Three hundred infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson's…

Three hundred infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson's regiment, who declare that they will not serve in Ireland until the Levellers' program have been realized, are cashiered in April 1649 without arrears of pay.

This is the threat that had been used to quell the mutiny at the Corkbush Field rendezvous.

Later the same month, in the Bishopsgate mutiny, soldiers of the regiment of Colonel Edward Whalley stationed in Bishopsgate, London, make demands similar to those of Hewson's regiment; they are ordered out of London.

When they refuse to go, fifteen soldiers are arrested and court-martialed, of whom six are sentenced to death.

Of these, five will later be later pardoned, while Robert Lockyer (or Lockier), a former Levellers agitator, is hanged on April 27, 1649.