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A96697	A new-yeers gift for the Parliament and Armie: shewing what the kingly power is; and that the cause of those that they call Diggers is the life and marrow of that cause the Parliament hath declared for, and the Army fought for; the perfecting of which work, will prove England to be the first of nations, of the tenth part of the city Babylon, that fals off from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christs head, to govern the world in righteousness: / by Jerrard Winstanley a lover of Englands freedom and peace.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1650 (1650)	Wing W3050; Thomason E587_6; ESTC R206278	36,076	51

divided and part are call into bondage so that the best you can say of Kingly power that Rules by the Sword is this He is a murderer and a theif And by this power the Earth is thus divided The several Nations of the Earth where Kings rule are the several situation of such grand Theeves and Murderers that will rule over others by the Sword upholding a forced Propriety which is the Curse and persecuting the community of Love which is Christ the blessing And under them they have their cheif Favourits or neerest Souldiers in Office to himself and to these he allows the greatest portion of the Earth every one his part called a Lordship and next to them the inferior Officers or Souldiers are appointed out lesser parcels of the Earth called free-Holders paying no slavish Rent or Homage to any but only acknowledgment That the King is their General or Head still And these Lords of Mannors and Free holders having thus seated themselves in the Earth by taking other mens proper labours from them by the Sword are appointed by the Kiug as Watchmen That if any of the conquered slaves seek to Plant the Common waste Earth without their leave they may be known and beaten off So that the god from whom they claim Title to the Land as proper to them shutting out others was Covetousnesse the Murderer the swordly power that great red Dragon who is called The god of the World But the King of Righteousnesse who is universal Love who is the Lord God Almighty bidding every one do as they would be done by made the Earth for All without respect of person and shuts out none from enjoying a peaceable livelihood that hath a body therefore they that build upon the power of the Sword upholding covetous Propriety are enemies to the law of Righteousnesse which is Love your enemies do as you would be done by But one of your Officers told me What saith he If we grant to every one to have the Land of England in Common we do not only destroy Propriety but we do that which is not practised in any Nation in the world I Answered It was true Propriety came in you see by the Sword therefore the Curse for the murderer brought it in and upholds him by his power and it makes a division in the Creation casting many under bondage therefore it is not the blessing or the promised seed And what other Lands do England is not to take pattern for England as well as other Lands hath lyen under the power of that Beast Kingly propriety But now England is the first of Nations that is upon the point of Reforming and if England must be the tenth part of the City Babylon that fals off from the Beast first and would have that honour he must cheerfully and dally no longer cast out Kingly covetous Propriety and set the Crown upon Christs head who is the universal Love or Free community and so be the leader of that happy Restoration to all the Nations of the world And if England refuse some other Nation may be chosen before him and England then shall lose his Crown for if ever the Creation be Restored this is the way which lies in this Two fold power First Community of Mankind which is comprised in the unity of spirit of Love which is called Christ in you or the Law writen in the heart leading mankind into all truth and to be of one heart and one mind The Second is Community of the Earth for the quiet livelihood in food and raiment without using force or restraining one another These two Communities or rather one in two branches is that true Levelling which Christ will work at his more glorious appearance for Jesus Christ the Saviour of all men is the greatest first and truest Leveller that ever was spoke of in the world Therefore you Rulers of England be not ashamed nor afraid of Levellers hate them not Christ comes to you riding upon these clouds look not upon other Lands to be your pattern all Lands in the world he under darkness so doth England yet though the neerest to Light and Freedom of any other therefore let no other Land take your Crown You have set Christ upon his throne in England by your Promises Engagements Oathes and Two Acts of Parliament the One to cast out Kingly power the Other to make England a Free Common-wealth Put all these into sincere Action and you shall see the work is done and you with others shall sing Halelujah to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore But if you do not the Lamb shall shew himself a Lion and tear you in pieces for your most abominable dissembling Hypocrisie and give your Land to a People who better deserves it I have varied a little therefore I will return to what I was speaking I told you That the Murdering and Theeving Sword hath found out a Platform of Tyrannical Government called Kingly Power First here is the King the Head of the murdering power or great red Dragon