Sun12May - WAPPING - unveiling plaque to Leveller Thomas Rainsborough

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Come to the unveiling of the plaque to Leveller Thomas Rainsborough]
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Sun12May - WAPPING - unveiling plaque to Leveller Thomas Rainsborough
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Come to the unveiling of the plaque to Leveller Thomas Rainsborough with
Tony Benn, Councillor Rania Khan, John Rees and the Tower
Regiment(Rainsborough's Regiment) of the Sealed Knot.

Tower Hamlets Council are installing a plaque to Thomas Rainsborough in St
Johns Churchyard, Wapping, East London, the place of Rainsborough's burial
in 1648. The event is supported by the Leveller Association and the National
Civil War Centre in Newark. Rainsborough was the most senior officer in the
New Model Army to support the Levellers. He spoke in defence of the
Levellers Agreement of the People in the Putney Debates in 1647.

He was killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract
castle and his funeral became a mass demonstration of the Leveller movement.
It concluded at St Johns Churchyard, Wapping.

Join us on Sunday 12th May to remember the life of Thomas Rainsborough at
1pm in St Johns churchyard, where Wapping High Street meets Scadrett Street,
near the Town  of Ramesgate pub.