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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

violence arrest us judge condemn and execute us and yet will not suffer us to speak for our selves but you will force us to give money to our Enemies to speak for us surely you cannot say your cause is right but hereby you justifie our cause to be right because you are the Persecutors of a loving meek spirited people and so declare that the God you say that will blast us is covetousnesse vvhom you serve by your persecuting power Covetous might may overcome rationall right for a time But rationall right must conquer covetous might and that 's the life of mine The Law is righteous just and good when Reason is the rule But who so rules by the fleshly will declares himself a foole Well this same writing was delivered into their Court but they cast it away and would not read it and all was because I would not see an Atturney and then the next Court day following before there was any tryall of our cause for there was none suffered to speak but the Plaintiffe they passed a Iudgement and after that an Execution Now their Iury was made of rich Free-holders and such as stand strongly for the Norman power And though our digging upon that barren Common hath done the Common good yet this ●ury brings ●n damages of ten pounds a man and the charges of the Plaintiffe in their Court twenty nine shil●ing and a peny and this was their sentence and the passing of the Execution upon us And 2 dayes after for in this case they can end a cause speedily in their Court but when the Atturney and Lawyer● ge● money they keep a cause depending seven yeares to the utter undoing of the parties so unrighteous is the Law and Lawyers I say two dayes after they sent to execute the execution and they put Henry Beckarstaffe in prison but after three dayes Mr Drake released him again Beckarstaffe not knowing of it till the release came They seek after Thomas Star to imprison his body who is a poore man not worth ten pounds Then they came privately by day to Gerrard Winstanleys house and drove away foure Cowes I not knowing of it and some of the Lords Tenants ●ode to the next Town shouting the digger● were conquered the diggers were conquered Truly it is an easie thing to beat a man and cry conquest over him after his hands are tied as they tyed ours But if their cause be so good why will they not suffer us to speak and let reason and equity the foundation of righteous Lawes judge them and u● But strangers made rescue of those Cowes and drove them astray out of the Bailiffes hands so that the Bailiffes lost them but before the Bailiffes had lost the Cowes I hearing of it went to them and said here is my body take me that I may come to speak to those Normans that have stolne our land from us and let the Cowes go for they are none of mine and after some time they telling me that they had nothing against my body it was my goods they were to have then said I take my goods for the Cowes are not mine and so I went away and left them being quiet in my heart and filled with comfort within my self that the King of righteousnesse would cause this to work for the advancing of his own Cause which I prefer above estate or livelyhood Saying within my heart as I went along that if I could not get meat to eat I would feed upon bread milk and cheese and if they take the Cowes that I cannot feed on this or hereby make a breach between me and him that owns the Cowes then He feed upon bread and beere till the King of righteousnesse clear up my innocency and the justice of his own cause and if this be taken from me for maintaining his Cause I le stand still and see what he will doe with me for as yet I know not Saying likewise within my heart as I was walking along O thou King of righteousnesse shew thy power and do thy work thy self and free thy people now from under this heavy bondage of miserie Pharaoh the covetous power And the answer in my heart was satisfactory and full of sweet joy and peace and so I said Father do what thou wilt this cause is thine and thou knowest that the love to righteousnesse makes me do what I do I was made to appeal to the Father of life in the speakings of my heart likewise thus Father thou knowest that what I have writ or spoken concerning this light that the earth should be restored and become a common Treasurie for all mankind without respect of persons was thy free revelation to me I never read it in any book I heard it from no mouth of flesh till I understood it from thy teaching first within me I did not study nor imagine the conceit of it self-love to my own particular body does not carry me along in the mannaging of this businesse but the power of love flowing forth to the liberty and peace of thy whole Creation to enemies as well as friends nay towards those that oppresse me endeavouring to make me a beggar to them And since I did obey thy voice to speak and act this truth I am hated reproached and oppressed on evere side Such as make profession of thee yet revile me And though they see I cannot fight with fleshly weapons yet they will strive with me by that power And so I see Father that England yet does choose rather to fight with the Sword of Iron and coveteousnesse then by the Sword of the Spirit which is love and what thy purpose is with this land or with my body I know not but establish thy power in me and then do what pleases thee These and such like sweet thoughts dwelt upon my heart as I went along and I feel my self now like a man in a storm standing under shelter upon