The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for
conscience especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers Volume Two
examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne John Wildman
and Richard Overton and their followers. Far from ending in the 1649 troop revolts the
Leveller impact continued in the Interregnum climacterics of 1653 and 1659-60 times of acute
political and religious unsettlement. Indeed Leveller ideas resurfaced in Restoration
political and religious crises in 1678-83 and again in 1687-8 and flourished in populations
that once followed the Levellers. Analysis of London army and county Levellers reveals
connections to subsequent outbursts of unrest. Sectarian communities in London¿s peripheral
neighbourhoods and nearby counties sustained the Leveller ethos and ordinary people like those
who followed the Levellers remained active in petitioning and protest about political and
religious liberties through the Glorious Revolution.
