biography
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| lived:
| (?–1658)
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| biography:
| English parliamentarian during the Civil War, born (possibly) near Glastonbury, Somerset, SW England, UK. Little is known of his early life. He commanded a regiment at Naseby (1645), and served in Scotland. When the House of Commons indicated it might effect a settlement with Charles I, he was appointed by the army (1648) to expel its Presbyterian Royalist members (Pride's Purge). He sat among the king's judges, and signed the death warrant. He was knighted by Cromwell in 1656. |
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