a hill in peace waiting till the storm be over to see the end of it and of many other things that my eye is fixed upon But I will let this passe And return again to the Dragons Den or Horners nest the selfish murdering fleshly Lawes of this Nation which hangs some for stealing and protects others in stealing Lords of Mannours stole the land from their fellow creatures formerly in the conquests of Kings and now they have made Lawes to imprison and hang all those that seek to recover the land again out of their thieving murdering hands They took away the Cowes which were my livelyhood and beat them with their clubs that the Cowes heads and sides did swell which grieved tender hearts to see and yet these Cowes never were upon George Hill nor never digged upon that ground and yet the poore beasts must suffer because they gave milk to feed me but they were driven away out of those Devills hands the Bailiffes and were delivered out of hell at that time And thus Lords of Mannours their Bailiffes the

that have povver above them that are vveak I say vvhat are they but Lavvs of murder and theft yea enmity it self against the Lavv of righteousnesse vvhich is love vvhich makes people do as they vvould be done unto And so all Kingly power in one or many mens hands raigning by the sword giving the use of the earth to some of mankind called by him his Gentry and denying the free use of the Earth to others called the younger brothers or common people is no other but Cain li●ted up above Abel the Prerogative Lavves is Belzebub for they are the strength of covetousnesse and bondage in the creation lifting up one and casting dovvn another the Atturneys and Priests and Lawyers and Bayliffs are servants to Belzebub and are Devils their Prisons Whips and Gallows are the torments of this Hell or government of darknesse ●or mind it all along and you shall see that covetousnesse and bitter envie gets freedome by these Lavves But the sincere and meek in spirit is trod under foot And this is that povver that hath made such havock in the Creation it is that murderer and Devill that is to be cast one this power of covetousnesse is he that does countenance murder and theft in them that maintaines his Kingdom by the sword of Iron and punishes it in others and so that vvhich is called a sin in the Common people if they act such things is counted no sin in the action of Kings because the have they povver of the svvord in their hands the fear whereof makes people to feare them But since this Kingly Office by the Parliament is cast out of England and England by them is declared to be a free State or Common-wealth we are in the first place thereby set free from those bonds and ties that the Kings laid upon us Therefore this Tyranny of one over another as of Lords of Mannors over the Common people and for people to be forced to hire Lavvyers to plead their causes for them vvhen they are able to plead themselves ought to be taken away vvith the Kingly Office because they are the strength of the Ancient Prerogative custom Secondly we justifie out digging upon George's hill to make the Earth a common Treasury because all sorts of people have lent assistance of purse and person to cast out the Kingly Office as being a burden England groaned under therefore those from vvhom money and blood vvas received ought to obtain freedom in the Land to themselves and Posterity by the Law of contract between Parliament and People But all sorts poor as well as rich Tenant as vvell as Landlord have paid Taxes Free-quarter Excise or adventured their lives to cast out that Kingly Office Therefore all sorts of people ought to have freedom in the Land of this their nativity vvithout respecting persons novv the Kingly Office is cast out by their joynt assistance And those that doe imprison oppresse and take avvay the livelihood of those that rise up to take Possession of this purchased freedome are Traitors to this Nation and Enemies to righteousnesse And of this number are those men that have arrested or that may arrest the Diggers that endeavour to advance freedom therefore I say all sorts ought to have their freedom And that in regard they have not only joyned persons and purses together but in regard likewise they took the Nationall Covenant vvith joynt consent together which the Parliament did make of whom Mr Drake that caused us to be arrested was one which Covenant likewise the Ministers in their Sermons most vehemently prest upon the people to take the int●●● vvhereof was this That every one in his severall place and calling should endeavor the peace safety and freedom of England and that the Parliament should assist the people and the people the Parliament and every one that had taken it should ●ssist those that had taken it while they were in persuit thereof as in the sixth Article of the Nationall Covenant Bu● now Mr Drake that was one that made this Covenant and the Surrey Ministers that took it vvith great zeal at Kingstone which I was eye witnesse to and shall be of their hypocrisie therein have set up a Le●●urer at Cobham one purpose to drive off the Diggers to forsake the persuit of their Covenant are the most vehement to break Covenant and to hinder them that would keep it neither entring into peace themselves nor suffering them that are entring into enter But in regard some of us did dig upon George's Hill thereby to take Possession o● that freedom we have recovered out of the hands of the Kingly Office and thereby endeavour a Reformation in our place and calling a cording to the Word of God which is Love