Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile...

Army, they resolved to shatter the power of both King and Parliament. Pride's Purge brought Parliament to heel under the direct control of the Army; the...

Lincolnshire. However, he was among those MPs excluded from the Commons by Pride's Purge in December 1648, and opposed the Execution of Charles I in January...

after he had been purged several times.[citation needed] The earliest use of the term dates back to the English Civil War's Pride's Purge. In 1648–1650,...

Charles I, and the instigator of Pride's Purge in December 1648. Thomas Pride was born in Ashcott, Somerset, son of William Pride, a local tradesman. His exact...

satisfactory basis for a peace. Two days later Pride's Purge took place. Prynne was arrested by Colonel Thomas Pride and Sir Hardress Waller, and kept prisoner...

the policies of the Tudor and Stuart periods. The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political...

commission when elected MP for Morpeth in 1645. Excluded from Parliament by Pride's Purge in December 1648, he largely avoided politics thereafter but was appointed...

for some time. As a moderate, he was secluded from parliament under Pride's Purge in December 1648. He was re-elected MP for St Albans in Richard Cromwell's...

champion of Independent religious views and its members helped carry out Pride's Purge in December 1648. Unlike their Presbyterian allies, Independents rejected...

the Second English Civil War in June 1648, he was excluded again by Pride's Purge in December and went into exile before being allowed home in 1654. After...

Trial of Charles I led to his exclusion from the Long Parliament by Pride's Purge in December 1648, while his opposition to the king's execution in January...

December 1648, in an event known as Pride's Purge, troops of the New Model Army under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from parliament...

its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge, creating the Rump Parliament. This left many constituencies without...

Parliamentarian cause during the First English Civil War, but was excluded by Pride's Purge in 1648. John Curzon was born 13 November 1598, eldest son of John Curzon...

London's printing and bookselling trade was pivotal to the movement. After Pride's Purge and the execution of Charles I, power lay in the hands of the Grandees...

culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred...

its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge, creating the Rump Parliament. Many who were not officially excluded...

Hertfordshire from 1640 to 1642. Although not specifically excluded under Pride's Purge, he is not recorded as sitting subsequently. Cranborne predeceased his...

of Parliament for Bere Alston in the Long Parliament but following Pride's Purge in 1648, he and other Devon MPs took no part in the proceedings of the...

1648, in an episode that became known as Pride's Purge, a troop of soldiers headed by Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament...

during the Civil War, and a Presbyterian. He resisted Pride's Purge and although not secluded by Pride, he shortly afterwards absented himself for a short...

Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. p. 59. Excluded in Pride's Purge Date of Pride's Purge, which converted the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament...

settlement with Charles I. As a result, he was one of the MPs excluded by Pride's Purge in December 1648 along with his younger brother John Fiennes, and played...

in the Long Parliament. He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge Clinton died in London at the age of 33. Clinton married Lady Anne Holles...

in the execution of King Charles I. He left Parliament in disgust at Pride's Purge in December 1648 and did not return until weeks after the King's execution...

era, Start of Play. According to The Guardian: His most famous study, Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution (1971), is a narrative of the tangle...

Parliamentary cause when civil war broke out, and sat until he was excluded in Pride's Purge. He subsequently represented Northamptonshire in the Parliament of 1659...

radicals such as Oliver Cromwell, and was excluded from Parliament by Pride's Purge in December 1648. He opposed The Protectorate, spending nearly five...

aggravations thereunto." Scot's beliefs about government by consent prior to Pride's Purge are hard to gauge, though from what has survived of his writings and...