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Straˈffordians, n. pl. Hist.
[-ian.]
A name applied to the fifty-nine members of the House of Commons who voted against the bill for the attainder of Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford.
1641Whitelocke Mem. 2 May, This multitude..posted up at Westminster the names of all those members of the house of commons who had voted for the earl, and called them Straffordians. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §141. 1906 Cambr. Mod. Hist. IV. ix. 289. |