 The Levellers rejected history and law as presented by their contemporaries, holding instead to an "anti-Normanism" viewpoint.John Lilburne, for example, argued that Magna Carta contained only some of the freedoms that had supposedly existed under the Anglo-Saxons before being crushed by the Norman yoke.The Leveller Richard Overton described the charter as "a beggarly thing containing many marks of intolerable bondage".