1991 saw the release of the Levellers ' second album, Levelling the Land, which entered the charts at number 14.

1994 saw the Levellers hit the peak of their popularity, when their appearance at the Glastonbury Festival attracted the biggest stagefront crowd that the event had ever seen.

As lawyers were overrepresented in the Rump Parliament, the Rump did not respond to the popular requests made by the Levellers to change the expensive legal system.

As divisions within the New Model Army widened during the Summer of 1649, fearing that these divisions would be used by their enemies, Overton issued a letter that made it clear that he sided with the Rump Parliament and the Grandees against the Levellers.

They showed little sympathy for the Levellers, an egalitarian movement which had contributed greatly to Parliament's cause but sought representation for ordinary citizens.

Led by Gerrard Winstanley, Diggers wanted an even more equal society than the Levellers.

The Marxist view also developed a concept of a “ Revolution within the Revolution ” ( pursued by Hill, Brian Manning and others ) which placed a greater deal of emphasis on the radical movements of the period ( such as the Agitator " Levellers ", Mutineers in the New Model Army and the Communistic " Diggers ") who attempted to go further than Parliament in the aftermath of the Civil War.

In the time of the English Civil War, the Nag's Head tavern was the venue of a meeting between Henry Ireton and some of the Levellers which resulted in the production of a document called the Remonstrance of the Army which demanded the abolition of the monarchy and the trial of King Charles I.

The most important of these groups were the Levellers, who advocated electoral reform, universal trial by jury, progressive taxation and the abolition of the monarchy and aristocracy and of censorship.

These earlier concepts of democratic and even egalitarian reform had emerged in the turmoil of the English Civil War and the brief establishment of the republican Commonwealth of England amongst the vague political grouping known as the Levellers, but with the English Restoration of the monarchy such ideas had been discredited.

They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.

Levellers tended to hold fast to a notion of " natural rights " that had been violated by the king's side in the Civil Wars.

In April, 300 infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson's regiment, who declared that they would not serve in Ireland until the Levellers ' programme had been realised, were cashiered without arrears of pay.

The ' Green Ribbon ' was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil Wars in which many of the members had fought and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.

The Levellers had a strong following in the New Model Army with whom his work was influential.

There had been rumours after the Broadway meeting of January 1648, that Levellers were conspiring with Royalists to overthrow the new republic.

Armed with this evidence parliament published a long declaration against the Levellers and passed a motion to try Lilburne for High Treason, using a court similar to that which had tried Charles I.

Although some members of parliament were irked at Lilburne's release, Parliament had succeed in suppressing open Levellers dissent.

They are some times called " True Levellers " to distinguish themselves from a larger political group called the Levellers which had supported the republicans during the civil war.

Finding themselves suddenly short of one member, the Levellers ' manager called Simon Friend, a young singer-songwriter and at that time a roadie for New Model Army, who had played some acoustic support slots for the band in the past.

Around this time Friend and Chadwick played a number of low key shows as " The Levellers 2 ", mostly performing songs that had been in Friend's repertoire as a solo singer-songwriter.

The Levellers and their friends had spent the morning flyering the crowds at Glastonbury to advertise their later show and, having already become favourites with independent music fans and travellers across the country, this tactic paid off when the crowds surged to the pyramid stage to see the band.

This would be a return-as far as UK legislation would allow-to the earlier festivals that the young Levellers had enjoyed, such as Elephant Fayre.

At the funeral of Thomas Rainsborough ( a Member of Parliament and also a Leveller leader who had spoken at the Putney Debates ) there were thousands of mourners wearing the Levellers ' ribbons of sea-green and bunches of rosemary for remembrance in their hats, as there were the next year, 1649, at the funeral of Robert Lockyer a New Model Army Agitator hanged by Oliver Cromwell for mutiny.

The ' Green Ribbon ' was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil Wars in which many of the members had fought and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.

After the Putney Debates, the Army commanders Oliver Cromwell and Fairfax were concerned about the strength of support which the Levellers had in the NMA.

As the impossibility of reaching agreement with Charles I became clear, many of the officers in the army who had not been in favour of the Levellers ' suggestion that the King be removed, supported the regicide of Charles on 30 January 1649 and had to reconsider their political positions.

The ' Green Ribbon ' was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil Wars in which many of the members had fought and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.

After the Putney Debates the Army commanders Sir Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell were worried at the strength of support which the Levellers had in the Army.

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After their arrest and imprisonment in 1649, four of the ' Leveller ' leaders — Walwyn, Overton, Lilburne and Thomas Prince — signed a manifesto in which they called themselves Levellers.

Levellers, for they intend to sett all things straight, and rayse a parity and community in the kingdom ".

The Army commanders Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell were worried by the strength of support for Levellers in the Army, so they decided to impose " The Heads of the Proposals " as the army's manifesto instead of the Levellers ' " Agreement of the People ".

When some refused to accept this, because they wanted the army to adopt the Levellers ' document, they were arrested, and one of the ringleaders, Private Richard Arnold, was executed.

It was while the leaders of the Levellers were being held in the Tower that they wrote an outline of the reforms the Levellers wanted, in a pamphlet entitled " An Agreement Of The Free People Of England " ( written on May 1, 1649 ).

They refused to go to on the Irish expedition until the Levellers ' political demands were met and they received back pay.

Gerrard Winstanley and 14 others published a pamphlet in which they called themselves the True Levellers to distinguish their ideas from those of the Levellers.

Winstanley was one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers for their beliefs, based upon Christian communism, and as the Diggers for their actions because they took over public lands and dug them over to plant crops.

But 400 troopers under the command of Captain William Thompson who were sympathetic to the Levellers set off from Banbury, where they were billeted to speak with other regiments at Salisbury about their political demands.

On April 2, 1761 a force of 50 militia men and 40 soldiers set out for Tallow, " where they took ( mostly in their beds ) eleven Levellers, against whom Information on Oath was given.

So they decided to impose The Heads of the Proposals as the army's manifesto instead of the Levellers the Agreement of the People