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Pride's purge

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Pride's purge

The removal of about 100 Royalists and Presbyterians of the English House of Commons from Parliament by a detachment of soldiers led by Col Thomas Pride (died 1658) in 1648. They were accused of negotiating with Charles I and were seen by the army as unreliable. The remaining members were termed the Rump and voted in favour of the king's trial.

Pride acted as one of the judges at the trial and also signed the king's death warrant. He opposed the plan to make Cromwell king.



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