Levellers' day commemorates the day 17 May 1649, three soldiers
were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard,
Oxfordshire. They belonged to a movement popularly known as the
Levellers, with beliefs in civil rights and religious
tolerance.A good day of traditional marching and chanting and
changing the world. During the Civil War, the Levellers fought
on Parliament’s side, they had at first seen Cromwell as a
liberator, but now saw him as a dictator. They were prepared to
fight against him for their ideals and he was determined to
crush them. Over 300 of them were captured by Cromwell’s troops
and locked up in Burford church. Three were led out into the
churchyard to be shot as ringleaders.