Rump Parliament
Rump Parliament the part of the Long Parliament which continued to sit after Pride's Purge in 1648, and voted for the trial which resulted in the execution of Charles I. Dissolved by Oliver Cromwell in 1653, the Rump Parliament was briefly reconvened in 1659 but voted its own dissolution early in 1660.
The origin of the name is uncertain; it is said to derive from The Bloody Rump, the name of a paper written before the trial, the word being popularized after a speech by Major General Brown, given at a public assembly; it is alternatively said to have been coined by Clem Walker in his History of Independency (1648), as a term for those strenuously opposing the king.
The origin of the name is uncertain; it is said to derive from The Bloody Rump, the name of a paper written before the trial, the word being popularized after a speech by Major General Brown, given at a public assembly; it is alternatively said to have been coined by Clem Walker in his History of Independency (1648), as a term for those strenuously opposing the king.
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