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abolition agricultural artisans attempt became began big bourgeoisie bishops bourgeois bourgeoisie and gentry capital capitalist Cavaliers changes Charles I's Charles II Charles's CHRISTOPHER HILL Church Civil confiscated copyholders countryside Court Cromwell Cromwell's Crown demands depend discipline dominated economic England English Revolution estates expansion feudal fighting foreign policy freedom French Revolution gentlemen Gerrard Winstanley Government Grandees historians House of Commons independent interests Ireland James King labour land landlords landowners leaders Levellers liberties London lords mass ment merchants Model Army monarchy monopoly old order organised parasites Parliament Parliamentary peasantry peasants Petition of Right petty bourgeoisie Presbyterians profits Puritan rack rent reactionary régime religious rents restored restricted revolutionary royal Royalists ruling class seventeenth century sixteenth century small producers social order society Spain struggle taxes tenants tion to-day towns trade and industry Tudor Tudor period victory wages wanted wealth Winstanley yeomen