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The Pride's Purge ( Pride's Purge of Parliament ) is an event of the time of the English bourgeois revolution , during which troops under the command of Col. Thomas Pride were expelled from the House of Commons Presbyterians who opposed the Independents . Pride Purge was, in essence, a coup d'état , as a result of which the power in England passed to the Independents.

In 1648, King Charles I was captured, and the fighting virtually ceased. The long parliament developed a number of conditions on which the king restored on a throne could rule. Levellers and the army filed petitions with protests against the desire to find a compromise and with the demands of the trial of Charles, which parliament rejected. The king’s answers to the demands of the parliament were far from what the parliamentarians had hoped for. Nevertheless, on December 5, 1648, they were declared acceptable (129 votes for, 83 against).

Colonel Pride is blocking the way for Presbyterian parliamentarians. Engraving

On Wednesday, December 6, the infantry regiment of Colonel Pride took the stairs leading to the chamber of the House of Commons, and Nathaniel Rich's cavalry regiment was ready to come to the rescue. Pride personally stood at the top of the stairs and checked the arriving members of the House of Commons on the list that was issued to him; Lord Thomas Gray helped him in this. Of the 489 members of parliament, 18 were absent at that moment, 45 people were expelled and arrested, 186 were expelled, but left at liberty. 86 people were absent voluntarily. 83 members of parliament were allowed to enter parliament only after the official refusal to vote to accept the terms of the king. Another 71 people were originally supporters of the coup.

Most of those arrested were released from 12 to 20 December.

In the cleared parliament, called “ crap ”, the dominants were independent , who sought to establish a republic . On January 4, 1649, the House of Commons passed a ruling on the trial of the king; the House of Lords rejected him. Then the House of Commons passed an act of this, on January 6, the Supreme Court was established to deal with the king’s case, and the king was executed on January 30th. On February 6, the House of Lords was dissolved, the monarchy was abolished on February 7, and on February 14 the Council of State was created.