Pride's Purge, the name given to a violent exclusion, in 1649, at the hands of a body of troops commanded by Colonel Pride of about a hundred members of the House of Commons disposed to deal leniently with the king, after which some eighty, known as the Rump, were left to deal with his Majesty and bring him to justice.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Prideaux, Humphrey * Priessnitz