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The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.

\"It went all right,\" [Richard Overton] said. \"I hope he keeps on talking some good words about me.\" \"Even though this time of war is coming to a close,\" the president said, \"our time of service to our newest veterans has only just begun.\" During his tribute to Overton, [Obama] told all veterans, \"We will stand by your side, whether you're seven days out or, like Richard, 70 years out.\"

\"It went all right,\" [Richard Overton] said. \"I hope he keeps on talking some good words about me.\" \"Even though this time of war is coming to a close,\" the president said, \"our time of service to our newest veterans has only just begun.\" During his tribute to Overton, [Obama] told all veterans: \"We will stand by your side, whether you're seven days out or, like Richard, 70 years out.\"

Historians have been divided about the origins of Leveller theories concerning natural rights, equality, and democracy. This article gives an account of the monistic natural philosophy outlined by Richard Overton in his pre-Leveller work Mans Mortalitie (1643/44) and demonstrates how his heretical conception of creation provided a metaphysical foundation for his political ideas about the liberty of the subject. Comparisons and contrasts are made with the hermetic idealism of Henry and Thomas Vaughan and the spiritual materialism of Gerrard Winstanley. The most illuminating comparison amongst contemporaries, however, is found in Milton's poetic vision of the cosmos in Paradise Lost (1667).

[Richard Overton] chatted with The Post in November and had this to say when asked about his longevity: \"You have to ask God about that. He brought me here and he's taking care of me, and nothing I can do about it, later adding, \"I can talk about what he's doing for me. \"War's nothing to be into, Overton told USA Today in 2013. \"You don't want to go into the war if you don't have to. But I had to go. I enjoyed it after I'd went and come back, but I didn't enjoy it when I was over there. I had to do things I didn't want to do. He's become a staple at local veteran and civic events over the years. Overton served as the grand marshal in Austin's Veteran's Day Parade in November. One of his more recent honors came from the Austin Community College, which gave him an honorary degree in December.

\"If he's lived that long, he must be pretty lucky,\" [Hill] says. \"I'm looking forward to have a chance to meet him and hear his story.\" \"It's kind of a miracle to have anyone alive at 107,\" he says. \"But it's a real miracle to have two African American World War II veterans in the same state.\" [Richard Overton] volunteered for service in 1942. He joined the Army's 188th Aviation Engineer Battalion and was propelled into action in Guam and other spots around the Pacific. There are some things he remembers, like driving trucks full of soldiers and supplies and trees thick with Japanese snipers. A good marksman, he was assigned to escort officers -- a job he resented. \"I didn't want to be with the officers,\" he says. \"That's the first one they wanted to kill.\"