And vvhile vve are in persuit of this our Covenant vve expect both Parliament that made the Covenant and the Officers of this Court and Parish Ministers and Lords of Mannors themselves and especially Mr Drake to assist 〈◊〉 herein against all that shall oppose us in this righteous vvork of making the Earth a common Treasury and not to bear us imprison us or take away our estates or lives unlesse they will wilfully break Covenant with God and man to please their own covetous frovvard hears and thereby declare themselves to be the worst of Devils Therefore in that we doe d●g upon that Hill we do not thereby take away other mens rights neither do we demand of this Court or from the Parliament what is theirs and not ours But we demand our own to be set free to us and them out of the Tyrannicall oppression of ancient custome of K●ngly Prerogative and let us have no more gods to rule over us but the King of righteousnesse only Therefore as the Free-holders claime a quietnesse and freedom in their inclosures as it is fit they should have so we that are younger brothers or the poore oppressed vve claime our freedome in the Commons that so elder and younger brother may live quietly and in peace together freed from the straits of poverty and oppression in this Land of our nativitie THus we have in writing declared in effect what we should say if we had liberty to speak before you declaring withall that your Court cannot end this Controversie in that equity and reason of it which wee stand to maintaine Therefore we have appealed to the Parliament who have received our Appeal and promised an Answer and we wait for it And we leave this with you and let Reason and righteousnesse be our Iudge therefore we hope you will do nothing rashly but seriously consider of this cause before you proceed to execution upon us You say God will blast our work and you say you are in the right and we are in the wrong Now if you be Christians as you say you are Then doe you act love to us as we doe to you and let both sides waite with patience on the Lord to see who be blesses but if you oppose by

are all your Victories over the Cavaliers that you made such a blaze in the Land in giving God thanks for and which you begged in your Fasting dayes and morning Exercises Are they all sunck into the Norman power again and must the old Prerogative Laws stand what freedom then did you give thanks for Surely that you had killed him that rid upon you that you may get up into his saddle to ride upon others O thou City thou Hypocriticall City thou blindfold drowsie England that sleps and snorts in the bed of covetousnesse awake awake the Enemies is upon thy back he is ready to scale the walls and e●ter Possession and wilt thou not look out Does not the streames of bondage run in the same river that it did and with a bigger stream of Norman power so that if you awaken not betimes the flood of the Norman Prerogative power will drown you all here 's more rivers comes into the maine stream since the storm fell and the waters of fury rises very high banked in by Laws and while you are talking and disputing about words the Norman Souldiers are secretly working among you to advance their power again and so will take away the benefit of all your victories by a subtile act of intricate Lawes which the swor● in the field could not do against your and when you have lost that freedom whic● you boasted of that you will leave to your posterity then who must give thanks you that vapoured in words or they that lay close in action waiting to trip up you heels by pollioy when the sword could not do it I tell thee thou England thy battells now are all spirituall Dragon against the Lamb and the power of love against the power of covetousnesse therefore all tha● will be Souldiers for Christ the Law of righteousnesse joyn to the Lamb He tha● takes the iron sword now shall perish with it and would you be a strong Land and flourish in beauty then fight the Lambs battels and his strength shall be thy wall and bulwarks You Knights Gentlemen and Freeholders that sat in councell at the whi● Lion it Cobham to find out who are our backers and who stirs us up to dig the Commons I le tel you plainly who it is it is love the King of righteousnes ruling in our hearts that makes us th●●… to act that the creation may be set at liberty and now I have answered your inquirie do what you can to him and us his servants And we require you in his name to let our cause have a publick triall and do not work any longer in darknesse set not your Bail●ffes and slaves to come by night to steal away the Cowes of poore men under colour of justice when as the cause was never yet heard in open Court He that backs you and that sets you to work to deny to us our younger brother the use of the common land is covetousnesse which is Beelzebub the greatest devill so that there is the 2 generalls known which you we fight under the 2 great Princes of light and darknes bondage and freedom that does Act all flesh in the great controversies of the world These are the 2 men that stir in this busines that is the wicked man that councels broke you to be so envious and furious against us and the righteous man Christ that backs and councells us to love you our enemies And do we not see that Gebal Ammon and Amaleck and all the rabble of the nations Lords Knights Gentlemen Lawyers Bailiffes Priests and all the Norman snapsack boyes and ammunition women to the old Norman Camp do all combine together in the art of unrighteous fury to drive the poore diggers off from their work that