Ted Vallance

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In Our Time · The Levellers · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

He is a man of blood, referring to this biblical ideal of blood guilt, that the stain and sin of blood on the land can only be cleansed by killing the person responsible.

After the Second Civil War, it's the Leveller movement that kicks off the petitioning campaign to bring the king and other leading royalists to justice.

But it's not even kind of outside of the court and outside of the trial.

We can even see Leveller supporters participating in the trial itself.

So an underexamined aspect of the trial are the witnesses that are brought to give testimony against the king.

Now, a number of these we can see actually have level of connections.

So there's a witness called Arthur Young, who is an officer in Parliament's army.

He's got a certain amount of fame because he's the man who takes the royal standard out of the king's standard bearer's hands at the Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the Civil War.

But importantly, he's also one of these agitators, one of these representatives of the army rank and file.

And he's one of the agitators who signs a petition in support of the agreement of the people in 1647.

And we can find other agitators giving evidence as witnesses who also subscribed to that same petition.

So they're certainly not forgotten.

And I think one of the reasons why they're not forgotten is to do with Lilburn and his courtroom struggles in particular has just been discussed.

So his kind of battles to defend his life in these treason trials.

are seen as resonant with 18th century radicals' battles against authority as well.

So in particular, John Wilkes and his North Britain case in the issue 45, where he's accused of basically libeling the king for criticising the king's speech over the Treaty of Paris.

Wilkes is seen as a successor of Lilburn.

He's referred to as a kind of a new Lilburn candidate.

And there's a lot of similarities in terms of the style between Wilkes and Lilburn as well, that kind of celebrity radicalism, the emphasis upon the individual, their struggles, their appearance.

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