Exclusion of Members Obnoxious to the Army from the House of Commons - c.1648 - by G. Cattermole. The expulsion of the Presbyterian and Royalist elements in the House of Commons, who were thought to be prepared to reach a settlement with Charles, was resolved by the army council and ordered by the lord general, Fairfax, and carried out by Colonel Pride's regiment. Taking his stand at the entrance of the House of Commons with a written list in his hand, he caused the arrest or exclusion of the members, who were pointed out to him. After about a hundred members had been thus dealt with (Pride's Purge), the mutilated House of Commons, now reduced to about eighty in number, proceeded to bring King Charles to trial. 固opFoto