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
The pillorying of John Lilburne In 1637, protestant radical and small-time printer John Lilburne was thrown into Fleet Prison in London.
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
One man, for instance, named Lilburne, was brought before the Star Chamber, charged with publishing seditious pamphlets.
From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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