Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince,…

May 1649 CE

Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince, and Richard Overton had been imprisoned in 1649 by the Council of State in the Tower of London.

It is while the leaders of the Levellers are being held in the Tower that they write an outline of the reforms the Levellers want, in a pamphlet entitled An Agreement Of The Free People Of England, written on May 1, 1649. (It includes reforms that have since been made law in England, such as the right to silence, and others that have not been, such as an elected judiciary.)

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