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	Freeborn John Lilburne 1615-57 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lilburne then became active in the revolutionary fervour that developed in London, haranguing the crowds at the execution of the Earl of Strafford and leading an apprentice riot against the King's guards at Whitehall in December 1641.
		Lilburne refused a nomination to sit on the High Court of Justice and left London for the north during the period of the King's trial and execution.
		By February 1649, Lilburne was attacking the new republican government in England's New Chains Discovered, in which he appealed to soldiers and citizens to unite in rejection of the unconstitutional rule of the Grandees, the Council of State and the Rump Parliament.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/lilburne.htm (1709 words)

	John Lilburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Lilburne was born in servant's quarters at the old palace at Greenwich, a child of middle level but still prosperous members of the royal court.
		John Lilburne demanded to be presented in English with the charges brought against him (much of the written legal work of the time was in Latin).
		John Lilburne then began in earnest his campaign of agitation for freeborn rights, the rights that all Englishmen are born with, which are different from privileges bestowed by a monarch or a government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lilburne (1526 words)

	John Lilburne
		John Lilburne (~1614-1657) was an English Puritan leader, active before, during and after the English Civil War.
		He was born in Greenwich and was persecuted for his activities as early as 1638 for importing subversive literature.
		Subsequently Lilburne became one of the leaders of the Leveller movement.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Lilburne.html (219 words)

	The Just Defence of John Lilburne, Against Such as charge him with Turbulency of Spirit.
		Lilburne was kept in prison, however, and in March 1654 was transported to the Isle of Jersey.
		Lilburne was held in prison from (early 1646?) to November 1647, having tangled with powerful members of the House of Commons and then the House of Lords.
		In 1658, after John Lilburne's death, his wife Elizabeth settled with those who had won these damages against him, with the agreement that she turn over to them documents from the case, to be burned.
	www.strecorsoc.org /docs/defence1.html (1875 words)

	John Lilburne - LoveToKnow 1911
		He devoted his enforced leisure to his favourite form of literary activity, and did not regain his liberty until November 1640, one of the earliest recorded speeches of Oliver Cromwell being made in support of his petition to the House of Commons (Nov. 9, 1640).
		His brother, Colonel Robert Lilburne, was among those who signed the death-warrant of Charles I.
		In 1656 he was M.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire, and at the restoration was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Lilburne (559 words)

	John Lilburne Summary
		John Lilburne (1615-1657), known as "Free-born John," was an English political activist and pamphleteer.
		Lilburne was found guilty of slanderous accusations, was fined and required to pay damages, and finally was banished from England for life by act of Parliament in January 1652.
		Lilburne once described himself as "an honest, truebred, free-born Englishman, that never in his life loved a tyrant nor feared an oppressor." He paid heavily for his pamphleteering, much of which was beyond the realm of decency and fairness, though he was never happier than as a center of contention and defiance.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Lilburne (1943 words)

	True Blue - Rev Hammer Site - Other Writings - John Lilburne
		John Lilburne was born in Sunderland in 1615, one of four children brought up in the Puritan household of Richard and Margaret Lilburne.
		John Lilburne was to spend the next two and a half years in prison while outside the country moved towards civil war.
		John Lilburne had been busy with Thomas Prince, William Walvyn and Richard Overton preparing the Leveller manifesto "The Agreement of the People" but in March 1649, two months after the execution of Charles I, after a brief spell of liberty, he and the three were arrested and taken to the Tower of London.
	www.ne-ne.de /revhammer/writings-lilburne.html (1520 words)

	John Lilburne
		Lilburne, who believed that people were corrupted by power, argued that no members of the House of Commons should be allowed to serve for more than one year at a time.
		Lilburne, John Wildman, Richard Overton and William Walwyn were arrested and charged with advocating communism.
		John Lilburne's years of struggle with the government had worn him out and on 29th August, 1657, at the age of 43, he died at his home at Eltham.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUlilburne.htm (1982 words)

	Lilburne, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Lilburne then became a pamphleteer and leader of a large following of common soldiers and artisans who hoped for a fundamental, democratic revision of the constitution and the social system.
		Lilburne protested the arbitrary rule of the Rump Parliament and, though no royalist, protested the tribunal that condemned Charles I to death.
		In 1649, Lilburne, with several of his associates, was tried for treason and acquitted.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/Lilburne.html (283 words)

