1. A point also made by Glenn Burgess in ‘Protestant Polemic: The Leveller Pamphlets’, Parergon, 11 (1993), pp. 45–67 at p. 58.
2. For parallel discussions, reaching somewhat different conclusions, see Margaret Sampson, ‘A Story “too Tedious to Relate at Large”?: Response to the Levellers, 1647–53’, Pararegon, 5 (1987), pp. 135–54
3. and John Sanderson, ‘But the People’s Creatures’: The Philosophical Basis of the English Civil War (Manchester, 1989), pp. 118–27.
4. Mark A. Kishlansky, The Rise of the New Model Army (Cambridge, 1979). By ‘Independent alliance’, I am referring to the broad alliance described by
5. Jason Peacey in ‘John Lilburne and the Long Parliament’, HJ, 43 (2000), pp. 625–45.