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lord_n	esq_n	john_n	richard_n	28,752	5	10.4196	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96689	An appeal to the House of Commons, desiring their ansvver: vvhether the common-people shall have the quiet enjoyment of the commons and waste land; or whether they shall be under the will of lords of mannors still. Occasioned by an arrest, made by Thomas Lord Wenman, Ralph Verny Knight, and Richard Winwood Esq; upon the author hereof, for a trespass, in digging upon the common-land at Georges Hill in Surrey. / By Gerrard Winstanly, Iohn Barker, and Thomas Star, in the name of all the poor oppressed in the land of England.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.; Barker, John, 17th cent.; Star, Thomas.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3040; Thomason E564_5; ESTC R204110	8,920	16

AN APPEAL To the House of COMMONS Desiring their ANSVVER VVhether the Common-people shall have the quiet enjoyment of the Commons and Waste Land Or whether they shall be under the will of Lords of Mannors still Occasioned by an Arrest made by Thomas Lord Wenman Ralph Verny Knight and Richard Winwood Esq upon the Author hereof for a Trespass in Digging upon the Common-Land at Georges Hill in Surrey By Gerrard Winstanly Iohn Barker and Thomas Star In the Name of all the poor oppressed in the Land of ENGLAND Vnrighteous Oppression kindles a flame but Love Righteousness and Tenderness of heart quenches it again Printed in the Year 1649. AN Appeal to the House of Commons Desiring their ANSVVER Whether the Common-People shall have the quiet enjoyment of the Commons and Waste Lands Or whether they shall be under the will of Lords of Mannors still SIRS THe cause of this our Presentment before you is An Appeal to you desiring you to demonstrate to us and the whole Land the equity or not equity of our cause And that you would either cast us by just reason under the feet of those we call Task-Masters or Lords of Mannors or else to deliver us out of their Tyrannical hands In whose hands by way of Arrest we are for the present for a Trespass to them as they say In digging upon the Common-Land The setling whereof according to Equity and Reason wil quiet the mindes of the oppressed people it will be a keeping of our Nationall Covenant it will be peace to your selves and make England the most flourishing and strongest Land in the 〈◊〉 and the first of Nations that shall begin to give up their Crown and Scepter their Dominion and Government into the hands of Jesus Christ The cause is this we amongst others of the common peopl●● that have been ever friends to the Parliament as we are 〈◊〉 red our enemies wil witness to it have plowed and dig'd upon Georges Hill in Surrey to sow corn for the succour of man offering no offence to any but do carry our selves in love and peace towards all having no intent to meddle with any mans inclosures or propriety til it be freely given to us by themselves but only to improve the Commons and waste Lands to our best advantage for the relief of our selves and others being moved thereunto by the Reason hereafter following not expecting any to be much offended in regard the cause is so just and upright Yet notwithstanding there be three men called by the people Lords of Manors viz. Thomas Lord Wenman Ralph Ve●ny Knight and Richard Winwood Esquire have arrested 〈◊〉 for a trespass in digging upon the Commons and upon the Arrest we made our appearance in Kingstone Court where we understood we were arrested for medling with other mens Rights and secondly they were incouraged to arrest us upon your Act of Parliament as they tell us to maintain the old Laws we desired to plead our own cause the Court denied us and to fee a Lawyer we cannot for divers reasons as we may shew hereafter Now Sirs our case is this for we appeal to you for you are the only men that we are to deal withall in this business Whether the common people after all their taxes free-quarter and loss of blood to recover England from under the Norman yoak shal have the freedom to improve the Comon● and waste Lands free to themselves as freely their own as the Inclosures are the propriety of the elder brothers Or whether the Lords of Manors shall have them according to their old Custom from the Kings Will and Grant and so remain Task-Masters still over us which 〈◊〉 the peoples slavery 〈◊〉 Conquest We have made our appeal 〈◊〉 to settle this matter in the Equity and Reason of it and to pass the sentence of freedom to us you being the men with whom we have to do in this business in whose hands there is power to settle it for no Court can end this controversie but your Court of Parliament as the case of this Nation now stands Therefore we 〈◊〉 you to read over this following Declaration wherein we have declared our Reason that the Commons and waste lands is the common peoples and that in equity you ought to let them quietly enjoy them as the elder brothers quietly enjoy their inclosures The profit of this business to the Nation the quitting of the hearts of the poor oppressed that are groaning under burthens and streights and the peace of your own hearts to see the peare of the Nation setled in his plat-form will much countervail the spending of so much time Sirs you know that the Land of England in the land of our Nativity both yours and ours and all of us by the righteous Law of our Creation ought to have food and rayment freely by our righteous labouring of the earth without working for hire or paying rent one to another But since the fall of man from that righteous Law The Nations of the world have rise up in variance one against another and sought against murdered and stoln the land of their Nativity one from another and by their power of their conquests have 〈◊〉 set up some to rule in tyranny over others and thereby have enslaved the conquered which is a burden the whole Creation hath and yet does groane under The teeth of all Nations hath been set on edge by this four grape the covetous murdering sword England you know hath been conquered and enslaved divers times and the best Laws that England hath viz. Magna Charta were got by our Forefathers importunate petitioning unto the Kings that stil were their Task-masters and yet these best laws are yoaks and manicles tying one sort of people to be slaves to another Clergy and Gentry have 〈◊〉 their freedom but the common people stil are and have been left servants to work for 〈◊〉 like the Israilites under the Egyptian Task masters The last enslaving yoak that England groaned under and yet is not freed from was the Norman as you know and since William the Conqueror came in about six hundred years ago all the Kings that stil succeeded did confirm the old laws or else make new ones to uphold that Norman conquest over us and the most favouring laws that we have doth stil binde the hands of the enslaved English from enjoying the freedom of their creation You of the Gentry as wel as we of the Comonalty all groaned under the burden of the bad Government and burdening laws under the late King Charls who was the last successor of William the Conqueror you and we cried for a Parliament and a Parliament was called and wars you know presently begun between the King that represented William the Conqueror and the body of the English people that were enslaved We looked upon you to be our chief Councel to agitate business for us though you were summoned by the Kings Writ and chosen by the Free-holders that are the successors of William