the name of commmunity and freedome which is Christ may not be known in earth Thus I have deale plainly with you all and I have not flattered Parliament Army City nor Countrey but have declared in this and other writings the whole light of that truth revealed to me by the word of the Lord and I shall now wait to see his hand to do his own work in what time and by what instruments he pleases And I see the poore must first be picked out and honoured in this work for they begin to receive the word of righteousnesse but the rich generally are enemies to tru freedome The work of digging still goes on and stops not for a rest The Comes were gone but are return'd and we are all at 〈◊〉 No money 's paid nor never shall to Lawyer or his man To plead our cause for therein wee 'll do the best we can In Cobham on the little Heath our digging there goes on And all our friends they live in love as if they were but one Thus you Gentlemen that will have no Law to rule over you 〈◊〉 your Prerogative will must be above Law and above us that are the yonger brothes in the Land but if you say no your wil shal be subject to Law then I demand of you Mr Drake Mr Gilder and other the Bailiffes and Officers of Kingston Court why will you ●●rest us and trouble us and say we trespa●●e against you and though we came to answer to your arrest and to plead our own cause yet contrary to the equity ●ay contrary to the bare letter that the Law as I shewed you before you denyed me th●● priviledge but went on and did condemne and execute a forceable power upon body and goods is not your will here above Law do you not hereby uphold the Norman conquest Mr Drake you are a Parliament man and was not the beginning of the quarrel between King Charles and your House This the King pleaded to uphold Prerogative and you were against it and yet must a Parliament man be the first man to uphold Prerogative who are but servants to the Nation for the peace and liberty of every one not conquering Kings to make their wil a Law did you not promise liberty to the whole Nation in case the Cavalier party were cast out and why now wil you seek liberty to your self and Gentry with the deniall of just liberty and freedome to the common people that have born the greatest burden You have arrested us for digging upon the common Land you have executed your unrighteous power in distraining cat●el imprisoning our bodies and yet our cause was never publickly heard neither can it be proved that we have broke any Law that is built upon equity and reason therfore we wonder where you had your power to rule over us by will more th●n we to rule over you by our will We request you before you go too far not to let covetcousnesse be your 〈…〉 not others under your fear under colour of Law as if none knew equity of Law but you● for we and our estates shall be horns in your eye● and pricks in your sides and you may curse that Councell bid you beg our estates or imprison our persons But this we request that you would let us a have a fair open triall and do not carry on the course of Law insecret like vicodem●● that is afraid to have his businesse come to light therefore I challenge you once more seeing you professe your selves Christians to let us be brought to a trial of our cause let your minister● plead with us in this scriptures let your Lawyers plead with us in the equity reason of your own Law and if you ●rove us transgressions then we shal lay down our work and acknowledge we have trespassed against you in digging upon the Commons then punish us But if we prove by Scripture reason that unden●ably the land belongs to one as well as another then you shal own our work justifie our cause declare that you have done wrong to Christ who you say is your Lord and master in abusing us his servants your fellow creatures while we are doing his work Therefore I knowing you to be 〈◊〉 of moderation in outward shew I desire that your actions towards your fellow creatures may not be like one beast to another but carry your selves like man to man for your proceeding in your pretence of law hitherto against us it both unrighteous 〈◊〉 d●●velish and nothing of the spirit of man seen in it You Atturnies and Lawyers you say you are ministers of justice we know that equity and reason is or ought to be the foundation of Law if so then plead not for mony altogether but stand for universall justice equity then you will have peace otherwise both you with the corrupt Clergy will be cast out as unsavoury salt FINIS

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

true upholders of the Norman power and some Freeholders that doe oppose this publick work are such as the countrey knowes have beene no friends to that Cause the Parliament declared for but to the Kingly power and now if they get the foot fast in the stirrup they will lift themselves again into the Norman saddle and they do it secretly for they keep up the Norman Lawes and thereby Traytours to freedome get into places of Law and power and by that will enslave England more then it was under the Kingly power Therefore England beware thou art in danger of being brought under the N●rman power more then ever The King Charles that was successour to William the Conquerour thou hast cast out and though thy Parliament have declared against the Kingly office and cast it out and proclaimed England a Common wealth that is to be a free land for the liberty and livelyhood of all her children Yet William the Conquerours Army begins to gather into head againe and the old Norman Prerogative Law is the place of their