1. Pocock later conceded that this characterisation was ‘a good deal too simple’, and acknowledged the Levellers’ propensity to advance their claims under the existing law: J.G.A. Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century: A Reissue with a Retrospect (1957; revised edn., Cambridge, 1987), pp. 126, 319–20, quotation at p. 126.
2. Perez Zagorin, A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954), p. 28.
3. For similar views, see Joseph Frank, The Levellers: A History of the Writings ofThree Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, WilliamWalwyn (1955; reprinted New York, 1969), pp. 82–4, 92–3;
4. Christopher Hill, ‘The Norman Yoke’, in his Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century (1958), p. 75;
5. H.N. Brailsford, The Levellers and the English Revolution, ed. Christopher Hill (Stanford, 1961), p. 107;