Pride's Purge

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noun

English History.

1. the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Colonel Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.

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Pride's Purge

Indeed it was the very night before Pride's Purge.

From St George's Cross by H. G. (Henry George) Keene

He conducted the pursuit of the Royalists after the battle of Worcester, and, continuing to represent the extreme military party, was a party to Pride's Purge.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen

Cromwell, by his approval of Pride's Purge, was an accomplice after the fact.

From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

Pride’s Purge, a violent invasion of parliamentary rights by Colonel Pride, in 1649.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Do you mean to say," he demanded, "that you and I, for I suppose you count on my assistance, are to enact a kind of Pride's Purge of our own?

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston