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Sir John Wildman
English agitator
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Sir John Wildman (born c. 1621–23—died June 4, 1693) was an English agitator and Leveler associate who outlasted vicissitudes under three British kings and two protectors. Wildman was of obscure ancestry. Educated at Cambridge, he first came into prominence in October 1647, when he helped to write the first Agreement of the People. These expressed the political program of the democratic republican, or Leveler, section of the army, which opposed all compromise with Charles I. In the debates that took place during 1647 in the general council of the army he defended this program against Henry Ireton and Oliver Cromwell. ...(100 of 361 words)