Rump Parliament
English parliament 1648–1653 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1648 English parliament. For the 1849 German parliament, see Frankfurt Parliament § Rump parliament and dissolution.
The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride commanded soldiers to purge the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.
"Rump" normally means the hind end or backside of a mammal; its use meaning "remnant" was first recorded in the above context in English in 1649.[lower-alpha 1]