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    John Lilburne (c. 1614 – 29 August 1657), also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after the English Civil Wars...
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  • of John Lilburne George Lilburne (c. 1585–1666), English merchant Herb Lilburne (1908–1976), New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer John Lilburne...
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    Pragmaticus. Lilburne, John Wildman and Richard Baxter later thought that Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton had applied the term to Lilburne's group during...
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    Robert Lilburne (1613–1665) was an English Parliamentarian soldier, the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller. Unlike his brother, who...
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    mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities. It was also used as a surname...
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  • "Freeborn" is a term associated with political agitator John Lilburne (1614–1657), a member of the Levellers, a 17th-century English political party....
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    Goodman-Hill played John Lilburne in Channel 4's period drama, The Devil's Whore. Goodman-Hill can trace his father's family back to Lilburne's Uncle Joseph...
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    17th century. The family name Lilburn (variations include Lilburne, Lilleburne and Lilburne) derives from the original home of the family, Lilburn, Northumberland...
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    University of Cambridge. s:Bastwick, John (DNB00) Pauline Gregg, Free-born John: The Biography of John Lilburne (1961), pp. 47–50. Matthew, H. C. G.;...
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  • as "Honest John" Fuller John Lilburne (1614 – 1657), English Leveller during the English Civil Wars John Davis (Massachusetts governor) John H. Farley...
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  • Elizabeth Lilburne (fl. 1620–1660), born Elizabeth Dewell, was a Leveller and the wife of John Lilburne. The daughter of the London merchant Henry Dewell...
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    Parliament he was in charge of presenting a petition for the release of John Lilburne, who had become a Puritan cause célèbre after his arrest for importing...
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  • supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Lilburne was the son of John Lilburne of Thickley Punchardon, and his wife Isabel Wortley, and...
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  • Lilburne married Margaret Scurfield, widow of George Scurfield. He was the cousin of Robert Lilburne, the parliamentary soldier, and John Lilburne, known...
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    West, Timișoara) 14 (2008): 217–226."John Lilburne Research Institute - Reference - Hugo L. Black and John Lilburne". Archived from the original on August...
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    their contemporaries, holding instead to an "anti-Normanism" viewpoint. John Lilburne, for example, argued that Magna Carta contained only some of the freedoms...
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  • all these groups had their own hopes for the new Commonwealth. Led by John Lilburne, Levellers drew their main support from London and the New Model Army...
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  • Col. John Lilburne (later to become a Quaker) accusing the House of Lords and House of Commons of tyranny in The Just Defence of John Lilburne, Against...
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    numbers of women who were demonstrating at Westminster in support of John Lilburne. Barebone was elected to the Common Council of the City of London for...
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    Sir John de Lilburne of West Lilburn (1279–1355) was a knight who held numerous political and military offices during the first half of the 14th Century...
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  • any collateral relative. In the seventeenth century, English activist John Lilburne used the term with respect to the rights of Englishmen "to connote all...
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  • Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War on June 22–24. July – John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander...
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    Parliamentarian side were happy with this arrangement and some, like John Lilburne, chose to leave the parliamentary armies rather than take the oath prescribed...
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  • divest their posterity." Another 17th-century Englishman, John Lilburne (known as Freeborn John), who came into conflict with both the monarchy of King...
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  • Keen as John Pym Stratford Johns as Judge John Bradshaw Ian McCulloch as John Hampden Patrick O'Connell as John Lilburne Anna Cropper as John Carter's...
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  • a jury likewise acquitted John Lilburne for his part in inciting a rebellion against Oliver Cromwell's regime. Lilburne had been charged with seditious...
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  • School of Economics. Her doctorate, on John Lilburne, leader of the Levellers, was the basis of a book, Free-Born John, published in 1961. Gregg was offered...
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    involved a legal dispute between Ralf Claxton and Richard Lilburne (the latter the father of John Lilburne). The king again stepped in, and judges acted to delay...
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  • I Jeremy Crutchley as Toop Tom Goodman-Hill as John Lilburne Maxine Peake as Elizabeth Lilburne, John's wife Tim McInnerny as Joliffe Robyn Olivia as Angelica's...
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  • life. In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters...
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