Why did Charles I attempt and (fail) to arrest the Five Members of Parliament?

Arrest of the Five Members
  Tudors and Stuarts

On the 4th January 1642, Charles I attempted and failed to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War and his own eventual execution for treason.

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