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John Pym
John Pym was an English parliamentarian who led the opposition to Charles I in the Short and Long Parliaments of 1640. He promoted the Grand Remonstrance of 1641 and was one of the Five Members whom the king tried to arrest in January 1642. A leading investor in the Providence Island Company, he arranged Parliament's alliance with the Scots shortly before his death in 1643.
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