Leaders of the People Studies in Democratic History
By Joseph Clayton
Length8h 44m
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Excerpt: "The names of the seventeen men, here named "Leaders of the People," are for the most part familiar in our mouths as household words. Those who triumphed, like Anselm and Stephen Langton; or whose cause triumphed, like Simon of Montfort, Eliot, Pym and Hampden, are beyond any loss of fame. Those who in high place quitted themselves like men and died game (if the phrase may be permitted), as did Thomas Becket and Sir Thomas More, have, for all time, deservedly their reward. The unsuccessful rebels, FitzOsbert (called Longbeard), Wat Tyler, Jack Cade and Robert Ket, are hard put to get rid of the obloquy heaped upon them by contemporary authority; while the later rebels, equally unsuccessful, Lilburne, Winstanley, Major Cartwright and Ernest Jones, relying on the pen rather than the sword, escaped the hangman, and in so doing narrowly escaped oblivion. Good Bishop Grosseteste, living out his long life, thwarted often, but unmartyred, enjoys the reputation commonly awarded to conscientious public servants who die in harness."
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateMar 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy 1093–1109
3Thomas of Canterbury The Defender of the Poor 1162–1170
4William FitzOsbert, called Longbeard The First English Agitator 1196
5Stephen Langton and the Great Charter 1207–1228
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6Bishop Grosseteste, the Reformer 1235–1253
7Simon of Montfort and the English Parliament 1258–1265
8Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt 1381
9Jack Cade, the Captain of Kent 1450
10Sir Thomas More and the Freedom of Conscience 1529–1535
11Robert Ket and The Norfolk Rising 1549
12Eliot, Hampden, Pym, and the Supremacy of the Commons. 1625–1643
13John Lilburne and the Levellers 1647–1653
14Winstanley the Digger 1649–1650
15Major Cartwright “The Father of Reform” 1775–1824
16Ernest Jones and Chartism 1838–1854
17CONCLUSION
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