Talk:Rump Parliament

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Lead section

The lead section should provide relevant links to the context, for example English Civil War. Piet 08:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

The reason why the term "Rump = Back of Animal" is used is because the "Head = Front of Animal" was secluded by Pride. That is, all the wealthiest Royalist Cavaliers, Catholics and High Anglicans that they were, were secluded by Pride, leaving only the lowly Protestant MPs behind. Hence, after the Long Parliament was "beheaded", only the "rump" remained.