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cause_n	hear_v	lord_n	see_v	2,877	5	3.4356	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82090	A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England, directed to all that call themselves, or are called Lords of Manors, through this nation; that have begun to cut, or that through fear and covetousness, do intend to cut down the woods and trees that grow upon the commons and waste land.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing D595; Thomason E557_9; ESTC R205824	7,119	8

by the Sword is not set up by the King of Righteousness to be his Law but by Coveteousness the great god of the world who hath been permitted to raign for a time times and dividing of time and his government draws to the period of the last term of his allotted time and then the Nations shall see the glory of that Government that shall rule in Righteousness without either Sword or Spear And seeing further the power of Righteousness in our hearts seeking the Livelihood of others as well as our selves hath drawn forth our bodies to begin to dig and plough in the Commons and waste Land for the Reasons already declared And seeing and finding our selves poor wanting Food to feed upon while we labor the Earth to cast in Seed and to wait tell the first Crop comes up and wanting Ploughs Carts Corn and such materials to plant the Commons withal we are willing to declare our condition to you and to all that have the Treasury of the Earth locked up in your Bags Chests and Barns and will offer up nothing to this publike Treasury but will rather see your fellow Creatures starve for want of Bread that have an equal right to it with your selves by the Law of Creation But this by the way we onely declare to you and to all that follow the subtle art of buying and selling the Earth with her Fruits meerly to get the Treasury thereof into their hands to lock it up from them to whom it belongs that so such coveteous proud unrighteous selfish flesh may be left without excuse in the day of Judgment And therefore the main thing we aym at and for which we declare our Resolutions to go forth and act is this To lay hold upon and as we stand in need to cut and fell and make the best advantage we can of the Woods and Trees that grow upon the Commons To be a stock for our selves and our poor Brethren through the Land of England to plant the Commons withal and to provide us bread to eat till the Fruit of our labors in the Earth bring forth increase and we shall meddle with none of your Proprieties but what is called Commonage till the Spirit in you make you cast up your Lands and Goods which were got and still is kept in your hands by murder and theft and then we shall take it from the Spirit that hath conquered you and not from our Swords which is an abominable and unrighteous power and a destroyer of the Creation But the Son of man comes not to destroy but to save And we are moved to send forth this Declaration abroad to give notice to every one whom it concerns in regard we hear and see that some of you that have been Lords of Manors do cause the Trees and Woods that grow upon the Commons which you pretend a Royalty unto to be cut down and sold for your own private use whereby the Common Land which your own mouths doe say belongs to the poor is impoverished and the poor oppressed people robbed of their Rights while you give them cheating words by telling some of our poor oppressed Brethren That those of us that have begun to Dig and Plough up the Commons will hinder the poor and so blinde their eyes that they see not their Priviledge while you and the rich Free-holders make the most profit of the Commons by your over-stocking of them with Sheep and Cattle and the poor that have the name to own the Commons have the least share therein nay they are checked by you if they cut Wood Heath Turf or Furseys in places about the Common where you disallow Therefore we are resolved to be cheated no longer not be held under the slavish fear of you no longer seing the Earth was made for us as well as for you And if the Common Land belongs to us who are the poor oppressed surely the woods that grow upon the Commons belong to us likewise therefore we are resolved to try the uttermost in the light of reason to know whether we shall be free men or slaves If we lie still and let you steale away our birthrights we perish and if we Petition we perish also though we have paid taxes given free quarter and ventured our lives to preserve the Nations freedom as much as you and therefore by the law of contract with you freedom in the land is our portion as well as yours equal with you And if we strive for freedom and your murdering governing Laws destroy us we can but perish Therefore we require and we resolve to take both Common Land and Common woods to be a livelihood for us and look upon you as equal with us not above us knowing very well that England the land of our Nativity is to be a common Treasury of livelihood to all without respect of persons So then we declare unto you that do intend to cut our Common Woods and Trees that you shall not do it unlesse it be for a stock for us as aforesaid and we to know of it by a publick declaration abroad that the poor oppressed that live there abouts may take it and employ it for their publike use therefore take notice we have demanded it in the name of the Commons of England and of all the Nations of the world it being the righteous freedom of the Creation Likewise we declare to you that have begun to cut down our Common Woods and Trees and to sell and carry away the same for your private use that you shall forbear and go no farther hoping that none that are friends to the Common-wealth of England will endeavour to buy any of those Common Trees and Woods of any of those Lords of Mannors so called who have by the murdering and cheating law of the sword stoln the Land from yonger brothers who have by the law of Creation a standing portion in the Land as well and equall with others Therefore we hope all Wood-mongers will disown all such private merchandize as being a robbing of the poor oppressed and take notice that they have been told our resolution But if any of you that are VVood-mongers will buy it of the poor and for their use to stock the Commons from such as may be appointed by us to sell it you shall have it quietly without diminution but if you will slight us in this thing blame us not if we make stop of the Carts you send and convert the VVoods to our own use as need requires it being our own equal with him that calls himself the Lord of the Mannor and not his peculiar right shutting us out but he shall share with us as a fellow-creature For we say our purpose is to take those Common Woods to fell them now at first to be a stock for our selves and our children after us to plant and manure the Common land withall for we shall endeavour by our righteous acting not to leave the earth any longer intangled unto our