Assess the validity of the view that the Rump and Barebones parliaments had no real achievements to their credit.
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Have a little read: ... Assess the validity of the view that the Rump and Barebones parliaments had no real achievements to their credit. The Rump parliament was created when Colonel Pride had carried out his purge of the Long Parliament in December 1648 on the orders of the General Council of the Army. Two hundred and eleven MPs from the Long Parliament survived but the plain fact existed that "the Rump existed as the result of a military purge .....(And) what it can do, it can undo" (Lynch). This meant that the Rump hinged on the army, as shown when in the summer of 1649 a vote on whether to introduce the controversial Presbyterianism was "in the face of a hostile army scrapped"(Hutton) by one vote. This concept had obvious effects on the rule of the Rump and its strength, which I shall investigate later. However, the very idea that the army, on the 20th 1653, "destroyed
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