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    Colonel Edward Sexby (or Saxby; 1616 – 13 January 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against...
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  • the fictional Angelica Fanshawe and the historical Leveller soldier Edward Sexby and spans the years 1636 to 1660. It was written by Peter Flannery, who...
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    generally attributed with authorship are (in order): Colonel Silius Titus, Edward Sexby or William Allen. Colonel Titus was a politician and one of two individuals...
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  • Cromwell lost much of the support he had gained during the civil war. Edward Sexby, previously a supporter of Cromwell's, felt disenfranchised by Cromwell's...
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    in the 2009 two-part special, "The End of Time". In 2008, he played Edward Sexby in The Devil's Whore, a four-part English Civil War epic for Channel...
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    Kett's Rebellion (1549) Chartism Republicanism in the United Kingdom Edward Sexby (1616–1658); English Puritan, soldier and Leveller; he turned against...
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    Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London...
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    borne." He used the signatures Mentor, Callisthenes, Marchmont Needham, Edward Sexby, &c., in later letters to the Boston Gazette. After the Boston Massacre...
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  • (variously attributed to Colonel Silius Titus, Edward Sexby or William Allen, an English Republican; Sexby admits authorship under duress) Cave Beck – The...
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  • plotter, Edward Sexby, in 1656. Sindercombe joined his plot to assassinate Cromwell in hope of restoring the Puritan republic as they saw it. Sexby supplied...
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    1651, he owned Portland Castle outright, after buying out his partner Edward Sexby. On 17 June 1650, Joyce was appointed governor of the Isle of Portland...
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    Fairfax, former commander of the New Model Army, Leveller radicals like Edward Sexby and John Wildman, and moderate Presbyterians opposed to Cromwell. Hyde...
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    Droitwich, his brother Major William Rainsborough, and the Agitators Edward Sexby and William Allen. The New Agents also brought John Wildman and Maximillian...
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    Bradshaw, John Hutchinson, Edmund Ludlow, Henry Marten, Robert Overton, Edward Sexby and John Streater; but not Marvell, who remained with Cromwell's party...
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    Richard Rawleigh 1628–: Edward Sydenham 1644–1646 Sir Walter Hastings (Royalist) 1646: Elias Bond 1649–1650: Colonel Edward Sexby (Parliamentarian) 1650–1653:...
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    Women (c. 1623–24) is published posthumously in London. January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London...
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    in May 1660. His spies were able to intercept mail, and he exposed Edward Sexby's 1657 plot to assassinate Cromwell and captured would-be assassin Miles...
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  • and French revolutions, but even seventeenth century England, where Edward Sexby "proposed to the French radicals" in Bordeaux "a republican constitution...
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    monk (d. 1671) John Owen, English Nonconformist theologian (d. 1683) Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. 1658) Obadiah Walker, Master of...
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    monk (d. 1671) John Owen, English Nonconformist theologian (d. 1683) Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. 1658) Obadiah Walker, Master of...
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  • Zedong, Che Guevara, and Menachem Begin, as well as English Puritan Edward Sexby and Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata. The book includes 26 documents...
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    imposed by Cromwell after the latest rising. Cárdenas therefore furnished Edward Sexby and other Levellers large sums of money to plot against Cromwell. Leading...
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    "Where Law ends Tyranny begins." Locke in Two Treatises of Government Edward Sexby's 1657 pamphlet, "Killing, No Murder" outlined 14 key traits of a tyrant...
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  • 1698) John Owen, Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died 1683) Edward Sexby, Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died 1658)...
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  • innocent and upright Edmund Treves, and real-life political figures such as Edward Sexby and Thomas Rainborough. "The Lindsey Davis Newsletter, no. 9" (PDF)....
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  • John James Sexby VD (known as JJ Sexby) (15 July 1847 – 10 May 1924) was a British civil servant who served as the first Chief Officer for Parks for the...
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    in May 1660. His spies were able to intercept mail, and he exposed Edward Sexby's 1657 plot to assassinate Cromwell and captured would-be assassin Miles...
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  • pamphlet has been disputed in some circles; it has also been attributed to Edward Sexby, or a man by the real name of William Allen. These attributions are usually...
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  • January – Theophilus Eaton, colonial leader (born 1590) 13 January – Edward Sexby, Puritan soldier, plotter against Cromwell (born 1616) 19 April – Robert...
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  • Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Michael A. Norris, Edward Sexby, John Reynolds and Edmund Chillenden : agitators, "sectarian grandees"...
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