Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic HistoryClayton, Joseph
History
Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History
Clayton, Joseph
Democracy; Great Britain -- History
Langton, Stephen, appointed to archbishopric of Canterbury against
King John’s wishes by Innocent III., 81, 82;
is driven into exile by the king, 82;
returns six years later, 85;
starts the movement for the Great Charter, 86;
frames articles for the Charter, 90;
disagreement with papal legate, 94;
works for preservation of peace during early years of Henry
III.’s reign, 95;
his character and place in history, 96
Laud, Archbishop, 252, 253, 256, 257, 260, 262, 272
Legge, John, 147, 160
le Despenser, Hugh, Justiciar, 126, 128, 134
Lilburne, John, apprenticed to a cloth merchant in London and becomes
friend of Prynne, 278;
charged before Star Chamber with circulating unlicensed books, and
sentenced to be whipped, pilloried, and imprisoned, 278;
released by order of Long Parliament, 278;
fights at Edgehill and Marston Moor, where he is taken
prisoner, 278;
leaves army in 1645 rather than take the Covenant, 279;
resists the tyranny of parliamentary government, 279;
heads the party in the army called the Levellers, 281;
again imprisoned and released in 1649, 282;
writes pamphlets against the government and is again
imprisoned, 284;
petition presented to parliament for his release, 284;
tried for treasonable writings, 287;
fined and banished, 288;
goes to Holland, and returns, without permission, to London,
in 1653, 289;
arrested and acquitted, 289;
again imprisoned by Cromwell for two years, 290;
converted to Quakerism, 290;
released and pensioned, 290;
dies at Eltham, 290
Litster, Geoffrey, follower of John Ball in Norfolk, 143, 146;
his death, 168, 217
Looney, 328
Lovett, 319, 322
Luard (quoted), 101–2
Lyons, Richard, 161
Macaulay, Lord (quoted), 264
Malpas, Philip, 185
Martin, Papal Legate, 110
Matthew of Westminster (quoted), 127
Maurice, C. E. (quoted), 95
Mendall, John, a name by which Jack Cade was known, 175
Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester, supporter of Duke of Suffolk, killed at
Portsmouth, 174
Montfort, Henry of, eldest son of Earl of Leicester, 133, 134
Montfort, Simon of, second son of Earl of Leicester, 132, 133
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