The Agitators with two Army Officers from each regiment and the Generals formed a new body called the Army Council which after a rendezvous ( meeting ) near Newmarket on Friday 4 June 1647 issued " A Solemne Engagement of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax " to Parliament on 8 June making their concerns known and also the constitution of the Army Council so that Parliament would understand that the discontent was Army wide and had the support of officers and other ranks.

The senior officers in the Army ( nicknamed " Grandees ") were angered by the " Case of the Army " and ordered the unofficial Agitators to give an account of their principles before the General Council of the Army.

The soldiers in the New Model Army elected " Agitators " from each regiment to represent them.

The new Agitators, who distrusted the King, demanded that England be settled from ' the bottom up ' rather than the ' top down ' by giving the vote to most adult males.

* April 3 – In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons.

This was reinforced on 11 November when King Charles escaped from Hampton Court, apparently fearing a splinter group from the Agitators, who he termed Levellers would attempt to assassinate him.

Two representatives, called Agitators, were elected from each regiment.

Sometime before October 1647, five of the most radical cavalry regiments elected new Agitators – known as the New Agents – to represent their views.

Lilburne considered the term pejorative and called his supporters " Levellers so-called " and preferred " Agitators ".

He called his supporters " Agitators.

They included the Royalists, who supported King Charles I ; the Parliamentary forces, called " Roundheads ," who later emerged under the name of the New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell ; the Fifth Monarchy Men, who believed in the establishment of a heavenly theocracy on earth to be led by a returning Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords ; the Agitators for political egalitarian reform of government, who were branded " Levellers " by their foes and who were led by John Lilburne ; and the Christian communists, who called themselves the True Levellers for their beliefs but who were branded " Diggers " because of their actions.

As a political movement, the term first referred to a faction of New Model Army Agitators and their London supporters who were allegedly plotting to assassinate the king.

The Agitators were assisted by some civilians, notably John Wildman and Maximillian Petty, who had been connected to the Army as civilian advisers since July 1647.

Other members of the Army present were Colonel Thomas Rainsborough ( MP for Droitwich ), his brother Major William Rainsborough, and the Agitators Edward Sexby and William Allen.

However, the Agitators wanted to discuss the future of the king and the Grandees, fearing a complete breakdown of discipline in the Army, proposed on 8 November that the Agitators and New Agents return at once to their regiments to restore order, thereby suspending the meetings.

The Agitators were a political movement as well as elected representatives of soldiers, including the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War.

These Agitators were recognised by the Army's commanders and had a seat on the General Council.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

The Agitators, on the other hand, felt they deserved the rights in payment for their service during the war.

Baker, who made a guest appearance on Big Star's Third / Sister Lovers album and led his own Lee Baker & The Agitators group, died on September 10, 1996.

The events of 1647, where rank and file soldiers organised themselves, under the leadership of the Agitators have been compared to the organisation of Soldiers Soviets during the Russian Revolution of 1917.

After the defeat of the King Charles I of England in the civil war, there were a series of debates and confrontations between the Levellers, whose members were known as ' Agitators ', and the ' Grandees ' such as Sir Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton, who opposed the Agitators ' more radical proposals.

The Levellers were pioneers of political democracy and the sovereignty of the people ; the Agitators were the pioneers of participatory control by the ranks at their workplace ; and the Diggers were pioneers of communal ownership, cooperation and egalitarianism.

" Part of the headline was: " Trouble traced to Socialist Agitators.

Following the example of the Ironsides, other units followed suit and foot soldiers elected Agitators.

* Holyoake, G. J., Sixty Years of an Agitators Life, London, 1900.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

Shaffner looked at him, altogether without guile, and shrugged his shoulders, making a little spreading gesture with his two hands.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.