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in 1651 as subject to "perpetual banishment and confiscation", he died in exile on 8 September 1652. Despite the losses caused by the Civil Wars, in 1660 Robert
Leveson's annual income was still around £700, a comfortable income for the period, while he was closely involved in Staffordshire politics,
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broke out in June 1685. Although the revolt quickly collapsed, James used the opportunity to expand his army, and in August
Leveson's troop became part of a
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for seditious libel in June 1688, many of James' supporters now viewed his policies as going beyond toleration for
Catholicism into an assault on the
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Leveson was born on 12 July 1659, eldest of three sons of Sarah (d. 1707) and Robert Leveson (d. 1709), a wealthy merchant from
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