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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.

Background
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.

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.

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

Info gathered

 * Full text from Early English Books Online
 * The Case of the Armie Truly Stated (IA, OLL)
 * Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics
 * Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts (LoC)






 * Related articles
 * Putney Debates
 * Banbury mutiny
 * John Wildman
 * Thomas Rainsborough
 * Edward Sexby
 * Agitators
 * Levellers
 * An Agreement of the People


 * Deorphan
 * Surrey


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 * The Case of the Army Truly Stated
 * The Case of the Army, Truly Stated
 * The Case of the Armie, Truly Stated
 * The Case of the Army
 * The Case of the Armie
 * Case of the Army Truly Stated
 * Case of the Army, Truly Stated
 * Case of the Armie, Truly Stated
 * Case of the Army
 * Case of the Armie