John Streater was an English soldier, political writer and printer.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,487 |
10 Facts About John Streater
1.
2.
An opponent of Oliver Cromwell, Streater was a "key republican critic of the regime" He was a leading example of the "commonwealthmen", one division among the English republicans of the period, along with James Harrington, Edmund Ludlow, and Henry Nevile.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,488 |
3.
John Streater was in the Parliamentary forces from 1642, seeing action at the Battle of Edgehill and Battle of Newbury.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,489 |
4.
John Streater served in the Parliamentary army in Ireland, as a quarter-master and engineer.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,490 |
6.
John Streater has been seen as taking radical ideas, such as those suppressed with the Levellers, onto a new plane:.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,492 |
7.
John Streater was making his republicanism occupy the space filled in the 1640s by Leveller ideas.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,493 |
8.
John Streater fell into considerable trouble for his opposition to Cromwell, but found a protector in John Desborough.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,494 |
9.
John Streater was arrested under a writ of Parliament, and argued a habeas corpus case, unsuccessfully, but using Sir Edward Coke's approach.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,495 |
10.
John Streater had a specific exemption from the 1662 Act regulating publishers.
| FactSnippet No. 1,616,496 |