"Yes," replied Black Jack, "here they are," drawing a parchment from his pocket.
"Read them! read them! let us hear!" burst from the party; and Oakley began—
"First.—The king shall be required to free all bondmen."
"Aye, aye!" shouted the confederates, "that will do—that is the first thing that must be done."
"Secondly," resumed Oakley, "to pardon all the risings."
"Pardon!" interrupted Turner—"there is no pardon wanted: let them do as they ought to do, and there will be no rising."
"Thirdly.—That all men may buy and sell in any city or town in England."
"Aye," said Rugge, "that is as it should be—I know where I could carry all the hats I could make, and sell them for a good price, if I were but free of the place."
"Fourthly.—That all lands should be rented at fourpence an acre."
"Aye, and enough too!" said Turner; "and, mind ye, nothing but rent—no service. Let every man be free to work, and get money for his work, and give money for his land, and know what he has to pay: I don't like your services—so many days' labour, or so much corn, or so many head of cattle, and so on: and then, if any thing happens that he fails to the very day, though the land should have been held by his great-grandfather, why he has no claim to it! 'Tis time all this should be done away with.—But now go on with the rest."