Richard Overton

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Richard Overton was a prominent 17th-century English pamphleteer and radical political thinker associated with the Leveller movement, known for his advocacy of religious toleration, civil liberties, and popular sovereignty.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English person
Leveller
pamphleteer
person
political writer
advocated civil liberties
equality before the law
freedom of conscience
limitations on state power
popular sovereignty
religious toleration
associatedWith New Model Army agitators
contemporaryOf John Lilburne
William Walwyn
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth circa 1600
detainedAt Newgate Prison
Tower of London
ethnicGroup English
familyName Overton
fieldOfWork civil liberties
freedom of conscience
political philosophy
popular sovereignty
religious controversy
floruit 1640s
genre political pamphlet
religious pamphlet
givenName Richard
influenced later democratic thought
traditions of civil libertarianism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Levellers
notableWork An Arrow Against All Tyrants
Mans Mortalitie
The Araignement of Mr. Persecution
occupation pamphleteer
political theorist
religious controversialist
opposed arbitrary imprisonment
episcopal church authority
monarchical absolutism
religious persecution
participantIn English Civil War era political debates
placeOfBirth Kingdom of England
politicalAlignment radical
republican
religiousBelief Independent
anti-clerical
wasImprisonedBy House of Lords

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Levellers notableMember Richard Overton
Agreement of the People draftedBy Richard Overton
William Walwyn associatedWith Richard Overton
John Lilburne associatedWith Richard Overton
An Arrow Against All Tyrants author Richard Overton