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Leaders of the People

by Joseph Clayton

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy 1093–1109
  4. 4Thomas of Canterbury — The Defender of the Poor 1162–1170
  5. 5William FitzOsbert, Called Longbeard — The First English Agitator 1196
  6. 6Stephen Langton and the Great Charter 1207–1228
  7. 7Bishop Grosseteste, the Reformer 1235–1253
  8. 8Simon of Montfort and the English Parliament 1258–1265
  9. 9Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt 1381
  10. 10Jack Cade, the Captain of Kent 1450
  11. 11Sir Thomas More and the Freedom of Conscience 1529–1535
  12. 12Robert Ket and the Norfolk Rising 1549
  13. 13Eliot, Hampden, Pym, and the Supremacy of the Commons. 1625–1643
  14. 14John Lilburne and the Levellers 1647–1653
  15. 15Winstanley the Digger 1649–1650
  16. 16Major Cartwright — “The Father of Reform” 1775–1824
  17. 17Ernest Jones and Chartism 1838–1854
  18. 18Conclusion

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