Then there are Lords of Mannors who have the greatest circuit of Land because the next in Power to the Head Then there are Free-holders that took the particular Inclosures which they found in a Land when they Conquered it and had turned out those that had bestowed labour upon it by force of the Sword in the sield or else by sequestring afterwards These several parcels of Land are called free-hold-Free-hold-Land because the Enjoyers or their Ancestors were Souldiers and helped the King to conquer and if any of latter yeers came to buy these Free-holds with Money got by Trading it doth not alter the Title of the Conquest for Evidences are made in the Kings Name to remove the Free-holds so bought from one mans hand to another But now Copy-hold lands are parcels hedged in and taken out of the common waste land since the conquest acknowledging Homage Fines and Heriots to the Lord of that Mannor or circuit in which that Inclosure by his leave is made this Homage still confirmes the power of the conquests The Lords of Mannors acknowledged Homage to the King in that Court of Wards which you have taken away to ease your selves But the Copy-holders you will have to acknowledge Homage to Lords of Mannors still and is not this partiality O you Rulers make the poor as free to the Earth as your selves and honour Righteousnesse Now for the drawing in of the People to yeeld Obedience to this Platform of Kingly tyrannical power to which People are made subject through fear The Kingly power sets up a Preaching Clergy to draw the People by insinuating words to conform hereunto and for their pains Kingly power gives them the Tithes And when the Kingly power hath any Design to lift up himself higher then the Clergy is to Preach up that Design as of late in our Wars the Preachers most commonly in their Sermons medled with little but State matters and then if

inclose and hence rose up Propriety for this is the fruit of War from the beginning for it removes Propriety out of a weaker into a stronger hand but still upholds the curse of Bondage and hereby the Kingly power which you have made an Act and Sworn to cast out does remove himself from one chair to another and so long as the Sword rules over brethren mind what I say so long the Kingly power of darkness Rules and so large as yet is his Kingdom which spreds from Sea to Sea and fills the Earth but Christ is rising who will take the Dominion and Kingdom out of his hand and his power of Righteousness shall rise and spred from East to West from North to South and fill the Earth with himself and cast the other cursed power out when Coveteousness sheaths his Sword and ceases to rage in the field he first makes sharp Laws of Bondage That those that are conquered and that by him are appointed not to enjoy the Earth but are turned out shall be Servants Slaves and Vassals to the Conquerers party so those Laws that upholds Whips Prisons Gallows is but the same power of the Sword that raged and that was drunk with Blood in the field King Charles it is true was the Head of this Kingly power in England and he Reigned as he was a Successor of the last Norman Conquerer and whosoever you be that hath Propriety of Land hath your Titles and Evidences made to you in his or his Ancestors Name and from his and their Will and Kingly power I am sure he was not our Creator and therefore parcelled out the Earth to some and denied it to others therefore he must needs stand as a Conquerer and was the Head of this Kingly power that burdens and oppresses the People and that is the cause of all our Wars and Divisions for if this Kingly power of Covetousness which is the unrighteous Divider did not yet Rule both Parliament Army and rich People would cheerfully give consent that those we call Poor should Dig and freely Plant the Waste and Common Land for a livelihood seing there is Land enough and more by half then is made use of and not be suffered to perish for want And yet O ye Rulers of England you make a blazing profession That you know and that you own God Christ and the Scriptures but did Christ ever declare such hardness of heart did not he bid the rich man go and sell all that he hath and give to the Poor and does not the Scripture say If thou makest a Covenant keep it though it be to thy loss But truly it will not be to your loss to let your fellow Creatures your equals in the Creation nay those that have been faithful in your Cause and so your Friends I say it will not be to your loss to let them quietly improve the Waste and Common Land that they may live in peace freed from the heavie burdens of Poverty for hereby our own Land will be increased with all sorts of Commodities and the People will be knit together in love to keep out a forreign Enemy that endeavours and that will endeavour as yet to come like an Army of cursed Ratts and Mice to destroy our inheritance so that if this Freedom be quietly granted to us you grant it but to your selves to English-men to your own flesh and blood and you do but give us our own neither which Covetousness in the Kingly power hath and yet does hold from us for the Earth in the first Creation of it was freely given to whole mankind without respect of Persons therefore you Lords of Mannors and you Rulers of England if you own God Christ and Scripture now make Restitution and deliver us quiet possession of our Land which the Kingly power as yet holds from us While this Kingly power raigned in one man called Charls all