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cause_n	know_v	let_v	lord_n	3,357	5	3.9065	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

children by self-seeking proprietors But to leave it a free store-house and common treasury to all without respect of persons And this we count is our dutie to endeavour to the uttermost every man in his place according to the nationall Covenant which the Parliament set forth a Reformation to preserve the peoples liberties one as well as another As well those as have paid taxes and given free quarter as those that have either born the sword or taken our moneys to dispose of them for publike use for if the Reformation must be according to the word of God then every one is to have the benefit and freedom of his creation without respect of persons we count this our duty we say to endeavour to the uttermost and so shall leave those that rise up to oppose us without excuse in their day of Judgment and our precious blood we hope shall not be dear to us to be willingly laid down at the door of a prison or foot of a gallows to justifie this righteous cause if those that have taken our money from us and promised to give us freedom for it should turn Tyrants against us for we must not fight but suffer And further we intend that not one two or a few men of us shall sell or exchange the said woods but it shall be known publikly in Print or writing to all how much every such and such parcell of wood is sold for and how it is laid out either in victualls corn ploughs or other materialls necessary And we hope we may not doubt at least we expect that they that are called the great Councel and powers of England who so often have declared themselves by promises and Covenants and confirmed them by multitude of fasting daies and devout Protestations to make England a free people upon condition they would pay moneys and adventure their lives against the successor of the Norman Conqueror under whose oppressing power England was enslaved And we look upon that freedom promised to be the inheritance of all without respect of persons And this cannot be unless the Land of England be freely set at liberty from proprietors and become a common Treasury to all her children as every portion of the Land of Canaan was the Common livelihood of such and such a Tribe and of every member in that Tribe without exception neither hedging in any nor hedging out We say we hope we need not doubt of their sincerity to us herein and that they will not gainsay our determinate course howsoever their actions will prove to the view of all either their sinceritie or hypocrisie We know what we speak is our priviledge and our cause is righteous and if they doubt of it let them but send a childe for us to come before them and we shall make it manifest four wayes First by the National Covenant which yet stands in force to bind Parliament and people to be faithful and sincere before the Lord God Almighty wherein every one in his several place hath covenanted to preserve and seek the liberty each of other without respect of persons Secondly by the late Victory over King Charls we do claime this our priviledge to be quietly given us out of the hands of Tyrant-Government as our bargain and contract with them for the Parliament promised if we would pay taxes and give free quarter and adventure our lives against Charls and his party whom they called the Common enemy they would make us a free people These three being all done by us as well as by themselves we claim this our bargain by the law of contract from them to be a free people with them and to have an equall priviledge of Common livelihood with them they being chosen by us but for a peculiar worke and for an appointed time from among us not to be our oppressing Lords but servants to succour us But these two are our weakest proofs And yet by them in the light of reason and equity that dwells in mens hearts we shall with ease cast down all those former enslaving Norman reiterated laws in every Kings raigne since the Conquest which are as thornes in our eyes and pricks in our sides and which are called the Ancient Goverment of England Thirdly we shall prove that we have a free right to the land of England being borne therein as well as elder brothers and that it is our right equal with them and they with us to have a comfortable livelihood in the earth without owning any of our owne kinde to be either Lords or Land-Lords over us And this we shall prove by plain Text of Scripture without exposition upon them which the Scholars and great ones generally say is their rule to walk by Fourthly we shall prove it by the Righteous Law of our Creation That mankinde in all his branches is the Lord of the Earth and ought not to be in subjection to any of his own kinde without him but to live in the light of the law of righteousness and peace established in his heart And thus in love we have declared the purpose of our hearts plainly without flatterie expecting love and the same sincerity from you without grumbling or quarreling being Creatures of your own Image and mould intending no other matter herein but to observe the Law of righteous action endeavouring to shut out of the Creation the cursed thing called Particular Propriety which is the cause of all wars bloud-shed theft and enslaving Laws that hold the people under miserie Signed for and in the behalf of all the poor oppressed people of England and the whole world Gerrard VVinstanly Iohn Coulton Iohn Palmer Thomas Star Samuel Webb Iohn Hayman Thomas Edcer VVilliam Hogrill Daniel VVeeden Richard VVheeler Nathaniel Yates VVilliam Clifford Iohn Harrison Thomas Hayden James Hall James Manley Thomas Barnard Iohn South Robert Sayer Christopher Clifford Iohn Beechee VVilliam Coomes Christopher Boncher Richard Taylor Vrian VVorthington Nathaniel Holcombe Giles Childe senior Iohn VVebb Thomas Yarwel VVilliam Bonnigton Iohn Ash Ralph Ayer Iohn Pra Iohn VVilkinson Anthony Spire Thomas East Allen Brown Edward Parret Richard Gray Iohn Mordy Iohn Bachilor VVilliam Childe VVilliam Hatham Edward VVicher VVilliam Tench FINIS