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The Case of the Armie Truly ﬅated
Author	John Wildman; (anonymously)
Original title	The Case of the Armie Truly ﬅated, Together with the Miſchiefes and Dangers that are Imminent, and ſome ſuitable Remedies, Humbly Propoſed by the Agents of Five Regiments of Horſe, to Their Reſpective Regiments, and the Whole Army. As it was Preſented by Mr. Edmond Bear and Mr. William Ruſſell, October 15, 1647. Unto His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Encloſed in a Letter from the ſaid Agents: Alſo His Excellencies Honourable Anſwer Thereunto.
Published	15 October 1647

The Case of the Armie Truly Stated was a pamphlet printed and distributed among the Levellers, a radical faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army during the English Civil War.

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The Grandees, a conservative faction of the New Model Army, consisted of high-ranking officers who hailed from the landed gentry of England. The Grandee officers drafted a compromise with the royalist faction of the Civil War under King Charles I known as the Heads of Proposals. The Heads of Proposals would have allowed the King to remain on the throne while giving the House of Commons a greater measure of authority, but with the stipulation that the King and the House of Lords would retain the power of veto.^{[citation needed]}

This agreement drew much criticism and discontent among the New Model Army rank-and-file soldiery, many of whom were influenced by the radical ideas of John Lilburne and the Agitators. They viewed it as a betrayal of principles declared by the Army in the Solemne Engagement and the Declaration of June the 14.^[1]^: 64

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At least three variations of The Case of the Armie are extant, housed in the British Museum and the Huntington Library.^[1]^: 64 The document was published anonymously, but it is thought by modern scholars—and by Henry Ireton himself—that John Wildman was the author.^[1]^: 64 The pamphlet was printed on or around 18 October 1647.^[1]^: 64

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Haller, William; Davies, Godfrey, eds. (1964). The Leveller Tracts: 1647-1653. Peter Smith Publisher. ISBN 0844612189.

Info gathered edit

N Kishlansky, Mark (November 1978). "The Case of the Army Truly Stated: The Creation of the New Model Army". Past & Present. 81: 51–74. JSTOR 650363.
Braddick, Michael J. (September 1991). "Popular Politics and Public Policy: The Excise Riot at Smitheld in February 1647 and its Aftermath". The Historical Journal. 34 (3): 597–626. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00017519.
Como, David R. (December 2021). "Printing the Levellers: Clandestine Print, Radical Propaganda, and the New Model Army". The Library. 22 (4): 441–486. doi:10.1093/library/22.4.441.
Norris, Michael A. (February 2003). "Edward Sexby, John Reynolds and Edmund Chillenden: Agitators, 'sectarian grandees' and the relations of the New Model Army with London in the spring of 1647". Historical Research. 76 (191): 30–53. doi:10.1111/1468-2281.d01-15.
Vernon, Elliot; Baker, Philip (March 2010). "What was the first Agreement of the People?". The Historical Journal. 53 (1): 39–59. doi:10.1017/S0018246X09990574.
Wallis, Louis (April 1946). "Review: The Revolution in England". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 5 (3): 415–418. JSTOR 3483505.

Mendle, Michael (2001). The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers and the English State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521650151. OL 7750140M.
Vernon, Elliot (2012). The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution. Springer. ISBN 9781137291707. OL 37164495M.
Kennedy, D.E. (2017). The English Revolution 1642-1649. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780333984208. OL 35922543M.
Scott, Jonathan (2000). England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521423342. OL 43847M.
Y Haller, William; Davies, Godfrey, eds. (1964). The Leveller Tracts: 1647-1653. Peter Smith Publisher. ISBN 0844612189.

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