These Leveller musket holes now hidden behind Burford church sheds
Zardoz Greek
zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 18 23:36:26 BST 2015
340 of the Levellers were rounded up and imprisoned in Burford church, where carvings from the incarcerated soldiers can still be seen to this day. Next morning three of the leading Leveller soldiers were summarily executed against the church wall, where you can still see the bullet holes.
The following night Cromwell was treated to a slap-up banquet and awarded an honorary degree at Magdalen College Oxford. The last thing Cromwell wanted was democracy.
If the Levellers had held Cromwell to the pledge of a democratic army which he gave in the Solemn Engagement of New Market and Triplo Heath in 1647.... a very different world would have been inherited by the present generation.
http://www.cotswolds.info/places/burford.shtml
And though our present Rulers have setled themselves and their conquest-Government over us; yet are we farther from peace and reconciliation then ever: the discontents and dissatisfactions amongst the people in the Kings time, (which at length burst into desperate Warr) was not the hundreth part so great as the discontents that are now; and if so much did follow the lesser, can better be expected from the greater? never were there such repinings, heart-burnings, grudgings, envyings and cursings in England as now, against the present Governours and Government; never such fraction and division into parties, banding, biting, countermining and plotting one against another for preheminency and majority then now; and of all this nothing is the cause, but this way of force and martiall obtrusion: And can it be imagined such counterplottings, repinings and divisions can be with safety and peace ? it is impossible : Insurrections, tumults, revoltings, war and
commotions are the proper issues of the wayes of such violence, and no better is to be expected : none but intruders, usurpers and tyrants can be for the way of force ; such as would be but servants to the people, and not make the people their servants, cannot but abhor it, and lay down their glory at the feet of the people : these (that now ramp and rage over us) were they other than Tyrants, could do no lesse : they draw near it indeed in words, but are as far as hell from it in actions ; they vote and declare the People the supreme Power, and the originall of all just Authority; pretend the promotion of an Agreement of the people, stile this the First yeer of Englands Freedom, intitle their Government a Free State, and yet none more violent, bloudy and perverse enemies thereto; for not under pains of death, and confiscation of lands and goods, may any man challenge and promote those rights of the nation, so lately pretended to by themselves : if we
ask them a Fish, they give us a Scorpion, if bread, they give us a stone.
http://www.bilderberg.org/land/case.htm
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On Sun, 17/5/15, Zardoz Greek zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk [Diggers350] <Diggers350-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [Diggers350] Levellers memory still being extinguished today!
To: "diggers350" <diggers350 at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "tony" <tony at cultureshop.org.uk>
Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2015, 15:27
At Levellers day yesterday I was disgusted
to see the spot completely built over on the outside of the
south side of the chancel of Burford church, where back in
the 1990s I marvelled at the bullet holes where Cromwell had
the three soldiers, Thompson, Perkins Church, executed by
firing squad which had been preserved and amplified by
carved arrows pointing out the bullet marks, obscured by two
new wooden sheds which made at impossible, for the first
time in 365 years, to see the evidence of this pernicious
act.
Even at the time an
enormous amount of effort was put into black propaganda
pamphlets distorting the true account of Cromwell's
treachery and the justice of the Leveller soldiers'
cause.
I was the first person to digitise
'The Case Of The Army Truly Stated' since copied
many places elsewhere...
http://www.bilderberg.org/land/case.htm
So
I
walked into the church where a Dutch man
with a badge approached me I asked, "what are those
sheds for which are covering up the bullet holes where the
Leveller soldiers were shot?"
"Oh
there never were any bullet holes", he told me.
"That's just a myth".
"I
saw them with my own eyes a few years ago", I
explained. But he would have none of it walked off to have
his lunch muttering something about that was what he was
told. All record of the bullet holes has also gone from the
colour guide to Burford Church which you can buy there and
there are no longer any postcards of them available
either!
Expunged from history.
Someone does not want the Levellers story told
so even more reason so read it, in the Brailsford book, and
tell your kids :-)
https://wayfarerseight.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/day-10-burford-bourton-on-the-water-castle-combe/
http://churches-of-christ.ws/denne.htm
--- On Mon, 18/5/15, Zardoz Greek <zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Zardoz Greek <zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Leveller musket holes now hidden behind Burford church sheds
> To: "Zardoz Greek" <zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Monday, 18 May, 2015, 22:29
> 340 of the Levellers were rounded up
> and imprisoned in Burford church, where carvings from the
> incarcerated soldiers can still be seen to this day. Next
> morning three of the leading Leveller soldiers were
> summarily executed against the church wall, where you can
> still see the bullet holes.
