The leader of this faction set forth many of its ideas in the tract The New Law of Righteousness, and later published the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform as an exposition of its ideal society.
The leader of this faction set forth many of its ideas in the tract The New Law of Righteousness, and later published the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform as an exposition of its ideal society. He was joined by a former solider William Everard, who quickly abandoned this group leaving Gerrard Winstanley as its primary spokesman. They initially occupied St. George's Hill but were driven to Cobham Heath; all the while local landholders assaulted and burned their communities as tacitly encouraged by Oliver Cromwell. They referred to themselves as the "True Levellers." FTP, name this ►egalitarian faction of the English revolution, so named because of their affinity for planting crops on common land
The leader of this faction set forth many of its ideas in the tract The New Law of Righteousness, and later published the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform as an exposition of its ideal society.
Diggers (or "True Levellers," I suppose, before it's mentioned) 