Charles I entered the House of Commons on 4 January 1642 with armed guards to arrest five members of Parliament for treason. The members had fled and the king famously found the birds flown. The constitutional outrage of a monarch entering the Commons with soldiers triggered mass London demonstrations, driven the king from London, and made civil war a matter of when rather than if.
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