Note 124 — John Lilburne and the Levellers 1647–1653
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“Then ensued a scene, the like of which had in all probability never been witnessed in an English court of justice, and was never again to be witnessed till the seven bishops were freed by the verdict of a jury from the rage of James II.”—S. R. Gardiner.
“In a revolution, where others argued about the respective rights of king and parliament, he spoke always of the rights of the people. His dauntless courage and his power of speech made him the idol of the mob.”—Professor C. H. Firth, “Lilburne,” Dictionary of National Biography.