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See also:PRIDE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (d. 1658) , parliamentarian See also:general in the See also:English See also:Civil See also:War, is stated to have been brought up by the See also:parish of St See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride's, See also:London. Subsequently he was a drayman and a See also:brewer. At the beginning of the Civil War he served as a See also:captain under the See also:earl of See also:Essex, and was gradually promoted to the See also:rank of See also:colonel. He distinguished himself at the See also:battle of See also:Preston, and with his See also:regiment took See also:part in the military occupation of London in See also:December 1648, which was the first step towards bringing the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to trial. The second was the See also:expulsion of the Presbyterian and Royalist elements in the See also:House of See also:Commons, for which Pride is chiefly remembered. This, resolved by the See also:army See also:council and ordered by the See also:lord general, See also:Fairfax, was carried out by Colonel Pride's regiment. Taking his stand at the entrance of the House of Commons with a written See also:list in his See also:hand, he caused the See also:arrest or exclusion of the See also:obnoxious members, who were pointed out to him. After about a See also:hundred members had been thus dealt with (" Pride's Purge "), the mutilated House of Commons proceeded to bring the king to trial. Pride was one of the See also:judges of the king and signed his See also:death-See also:warrant, appending to his See also:signature a See also:seal showing a coat of arms. He commanded an See also:infantry See also:brigade under See also:Cromwell at See also:Dunbar and See also:Worcester. He took no conspicuous part in See also:Commonwealth politics, except in opposing the proposal to confer the kingly dignity on Cromwell. He was knighted by the See also:Protector in 1656, and was also chosen a member of the new House of Lords. He died at Nonsuch House, an See also:estate which he had bought in See also:Surrey, on the 23rd of See also:October 1658. After the Restoration his See also:body was ordered to be dug up and suspended on the gallows at See also:Tyburn along with those of Cromwell, See also:Ireton and See also:Bradshaw, though it is said that the See also:execution of this See also:sentence was evaded.
See also:Noble, Lives of the Regicides; Bate, Lives of the See also:Prime Actors and See also:Principal Contrivers of the See also:Murder of See also:Charles I.; See also:Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.
End of Article: PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)
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