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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.
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