412 Levelers and Diggers

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In April 1649 the new Commonwealth was under siege, enemies with and without. The Levelers saw the new Commonwealth as a betrayal of the revolution, and set out to raise rebellion against the Rump and the Grandees, to set soldiers against their officers and people against their parliament. Meanwhile, Gerald Winstanley started writing furious pamphelts, demanding social reform - and a True Leveling.

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0:00.0	The key. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England
0:25.7	episode 412 levelers and diggers devilers and lagers. Before start, Simon of this parish got in touch with me.
0:35.6	He's been listening from the very start, so can't be a young man anymore,
0:39.2	but either way, old or young Simon is full of wisdom,
0:42.4	and he tells me that by tradition the death's head
0:46.1	Hawk moth was first seen in England on the day of the execution of Charles the first.
0:52.1	Wild how spooky is that.
0:55.0	Have a look at a pick of one.
0:56.0	There really is a skull on the back of that beauty.
1:00.0	Anyway, let me take you to just outside the Houses of Parliament, and there are hundreds of
1:08.2	women there.
1:09.2	Catherine should leave very probably among them, because it is she who wrote the petition from the women of
1:14.5	London in support of the imprisoned levelers demanding their release and
1:20.0	demanding also that the MPs listen to their voices, because as Chidler's petition
1:25.8	declared, our creation in the image of God and of an interest in Christ is equal unto men, as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this Commonwealth.
1:39.0	Their petition had been signed by 10,000 people.
1:44.0	For three days in April 1649
1:47.8	the women besieged parliament. They heckled the MPs coming to and the MPs coming fro.
1:55.0	The soldiers guarding the doors were not polite then, it has to be said, pointing their guns and telling them to clear off.
2:02.0	They did no such thing. But Norwood Parliament
2:05.8	receive and debate their petition even and so the volume of protest rose. One MP
2:12.0	did address one of the women.
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