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Inscriptions: The Levellers


Inscription to the Levellers

This inscription near Gloucester Green reads:

TO THE MEMORY OF
Private BIGGS and Private PIGGEN
EXECUTED LIKE THEIR LEVELLER COLLEAGUES
AT BURFORD BY FORCES LOYAL TO CROMWELL.
THEY WERE SHOT NEAR THIS PLACE
FOR THEIR PART IN THE SECOND MUTINY
OF THE OXFORD GARRISON
ON 18th SEPTEMBER 1649

 

History of the Levellers

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Last updated: 22 January, 2008

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