Levellers

• Who were the leaders of the Levellers?

  John Lilburne, William Walwyn, and William Oveturn
• Who in the New Model Army supported the Levellers?

  Colonel Thomas Rainsborough
• What did the Levellers publish?

  An Agreement of the People
• When and where was An Agreement of the People presented to Cromwell?

  At the 1647 Putney Debates
• What are some terms An Agreement of the People called for?

  Franchise for all men over 21, annual elections to Parliament, and equality of all persons before the law
• What two pamphlets did John Lilburne publish?

  ‘England’s New Chains Discovered’ and ‘The Hunting of the Foxes’
• When were the Leveller leaders imprisoned?

  1649
• When were the Levellers defeated?

  Burford in May 1649 with three ringleaders shot