sorts of people complained of oppression both Gentrie and Common people because their lands Inclosures and Copieholds were intangled and because their Trades were destroyed by Monopolizing Patentees and your troubles were that you could not live free from oppression in the earth Thereupon you that were the Gentrie when you were assembled in Parliament you called upon the poor Common-People to come and help you and cast out oppression and you that complained are helped and freed and that top-bow is lopped off the tree of Tyrannie and Kingly power in that one particular is cast out but alas oppression is a great tree still and keeps off the son of freedome from the poor Commons still he hath many branches and great roots which must be grub'd up before every one can sing Sions songs in peace As we spie out Kinglie power we must declare it and cast it out or else we shall deny the Parliament of England and their Acts and so prove Traitors to the Land by denying obedience thereunto Now there are Three Branches more of Kinglie power greater then the former that oppresses this Land wonderfully and these are the power of the Tithing Priests over the Tenths of our labours and the power of Lords of Mannors holding the free use of the Commons and wast Land from the poor and the intolerable oppression either of bad Laws or of bad Judges corrupting good Laws these are branches of the Norman conquest and Kingly power still and wants a Reformation For as for the first William the Couqueror promised That if the Clergie would preach him up so that the people might be bewitched so as to receive him to be Gods Anointed over them he would give them the Tenths of the Lands increase yeerly and they did it and he made good his Promise and do we not yet see That if the Clergie can get Tithes or Money they will turn as the Ruling power turns any way to Popery to Protestanisme for a King against a King for Monarchy for State-Government they cry who bids most wages they will be on the strongest side for an Earthly maintenance yea and when they are lifted up they would Rule too because they are called Spiritual men It is true indeed they are spiritual but it is of the spiritual power of Coveteousness and Pride for the spiritual power of Love and Righteousness they know not for if they knew it they would not persecute and raile against him as ●hey do The Clergie will serve on any side like our ancient Laws that will serve any Master They will serve the Papists they will serve the Protestants they will serve the King they will serve the States they are one and the same Tools for Lawyers to work with under any Government O you Parliament-men of England cast those whorish Laws out of doors that are so Common that pretend love to every one and is faithful to none for truly he that goes to Law as the Proverb is shall die a Beggar so that old Whores and old Laws picks mens pockets and undoes them If the fault lie

in the Laws and much does burn all your old Law-Books in Cheapside set up a Government upon your own Foundation do not put new Wine into old Bottles but as your Government must be new so let the Laws be new or else you will run farther into the Mud where you stick already as though you were fast in an Irish Bogge for you are so far sunke that he must have good eyes that can see where you are but yet all are not blind there are eyes that sees you but if the fault lies in the Judges of the Law surely such men deserve no power in a Reforming Common-wealth that burdens all sorts of People And truly I le tell you plain your Two Acts of Parliament are excellent and Righteous The One to cast out Kingly power The Other to make England a Free Common-wealth build upon these Two it is a firm Foundation and your House will be the glory of the World and I am confident the righteous Spirit will love you do not stick in the Bogge of covetousness Let not self-love so be-muddy your brain that you should lose your selves in the thicket of bramble bush-words and set never a strong Oak of some stable Action for the Freedome of the poor Oppressed that helped you when you complained of Oppression Let not Pride blind your eyes that you should forget you are the Nations Servants and so prove Solomons words good in your selves That Servants ride on Horse-back and Coache● when as Princes such as Chose you and set you there go on foot and many of them through their love to the Nation have so wasted themselves that now they can hardly get Bread but with great difficulty I tell you this is a sore Evil and this is truth therefore think upon it it is a poor mans Advice and you shall finde weight in it if you Do as well as Say Then Secondly for Lords of Mannors They were William the Conquerors Colonels and Favourites and he gave a large circuit of Land to every one called A Lord-ship that they might have a watchful eye that if any of the conquered English should begin to Plant themselves upon any Common or waste Land to live out of sight or out of slavery that then some Lord of Mannor or other might see and know of it and drive them off as these Lords of Mannors now a dayes endeavours to drive off the Diggers from Digging upon the Commons but we expect the Rulers of the Land will grant unto us their Friends the benefit of their own Acts against Kingly power and not suffer that Norman power to crush the poor Oppressed who helped them in their straits nor suffer that Norman power to bud fresher out so in time may come to