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A66685	The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government. By Jerrard Winstanley.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1652 (1652)	Wing W3045A; ESTC R220031	79,685	104

free Commonwealth Now saith the whisperings of the people The inferior Tenants and Laborers bears all the burdens in laboring the Earth in paying Taxes and Free-quarter beyond their strength and in furnishing the Armies with Souldiers who bear the greatest burden of the War and yet the Gentry who oppress them and that live idle upon their labours carry away all the comfortable livelyhood of the Earth For is not this a common speech among the people We have parted with our Estates we have lost our Friends in the Wars which we willingly gave up because Freedom was promised us and now in the end we have new Task-masters and our old burdens increased and though all sorts of people have taken an Engagement to cast out Kingly Power yet Kingly Power remains in power still in the hands of those who have no more right to the Earth then our selves For say the people If the Lords of Manors and our Task-masters hold Title to the Earth over us from the old Kingly power behold that power is beaten and cast out And two Acts of Parliament are made The one to cast out Kingly power back'd by the Engagement against King and House of Lords The other to make England a free Commonwealth And if Lords of Mannors lay claim to the earth over us from the Armies Victories over the King then we have as much right to the Land as they because our labours and blood and death of friends were the purchasers of the Earths freedome as well as theirs And is not this a slavery say the People That though there be Land enough in England to maintain ten times as many people as are in it yet some must beg of their brethren or work in hard drudgery for day wages for them or starve or steal and so be hanged out of the way as men not fit to live in the earth before they must be suffered to plant the waste land for their livelihood unlesse they will pay Rent to their brethren for it wel this is a burthen the Creation groans under and the subjects so called have not their Birth-right Freedomes granted them from their brethren who hold it from them by club law but not by righteousness And who now must we be subject to seeing the Conqueror is gone I Answer we must either be subject to a Law or to mens wils If to a Law then all men in England are subjects or ought to be thereunto but what Law that is to which every one ought to be subject is not yet established in execution If any say the old Kings Laws are the Rule then it may be Answered That those Laws are so full of confusion that few knows when they obey and when not because they were the Laws of a Conqueror to hold the people in subjection to the will of the Conqueror therefore that cannot be the rule for every one besides we dayly see many actions done by State Officers which they have no Law to justifie them in but their Prerogative will And again if we must be subject to men then what men must we be subject to seeing one man hath as much right to the earth as another for no man now stands as a Conqueror over his Brethren by the Law of righteousness You will say We must be subject to the Ruler it is true but not to suffer the Rulers to call the Earth theirs and not ours for by so doing they betray their trust and run into the line of 〈◊〉 and we lose our freedome and from thence 〈◊〉 and Wars arise A Ruler is worthy double honour when he rules well that is when he himself is subject to the Law and requires all others to be subject thereunto and makes it his work to see the Laws obeyed and not his own will and such Rulers are faithfull and they are to be subjected unto us therein for all Commonwealths Rulers are servants to not Lords and Kings over the people But you will say Is not the Land your brothers and you cannot take away 〈◊〉 mans Right by claiming a share therein with him I Answer It is his either by creation right or by right of Conquest If by Creation right he call the earth his and not mine then it is mine as well as his for the Spirit of the whole Creation who made us both is no respecter of persons And if by Conquest he call the earth his and not mine it must be either by the Conquest of the Kings over the Commoners or by the Conquest of the Commeners over the Kings If he claim the earth to be his from the Kings Conquest The Kings are beaten and cast out and that title is undone If he claim Title to the earth to be his from the Conquest of the Commoners over the Kings then I have right to the Land as well as my brother for my brother without me nor I without my brother did not cast out the Kings but both together assisting with person and purse we prevailed so that I have by this Victory as equall a share in the earth which is now redeemed as my brother by the Law of righteousnesse If my brother still say he will be Landlord through his covetous ambition and I must pay him Rent