The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution

by Michael Braddick

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought important legal battles for the rights to remain silent, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198803230
• ISBN13: 9780198803232
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"