Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution (Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England)

Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642–49. This book collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research. 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 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 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 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] 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] 15. To the Right Honourable, The Supreme Authority [The Levellers' Petition for Freedom of the Press, January 19, 1649] 16. A Petition . . . Concerning . . . An Agreement [The Officers' Agreement, January 20, 1649] 17. The Hunting of the Foxes [By Richard Overton. March 21, 1649] 18. A Manifestation [By William Walwyn. April 14, 1649] 19. An Agreement of the Free People of England [May 1, 1649] Appendices 1. Lilburne's Narrative 2. Notes on Leveller Bibliography 3. Notes on Text Corrections Index