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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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He was among the first Puritans to advocate armed rebellion against King Charles I, to justify Pride's Purge and the execution of the king, and to call for the establishment of a republican system of government in England.
John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual ... by Cogley, Richard W. / Renaissance Quarterly
Ireton was also a key figure in the radicalization of the army during the second Civil War of 1648, which led to Pride's Purge of Parliament and a new, hard-line attitude toward Charles I as demonstrated in Ireton's own manifesto for regicide, The Remonstrance.
Henry Ireton and the English Revolution by Little, Patrick / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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