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

• Winstanley, A New Year’s Gift for the Parliament and Army.—January 1650. (British Museum, P. M., E. 587.)
• ” A Vindication of Those whose Endeavour it is only to make the Earth a Common Treasury, called Diggers.—February 1650. (British Museum, P. M., E. 1365.)
• ” An Appeal for Money.—April 1650. (See “A Perfect Diurnal,” British Museum, P. M., E. 534.)
• ” A Declaration from Wellingborrow, in the County of Northampton.—March 1650. (British Museum, under Wellinborrow, P. M., S. Sh. fol. 669 f., 15. 21.)
• ” An Appeal to all Englishmen to Judge between Bondage and Freedom.—March 1650. (British Museum, P. M., S. Sh. fol. 669 f., 15. 23.)
• ” An Humble Request to the Ministers of Both Universities and to all Lawyers of every Inns-a-Court.—April 1650. (Dyce and Forster’s Library, South Kensington Museum.)
• ” The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or True Magistracie Restored.—February 1652. (British Museum, P. M., E. 655. Also at the Guildhall and Bodleian Libraries.)

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INDEX

• Agreement of the People, [29], [32], [87], [103].
• Anabaptists, [15], [18].
• Army, the Model, Views of, [29];
  • Declaration of (1647), [93 (note)].
• Army Council, Resolution of, [33];
  • Debate of, [103], [108].

• Baptism, Winstanley on, [64].
• Barclay (Apology), quoted, [58], [60], [65].
• Baxter (Thos.), quoted, [50 (note)].
• Beard (Hibbert Lectures, 1883), quoted, [4], [10], [15], [18].
• Buckle, quoted, [1], [21], [22].

• Capital Punishment, Winstanley on, [69].
• Carlyle, quoted, [38], [165], [166], [168], [170].
• Cartwright, Thos., quoted, [20].
• Chalmers, John, quoted, [63].
• Chillingworth, quoted, [21].
• Clarke Papers, quoted, [29], [34], [35], [36], [53], [103], [106], [108], [122], [124], [130].
• Clergy, Winstanley on, [62], [167], [189].
• Coomber, Thos., quoted, [49].
• Coster, Robert, [126].
• Council of State, Letter to Fairfax, [35];
  • to Mr. Pentlow, [159].
• Croese, Gerrard, quoted, [49 (note)].
• Cromwell, Oliver, quoted, [32], [33], [53], [165], [166], [168], [170];
  • Open Letter to, [164].

• Diggers, Information against, [34];
  • Fairfax’s visit to, [39];
  • Mirth, [129];
  • Declaration of, [91];
  • Sufferings of, [143];
  • Travels, [150].
• Dispensations, Winstanley on, [53];
  • Cromwell on, [53].
• Doctrines, Family of Love, [16], [18];
  • Presbyterian, [20], [32];
  • Model Army, [29];
  • Independent, [31], [32];
  • Children of Light, [52], [65];
  • Anabaptists, [15], [18].
• Dove, Patrick Edward, quoted, [228].

• Earth, Right to use of, Winstanley on, [70], [74], [76], [80], [83], [90], [96], [104], [118], [132], [170], [180], [213].
• England, Reformation in, [12];
  • Church of, [13].
• Erasmus, quoted, [15], [18].
• Everard, [36], [38].

• Fairfax, Lord, Council of State to, [35];
  • Gladman to, [39];
• Visit to Diggers, [39];
• Winstanley’s letters to, [100], [124].
• Fall, the, Winstanley on, [44], [53], [70].
• Family of Love, History of, [15];
  • Doctrines of, [16], [18].
• Freedom, Winstanley on, [100], [112], [114], [179].
• Fuller on Family of Love, [16].

• Gardiner, quoted, [25], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [87], [163].
• George, Henry, quoted, [146], [205], [228], [234].
• Golden Rule, Winstanley on the, [39], [56], [80], [81], [86], [141], [154], [171], [190], [217], [225].
• Government, Winstanley on, [68], [101], [177];
  • Definition of, [181].