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1 online resource (459 p.) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England Ser. ; v.6 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Sectaries: Brood of Presbyterian Hatching -- 2. Baptists and Levellers: Puritans of the Left -- 3. Forerunners: Prynne and Parker -- 4. The Democratic Seed Time: 1645-46 -- 5. Ideas at Harvest: The Remonstrance -- 6. Thomas Edwards: Mirror of Puritan Piety -- 7. Of Tyrants and Oppressors -- 8. Appeal to All England -- 9. Compound of Heresies: The March Petition -- 10. Ferment in the New Model |
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11. The Soldiers Force an Issue -- 12. Lilburne on the Tyranny of the Commons -- 13. June 5, 1647: Compact of Citizen-Soldiers -- 14. Division of Men and Officers -- 15. Overton's Appeale -- 16. A Cracking Alliance -- 17. For a Purging of the Commons -- 18. Suspicions and Recriminations -- 19. The Case of Major White -- 20. New Agitators at Work -- 21. Birth of a Constitution -- 22. The Crucial Debate: Dilemma of the Suffrage -- 23. Waning of Agitator Power -- 24. Levellers Sallies and Counter-Attacks -- 25. Corkbush Field -- 26. Lilburne Assails Martial Law |
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27. Cromwell and Ireton on New Ground -- 28. The January Crisis -- 29. New Blows at Cromwell -- 30. A New Army Manifesto -- 31. Prayers and Tears -- 32. The Second Civil War: Cromwell Triumphant -- 33. A New People's Compact -- 34. On the Home Front: Strategy and Doubts -- 35. The Petition of September -- 36. The Second Agreement -- 37. The Officers Test the Agreement -- 38. Attacks and Vindication -- 39. By the Might of a Few: A King Falls -- 40. ""Liberty in Name Only, -- 41. Propaganda Sallies Against the Republic -- 42. Four Leaders Under Arrest -- 43. The Third Agreement |
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44. Mutiny and Repression -- 45. In the Time-Stream of History -- Documents and Commentaries -- Document -- 1. A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens, 1646 [Richard Overton] -- 2. To the Right Honourable and Supreme Authority [The Petition of March, 1647] -- 3. A Copie of a Letter [June 24, 1647] -- 4. An Appeale from the Degenerate Representative Body, by Richard Overton [July 17, 1647] -- 5. The Case of the Armie Truly Stated [October 15, 1647] -- 6. An Agreement of the People [November 3, 1647] -- 7. To the Supream Authority of England [The Petition of November 23, 1647] |
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8. Englands Freedoms, Souldiers Rights [December 14, 1647] -- A Defence for the Honest Nownsubstantive Soldiers -- 9. To the Supream Authority [The Petition of January, 1648] -- 10. The Mournfull Cryes of Many Thousand Poor Tradesmen [January 22, 1648] -- 11. To the Right Honorable, The Commons of England [The Petition of September, 1648] -- 12. Foundations of Freedom [The Second Agreement, December 15, 1648] -- 13. No Papist nor Presbyterian [December 21, 1648] -- 14. Several Proposals for Peace & Freedom by an Agreement of the People [December 22, 1648] |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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15. To the Right Honourable, The Supreme Authority [The Levellers' Petition for Freedom of the Press, January 19, 1649] |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000870251 |
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1000870251 |
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