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Part One: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Levellers Refuse to Invade Ireland

The levellers refuse to invade ireland. Because they don't get a democratic republic, so they refuse orders. And some of em get court martialled. Some of em get executed. I believe that sometimes they would make the soldiers draw lots and then the person who draws the short lot gets executed as a way to like, punish the whole union unit, or ever. Every time a leveller died during this, the mourners would line up and they would wear black and sea green ribbons and bundles of rosemary. At one funeral for an executed soldier, his coffin was adorned and rosemary dipped in blood,. which apparently, the association of rosemary and remembering the dead goes

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