[33:2] See Gardiner's _History of the Civil War_, vol. iv. pp. 120-121.

[33:3] Cromwell seems early to have foreseen and guarded against such a
contingency. See Gardiner, _ibid._ vol. ii. p. 25.




CHAPTER IV

THE DIGGERS

"The way to cast out Kingly Power is not to cast it out by the
Sword; for this doth but set him in more power, and removes him
from a weaker to a stronger hand. The only way to cast him out is
for the people to leave him to himself, to forsake fighting and all
oppression, and to live in love one towards another. The Power of
Love is the True Saviour."--WINSTANLEY, _A New Year's Gift for the
Parliament and Army_.


The Council of State which, on February 13th, 1649, within a month of
the execution of the King, had been appointed to administer the public
affairs of England, had scarcely settled down to their work when they
received the following information of the mysterious doings of "a
disorderly and tumultuous sort of people" very near to their
doors:[34:1]

"INFORMATION OF HENRY SANDERS OF WALTON UPON THAMES.