> The following night Cromwell was treated to a slap-up
> banquet and awarded an honorary degree at Magdalen College
> Oxford. The last thing Cromwell wanted was democracy.
> If the Levellers had held Cromwell to the pledge of a
> democratic army which he gave in the Solemn Engagement of
> New Market and Triplo Heath in 1647.... a very different
> world would have been inherited by the present generation.
> http://www.cotswolds.info/places/burford.shtml
>
> And though our present Rulers have setled themselves and
> their conquest-Government over us; yet are we farther from
> peace and reconciliation then ever: the discontents and
> dissatisfactions amongst the people in the Kings time,
> (which at length burst into desperate Warr) was not the
> hundreth part so great as the discontents that are now; and
> if so much did follow the lesser, can better be expected
> from the greater? never were there such repinings,
> heart-burnings, grudgings, envyings and cursings in England
> as now, against the present Governours and Government; never
> such fraction and division into parties, banding, biting,
> countermining and plotting one against another for
> preheminency and majority then now; and of all this nothing
> is the cause, but this way of force and martiall obtrusion:
> And can it be imagined such counterplottings, repinings and
> divisions can be with safety and peace ? it is impossible :
> Insurrections, tumults, revoltings, war and
> commotions are the proper issues of the wayes of such
> violence, and no better is to be expected : none but
> intruders, usurpers and tyrants can be for the way of force
> ; such as would be but servants to the people, and not make
> the people their servants, cannot but abhor it, and lay down
> their glory at the feet of the people : these (that now ramp
> and rage over us) were they other than Tyrants, could do no
> lesse : they draw near it indeed in words, but are as far as
> hell from it in actions ; they vote and declare the People
> the supreme Power, and the originall of all just Authority;
> pretend the promotion of an Agreement of the people, stile
> this the First yeer of Englands Freedom, intitle their
> Government a Free State, and yet none more violent, bloudy
> and perverse enemies thereto; for not under pains of death,
> and confiscation of lands and goods, may any man challenge
> and promote those rights of the nation, so lately pretended
> to by themselves : if we
> ask them a Fish, they give us a Scorpion, if bread, they
> give us a stone.
> http://www.bilderberg.org/land/case.htm
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 17/5/15, Zardoz Greek zardos777 at yahoo.co.uk
> [Diggers350] <Diggers350-noreply at yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
>
> Subject: [Diggers350] Levellers memory still being
> extinguished today!
> To: "diggers350" <diggers350 at yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: "tony" <tony at cultureshop.org.uk>
> Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2015, 15:27
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At Levellers day yesterday I
> was disgusted
> to see the spot completely built over on the outside of
> the
> south side of the chancel of Burford church, where back in
> the 1990s I marvelled at the bullet holes where Cromwell
> had
> the three soldiers, Thompson, Perkins Church,
> executed by
> firing squad which had been preserved and amplified by
> carved arrows pointing out the bullet marks, obscured by
> two
> new wooden sheds which made at impossible, for the first
> time in 365 years, to see the evidence of this pernicious
> act.
>
> Even at the time an
> enormous amount of effort was put into black propaganda
> pamphlets distorting the true account of Cromwell's
> treachery and the justice of the Leveller soldiers'
> cause.
> I was the first person to digitise
> 'The Case Of The Army Truly Stated' since copied
> many places elsewhere...
> http://www.bilderberg.org/land/case.htm
>
> So
> I
> walked into the church where a Dutch man
> with a badge approached me I asked, "what are those
> sheds for which are covering up the bullet holes where the
> Leveller soldiers were shot?"
> "Oh
> there never were any bullet holes", he told me.
> "That's just a myth".
> "I
> saw them with my own eyes a few years ago", I
> explained. But he would have none of it walked off to
> have
> his lunch muttering something about that was what he was
> told. All record of the bullet holes has also gone from
> the
> colour guide to Burford Church which you can buy there and
> there are no longer any postcards of them available
> either!
> Expunged from history.
> Someone does not want the Levellers story told
> so even more reason so read it, in the Brailsford book,
> and
> tell your kids :-)
>
> https://wayfarerseight.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/day-10-burford-bourton-on-the-water-castle-combe/
>
> http://churches-of-christ.ws/denne.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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