The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth - As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
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page 123 of 360 (34%)
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A few days after the publication of this declaration, viz., on Sunday,
April 1st, 1649, the Diggers commenced their labours on the Commons around George's Hill, in Surrey, the first results of which we have already recorded. Within a few days of Winstanley and Everard's visit to Lord Fairfax and his Council of War, they and their followers drafted yet another pamphlet, which bears date April 26th, 1649, the very day Lockyer, "The Army's Martyr," was condemned to death, and the title-page of which reads as follows: "THE TRUE LEVELLERS STANDARD ADVANCED:[95:1] OR THE STATE OF COMMUNITY OPENED AND PRESENTED TO THE SONS OF MEN. BY WILLIAM EVERARD. JOHN PALMER. JOHN SOUTH. JOHN COURTON. WILLIAM TAYLOR. CHRISTOPHER CLIFFORD. JOHN BARKER. GERRARD WINSTANLEY. RICHARD GOODGROOME. THOMAS STARRE. WILLIAM HOGGRILL. ROBERT SAWYER. THOMAS EDER. |
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