[121] See Whitelocke’s Memorials, “The Army’s Martyr,” “A True Narrative,” and “The Moderate” (1649).
[122] “So die the Leveller corporals. Strong they, after their sort, for the liberties of England; resolute to the very death.”—Carlyle.
[123] Lilburne’s attitude to Winstanley’s propaganda was similar to the attitude of the political Chartists in the 19th century to Robert Owen’s socialism.
[124] “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.
[125] See L. A. Berens, Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth.
[126] Clarke Papers, vol. ii.
[127] Government rarely distinguishes between different schools of agitators.
[128] Between 1710 and 1867 the number of acres so enclosed was 7,660,439.
[129] Clarke Papers, vol. ii.