by Captain William Thompson. Several mutineers were killed in the skirmish. Captain Thompson escaped only to be killed a few days later in another skirmish near the Diggers community at Wellingborough. The three other leaders – William Thompson's brother, Corporal Perkins, and John Church – were shot on 17 May 1649. This destroyed the Levellers' support base in the New Model Army, which by then was the major power in the land. Although Walwyn and Overton were released from the Tower, and Lilburne tried and acquitted, the Leveller cause had effectively been crushed. The Moderate The Moderate was a newspaper published by the Levellers from July 1648 to September 1649. Other usage In the 1724 Levellers Rising in Dumfries and Galloway, a number of men who took part in it were called "Dykebreakers" (a dyke being a Scottish term for a stone wall without cement). They first met at the annual Horse Fair at Kelton Hill. They were confronted by six troops of dragoons, after which nocturnal attacks continued for six months, making it the most serious rural disturbance in 18th-century Scotland. The most troublesome of these Levellers were transported to the plantations of North America as punishment. The word was also used in Ireland during the 18th century to describe a secret revolutionary society similar to the Whiteboys. See also List of liberal theorists English Dissenters Good Old Cause Green Ribbon Club A post restoration political club. The "Green Ribbon" was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil Wars in which many of the members had fought and was an overt reminder of their radical origins. Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who cited John Lilburne's trial in several opinions beginning with In re Oliver in 1948 Kett's Rebellion (1549) Chartism Republicanism in the United Kingdom Edward Sexby (1616–1658); English Puritan, soldier and Leveller; he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination Peasants' Revolt Libertarianism United States Bill of Rights Gerrard Winstanley Norman yoke Notes References HN Brailsford, The Levellers and the English Revolution, edited and prepared for publication by Christopher Hill. (Cresset Books, 1961; Spokesman Books, 2nd Edition, 1983). Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (1972) Mendle, Michael (ed), The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. . Morton, A.L (ed), Freedom in