over-top our deer bought Freedom more then ever Search all your Laws and I le adventure my life for I have little else to lose That all Lords of Mannors hold Title to the Commons by no stronger hold then the Kings Will whose Head is cut off and the King held Title as he was a Conqueror now if you cast off the King who was the Head of that power surely the power of Lords of Mannors is the same therefore performe your own Act of Parliament and cast out that part of the Kinglie power likewise that the People may see you understand what you Say and Do and that you are faithful For truly the Kinglie power reigns strongly in the Lords of Mannors over the Poor for my own particular I have in other Writings as well as in this Declared my Reasons That the common Land is the poor Peoples Proprietie and I have Digged upon the Commons and I hope in time to obtain the Freedom to get Food and Raiment therefrom by righteous labour which is all I desire and for so doing the supposed Lord of that Mannor hath Arrested me twice First in an Action of 20 l. Trespass for Plowing upon the Commons which I never did and because they would not suffer me to Plead my own Cause they made shift to pass a Sentence of Execution against some Cows I kept supposing they had been mine and took them away but the right Owner reprieved them fetched the Cowes back so greedy are these Theeves and Murderers after my life for speaking the truth and for maintaining the Life and Marrow of the Parliaments Cause in my Actions And now they have Arrested me again in an Action of 4. l. trespas for digging upon the Comons which I did own the work to be righteous no trespas to any This was the Attorney of Kingstone's Advice either to get Money on both sides for they love Mony as deerly as a poor mans dog do his breakfast in a cold morning but regard not justice or else That I should not remove it to a higher Court but that the cause might be tryed there and then they know how to please the Lords of Mannors that have resolved to spend hundreds of pounds but they will hinder the poor from enjoying the Commons for they will not suffer me to plead my own Cause but I must Fee an enemie or else be condemned and executed without mercy or Justice as I was before and ●o to put me in Prison till I pay their unrighteous Sentence for truly Attourneys are such neat workmen that they can turn a Cause which way those that have the biggest purse will have them and the Countrie knows very well That Kingstone court is so full of the Kinglie power that some will rather lose their Rights then have their causes tryed there one of the Officers of that court told a friend of mine That if the Diggers cause was good he would pick out such a Jurie as should overthrow him And upon my former Arrest they picked out such a Jurie as Sentenced me to pay 10. l. damages for plowing upon the commons which I did not do neither did any witness prove it before them So that from Kingstone Juries Lords of Mannors and Kinglie power Good Lord deliver us Do these men obey the Parliaments Acts to throw down Kinglie power O no The same unrighteous doing that was complained of in King Charles dayes the same doings is among them still Monies will buy and sell Justice still and is our 8 yeers Wars come round about to lay us down again in the kennel of injustice as much or more then before are we no farther learned yet O ye Rulers of England when must we turn over a new leaf will you alwayes hold us in one Lesson surely you will make Dunces of us then all the Boyes in other Lands will laugh at us come I pray let us take forth and go forward in our learning You blame us who are the Common people as though we would have no government truly Gentlemen We desire a righteous government with all our hearts but the government we have gives freedom and livelihood to the Gentrie to hae abundance and to lock up Treasures of

steal any mans proper goods as Sheep Geese Pigs as they say let such be made a spectacle to all the world For my part I own no such doing neither do I know any such thing by any of the Diggers Likewise they report that we Diggers hold women to be common and live in that bestialnesse For my part I declare against it I own this to be a truth That the earth ought to be a common Treasury to all but as for women Let every man have his own wife and every woman her own husband and I know none of the Diggers that act in such an unrationall excesse of female communitie If any should I professe to have nothing to do with such people but leave them to their own Master who will pay them with torment of minde and diseases in their bodies These and such-like tales we hear are brought to you to incense you against us but we desire you to mark them that bring them for we partly know who they be and we can tell them to their faces they were Cavaliers and had hands in the Kentish Rising and in stirring up that offensive Surrey Petition which was the occasion of bloodshed in Westminster-yard and they would rejoyce to see the Prince come in with an Armie to over-top you for we know they love you not but from the teeth outwards for their own ends And these are the proud Hamans that would incense you against the Mordecaies of the Land even your true-hearted friends the Diggers Well in the midst of our slanders we rejoyce in the uprightness of our hearts and we do commit our cause to him that judgeth righteously Upon these lying reports and importunitie to the General it seems