	Silence: The Ultimate Protector of Individual Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lilburne denied the charge and also refused to answer questions, which were in his opinion not germane to his innocence or guilt.
		Lilburne demanded nearly every legal right which is now afforded a defendant by due process of law: the right to counsel, time to consult with him, the right to subpoena witnesses in his favor, the presumption of innocence, and trial by jury.
		Lilburne's popularity had made him a marked man. At the close of 1651, he was summoned before the House of Commons to answer for his having assaulted the reputation of one its members.
	www.neo-tech.com /silence/main1.html (3859 words)

	Levellers Historical Information
		Lilburne was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Parliamentarian Army.
		Lilburne “was, or became, a radical in everything – in religion, in politics, in economics, in social reform, in criminal justice – and his ideas were far ahead of his time.
		In the spirit of John Lilburne, the Levellers, and their radical ideas: levellers.org is born.
	www.levellers.org /lev.htm (498 words)

	Eduard Bernstein: Cromwell and Communism (3. Charles I + Lilburne's Youth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lilburne was born at Greenwich in 1615 or 1617, his father being Richard Lilburne, an English gentleman, a member of that important class of non-feudal landowners which already set the tone of the House of Commons.
		According to Lilburne’s own statement, the informer was in custody for the distribution of prohibited writings, and was induced to play the part of spy by the promise of his own liberty.
		After several weeks of imprisonment, Lilburne was brought before the Star Chamber, when he disputed the accuracy of the statements relating to the various acts of which he was accused and refused point-blank all further information, contending that he was not called upon to be his own accuser.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/bernstein/works/1895/cromwell/03-earlyyears.htm (2168 words)

	Three Levellers: Walwyn (1600-81), Lilburne (1614-57) and Overton (birth and death dates unknown) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Wildman, a later apostate from Levelling, probably wrote much of the 1647 "The Case of the Army Truly Stated," whic h included this demand: "That all Monopolyes be forthwith removed, and no persons whatsoever may be permitted to restrain others from free trade." Some monopolies had been created to the advantage of Royal cronies.
		Lilburne began to accuse the House of Commons of corruption, dangerously asserted that MP's were siphoning off 3/4 of tax revenues for their own use.
		Lilburne, although republican, had come to the view that a restored constitutionally limited monarchy could be better than the dictatorship of Cromwell.
	www.wsu.edu /~tcook/doc/WalwynLilburneOverton.htm (2803 words)

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		Lilburne's World I had intended to wait until this timeline was completed before I finally posted it, but I don't know now whether that is ever likely to happen.
		Lilburne is able to galvanism his followers into the only organised fighting force in the country and marches on London.
		Lilburne is assassinated (allegedly by a sympathiser of the nobility, although the assailant is never found).
	alternatehistory.com /shwi/LILBURNE.txt (23625 words)

	The Green Ribbon aStore US - Free-Born John: A Biography of John Lilburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lilburne, a brilliant pamphleteer and a passionately courageous political agitator, was the most prominent leader of the paleo-libertarian "Leveller" movement during the English Civil War of the seventeenth century.
		Lilburne was tossed into prison both under the monarchy of Charles I and by the republican regime of Oliver Cromwell.
		Lilburne was a fervent defender of freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion.
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	Silence: The Ultimate Protector of Individual Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lilburne, as usual, was full of legal objections and technicalities, but was afforded nearly every benefit of common-law procedure.
		Lilburne's public life was a monument to freedom of the press, religion, and speech.
		Despite the fact that Lilburne and others harked back for their justifications to Magna Carta and the Petition of Right of 1628, there was no written confirmation of the right against self-incrimination in any English constitutional or parliamentary document.
	www.neo-tech.com /silence/main2.html (5029 words)

	August 29th
		Lilburne was impartial towards Cavaliers and Roundheads; his great aim was to advance his own opinions and defend himself from the comments which they excited.
		Lilburne was at his post as usual, fighting the cause of freedom by means of pamphlets, with unquestioned honesty of purpose, but with intemperate zeal.
		There is reason to doubt whether Lilburne was so steady and sagacious a liberal, as to be able to render real services to the cause which he so energetically advocated; but his public life well illustrated the pamphleteering tendencies of the age.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/29.htm (2045 words)

	Silence -John Lilburne, his Star Chamber persecution, he was not found guilty
		In 1537, John Lambert was chained to a stake in Smithfield, England, and roasted in flames as an obdurate heretic.
		Lilburne denied the charge and also refused to answer questions maintaing his silence, which were in his opinion not germane to his innocence or guilt.
		Lilburne demanded nearly every legal right including silence which is now afforded a defendant by due process of law: the right to counsel, time to consult with him, the right to subpoena witnesses in his favor, the presumption of innocence, and trial by jury.
	www.hiscovenantministries.org /scripture/silence.htm (4045 words)

