Pride's Purge

Pride 's Purge to German Pride's Purge, an event during the time of the Commonwealth of England, by force when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride in the House was all those removed from the Parliament that did not support the senior leadership of the Army and the Independents. It is often referred to as the first and only military coup in the history of England.

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1648 was over the English Civil War and Charles I in captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. Named for its period of existence Long Parliament presented a series of demands to the future government of the kingdom and sent negotiators to the king to negotiate on these matters. The army, which was especially committed to the revolution, however, filed an opposition in the form of a Remonstrance, which was rejected by 125 to 58 by the Parliament. As the negotiators with the answer of the king, who was been much shorter than expected, came back, Parliament declared thus agree on the morning of December 5, 1648 at 129 to 83 votes.

On Wednesday, December 6, 1648, Colonel Pride took with his Regiment of Foot at the lower entrance to the Houses of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster assembly, supported by the cavalry regiment Nathaniel Rich's. Pride itself was at the top of the stairs. As parliamentarians appeared, he checked it against a list that had been handed to him by Lord Grey of Groby, an army leader and Member for Leicester. Of the 489 elected parliamentarians were absent before the expulsion already 18 permanent, 45 were excluded and imprisoned by Parliament, 186 were excluded from Parliament, but not detained, 86 were not excluded, but remained the Parliament henceforth voluntarily refrained, 83 was the return allowed in the Parliament, after they voted against formally adopting the royal proposals and 71 were from the beginning of the trailer army.

The imprisoned members of Parliament were first brought to the premises of the Queen's Court in the Parliament building and then into a nearby pub. There was next to the palace three pubs ( hell) called themselves Heaven ( sky), Purgatory ( Purgatory ) and Hell. The detained members were brought into the Light called home, where they spent the night. The next day they were placed in two pubs on the beach. On 12 December, it was the first imprisoned parliamentarians allowed to return home. Many more were released on 20 December.

The cleaned Parliament, which now got the nickname rump parliament, now had a majority on its own, the establishment of a republic sought or in any doubt about the path taken by the numerous presence of the army could be suppressed either. On January 4, 1649, it adopted a draft law to the king, who had meanwhile been brought to a resolution of the army leadership to Windsor to face treason trial, which was rejected by the House of Lords. It then adopted on January 6, the law on its own and the King was sentenced to death after a one-week trial and beheaded on 30 January 1649. On 6 February, the House of Lords was abolished. The monarchy went the same way on February 7, and a Council of State was established on 14 February 1649.

The clean-up of Pride was undone on 21 February 1660 included the excluded members in preparation for the Stuart restoration back to the Parliament.

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Pride's Purge

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