part of the foot were ranged in the Court of Requests, upon the stairs, and in the lobby leading to the house of commons. Colonel Pride was stationed near the door, with a list in his hand of the persons he was commissioned to arrest; and sometimes one of the door-keepers, and at others Lord Grey of Groby, pointed them out to him, as they came up with an intention of passing into the house. Forty-one members were thus arrested. ... On the following day more members were secured, or denied entrance, amounting, with those of the day before, to about one hundred. At the same time Cromwell took his seat; and Henry Marten moved that the speaker should return him thanks for his great and eminent services performed in the course of the campaign. The day after, the two houses adjourned to the 12th. During the adjournment many of the members who had been taken into custody by the military were liberated. ... Besides those who were absolutely secured, or shut out from their seats by the power of the army, there were other members that looked with dislike on the present proceedings, or that considered parliament as being under force, and not free in their deliberations, who voluntarily abstained from being present at their sittings and debates." _W. Godwin, History of the Commonwealth, book 2, chapters 23-24 (volume 2)._ "The famous Pride's Purge was accomplished. By military force the Long Parliament was cut down to a fraction of its number, and the career begins of the mighty 'Rump,' so called in the coarse wit of the time because it was 'the sitting part.'" _J. K. Hosmer, Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, chapter 13._ "This name [the Rump] was first given to them by Walker, the author of the History of Independency, by way of derision, in allusion to a fowl all devoured but the rump." _D. Neal, History of the Puritans, volume 4, chapter 1, foot-note._ ALSO IN: _C. R Markham, Life of the Great Lord Fairfax, chapter 28._ _D. Masson, Life of John Milton, book 4, chapters 1 and 3 (volume 3)._ ENGLAND: A. D. 1649 (JANUARY). The trial and execution of the King.