or else I shall not live in the Land then does he take my right from me which I have purchased by my money in Taxes free quarter and blood And O thou Spirit of the whole Creation who hath this Title to be called King of Righteousness and Prince of Peace judge thou between my brother and me Whether this be righteous c. And now say the people is not this a grievous thing that our brethren that will be Landlords right or wrong will make Laws and call for a Law to be made to imprison crush nay put to death any that denies God Christ and Scripture and yet they will not practise that golden Rule Do to another as thou wouldst have another do to thee which God Christ and Scriptures hath Enacted for a Law are not these men guilty of death by their own Law which is the words of their own mouth is it not a flat denyall of God and Scripture O the confusion and thick darkness that hath over-spread our Brethren is very great I have no power to remove it but lament it in the secrets of my heart when I see Prayers Sermons Fasts Thanksgiving directed to this God in words and-shews and when I come to look for actions of obedience to the Righteous Law suitable to such a profession I finde them men of another Nation saying and not doing like an old Courtier saying Your Servant when he was an Enemy I wil say no more but groan and waite for a restoration Thus Sir I have reckoned up some of those burdens which the people groan under And I being sensible hereof was moved in my self to present this Platform of Commonwealths Government unto you wherein I have declared a full Commonwealths Freedome

of freedom righteousness and peace or whether you will return to Monarchy to embrace that Egyptian bondage still Well here is life and death set before you take whether you will but know that unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Kingly and Lordly Scribes and Pharisees you shall never enjoy true peace in your spirit CHAP. VI The Kings old laws cannot govern a free Commonwealth THey cannot govern in times of bondage and in times of freedom too they have indeed served many masters Popish and Protestant they are like old souldiers that will but change their name and turn about and as they were and the reason is because they are the prerogative will of those under any Religion that count it no freedom to them unless they be lords over the minds persons and labors of their brethren They are called the Kings laws because they are made by the Kings If any say they were made by the Commoners It is answered They were not made by the Commoners as the Commoners of a free Commonwealth are to make laws For in the dayes of the Kings none were to chuse nor be chosen Parliament men or law makers but Lords of Mannors and Freeholders such as held title to their inclosures of Land or Charters for their liberties in trades under the King who called the land his as he was the Conquerer or his successor All inferior people were neither to chuse nor to be chosen and the reason was because all freeholders of land and such as held their liberties by Charter were all of the Kings interest and the inferior people were successively of the rank of the conquered ones and servants and slaves from the time of the conquest And further when a Parliament was chosen in that manner yet if any Parliament man in the uprightness of his heart did endeavor to promote any freedome contrary to the Kings will or former customes from the Conquest he was either committed to prison by the King or by his house of Lords who were his ancient Norman successive councel of war or else the Parliament was dissolved and broke up by the King So that the old laws were made in times under kingly slavery not under the liberty of Commonwealths freedome because Parliament men must have regard to the Kings prerogative interest to hold his Conquest or else indanger themselves As sometimes it is in these dayes some officers dare not speak against the minds of those men who are the chief in power nor a private souldier against the minde of his officer lest they be cashiered their places and livelihood And so long as the promoting of the Kings will and prerogative was to be in the eye of the law makers the oppressed Commoners could never enjoy Commonwealths freedome thereby Yet by the wisdome courage faithfulness and industry of some Parliament men the Commoners have received here a line and there a line of freedome inserted into their laws as those good lines of freedom in Magna Charta were obtained by much hardship and industry Secondly they were the Kings laws because the Kings own creatures made the laws or Lords of Mannors Freeholders c. were successors of the Norman souldiers from the Conquest therefore they could do no other but maintaine their own and their kings interest And do we not see that all laws were made in the dayes of the Kings to ease the rich Landlord but the poor laborers were left under bondage still they were to have no freedome in the earth by those pharisaical laws for when laws were made and Parliaments