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- " Freeborn " is a term associated with political agitator John Lilburne (1614–1657), a member of the Levellers, a 17th-century English political party. As a word, "freeborn" means born free, rather than in slavery or bondage or vassalage.
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May 31, 2013 · The ‘free-born Englishman’ was not merely a rhetorical trope, but a key term in Lilburne’s evolving political theory, which credited all free-born Englishmen with uniform political rights. He founded this novel claim on the supposedly ancient ‘birthright’ of the common law.
Nov 29, 2004 · For Lilburne, all Englishmen are ‘free-born’; his radicalism lies in his assertion that this free status is to be seen as political status. The phrase ‘free-born Englishman’ comes to be a signifier of a uniform and inclusive citizenship, and the word ‘subject’ drops out of Lilburne's vocabulary.
- Rachel Foxley
- 2004
The Free-Born Englishman. A chapter from a book shortly to be published by Gollancz on the formation of the working class. When reform agitation resumed in 1816, it was not possible, either in London or in the industrial North or Midlands, to employ a ‘Church and King’ mob to terrorise the Radicals. From time to time, between 1815 and 1850 ...
t. e. " Freeborn " is a term associated with political agitator John Lilburne (1614–1657), a member of the Levellers, a 17th-century English political party. As a word, "freeborn" means born free, rather than in slavery or bondage or vassalage.
Thus Lilburne amplifies his claim to be a free man with the phrase ‘a free-borne Denizen of England’21, where the added ingredient seems to be the reference to Englishness, backed up by the connotations of birth in England (free-born) and residency in England (denizen).
- Rachel Foxley
- 2004
Over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the “invented tradition” of the freeborn Englishman became a central feature of Anglo-American political culture and a major building block in the sense of nationhood that was then being consolidated in Britain.
One we may call that of the Englishman as rights-bearer, the other that of the English freeman as understood in a neo-Roman sense. The first involves the elaboration of certain rights and liberties as being
