Ted Vallance
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Absolutely not.
And I'd actually like to come back to what Therese has just been talking about in terms of that quotation from Lilburn is a really useful one.
Because we can see Lilburn there talking about the equality of women and men, not just men.
So you open with that evocative quote from Thomas Rainsborough about the poorest he, but it's not just the poorest he for the Levellers, it's the poorest he and the poorest she.
Women are really important in this movement.
In fact, we wouldn't be talking about John Lilburn's career as a leveller were it not for his wife, Elizabeth Lilburn, because it's his wife, Elizabeth, who rides heavily pregnant from London to Oxford to save him from being executed by the Royalists for treason.
So there's a glaring example of a woman leveller intervening in a way which is absolutely fundamentally important.
And presumably she succeeds.
She succeeds, yes, yes, yes, yeah.
So women are really important in terms of the organisation of the movement.
They're critically important in terms of supporting the petitioning campaigns, the printing campaigns that the levellers get involved in.
But there are a number of other male figures that we do associate with the leveller movement and who have, I would say,
equal importance with Lilburn in terms of the thought of the movement.
Who is he?
So Rainsborough is an officer in the army, Colonel Thomas Rainsborough, and he is really seen as one of the most supportive of the level of cause at Putney.
It's interesting though that the words that he's actually speaking at Putney are words that previously appear in a pamphlet published by John Lilburn in 1646.
Yeah.
So the agreement of the people is a real, if you like, intellectual game changer.
It's moving beyond the idea that your documents like Magna Carta, for example, give people certain rights.
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