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4 unusual facts about Marchamont Needham


Good Old Cause

Those who disagreed with expedient political compromises made during the period of the Commonwealth, went back to the Army's own declarations during the wars, to republican pamphlets like those produced by John Lilburne, Marchamont Needham and John Milton.

Levellers

The public 'identification' was largely due to the aspersions by Marchamont Needham, the author of the newspaper Mercurius Pragmaticus.

Marchamont Needham

Despite ferocious pamphlets written about him, he was allowed to return to London under the new regime's relatively open climate for writers, which also saw his friend John Milton released from prison.

The publication in the Britanicus of Charles I's personal letters which were captured after the battle of Naseby was a significant propaganda coup for the parliamentary forces.



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