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In 1640, the Long Parliament limited the absolute power of the monarch and freed Prynne, and he was even elected to Parliament himself in 1648.  But in December 1648 the English army (led by the Puritan Colonel Thomas Pride) led a coup that excluded more than 100 members of Parliament who sought to settle with Charles I, including the Puritan Prynne, from the House of Commons.  That was known as "Pride's Purge."  A "rump" Parliament then assembled without these excluded members, and ordered the execution of Charles I.

In 1640, the Long Parliament limited the absolute power of the monarch and freed Prynne, and he was even elected to Parliament himself in 1648.  But in December 1648 the English army (led by the Puritan Colonel Thomas Pride) led a coup that excluded more than 100 members of Parliament who sought to settle with Charles I, including the Puritan Prynne, from the House of Commons.  That was known as "Pride's Purge."  A "rump" Parliament then assembled without these excluded members, and ordered the execution of Charles I.

[[category:Puritans]]

[[category:Puritans]]

[[Category:English Civil War]]

[[Category:English Civil War]]