The End Of The Rump

• The Rump was never intended to be permanent.
• However by 1652 it had done little to promote political reform or to create a new government body.
• Many army officers were becoming restless and in August 1652 wanted to move against the them.
• Cromwell persuaded the restless army officers to wait.
• In Spring 1653 the Rump made provisions for new elections and a new Parliament.
• The transfer of power was planned for November.
• New distribution of seats and a franchise were in the process of being drawn up
• Yet on 20th April 1653 Cromwell marched into Parliament and with 30 musketeers and forcibly closed it down.
• It is unknown why definitively as Cromwell destroyed the only copy of the bill