...skill, for they had had much practice in stating their constitutional position, the burgesses adopted a petition to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons. Calmly and plainly the burgesses told the Commons that they were equal legislatures,...

...For example, the Octoher 1764 session of the House of Burgesses dispatched an address to George IIl, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons protesting the Stamp Act hill hefore Parliament at the time, claiming that colonials...

...the House's most respected members had been appointed by Speaker John Robinson to compose an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the Commons protesting the tax now under discussion in London. The language and points in the documents...

...they were unanimously confirmed. A committee of twelve, including Bland and Archibald Cary, prepared a Petition to the King, a Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted. On...

...Massachusetts petition, and gave the preference to the petition from New York. An address from Rhode Island to the king, a memorial to the house of lords, and a remonstrance to the house of commons, were published not long after, conceived in a still higher strain than the address...

...Wythe, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph. They reported an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons. These papers, of which the first two were written by Lee, denied, in clear and decided...