Ted Vallance
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first heard Jun 2026
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And what he says that they're doing is that they appoint commissioners who are there to basically distribute this petition.
They're kind of producing lots and lots of multiple printed copies of the petition so that it can be easily disseminated.
They're raising funds to support the petitioning activity.
So we're seeing an organisation in place through this report.
And even though it's hostile report, we then get people like Lilburn and people like Wildman essentially endorsing what Marston is saying about what they do.
And I think we can see kind of similar references later on in later leveller petitioning campaigns that substantiate that sense of a genuine organisation.
Yes, they were.
And I would argue that they're actually very important in explaining how we get to this remarkable point where Charles is put on trial and then executed.
Lilburn, again, gives us a bit of a distorting effect because Lilburn comes out publicly in opposition to the trial of the king.
But it's important to understand that this isn't because he thinks that Charles is wonderful.
He describes Charles as being an evil man, but it's because he thinks that the type of court that has been set up is wrong.
It doesn't have a firm legal basis.
For him, the new government on the basis of an agreement of the people should have been established first, and then the king should have been placed on trial.
But in fact, the levellers are, I think, really at the forefront of making the argument that
responsibility for the Civil War sits with Charles.
So they talk about kings as being a source of continual oppression to the English people.
So it's even the institution of monarchy that may be a problem.
And we've been talking about the Putney debates and those famous debates around the franchise.
But one of the other things that's going on at Putney is they are discussing what to do with the king.
And a number of the people there at Putney are saying, actually, we need to deal with Charles.
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