Pride's Purge

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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

This measure, dictated by a council of officers, was called Pride's Purge.

From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher

He was one of the members expelled by Pride's Purge in 1648, and died on the 18th of April 1650.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

For a fortnight after Pride's Purge, the two Houses, reduced now to such dimensions as might suit the Army's purpose, went on transacting various business.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

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

On the occasion of Pride’s Purge on the 6th of December Holles absented himself and escaped again to France.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

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