broke up the poor oppressed Commoners had no relief but the power of Lords of Mannors withholding the free use of the Common land from them remained still for none durst make use of any Common land but at the Lords leave according to the will and law of the Conquerer therefore the old laws were called the Kings laws And these old laws cannot govern a free Commonwealth because the land now is to be set free from the slavery of the Norman Conquest and the power of Lords of Mannors and Norman freeholders is to be taken away or else the Commoners are but where they were if not faln lower into straights then they were and the old laws cannot look with any other face then they did though they be washed with Commonwealths water their countenance is still withered therefore it was not for nothing that the Kings would have all their Laws written in French and Latine and not in English partly in honour to the Norman Race and partly to keep the common people ignorant of their Creation-freedoms lest they should rise to redeem themselves and if those Laws should be writ in English yet if the same Kingly principles remain in them the English language would not advantage us any thing but rather increase our sorrow by our knowledge of our bondage What is Law in general Law is a Rule whereby Man and other creatures are governed in their actions for the preservation of the common peace And this Law is twofold First it is the power of Life called the Law of Nature within the creatures which does move both man and beast in their actions or that causes grass trees 〈◊〉 and all plants to grow in their several seasons and whatsoever any body does he does it as he is moved by this inward Law And this law of Nature moves twofold viz. unrationally or rationally A man by this inward Law is guided to actions of generation and present content rashly through a greedy self-love without any consideration like foolish children or like the bruit beasts by reason whereof much hurt many times follows the body And this is called the law in the 〈◊〉 warring against the law of the minde Or when there is an inward watchful oversight of all motions to action considering the end and effects of those actions that there be no excess in diet in speech or in action break forth to the prejudice of a mans self or others And this is called the light in man The reasonable power Or the law of the minde And this rises up in the heart by an experimental observation of that peace and trouble which such and such words thoughts and actions bring the man into And this is called the record on high for it is a record in a mans heart above the former unreasonable power And it is called the witness or testimony of a 〈◊〉 own 〈◊〉 And it is said To the law and to the testimony c. for this moderate watchfulness is still the law of Nature in a higher resurrection then the former 〈◊〉 it hath many terms which for 〈◊〉 sake I let pass And this twofold work of the law within man strives to bring 〈◊〉 themselves in writing to 〈◊〉 numbers of bodies on their fides And that power that begets the biggest number alwayes Rules as King and Lord in the creature and in the creation till the other part overtop him even as

chosen a Souldier like unto a Marshal of a City and being the chief he shall have divers Souldiers under him at his command to assist in case of need The work of a Souldier in times of Peace is to fetch in Offenders and to bring them before either Officer or Courts and to be a protection to the Officers against all disturbances The Souldier is not to do any thing without Order from the Officers but when he hath an Order then he is to act accordingly and he is to receive Orders from the Judges Court or from the Peace-makers Court or from Over-seers as need shall require If a Souldier hath brought an Offender before a Peace-maker and if the Offender will not be subject to the Law by his perswasion and the Peace-maker send him to the Judges Court if the offence be under matters of death the offender shal not be imprisoned in the mean time But the Peace-maker shal command him to appear before the Judges Court at the time appointed and the Offender shall promise to obey and this shal be for two Reasons First to prevent cruelty of Prisons Secondly in the time of his binding over he may remember himself and amend his wayes and by testimony of his own actions and neighbours reports his sentence may be mitigated by the Judge for it is amendment not destruction that Common-wealths Law requires And if this Offender run away from that Country to another and so both disobey the Peace-makers command and break his own promise of appearance then shall the Souldiers be sent forth into all places to search for him and if they catch him they should bring him before the Judge who shall pronounce sentence of death upon him without mercy And if any protect him or shelter him after hue and cry is made after him all such protectors shal suffer the losse of Freedome for twelve moneths time as is shewed hereafter what that is But