[56] "A very large number of persons regarded the struggle with indifference.... In one case, the inhabitants of an entire county pledged themselves to remain neutral. Many quietly changed with the times (as people changed with the varying fortunes of York and Lancaster). That this sentiment of neutrality was common to the greater mass of the working classes is obvious from the simultaneous appearance of the club men in different parts of the country with their motto: 'If you take our cattle, we will give you battle.'"—G.P. Gooch, History of Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century.
[57] See Memorial of English Affairs.
[58] "By its injudicious treatment of the most popular man in England, Parliament was arraying against itself a force which only awaited an opportunity to sweep it away."—G.P. Gooch, History of Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century.
[59] "So die the Leveller corporals. Strong they, after their sort, for the liberties of England; resolute to the very death."—Carlyle.
[60] "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, History of the Commonwealth.
[61] Professor C.H. Firth, Lilburne in Dict. Nat. Biography.
[62] Winstanley's New Law of Righteousness, 1649.
[63] Palgrave. Introduction to Erskine May, Parliamentary Practice.
[64] Sir John Eliot, 1629.
[65] Edward II., in 1327, and Richard II., in 1399, had not been deposed without the consent of Parliament.