Introduction

After the army took control of london in august 16 forty seven, a split began to open up in the ranks. Senior officers like fairfax and cromwell were with using the reconstituted parliament to put the king back on the throne under the heads of proposals. But there were some within the ranks who began to argue that king charles had shown himself to be arrogant, duplicitous and literally acting contrary to the will of god. And some of the new recruits had ulterior motives for joining. A good many of them were active levellers who planned to infiltrate the army and use it as an instrument of sweeping political reform. We are now entering the most radical,