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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 as unreliable by the army.
The remaining members were termed the Rump
and voted in favour of the king's trial.
Pride (a former London drayman or brewer who
rose to be a colonel in the Parliamentary
army) 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. 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.