The Five Members were Members of Parliament whom King Charles I attempted to arrest on 4 January 1642. King Charles I entered the English House of Commons, accompanied by armed soldiers, during a sitt
Lenthall kneels to Charles during the attempted arrest of the Five Members. Victorian painting by Charles West Cope
The Flight of the Five Members, 1642, showing the Five Members fleeing Westminster by boat to the City. (John Seymour Lucas, 1915)