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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	execution_n	plaintiff_n	1,650	5	10.2548	5	false

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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

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