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

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

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

Explain: "Rump Parliament"; "Pride's Purge"; the "New Model"; the "Ironsides"; "Cavalier"; and "Roundhead."

From Early European History by Hutton Webster

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

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

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