THE ULTIMATE
On this day, 20th April 1653, Oliver Cromwell, dismissed the 'Rump Parliament', beginning his move towards rule over England.
The 'Rump Parliament', was the remaining members of Parliament, who were prepared to try and execute the King in 1649, after Colonel Thomas Pride had purged it of those members who would not agree to such a move. Cromwell became impatient with Parliament as having got rid of the monarchy, it wasn't dissolving itself and forming a new constitution (set of rules for governming a country). On this day in 1653 Cromwell listened to the speeches, got up made a speech of his own criticising the Parliament, picked up the Speaker's Mace tossing it aside calling it a 'Fool's Bauble', and then got soldiers to turf out the Members of Parliament and locked the doors! Here we see Oliver Cromwell, acting just like King Charles I in dismissing a Parliament he did not like - exactly the behaviour he had criticised before the English Civil War!
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