if the offence should be matter of death then the Peace-maker shal take no promise from him for his appearance but let the Souldier carry him to Prison till the next Judges Court sits where he shall have his Tryall The Work of a Task-master The Work or Office of a Task-master is to take those into his over-sight as are sentenced by the Judge to lose their Freedome and to appoint them their work and to see they do it If they do their Tasks he is to allow them sufficient victuals and cloathing to preserve the health of their bodies But if they prove desperate wanton or idle and will not quietly submit to the Law the Task-master is to feed them with short dyet and to whip them for a rod is prepared for the fools back till such time as their proud hearts do bend to the Law And when he findes them subject he shal then carry a favourable hand towards them as to offending brethren and allow them sufficient diet and clothes in hopes of their amendment but withall see they do their work till by the sentence of the Law he be set free again The Task-master shal appoint them any kind of work or labour as he pleases that is to be done by man And if any of these Offenders run away there shal be hue and cry sent after him and he shal dye by the sentence of the Judge when taken again The Work of an Executioner If any have so highly broke the Laws as they come within the compasse of whiping imprisoning and death The Executioner shal cut off the head hang or shoot to death or whip the offender according to the sentence of Law Thus you may see what the work of every Officer in a Town or City is What is the work of a Judge The Law it self is the Judge of all mens actions yet he who is chosen to pronounce the Law is called Judge because he is the mouth of the Law for no single man ought to Judge or interpret the Law Because the Law it self as it is 〈◊〉 us in the letter is the mind and determination of the Parliament and of the people of the Land to be their Rule to walk by and to be the touch stone of all actions And that man who takes upon him to interpret the Law doth either darken the sence of the Law and so makes it confused and hard to he understood or else puts another meaning upon it and so lifts up himself above the Parliament above the Law and above all people in the Land Therefore the work of that man who is called Judge is to hear any matter that is brought before him and in all cases of difference between man and man he shall see the parties on both sides before him and shall hear each man speak for himself without a Fee'd Lawyer likewise he is to examine any witness who is to prove a matter in Tryal before him And then he is to pronounce the bare Letter of the Law concerning such a thing for he hath his name Judge not because his will and mind is to Judge the actions of offenders before him but because he is the mouth to pronounce the Law who indeed is the true Judge therefore to this Law and to this Testimonie let every one have a regard who intends to live in peace in the Commonwealth But from hence hath arose much misery in the Nations under Kindly Government in that the man called the 〈◊〉 hath been suffered to interpret the Law and when the mind of the Law the Judgment of the Parliament and the Government of the Land is resolved into the brest of the Judges this hath occasioned much complaining of Injustice in Judges in Courts of Justice in Lawyers and in the course of the Law it self as if it were an evil Rule Because the Law which was a certain Rule was varied according to the will of a covetous envious or proud Judg therefore no marvel though the Kingly Laws be so intricate and though few know which way the course of the Law goes because the sentence lies many times in the brest of a Judg and not in the letter of the Law And so the good Laws made by an industrious Parliament are like good Eggs layd by a silly Goose and as soon as she hath layd them she goes her way and lets others take them and never looks after them more so that if you lay a stone in her nest she will sit upon it as if it were an Egg. And so though the Laws be good yet if they be left to the will of a Judg to interpret the Execution hath many times proved bad And truly as the Laws and people of Nations have been abused by suffering men Judges to alter the sence by their Interpretation So likewise hath the Scriptures of Moses the Prophets Christ and his Apostles been darkened and confounded by suffering Ministers to put their Inferences and Interpretations upon them And surely both the Judges for the Law and the Ministers for Gods Word have

