Pride's Purge
December 6, 1648
Colonel Thomas Pride, backed by a regiment of musketeers, stood at the door of the English House of Commons and arrested or turned away over a hundred members who opposed the trial of Charles I. The remnant, nicknamed the Rump, voted to try the king. Parliament had become a military instrument.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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