Leveller Tracts and Pamphlets

When editing is complete, these pamphlets will appear in the expanded second edition of the 7 volume collection of Leveller Tracts, 1638-1660. See the Combined Table of Contents of the collection to see what it will eventually contain. In the meantime, we are making them available here as individual pamphlets.

For more information about the Leveller Tract Project see this Summary.

An Anthology of Leveller Tracts: Agreements of the People, Petitions, Remonstrances, and Declarations (1646-1659)

[Draft: 14 July, 2016]

Introduction to the Collection

This collection of Leveller Tracts contains the main "Agreements of the People", Petitions, Remonstrances (or Complaints), and Declarations which were drawn up by…

Conference Readings: The Levellers and the Origins of Anglo-American Constitutionalism

“The Levellers and the Origins of Anglo-American Constitutionalism” [Revised: 28 Oct., 2016]

Table of Contents Key

T.78 [1646.10.12] (3.18) Richard Overton, An Arrow against all Tyrants and Tyranny (12 October 1646).

Tract number;…

Leveller Tract No. 104: John Lilburne, Jonahs Cry out of the Whales belly (26 July, 1647)

Date added: 7 November, 2018

This Leveller tract is part of the 7 volume collection Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660), 7 vols. Edited by David M. Hart and Ross Kenyon (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,…

Leveller Tract No. 282: Henry Parker, The Case of Shipmoney (Nov. 1640)

Leveller Tract No. 78: Richard Overton, An Arrow against all Tyrants and Tyranny (12 October 1646)

Date added: 29 May, 2018

Leveller Tract No. 7: Nick Froth the Tapster (May 1641)

Anon., The Lamentable Complaints of Nick Froth the Tapster (May 1641).

[Date added: Jan. 7, 2016]

This pamphlet will appear in the expanded second edition of the 7 volume collection of Leveller Tracts, 1638-1660. See the Combined…