7 Jan 1645: John Lilburne #Leveller turns his guns, in print, on William Prynne, an old ally #otd (eebo/BM)
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Check out Balances Magazine's July Playlist - featuring the destructive 'Leveller' from Row Of Ashes crushing new album, Tide Into Ruin
www.balancesmag.fr/playlists/pl...
#balances #rowofashes #roadtomasochist #leveller #tideintoruin #posthardcore
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Today in #LaborHistory 4/26/1649: England sentenced #leveller Robert Lockier to be shot for #mutiny. Levellers fought for universal suffrage & against monarchy. More radical
#Diggers wanted wanted universal suffrage AND common ownership of the land.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn31...
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I shall own him as a Magistrate, but when he tramples it under his feet, and walkes by the law of his own will, I for my part in such a condition cannot own him for a Magistrate."
-John Lilburne,
Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 5 (1648)
#history
#englishcivilwar
#leveller
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“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things."
-Gerrard Winstanley
#history
#digger
#leveller
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@johngillibrand.bsky.social In Which #Leveller Lilburne More Than Meets His Match 🤣
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7 Jan 1645: John Lilburne #Leveller turns his guns, in print, on William Prynne, an old ally #otd (eebo/BM)
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#OnThisDay 30 October 1648 Colonel Thomas Rainsborough was killed at #Doncaster by 4 cavaliers from Pontefract attempting to take him prisoner. Rainsborough was highest ranking #Leveller, huge loss to that movement. Image from our collection. #17thCentury #OTD #EnglishCivilWar
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#OnThisDay 31 July 1653 the #Leveller Katherine Chidley led a delegation to Parliament to present a petition by 6,000 women protesting at John Lilburne's imprisonment; an MP told them "they being women and many of them wives...the Law took no notice of them." #17thCentury #OTD 🙁
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KILLING NO MURDER 1689 SEXBY & TITUS Allen CROMWELL Assassination TYRANNY Anti-Protectorate pamphlet
#books #antiquarian #17thcentury #history #Cromwell #assassination #Protectorate #tyranny #Leveller #bookauction
bit.ly/49NxI3c
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#OnThisDay 15 January 1652 the #Leveller John Lilburne was found guilty of 'treasonous libel' against Sir Arthur Hesilrige MP, fiercely attacking him over a property dispute. Lilburne was fined and sentenced to banishment for life... but was back a year later! #17thCentury #OTD
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DECLARATION NEW MODEL ARMY 1647 IRETON
"we were not a meer mercenary Army hired to serve any Arbitrary power"
#pamphlet #books #antiquarian #17thcentury #declaration #NewModelArmy #rights #liberties #leveller #EnglishCivilWar #bookauction
bit.ly/46jT8CY
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#OnThisDay 3 November 1647, ‘Agreement of the People’, the seminal document and manifesto of the #Leveller movement was printed and widely distributed for the first time. #17thCentury #EnglishCivilWar #OTD
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#OnThisDay 26 October 1649 John Lilburne, having conducted his own defence, was found not guilty by a jury of high treason and inciting the #Leveller mutinies, to enthusiastic cheers from the crowds in the courtroom and outside. #17thCentury #OTD
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