3744612 John Pym reading out a letter in the House of Commons; Colonel Thomas Lunsford and his soldiers attacking Londoners, 1642 (etching) by Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-77); Private Collection; (add.info.: From Chronicle of the Civil War John Pym (1584-1643) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and one of the five whose attempted arrest by King Charles I in the House of Commons in 1642 sparked the Civil War Colonel Thomas Lunsford (c.1611-56) protected the king at Westminster Hall, attacking the protestors.).