User talk:Dr V

Diggers (True Levellers)
You wrote in the section Wellingborough, Northamptonshire that:
 * This colony was probably founded as a result of contact with the Surrey Diggers. In late March 1650 four emissaries ...

But if Captain William Thompson, the leader of the failed "Banbury mutiny," was killed in a skirmish close to the community by soldiers loyal to Oliver Cromwell in May 1649 then the settlement must have existed almost a year before the four emissaries arrived.

If you wish to reply to this point, please do so on my Talk page --Philip Baird Shearer 22:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)