Richard Overton

Pamphleteer who wrote satirical attacks on the Presbyterians and radical political tracts. He was a founder member of the Levellers. The earliest pamphlets attributed to him appeared around 1640-2 and are satirical attacks on Catholicism and the Laudian church reforms. In 1645, Overton published a series of satirical attacks on the Presbyterians. He also began to write political tracts expounding what were to become key principles of the Leveller movement: the abolition of tithes, monopolies and the excise, reform of the law, annual parliaments with paid state officials excluded from seeking election. The Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens, published in July 1646 and probably written by Overton in collaboration with William Walwyn, is generally regarded as the founding document of the Leveller movement

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Act Abolishing the Office of King	17 March 1649
Army Remonstrance	18 November 1648
Civil War - Regicide	6 December 1648 30 January 1649
Civil War - Restoration	4 April 1660
Commissions of Array	1 June 1642
Execution of Archbishop William Laud	10 January 1645
Execution of Charles I	30 January 1649
Execution of Thomas Wentworth	12 May 1641
Four Bills	24 December 1647
Grand Remonstrance	22 November 1641
Heads of Proposals	22 September 1647
Instrument of Government	16 December 1653
Militia Ordinance	7 December 1641
Naseby	14 June 1645
National Covenant	27 February 1638
Newcastle Proposals	1 July 1646
Nineteen Propositions	1 June 1642
Petition of Right	7 June 1628
Petition of the Leveller Women	11 September 1649
Putney Debates	1 October 1647
Representation of the Army	5 June 1647
Root and Branch Petition	11 December 1640
Saffron Walden	1 May 1647
Scottish Prayer Book	23 July 1637
Short Parliament	13 April 1640
The Bishop's War	1 January 1639
The Five Members	4 January 1642
The Second Civil War	22 February 1648
The Self Denying Ordinance	19 December 1644
Treaty of Uxbridge	29 January 1645