Pride's Purge
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Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England.
Colonel Pride refusing admission to the secluded members of the Long Parliament.
Charles I; by 1648, a significant element felt only his death could end the conflict
Sir Thomas Fairfax, commander of the New Model Army
The execution of Charles I, which the Purge made possible
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, was an English statesman, best remembered as one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.
John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare; "a bitter and disappointed father"
Charles attempts to arrest the Five Members, January 1642; a Victorian era re-imagining
Oliver Cromwell c. 1649; hostility towards Cromwell became a key component of Holles' political philosophy