At the Corkbush Field rendezvous near Ware, two regiments appeared with Leveller 'Agreement of the People' manifestos in their hats against orders. Cromwell personally rode in and tore the papers from the soldiers' hats. The mutiny was crushed on the spot; the ringleader Private Richard Arnald was shot. The incident marked the beginning of Cromwell's suppression of the radical Leveller movement within the Army.
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