King Charles I ended two years of uneasy peace with his Parliament by bursting into the Commons with a heavily-armed tactical unit.

A much-travelled Spanish visitor amazes an English audience with his tales of wonder overseas, until he is brought up short by his servant.

The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.

The first battle of the English Civil War was a cautious affair, but rumours persisted that it went on long after it had finished.

Young Montague Bertie, Lord Willougby, tended his dying father behind enemy lines.