Levellers

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Overton, Richard. An arrow against all tyrants and tyranny, shot from the prison of Newgate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever. Wherein the original, rise, extent, and end of magisterial power, the natural and national rights, freedoms and properties of mankind are discovered and undeniably maintained; the late oppressions and encroachments of the Lords over the commons legally (by the fundamental laws and statutes of this realm, as also by a memorable extract out of the records of the Tower of London) condemned; the late Presbyterian ordinance (invented and contrived by the diviners, and by the motion of Mr Bacon and Mr Tate read in the House of Commons) examined, refuted, and exploded, as most inhumane, tyrannical and barbarous. London: Private printing, 1646. Online Version
Anonymous. To the right honovrable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of Thousands wel-affected persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the Borough of Southwark Hamblets, and places adjacent. London: Private printing, 1648. Online Version

Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. London: Temple Smith, 1972.
Sharp, Andrew (ed). The English Levellers. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
Mendle, Michael (ed). The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State. Cambridge: CUP, 2001
Lingard, John. "The Commonwealth" A history of England from the first invasion of the Romans to the accession of William & Mary in 1688. By John Lingard. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2005.