Leveller Tracts vol. 7 (1650-1660)

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The uncorrected HTML of volume 7 of the Leveller Tracts (1650-60) is now online at the OLL. There are 42 pamphlets which have a total of 1,055 illegible words and characters which need to be corrected before it will go into the main OLL library. It covers the period of the Commonwealth, the rise of Cromwell’s Protectorate, and the gradual defeat and dispersal of the Leveller movement.

Highlights include more tracts on economic matters (such as taxes and free trade), Sexby’s notorious pamphlet advocating the killing of Cromwell as a tyrant, and the pamphlet by Margaret Fell Fox advocating the right of women to speak in Church:

  • Mary Stiff, The good Womens Cryes against the Excise of all their Commodities (4 January 1650)
  • Anon., The Soap-makers Complaint for the losse of their Trade (24 September 1650)
  • William Walwyn, Walwyns Conceptions; for a Free Trade (May 1652)
  • William Prynne, A Declaration and Protestation against New Taxes (18 October, 1653)
  • James Freize, A Moderate Inspection into the Corruption of the Common Law of England (17 June, 1656)
  • Edward Sexby, Killing, No Murder (21 September, 1657)
  • Margaret Fell Fox, Womens Speaking Justified (c. 1666)

The complete Table of Contents of Volume 7 [Illegibles: 1,055]

  1. Mary Stiff, The good Womens Cryes against the Excise of all their Commodities (4 January 1650). [4]
  2. Gerard Winstanley, An Appeale to all Englishmen (26 March, 1650). [4]
  3. Marchamont Nedham, The Case of the Common-wealth of England stated (8 May, 1650). [53]
  4. Anon., The Humble Petition of divers well-affected People (31 August, 1650). 2
  5. Anon., The Soap-makers Complaint for the losse of their Trade (24 September 1650). 1
  6. George Walker, Anglo-Tyrannus, or the Idea of a Norman Monarch, (3 December, 1650). [131]
  7. Richard Hollingworth, An Exercitation concerning Usurped Powers (18 December, 1649). [243]
  8. Gerrard Winstanley, An Humble Request, to the Ministers of both Universities (c. 1650). 2
  9. Anon., A Declaration of the Armie concerning Lieut. Collonel John Lilburn (14 February, 1651).
  10. William Walwyn, Juries justified (2 December, 1650). [5]
  11. Several Hands, The Onely Right Rule (28 January 1652). [4]
  12. Anon., A Declaration of the Commoners of England (13 February, 1652). 1
  13. John Lilburne, His letter to his dearly beloved wife (March 1652).
  14. John Lilburne, As you Were (May 1652). [5]
  15. William Walwyn, Walwyns Conceptions; for a Free Trade (May 1652).
  16. Anon., Zeal Examined (15 June, 1652). [15]
  17. Anon., The Vindication of Christmas (22 December, 1652). [16]
  18. Benjamin Worsley, Free Ports (c. 1652).
  19. John Streater, A Glympse of that Jewel Libertie (31 March, 1653). 2
  20. Anon., The Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of England (9 July, 1653). 1
  21. John Lilburne, The Upright Mans Vindication (1 August 1653). [12]
  22. John Lilburne, The Just Defence of John Lilburn (25 August 1653). [30]
  23. John Lilburne, An Hue-and Cry after the Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of England (26 September, 1653). [57]
  24. William Prynne, A Declaration and Protestation against New Taxes (18 October, 1653). [24]
  25. Thomas Saunders, The Humble Petition of Several Colonels (18 October, 1654).
  26. John Streater, The Picture of the New Courtier (18 April, 1656). [21]
  27. John Lilburne, The Resurrection of John Lilburne (16 May 1656). [14]
  28. James Freize (Freese), A Moderate Inspection into the Corruption of the Common Law of England (17 June, 1656). [13]
  29. William Prynne, A Summary Collection of the principal Fundamental Rights, Liberties, Proprieties of all English Freemen (6 November, 1656). [14]
  30. Edward Sexby, Killing, No Murder (21 September, 1657). [18]
  31. Anon., Killing is Murder (21 September, 1657). [74]
  32. Michael Hawke, Killing is Murder (c. 1657). [92]
  33. Anon., The Leveller: Or The Principles & Maxims Concerning Government and Religion (16 February 1659).1
  34. William Allen, A Faithful Memorial of that Remarkable Meeting (27 April 1659).
  35. James Freize, The Out-cry! (16 May, 1659). [34]
  36. John Streater, Government Described (1 June, 1659). [5]
  37. Anon., Lilburnes Ghost (22 June, 1659). 2
  38. Zachary Crofton, Excise Anotomiz’d, and Trade Epitomiz’d (20 September, 1659). [6]
  39. William Bray, A Plea for the Peoples Good Old Cause (17 October, 1659).
  40. Anon., The Grand Concernments of England ensured (25 October, 1659). [132]
  41. William Bray, A Plea for the Peoples Fundamentall Liberties and Parliaments (c. 1660). 1
  42. Margaret Fell Fox, Womens Speaking Justified (c. 1666). [14]