Pride's Purge
Pronunciation: /prʌɪdz/
Definition of Pride's Purge
- the exclusion or arrest of about 140 members of parliament likely to vote against a trial of the captive Charles I by soldiers under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride (d.1658) in December 1648. Following the purge, the remaining members, known as the Rump Parliament, voted for the trial which resulted in Charles’s execution.