light and darkness strive in 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to succeed each other or as it is said the strong man armed keeps the heart of man till a stronger then he came and cast him out And this written law proceeding either from reason or unreasonableness is called the letter whereby the creation of mankinde beasts and earth is governed according to the will of that power which rules And it is called by his opposite the letter that kils and by those of the same nature with it it is called the word of life As for example if the experienced wise and strong man bears rule then he writes down his minde to curb the unreasonable law of covetousnes and pride in unexperienced men to preserve peace in the Commonwealth And this is called the historical or traditional law because it is conveyed from one generation to another by writing as the laws of Israels Commonwealth were writ in a book by Moses and so conveyed to poposterity And this outward law is a bridle to unreasonableness or as Solomon writ it is a whip for the fools back for whom only it was added Secondly since Moses time the power of unreasonable coveteousness and pride hath sometimes rise up and corrupted that traditional law For since the power of the sword rise up in Nations to Conquer the written law hath not been to advance Common freedom and to beat down the unreasonable self-will in mankind but it hath been framed to uphold that self-will of the Conquerer right or wrong not respecting the freedome of the Commonwealth but the freedome of the Conquerer and his friends only By reason whereof much slavery hath been laid upon the backs of the plaine dealing man And men of publick spirits as Moses was have been crushed and their spirits damped thereby which hath bred first discontents and then more wars in the Nations And those who have been favorites about the Conquerer have by hypocrisie and flattery pleased their king that they might get what they can of the earth into their possession and thereby have increased the bondage of the paineful laborer if they could but catch him to act contrary to the Conquerers will called law And now the City mournes and do we not see that the laws of Kings have been alwayes made against such actions as the Common-people were most inclinable to on purpose to 〈◊〉 them into their Sessions and Courts that the Lawyers and Clergy who were the Kings supporters might get money thereby and live in fulness by other mens labors But hereby the true nature of a wel-governed Commonwealth hath been ruined and the will of Kings set up for a law and the law of righteousness law of liberty trod under foot and killed This traditional law of Kings is that letter at this day which kils true freedom and it is the 〈◊〉 of wars and persecution This is the souldier who cut Christs garment into pieces which was to have remained uncut and without seame this law moves the people to fight one against another for those pieces viz. for the several inclosures of the earth who shall possess the earth and who shall be Ruler over others But the true ancient law of God is a Covenant of peace to whole mankinde this sets the earth free to all this unites both Jew and Gentile into one brotherhood and rejects none this makes Christs garment whole againe and makes the kingdomes of the world to become Common-wealths again It is the inward power of right understanding which is the true law that teaches people in action as well as in words to do as they would be done unto But thus much in general what law is hereafter followes what those particular laws may be whereby a Commonwealth may be governed in peace and all burdens removed which is a breaking forth of that law of liberty which will be the joy of all Nations when he arises up and is established in his brightness Short and pithy laws are best to govern a Commonwealth The laws of Israels Commonwealth were few short and pithy and the government thereof was established in peace so long as officers and people were obedient thereunto But those many laws in the dayes of the Kings of England which were made some in times of Popery and some in times of Protestantism and the proceedings of the law being in French and Latine hath produced two great evils in England First it hath occasioned much ignorance among the people and much contention and the people have mightily erred through want of knowledge and thereby they have run into great expence of money by suits of law or else many have been imprisoned whipped banished lost their estates and lives by that law which they were ignorant of till the scourge thereof was upon their backs this is a sore evil among the people Secondly the peoples ignorance of the laws hath bread many sons of contention for when any difference fals out between man and man they neither of them know which offends the other therefore both of them thinking their cause is good they delight to make use of the law and then they go and give a Lawyer mony to tell them which of them was the offender The Lawyer being glad to maintain their own trade sets them together by the ears till all their moneys be near spent and then bids them refer the business to their neighbors to make them friends which might have been done at the first So that the course of the Law and Lawyers hath been a 〈◊〉 snare to entrap the people and to pull their Estates from them by 〈◊〉 for the Lawyers do uphold the Conquerors Interest and the peoples Slavery so that the King seeing