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[email protected]. 33760-ylh_25-2 Sheet No. 4 Side A 07/10/2013 12:28:45 CHAFETZ 7/5/2013 12:38 PM Articles “In the Time of a Woman, Which Sex Was Not Capable of Mature Deliberation”: Late Tudor Parliamentary Relations and Their Early Stuart Discontents Josh Chafetz* 33760-ylh_25-2 Sheet No. 4 Side A 07/10/2013 12:28:45 INTRODUCTION It is one of the most well-known incidents in English constitutional history. On December 1, 1641, the increasingly restive House of Commons presented Charles I with the so-called Grand Remonstrance, a list of 206 enumerated grievances, encompassing the entirety of his reign to date.1 The King was not amused.