Lilburne
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She also confirmed that the cloak she wore for the visit was steeped in British free-speech history and referenced 17th-century political figures John Lilburne and Richard Cromwell.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2019
Holding a lager between fingers tattooed "Freeborn", in tribute to Sunderland's 17th-century "leveller" Freeborn John Lilburne, Turner certainly doesn't look like a Tory.
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2013
John Lilburne - or Freeborn John- was a hero to many non-conformists All presses required licensing and Lilburne's pamphlets satirising state religion were effectively unpublishable in England.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2012
Already Blackpool's Ian Holloway is looking like football's equivalent of John Lilburne, history's leading Leveller.
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2010
Lilburne made a spirited defence, winding up with a solemn peroration in which he invoked God Almighty to guide and direct the jury "to do that which is just, and for His glory."
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
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