that did put all the affairs of Judicature into their hands And all this must be called Justice but it is a 〈◊〉 Evil But now if the Laws were few and short and often read it would prevent those Evils 〈◊〉 every one knowing when they did well and when ill would be very cautious of their words and actions and this would escape the Lawyers craft As Moses Laws in Israels Commonwealth The People did talk of them when they lay down and when they rose up and as they walked by the way and bound them as bracelets upon their hands so that they were an understanding people in the Laws wherein their peace did depend But it is a sign that England is a blinded and a snared generation their Leaders through pride and covetousness have caused them to err yea and perish too for want of the knowledg of the Laws which hath the power of Life and Death Freedom and Bondage in its hand But I hope better things hereafter What may be those particular Laws or such a method of Laws whereby a Commonwealth may be governed 1. The bare letter of the Law established by act of Parliament shall be the Rule for Officer and People and the chief Judg of all Actions 2. He or they who add or diminish

work shall be Carriers or Carters to carry Corn or other provision from Store-house to Store-house from Country to Cities and from thence to Countries c. 45. If any of these refuse to do such work the Task-master shall see them whipt and shall feed them with coarse dyet And what hardship is this For Freemen work the easiest work and these shall work the hardest work And to what end is this but to kill their Pride and Unreasonableness that they may become useful men in the Commonwealth 46. The wife or children of such as have lost their Freedom shall not be as slaves till they have lost their Freedom as their parents and husbands have done 47. He who breaks any Laws shall be the first time reproved in words in private or in publique as is shewed before the next time whipt the third time lose his Freedom either for a time or for ever and not to be any Officer 48. He who hath lost his Freedom shall be a common servant to any Freeman who comes to the Task-masters and requires one to do any work for him always provided that after one Freeman hath by the consent of the Task-masters appointed him his work another Freeman shall not call him thence till that work be done 49. If any of these Offenders revile the Laws by words they shall be soundly whipt and fed with coarse dyet if they raise weapons against the Laws they shall dye as Traytors Laws to restore Slaves to Freedom 50. When any slaves give open testimony of their humility and diligence and their care to observe the Laws of the Commonwealth they are then capable to be restored to their Freedom when the time of servitude is expired according to the Judges sentence but if they remain opposite to the Laws they shall continue slaves still another term of time 51. None shall be restored to Freedom till they have been a twelve Moneth laboring servants to the Commonwealth for they shall Winter and Summer in that condition 52. When any is restored to Freedom the Judg at the Senators Court shall pronounce his Freedom and give liberty to him to be clothed in what other coloured cloth he will 53. If any persons be sick or wounded the Chyrurgeons who are trained up in the knowledg of Herbs and Minerals and know how to apply plaisters or Physick shall go when they are sent for to any who need their help but require no reward because the Common Stock is the publique pay for every mans labour 54. When a dead person is to be buried the Officers of the Parish and neighbors shall go along with the Corpse to the grave and see it layd therein in a civil manner but the publique Minister nor any other shall have any hand in reading or Exhortation 55. When a man hath learned his Trade and the time of his seven years Apprenticeship is expired he shall have his Freedom to become Master of a family and the Overseers shall appoint him such young people to be his servants as they think fit whether he marry or live a single life Laws for Marriage 56. Every man and woman shall have the free liberty to marry whom they love if they can obtain the love and liking of that party whom they would marry and neither birth nor portion shall hinder the match for we are all of one blood Mankind and for portion the Common Store-houses are every man and maids portion as free to one as to another 57. If any man lie with a maid and beget a child he shall marry her 58. If a man lie with a woman forcibly and she cry out and give no consent if this be proved by two Witnesses or the mans confession he shall be put to death and the woman let go free it is robbery of a woman bodily Freedom 59. If any man by violence endeavor to take away another mans wife the first time of such violent offer he shall be reproved before the Congregation by the Peace-maker the second time he shall be made a servant under the Task-master for twelve Moneths and if he forcibly lie with another mans wife and she