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To Burford, where on 13 May 1649 Cromwell launched a night attack on a Leveller-inspired mutiny in the New Model Army, preparatory to its departure for Ireland. (The episode features in #Dominion...)
340 men were imprisoned by Cromwell overnight - one of them, Anthony Sedley, scratched his name on the leadwork of the font, & described himself as a ‘prisner’. 3 of the mutineers were subsequently shot in the churchyard. A plaque commemorates them as Leveller martyrs. 
Burford Church is also notable for featuring a Green Man & this enigmatic sculpture, high on the tower. It was long taken to portray the flight of the Holy Family, but may originally have portrayed the Romano-Gallic horse goddess, Epona, with 2 attendants. It’s certainly v old...
