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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96699	A vvatch-vvord to the city of London, and the Armie: wherein you may see that Englands freedome, which should be the result of all our victories, is sinking deeper under the Norman power, as appears by the relation of the unrighteous proceedings of Kingstone-Court against some of the Diggers at George-hill, under colour of law; but yet thereby the cause of the Diggers is more brightened and strengthened: so that every one singly may truly say what his freedome is, and where it lies. / By Jerrard Winstanly.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3057; Thomason E573_1; ESTC R206174	18,043	20

A WATCH-WORD TO The City of London AND THE ARMIE WHEREIN You may see that Englands freedome which should be the result of all our Victories is sinking deeper under the Norman power as appears by this relation of the unrighteous proceedings of Kingstone-Court against some of the Diggers at George-hill under colour of Law but yet thereby the cause of the Diggers is more brightened and strengthened so that every one singly may truly say what his freedome is and where it lies By Jerrard Winstanly When these clay-bodies are in grave and children stand in place This shewes we stood for truth and peace and freedom in our daies And true born sons we shall appear of England that 's our mother No Priests nor Lawyers wiles ●imbrace their slavery wee 'l discover LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Sign of the black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1649. To the City of London Freedome and Peace desired THou City of London I am one of thy sons by freedome and I do truly love thy peace while I had an estate in thee I was free to offer my Mite into thy publike Treasury Guild-hall for a preservation to thee and the whole Land but by thy cheating sons in the theeving art of buying and selling and by the burdens of and for the Souldiery in the beginning of the war I was beaten out both of estate and trade and forced to accept of the good will of friends crediting of me to live a Countrey-life and there likewise by the burthen of Taxes and much Free-quarter my weak back found the burthen heavier then I could bear yet in all the passages of these eight yeers troubles I have been willing to lay out what my Talent was to procure Englands peace inward and outward and yet all along I have found such as in words have professed the same cause to be enemies to me Not a full yeere since being quiet at my work my heart was filled with sweet thoughts and many things were revealed to me which I never read in books nor heard from the mouth of any flesh and when I began to speak of them some people could not bear my words and amongst those revelations this was one That the earth shall be made a common Treasury of livelihood to whole mankind without respect of persons and I had a voice within me bad me declare it all abroad which I did obey for I declared it by word of mouth wheresoever I came then I was made to write a little book called The new Law of righteousnesse and there in I declared it yet my mind was not at rest because nothing was acted and thoughts run in me that words and writings were all nothing and must die for action is the life of all and if thou dost not act thou dost nothing Within a little time I was made obedient to the word in that particular likewise for I tooke my spade and went and broke the ground upon George-hill in Surrey thereby declaring freedome to the Creation and that the earth must be set free from intanglements of Lords and Landlords and that it shall become a common Treasury to all as it was first made and given to the sonnes of men For which doing the Dragon presently casts a flood of water to drown the manchild even that freedom that now is declared for the old Norman Prerogative Lord of that Mannour M Drake caused me to be arrested for a trespasse against him in digging upon that barren Heath and the unrighteous proceedings of Kingstone Court in this businesse I have here declared to thee and to the whole land that you may consider the case that England is in all men have stood for freedom thou hast kept fasting daies and prayed in morning exercises for freedom thou hast given thanks for victories because hopes of freedome plentie of Petitions and A VVatch-word to the City of London and the Army WHereas we Henry Bickerstaffe Thomas Star and Jerrard VVinstanly were arrested into Kingstone Court by Thomas VVenman Ralph Ver●y and Richard VVinwood for a trespasse in digging upon George-hill in Surrey being the rights of Mr. Drake the Lord of that Mannour as they say we all three did appear the first Court day of our arrest and demanded of the Court what was laid to our Charge and to give answer thereunto our selves But the answer of your Conrt was this that you would not tell us what the Trespasse was unlesse we would fee an Attorney to speak for us we told them we were to plead our own cause for we knew no Lawyer that we could trust with this businesse we desired a copie of the Declaration and profered to pay for it and still you denied us unlesse we would fee an Attorney But in conclusion the Recorder of your Court told us the cause was not entred we appeared two Court daies after this and desired to see the Declaration and still you denied us unlesse we will fee an Attorney so greedy are these Attorneys after money more then to justifie a righteous cause we told them we could not ●●e any unlesse we would willfully break our Nationall Covenant which both Parliament and people have taken joyntly together to endeavour a Reformation And unlesse we would be professed Traytors to this Nation and Common-wealth of England by upholding the old Norman tyrannicall and destructive Lawes when they are to be cast out of equity and reason be the Moderator Then seeing you would not suffer us to speak one of us brought this following writing into your Court that you might read our answer because we would acknowledge all righteous proceedings in Law though some slander us and say we deny all Law because we deny the corruption in Law and endeavour a Reformation in our place and calling according to that Nationall Covenant and we know if your Lawes be built upon equity and reason you ought both to have heard us speak and read our answer for that is no righteous Law whereby to keep a Common-wealth in peace when one sort shall be suffered to speak and not another as you deal with us to passe sentence and execution upon us before both sides be heard to speak This principle in the forehead of your Laws foretells destruc●● to this Common-wealth for it declares that the Laws that foll●● such refusall are selfish and theevish and full of murder protecting ●● that get money by their Laws and crushing all others The writer hereof does require Mr. Drake as he is a 〈…〉 man therefore a man counted able to speak rationally to 〈…〉 cause of digging with me and if he shew a just and rationall 〈…〉 Lords of Mannours have to the Commons and that they have 〈◊〉 power from God to call it their right shutting out others 〈…〉 will write as much against it as ever I writ for this cause But if I 〈◊〉 by the Law of Righteousnesse that the poorest man hath as true a 〈◊〉 and just right to the Land