Bill Root and Branch Bill n. (also with lower-case initials) now historical a bill embodying the proposals of the Root and Branch Petition, brought before Parliament in May 1641.The bill was defeated, but its aims were ultimately achieved under the Ordinance for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops in England and Wales, passed in October 1646. ΚΠ 1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 119 The Bill for Root and Branch (commonly called the Bishops Bill) having long been agitated, and in the Commitment grown from two sheets to above forty.] 1647 Sc. Souldiers Speech conc. Coronation-oath 5 His Majesty..refuseth to consent to the root and branch bills against the Episcopacy. 1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. i. 37/1 The Act for Abolishing the High-Commission-Court..took place in August, 1641; and it was in May before, that the Root and Branch Bill had been brought in. 1873 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 660 Cromwell and Vane pushed forward the Root and Branch bill, a temperate version of the Presbyterian system. 1943 ELH 10 94 Milton begain to write his anti-episcopal tracts about the time that the Root-and-Branch Bill..indicated the rising strength of the opposition to the bishops. 2001 R. Wilcher Writing of Royalism 1628–60 iv. 68 Sir Edward Dering, who had taken a leading part in the attack on Archbishop Laud, had been persuaded..to present the Root and Branch Bill. < as lemmas |
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