Long Parliament

in English history, the Puritan Parliament that met November 3, 1640, and carried on the Civil War. December 6, 1648, it was "purged" by the expulsion of the Presbyterian party. It then abolished the House of Lords, and appointed the "High Court of Justice" that tried the king and condemned him to death. Cromwell dissolved its sittings by force of arms in 1653; but it reassembled in 1659 to arrange the recall of Charles II. It dissolved finally in 1660. After "Pride's Purge," it was called the Rump Parliament. See Parliament