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John Lilburne
Lilburne, John
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Lilburne, John (1615–57). Leveller leader. Of minor Durham gentry stock, he was apprenticed to a London clothier. In 1638 he was hauled before
Star Chamber, flogged, pilloried, and imprisoned for distributing illegal anti-episcopal literature.
Cromwell secured his release in 1640, and he rose to lieutenant-colonel in Cromwell's Eastern Association cavalry, but left the service in 1645. Thenceforth he was in and out of prison, offending both Lords and Commons with his voluminous, unlicensed pamphlets and his claims for the rights of free-born Englishmen. Combative, indomitable, and self-dramatizing, he was the leading spirit of the
Leveller movement from 1647 onward, and broke with Cromwell. In 1649 he denounced the newly established
Commonwealth in
Englands New Chains Discovered, fostered a serious army mutiny, and publicly demanded Cromwell's impeachment. A London jury acquitted him of treason, but the
Rump banished him in December 1651. He returned without leave in 1653 to a life of captivity, which was eased latterly. He died a quaker.
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A Devil of a coincidence; (1) FAMILY TIES: Tom Goodman-Hill plays John Lilburne, inset, in The Devil's Whore (2) TEEN SPIRIT: Andrea Riseborough as the fictional 17-year-old aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 11/16/2008; 700+ words
; ...firebrand activist 'Freeborn' John Lilburne, and will now be able to tell...trace my father's family back to John Lilburne's Uncle Joseph.' Born in 1614, John Lilburne earned his nickname for arguing...
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Echo memories - Cantankerous, seditious, libellous (and proved right)
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 3/25/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...look at the life and times of John Lilburne, a man who had a talent for upsetting...the world was emptied of all but John Lilburne, Lilburne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilburne, " said a contemporary. John...
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Does immunity granted really equal immunity received?
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...in 1637.(11) In that year, John Lilburne was arrested for "having sent...from Holland to England."(12) Lilburne was taken before a clerk of the...background and current actions.(13) Lilburne eventually refused to answer further...
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"Whatsoever yee would that men should doe unto you, even so doe yee to them": an analysis of the effect of religious consciousness on the origins of the leveller movement.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Oxfordshire (1) Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne returned to England in 1653...to record the thing that he [Lilburne] died for, and to hang upon...know, and understand, that John Lilburne died for the Fundamental Laws...
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Echo Memories - Radical hothead whose name is forever linked to a missile
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 4/15/2009; ; 612 words
; ...fortnight ago, we told the tale of John Lilburne, the leader of the 17th Century...the world was emptied of all but John Lilburne, Lilburne would quarrel with John and John with Lilburne." Fittingly, at his funeral...
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Questions unanswered: the Fifth Amendment and innocent witnesses.(Supreme Court Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...oath occurred in England in 1637. (20) John Lilburne was arrested for importing seditious books...his knowledge of the seditious books, Lilburne ceased to cooperate. (22) Two weeks later, Lilburne was brought before the Star Chamber office...
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World turned upside down.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 6/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...most famous of these pamphlets, John Lilburne's An Agreement of the Free People...radical elements among the army. Lilburne and his fellow pamphleteers Richard...Tower of London by Parliament and Lilburne was tried for treason. A campaign...
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Seizing the "bounty of this virtuous tree": the sexual underpinnings of Jeffersonian pastoralism in Brother to Dragons.(Robert Penn Warren)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...312). More recently, John Burt's chapter devoted to...only murder (as is evident in Lilburne's brutal dismemberment of his slave John), but also sexual rapacity...as it was Meriwether and Lilburne Lewis's mission in 1804 and...
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DURHAM MEMORIES - Intrigue and terror plots in wake of the Commonwealth
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 2/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Commons.The men appointed to the task were Robert and John Lilburne, supporters of Cromwell and members of an influential Sunderland family.They were related to John Lilburne, founder of the Levellers political movement, who...
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Killing no murder: Alan Marshall recounts the tale of the men who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell.(Miles Sindercombe and Edward Sexby)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Cromwell himself vowing (or so John Lilburne said) to break the Levellers...seeking a godly republic within. John Lilburne, the most troublesome of all the...wake of a failed intrigue with John Wildman, another former Leveller...
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John Lilburne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Lilburne John Lilburne (1615-1657), known as "Free-born John," was an English political activist and pamphleteer. He was a radical Puritan in the forefront of the Leveller movement against established institutions and in favor of...
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Lilburne, John
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Lilburne, John (1614–57) English republican, leader of the Levellers...by the Royalists when Parliament arranged an exchange of prisoners. Lilburne left the army in 1645, refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant...
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Levellers
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Levellers arose out of agitation for the release of John Lilburne (1615 – 1657). Lilburne had been a radical cause c é lebre...imprisoned in 1638 for publishing Puritan tracts. Lilburne was released from prison in 1641 and became...
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Levelers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...movement and its most indefatigable propagandist was John Lilburne . The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform...themselves with the army's demands for arrears of pay, and Lilburne's pamphlet The Case of the Army Truly Stated was presented...
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New Model Army
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...like-minded groups, most notably the Levellers, named after the mid-1640s democratic political movement led by John Lilburne. “ Our following is the cream of the type of people that follow bands around, ” insisted New...
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