Charles I tries to arrest the Five Members
1642 · Event
The king marches into the House of Commons with four hundred swordsmen to seize five opposition MPs — and finds them already fled downriver. 'I see the birds are flown.' No monarch has entered the Commons since; within weeks Charles abandons London to raise an army.
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