Levellers

It was while the leaders of the Levellers were being held in the Tower that they wrote an outline of the reforms the Levellers wanted, in a pamphlet entitled "An Agreement Of The Free People Of England" (written on May 1, 1649).

The Army commanders Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell were worried by the strength of support for Levellers in the Army, so they decided to impose "The Heads of the Proposals" as the army's manifesto instead of the Levellers' "Agreement of the People".

The Levellers have been seen as having undemocratic tendencies by some as they excluded household servants and those dependent upon charitable handouts from suffrage as Levellers feared that poor, dependent men would simply vote as their masters wished.

A popular music and camping festival will be rocking back into town over the upcoming bank holiday weekend with a line-up including Jethro Tull, Hawkwind and Levellers.

But then Benn veered between sentimentality – he had a romantic view of such early Christian radicals as the 17th-century Levellers – and a degree of solemn self-belief which didn't allow for someone taking the mickey.

According to Brewer, acephalites were also a sect of Levellers during the reign of Henry I of England who acknowledged no leader.

After their arrest and imprisonment in 1649, four of the "Leveller" leaders – Walwyn, Overton, Lilburne and Thomas Prince – signed a manifesto in which they called themselves Levellers.

British folk-punk icons the Levellers also regularly use the mandolin in their songs.

British Library Thomason Collection E413(15) Political ambitions The Levellers' agenda developed in tandem with growing dissent within the New Model Army in the wake of the First Civil War.

Establishes the deep affinity from Hobbes to Harrington, the Levellers, and Locke through to nineteenth-century utilitarianism.

He argued that a person must have a "permanent interest of this kingdom" to be entitled to vote, and that "permanent interest" means owning property, which is where he and the Levellers disagreed.

In 2009, the band began occasionally featuring Jon Sevink, from The Levellers as guest violinist at some shows.

In April, 300 infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson 's regiment, who declared that they would not serve in Ireland until the Levellers' programme had been realised, were cashiered without arrears of pay.

It was the campaigns to free Lilburne from prison that spawned the movement known as the Levellers.

Levellers tended to hold fast to a notion of " natural rights " that had been violated by the King's side in the Civil Wars (1642–1651).

Of these, five were later pardoned, while Robert Lockyer (or Lockier), a former Levellers agitator, was hanged on April 27, 1649.

See The Levellers: The Putney Debates, Texts selected and annotated by Philip Baker, Introduction by Geoffrey Robertson QC.

The Levellers, along with all other opposition groups, were marginalised by those in power and their influence waned.

They were organised at the national level, with offices in a number of London inns and taverns such as The Rosemary Branch in Islington, which got its name from the sprigs of rosemary that Levellers wore in their hats as a sign of identification.

This destroyed the Levellers' support base in the New Model Army, which by then was the major power in the land.