Charles I Tries to Arrest Five Members
January 4, 1642
Charles I marched into the House of Commons with a guard of soldiers to arrest five parliamentary leaders for treason. They had been warned and slipped out the back. The Speaker, William Lenthall, famously knelt and said he had no eyes to see but as the House directed. The king had lost London.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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