	Lilburn in the Tower
		John Lilburne is summoned to appear before the House of Lords to explain his denouncement of the Earl of Manchester as a traitor.
		Lilburne refuses to recognise the authority of the House of Lords and is arrested and sent to Newgate Prison...
		Lilburne receives visit from Col. Thomas Rainborough who is taking a Sunday rest from the Putney debates.
	www.theteacher99.btinternet.co.uk /ecivil/lilburne-in-tower.htm (345 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		July 1645 Lilburne arrested and imprisoned for slandering William Lenthall, the Speaker of the House of Commons, whom he accuses of corresponding with Royalists.
		Lilburne's supporters are nicknamed "Levellers" for the first time by Grandee spokesmen Oliver Cromwell (second-in-command) and Henry Ireton.
		A Manifestation John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince and Richard Overton April 1649 Written to refute the smears and abuse circulated by the authors' political opponents, who were accusimg them of anarchism and atheism as well as seeking to equalise wealth by force.
	www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000855.txt (2534 words)

	The English Revolution, 1647-49
		After the death of John Pym and the collapse of the "middle group", Parliamentary politics came to be seen as a struggle between Presbyterians and Independents.
		John Lilburne (1614-57) was a clothmaker's apprentice in the 1630s, but he soon became involved in radical opposition to the Bishops.
		Like Lilburne, he was imprisoned: - Once for his tracts against the Westminster Assembly under the pseudonym of "Martin Marpriest" - a direct reference to the Martin Marprelate tracts.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-28.htm (3096 words)

	English Dissenters: Levellers
		Lilburne was arrested in 1638 by Church officials for distributing banned literature.
		Lilburne died on 29 August 1657 at Eltham and was buried at Moorsfields.
		A Discovrse Betwixt Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn Clo[s]e Pri[s]onser in the Tower of London, and Mr.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/levellers.html (3697 words)

	Eduard Bernstein: Cromwell and Communism (11. Levellers' Revolt + Lilburne's Last Years) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lilburne and Overton, who in the Tower heard of all that happened in London, were unwilling to let this affair pass by in silence.
		As a matter of fact, the number of Lilburne’s partisans was not so great as this [19], but quite apart from the special measures taken by Cromwell, the pamphlets of the period [20] dealing with Lilburne’s case reveal the intensity of the agitation at this moment, and the enormous popularity acquired by Lilburne.
		Lilburne’s body was conveyed to London, where it became the cause of a dispute between his old and his new partisans.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/bernstein/works/1895/cromwell/11-levellers.htm (6427 words)

	Robert Lilburne
		In December 1648, Lilburne was nominated as one of the judges in the trial of
		Cromwell praised Lilburne's services to the House of Commons and he was granted land in Scotland worth £300 a year.
		In 1656 Lilburne was elected to the House of Commons where he represented the East Riding of Yorkshire.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUlilburneR.htm (388 words)

	The Resurrection of John Lilburne (1655)
		John Lilburne's first letter is addressed (literally) to his wife, dated December 4th, 1655.
		Lilburne's comments about the Quakers testify to the difficulty he and many of his contemporaries had with crediting the early Quakers.
		In 1637, Lilburne was convicted, tortured, and imprisoned for three years for his part in bringing seditious religious literature into England, and then, under interrogation, refusing to betray his colleagues.
	www.strecorsoc.org /docs/resurrection1.html (1799 words)

	Lilburne, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lilburne, John 1614?-1657, English political leader and pamphleteer of the Levelers.
		He was tried before the court of the Star Chamber as early as 1638 for printing and distributing antiepiscopal works.
		He resigned from the army because he refused to sign the Presbyterian Covenant required for admission to the New Model Army.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lilburne.html (428 words)

	"Leveller" Thinkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While he was perhaps the most prolific writer, producing about 80 pamphlets, he tended to base arguments on the Bible and on English legal precedents (relying on the works of common law expert Edward Coke), there are plenty of quotable lines which speak to us today.
		English historian John Richard Green was among the few 19th century authors to recognize the crucial importance of the Levellers.
		Responding to the imprisonment of Leveller leader John Lilburne, Overton issued this radical attack on monarchy and presented his case for popular sovereignty and a rule of law.
	www.libertystory.net /LSTHINKLEVELLERS.htm (1273 words)

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