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The germ of the Levelling movement must be sought for among the Agitators, men of strong republican views, and the name Leveller first appears in a letter of the 1st of November 1647, although it was undoubtedly in existence as a nickname before this date (Gardiner, Great Civil War, iii.
Levellers, for they intend to sett all things straight, and rayse a parity and community in the kingdom." The Levellers first became prominent in 1647 during the protracted and unsatisfactory negotiations between the king and the parliament, and while the relations between the latter and the army were very strained.
During the twelve months which immediately preceded the execution of the king the Levellers conducted a lively agitation in favour of the ideas expressed in the Agreement of the people, and in January 1648Lilburne was arrested for using seditious language at a meeting in London.
THE LEVELLERS: A CHRONOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY By Roderick Moore The members of the political movement known to history as the Levellers were active for four years in the 1640s, during the English Civil War.
Colonel Thomas Rainsborough (M.P. for Droitwich) emerges as the highest-ranking Leveller sympathiser in the Army.
Levellers present the second Agreement of the People to the General Council of Officers, which rejects it because of proposals for religious toleration.
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