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 630 APPEN.DIX G PRIDE [54] Thomas Pride,(^) Regicide, of Worcester HousejC") Maiden, Surrey. He was " a foundling in a church porch," and is said to have been b. at Ashcott, near Glastonbury. ("=) He had attained the rank of Major in the Pari, army in 1644; was Lieut. Col. of Foot, in the " New Model," i645;('^) fought at Naseby, 14 June 1645, ^"'^ ^^ the storming of Bristol, 10 Sep. 1645; ^'''^ I'^g'^- served under Cromwell in the Welsh campaign, and at the battle of Preston, 17 Aug. 1648. Acting on orders from Gen. Fairfax, he set a guard upon the House of Commons, 6 Dec. 1648, pre- vented ninety-six members from entering, and arrested forty-five others. (') He was one of the Judges app. for the King's trial, 6 Jan. 1648/9, attended every sitting but one, and signed the death-warrant. Knighted at Whitehall, by the Lord Protector, 17 Jan. 1655/6.0 M.P. for Reigate 2 Sep. 1656, being Sheriff of Surrey the same year. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as (") The arms he used — vix.. Gules a cheveron between three lions' heads razed Silver with two serpents upon the cheveron — are similar (but with different colours) to those quartered by Ketelby of Stepie, Salop, at the Visitation of 1623, in right of a remote ancestor who ni. Margaret, da. and h. of Richard Pryde. He probably had no right to these arms, but they appear on his seal affixed to the death-warrant, and they were depicted (impaling Monck of Potheridge) on the escutcheons supplied by the Heralds for the funeral of his da.-in-law, Elizabeth Pride, 25 Feb. 1691/2. {Ex inform. H. Farnham Burke, Norroy). (*>) The Great Park of Nonsuch, with the mansion called Worcester House (which stood in the Great Park), were purchased from the Pari, by Col. Pride in, or shortly after, 1650. The House and Park were then valued at _^550/ii'r aw?;. The estate formed part of the jointure of Queen Henrietta Maria, and was restored to her 23 June 1660. (Lysons' Environs, vol. i, p. 334; and Commons^ "JournaU, vol. viii, p. 73). (•=) In a royalist News-letter, dated 3 Sep. 1649, ^^ '^ described as "a Beggar, borne in a Village called Ashcot, three miles from Glastenbury in the Countie of Sommerset ; hee kept for divers yeares together a heard of Swine for one Trye in that Parish ; his Dame is yet living and her name Philippa Trye." {Mercurius Elencticus, Thomason Tracts, No. 19, p. 147). He is also said to have been h. at Haverford- west, CO. Pembroke. {Eng. Hist. Review, 1892, p. 718). C^) " Colonel Pride, as colonel of foot, ;r635 per annum, besides other advantages; and hath also great advantage by brewing for the state ; one of the simple and new made knights, and his daughter married to the protector's nephew." {Harl. Misc., p. 405). George Bate, writing in 1661, states that Pride was "a Servant to Mr. Hiccocks a Brewer in Southwark now living in the Bridg-house in S. Tulyes Street." (') Ludlow writes: "Col. Pride commanded the guard that attended at the Parliament-doors, having a list of those members who were to be excluded, prevent- ing them from entring into the House, and securing some of the most suspected." {Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 2io). This high-handed proceeding was commonly known as "Pride's Purge." "Col. Pride, whom Cromwel had knighted with a faggot-stick." (Ludlow's Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 25).