cry out as in the case when a maid is forced the man shall be put to death 60. When any man or woman are consented to live together in marriage they shall acquaint all the Overseers in their Circuit therewith and some other neighbors and being all met together the man shall declare by his own mouth before them all that he takes that woman to be his wife and the woman shall say the same and desire the Overseers to be Witnesses 61. No Master of a family shall suffer more meat to be dressed at a dinner or supper then what will be spent and eaten by his houshold or company present or within such a time after before it be spoyled If there be any spoyl constantly made in a family of the food of Man the Overseer shall reprove the Master for it privately if that abuse be continued in his family through his neglect of family government he shall be openly reproved by the Peace-maker before all the people and ashamed for his folly the third time he shall be made a servant for twelve Moneths under the Task-master that he may know what it is to get food and another shall have the oversight of his house for the time 62. No man shall be suffered to keep house and have servants under him till he hath served seven years under Command to a Master himself the reason is that a man may be of age and of rational carriage before he be a Governor of a family that the Peace of the Commonwealth may be preserved Here is the righteous Law Man wilt thou it maintain It may be is as hath still in the World been slain Truth appears in Light Falshood rules in Power To see these things to be is cause of grief each hour Knowledg why didst thou come to wound and not to cure I sent not for thee thou didst me inlure Where knowledge does increase there sorrows multiply To see the great deceit which in the Worlddoth lie Man saying one thing now unsaying it anon Breaking all 's Engagements when deeds for him are done O power where art thou that must mend things amiss Come change the heart of Man and make him truth to kiss O death where art thou wilt thou not tidings send I fear thee not thou art my loving friend Come take this body and scatter it in the Four That I may dwell in One and rest in peace once more THE CONTENTS OF THE Order and Work of every Common-wealths Officer CHAP. I. THat true Commonwealths Freedom lies in the free Enjoyment of the Earth Pag 17 18 c. The Glory of Israels Commonwealth was this They had no Begger among them 21 22 A short Declaration to take off prejudice 23. 24 CHAP. II. What is Government in general 25 What is Kingly Government or Monarchy 26 27 c. What is Commonwealths Government 29 30 c. CHAP. III. Where began the first Original of Government in the Earth among Mankinde 32 There be two Roots from whence Laws do spring 33 All Officers in true Magistracy of a Commonwealth are to be Chosen Officers 34 35 All Officers in a Commonwealth are to be chosen every year 36 Who are fit to choose and who fit to be chosen Officers in a Commonwealth 37 38 CHAP. IV. What are the Officers Names in a free Commonwealth 39 40 The work of a Father or Master in a Family 40 The work of a Peace-Maker 40 41 The work of an Overseer to preserve Peace 41 42 The work of an Overseer for Trades 43 44 The Work of an Overseer to see particular Tradesmen bring their Works to Shops and Store-houses Pag. 45. All ancient men above sixty years of age are general Overseers 46. What is the Office of a Souldier 47. What is the Office of a Task-master 47 48. What is the Office of an Executioner 48. What is the Work of a Judg. Ibid. What is the Judges Court or County Senate 49 What is the Work of a Parliament in general 50 The first Work of a Commonwealths Parliament 51 The second Work of a Parliament 52 The third Work of a Parliament 53 The fourth Work of a Parliament 54 The Work of a Commonwealths Ministry 55 The Office of the Post-master 63 The Rise of a Commonwealths Army 64 An Army is twofold viz. A ruling Army Ibid. Secondly A fighting Army and the use thereof Ibid. How an Army may be murtherers and unlawful 66 CHAP. V. Education of Mankind to Schools and Trades 68. What Trades should Mankind be brought up in 69. There shall be no buying and selling of the Earth nor of the fruits thereof 71. How the Earth is to be planted 72. Store-houses shall be built and appointed in all places and be the Common Stock 74. CHAP. VI The Kings old Laws cannot govern a free Commonwealth 76. What is Law in general 78. Short and pithy Laws are best to govern a Commonwealth 80. What are those particular Laws whereby a Commonwealth is governed in a right order 81 82 c. These Books following written by Jerrard Winstanley are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the black Spred-Eagle at the West end of Pauls I. The Breaking of the Day of God or Prophecies fulfilled II. The Mystery of God concerning the whole Creation Mankinde III. The Saints Paradise set forth for the comfort of such as are under Spiritual Burning IV. Truth lifting up its head above Scandals V. The New Law of Righteousness FINIS