Pride's Purge of 1648

(noun)

An event that took place in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops of the New Model Army under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents. It is arguably the only military coup d'état in English history.

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Examples of Pride's Purge of 1648 in the following topics:

  • Restoration of the Stuarts

    • On May 7, a Committee of Safety was formed on the authority of the Rump Parliament, displacing the Protector's Council of State, and was in turn replaced by a new Council of State on May 19.
    • Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State, and one of the seven commissioners for the army.
    • The Presbyterian members, excluded in Pride's Purge of 1648, were recalled, and on December 24 the army restored the Long Parliament.
    • Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Judge Thomas Pride, and Judge John Bradshaw were posthumously attained for high treason.
    • Charles II of England by Peter Lely, 1675, Collection of Euston Hall, Suffolk

  • Uniform plant loading, flexible resources, and line/cellular flow layouts

    • The successful practice of JIT means having the right quantities of the right products in the right place at the right time.
    • The enemy of JIT is uncertainty.
    • Any car can be painted any color without having to purge hoses in switching from one color to another.
    • Workers tend to have specialized skills, work independently of other departments, and have little sense of "ownership" of the products they work on.
    • Workers in a cell environment tend to have a greater sense of ownership and pride in their work because they have a "big picture" view of the product as it is converted from raw material to a finished good.