randezvous for though their chief Captain Charles be gone yet his Colonells which are Lords of Mannours his Councellours and Divines which are our Lawyers and Priests his inferiour officers and Souldiers which are the Freeholder● and Land-lords all which did steal away our Land from us when they killed and murdered our Fathers in that Norman conquest And the Bailiffes that are slaves to their covetous lusts and all the ignorant bawling women against our digging for freedome are the snap●ack boyes and the ●mmunition sluts that follow the Norman Camp These are all str●ving to get into a body againe that they may set up a new Norman slaverie over us and the place of their randezvous Prerogative power is fenced already about with a Line of Commun●cation An act made by a piece of the Parliament to maintain the old Lawes which if once this Camp be fortified in his full strength it will cost many a sighing heart and burdened spirit before it be taken And this Norman Camp are got into so numerous a body already that they have appointed their Sutlers to drive away the Cowes which were my livelyhood and some of them they would sell to make money of to pay the Atturney Gilder and Lawyers their fees for denying the diggers our priviledge to plead our own cause for as it is clearly seen that if we be suffered to speak we shall batter to pieces all the old Lawes and prove the maintainers of them hypocrites and Traitours to this Common wealth of England and then the Atturneys and Lawyers Trade goes down and Lords Mannours must be reckoned equall to other men And this covetous ●●sh and blood cannot endure And other of the Cows were to be killed to victuall the Camp that is to feed those Normans Wil Star Ned ●utton both Freeholders others the snapsack boyes and ●mmunition drabs that helped to drive away the Cows that they might be encouraged by a belly full of stoln goods to stick the closer to the businesse another time Or else the price of these Cowes were to pay for the sack and Tobacco which the Norman officers of Knights Gentlemen and rich Freeholders did spend at the White Zion at Cobham when they met the 24. of August 1649 to advise together what course they should take to subdue the diggers for say they if the cause of the diggers stand we shall lose all our honour and titles and we that have had the glory of the earth shall be of no more account then those slaves our servants and yonger brothers that have been footstools to us and our Fathers ever since the Norman William our beloved Generall took this land not by love but by a sharp sword the power by which we stand and though we own Christ by name yet we will not do as he did to save enemies but by our sword we will destroy our enemies and do we not deserve the price of some of the diggers ●ow● to pay us for this our good service And doe not our reverend Ministers tell us that William the Conquerour and the succeeding Kings were Gods annointed And do not they say that our inclosures which were go● by that murdering sword and given by William the Conquerour to our Fathers and so successivly from them the land is our inheritance and that God gave it us and shall these broken fellows and beggarly rogues take our rights from us and have the use of the land equall with us Thus do these Norman Gentlemen comfort their hearts and support themselves with broken reeds when they meet together in their Counsels But stay you Norman Gentlemen let me put in a word amongst you doth the murderers sword make any man to be Gods anointed Surely Iesus Christ was called Gods annointed not because he conquered with a Sword of iron but because he conquered by love and the spirit of patience therefore your Generall was not Gods annointed as Christ was And then the Earth was not made to be the successive inheritance of children of murderers that had the strongest arm of flesh and the best sword that can tread others under foot with a bold brasen forehead under colour of the Law of justice as the Norman power does But it was made for all by the Law of righteousnesse and he gives the whole Earth to be the inheritance of every single branch of mankind without respect of persons and he that is filled with the love of this righteous King doing as he would be done by is a true annointed one Therfore that god whom you serve and which did intitle you Lords Knights Gentlemen and Landlords is covetousnesse the god of this wo●ld which alwayes was a murderer a devil and father of lies under whose dark governing power both you and all the nations of the world for the present are under But the King of righteousnesse or God of love whom I serve did not call the earth your inheritance shutting out others but gave the earth to be a common treasurie to whole mankind who is the Lord of it without respect of person This power of love is the King of righteousnesse the Lord God Almighty that rules the whole Creation in peace that is the Seed that breaks covetousnesse the Serpents head he is the restoring power that is now rising up to change all things into his own nature he will be your Iudge for vengance is his and for any wrong you have done me as I can tell you of many yet I have given all matters of judgment and vengance into his hand and I am sure he will doe right and discover him that is the true Trespasser that take away my rights from me And take notice of this you Lords of Mannors and Norman Gentry though you should kill my body or starve me in prison yet know that the more you strive the more troubles you hearts shall be filled with and doe the worst you can to