Attempted MP arrest
4 Jan '42 - Charles makes grave error, warrants arrest of 5 SMPs
Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Hesilrige, William Strode; suspected them of stirring up mobs, comm'in with SCs
Speaker of the House knelt before king, refused to speak -
SMPs already left before he arrived; prev. royalist PR methods
wasted, mobs start up again, fears safety & flees London