The most important arrest was that of Major Wildman, the undoubted chief of the Levelling section of the conspiracy.

When arrested in Wiltshire, he was found in the act of dictating a "Declaration of the Free and Well-affected People of England now in arms against the tyrant Oliver Cromwell, Esq." He was imprisoned in Chepstow Castle.

Sexby, the most active man after Wildman in the Levelling or Anabaptist section of the conspiracy, escaped and went abroad.

Adjutant-General Allen, and others less deeply implicated, were dismissed from their posts in the Army.
Harrison was confined in the Isle of Portland, Carew in St.Mawes, in Cornwall, and Lord Grey of Groby in Windsor Castle.

None of all the Republicans, higher or lower, it was remarked, suffered any punishment beyond such seclusion or dismissal from the service.
Clemency on that side was always Cromwell's policy.[1] [Footnote 1: Godwin, IV.