Green Plaque № 12554

Wapping High Street, London, E1W 2PL

Thomas Rainsborough Was Buried In This Churchyard On The 14th November 1648 After A Funeral Procession Organised By The Leveller Movement. Rainsborough Was A Spokesman For The Levellers And A Colonel In The New Model Army. He Was Killed By A Royalist Raiding Party During The Siege Of Pontefract. On The Day Of The Funeral A Leveller Leaflet Recorded The Inscription Of Rainsborough's Tomb. It Proclaimed Rainsborough Had Made 'King, Lords, Commons, Judges Shake, Cities And Committees Quake'. He Was