Thomas Pride

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(born , Somerset?, Eng. — died Oct. 23, 1658, Worcester House, Surrey) English soldier. Joining the Parliamentary army in the English Civil Wars, he commanded a regiment in the Battle of Naseby (1645), then served with Oliver Cromwell and helped rout the invading Scots at Preston (1648). When the army, dominated by the Independents, occupied London later that year, Pride arrested or expelled about 140 Presbyterian members from the House of Commons ("Pride's Purge"). He was a member of the commission that tried King Charles I.

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Pride's Purge was a military coup by Fairfax's army, organized by Commissary-General Ireton and executed on 6-7 December 1648 by Colonel Thomas Pride. Its purpose was to prevent the conclusion of the so-called treaty of Newport between the Long Parliament and Charles I. Ireton had intended to dissolve the Parliament, but was persuaded by friendly members to purge it instead. Pride prevented 231 known supporters of the treaty from entering the House. What was left became known as the Rump.

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Pride, Thomas, d. 1658, English parliamentary soldier in the English civil war. In Dec., 1648, acting on the orders of the army council, he carried out Pride's Purge, expelling from Parliament 143 members (mostly Presbyterians) on the ground that they were royalist sympathizers. The remaining Rump Parliament, completely under army control, then arranged the trial of Charles I. Pride, as a member of the court that condemned him, signed the king's death warrant.

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Died 1658.

English Parliamentarian who led a regiment to Parliament and expelled Presbyterian and Royalist members who opposed the condemnation of Charles I (1648). He was a signatory of Charles's death warrant.

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