Pride's Purge
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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
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
As this meant the exclusion of the members shut out by Pride's Purge in 1648 it gave rise to much dissatisfaction, and Monk was appealed to.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Cromwell, by his approval of Pride's Purge, was an accomplice after the fact.
From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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