OCR GCSE History A · J410
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The reduced Parliament left after Pride’s Purge, which authorised Charles I’s trial and execution and the creation of a republic.
Revise: The Army, Parliament and the Execution of Charles IThe reduced body became known as the Rump Parliament: it was what remained of the Long Parliament, not a newly elected assembly.
- Revise: Cromwell and the Parliaments (1649–1658)
The remaining members of the Long Parliament’s House of Commons after the army excluded many MPs in December 1648. It governed the Commonwealth after the abolition of monarchy in 1649.
- Revise: The Collapse of the Republic and the Restoration of 1660