the General granted the Lords of Mannor to have some souldiers to go along with the Sheriff to pull down the Diggers houses and so the souldiers did come but they were very moderate and rationall men and as they were sent to secure the Sheriff so they did but there was no cause for though the Gentlemen possess'd the General that they feared opposition from the Diggers yet the souldiers saw they lifted not up a finger in discontent but fought against those dragons the Lords of Manors with the spirit of love and patience for when the two Lords of Manor sat among the souldiers on hors-back and coach and commanded their fearfull tenants to pull down one of the Diggers houses before their faces and rejoyced with shouting at the fall yet some of the Diggers stood by and were very chearfull and preached the Gospel to those Turkish Bashaws which are words of life and in time will prove words of terrour to torment their awakened consciences And the poor tenants that pulled down the house durst do no other because their Land-lords and Lords looked on for fear they should be turned out of service or their livings as a a poor honest man because he looked with a cheerfull countenance upon the Diggers though he was affraid to come neer or affraid to speak openly lest his Landlords setting-dogs should smell the sound of his words and carry a pick-thank tale which his Lords ears are much open to a Baily was sent presently to him to warn him out of his house Can the Turkish Bashaws hold their slaves in more bondage than these Gospel-professing Lords of Manors do their poor tenants and is not this the Kingly power O you Rulers of England I pay see that your own acts be obeyed and let the oppressed go free And when the poor enforced slaves had pulled down the house then their Lords gave them ten shillings to drink and there they smiled one upon another being fearfull like a dog that is kept in awe when his Master gives him a bone and stands over him with a whip he will eat and look up and twinch his tail for they durst not laugh out left their Lords should hear they jeer'd them openly for in their hearts they are Diggers Therefore you Lords of Manors if you have none to stand for you but whom you force by threatning then leave off striving against the spirit and say you are fallen and come in and embrace righteousnesse that you may finde mercy betimes The next day after this there came two souldiers and three Country-men to another house which the Diggers had set up which the Sheriff the day before had let alone for as some say he was grieved to see what was done one of these souldiers was very civill and walked lovingly with the Diggers round their corn which they had planted and commended the work and would do no harm as divers others were of the same minde and when he went his way gave the Diggers 12 d. to drink but the other souldier was so rude that he forced those three Country-men to help him to pull down the house and railed bitterly the men were unwilling to pull it down but for fear of their Landlords and the threatning souldier they did put their hands to pull it down And seeing Parson Platt the Lord of that Manor will not suffer the Diggers to have a house wherein he forgets his Master Christ that is persecuted in naked hungry and houselesse members yet the Diggers were mighty cheerfull and their spirits resolve to wait upon God to see what he will do and they have built them some few little hutches like calf-cribs and there they lie anights and follow their work adayes still with wonderfull joy of heart taking the spoyling of their goods cheerfully counting it a great happinesse to be persecuted for righteousnesse sake by the Priests and Professors that are the successors of Judas and the bitter-spirited Pharisees that put the man Christ Jesus to death And they have planted divers Acres of Wheat and Rye which is come up and promises a very hopefull crop committing their cause to God and wait upon him saying O thou King of righteousnesse do thine own work O that you would search and try our wayes narrowly and see whether we deny God Christ Scriptures as the Priests slander us we do and you shall finde that the Scriptures warrant our action and God in Christ is the life of our souls and the support of our spirits in the midst of this our sharp persecution from the hands of unreasonable men who have not faith in Christ but uphold the Kingly power which you have Voted down Likewise you shall see that we live in the performance of that work which is the very life and marrow of the Parliaments Cause whereby we honour the Parliament and their Cause as you shall see by this following Declaration unfolding the foundation whereupon Englands Laws are or the Freedom of a Common-wealth ought to be built which is Equity and Reason IN the time of the Kings who came in as Conquerors and ruled by the power of the Sword not only the Common land but the Inclosures also were captivated under the will of those Kings till now of late that

our later Kings granted more freedom to the Gentry than they had presently after the Conquest yet under bondage still for what are prisons whips and gallows in the times of peace but the laws and power of the sword forcing and compelling obedience and so enslaving as if the sword raged in the open field England was in such a slavery under the Kingly power that both Gentry and Commonaltie groaned under bondage and to ease themselves they endeavoured to call a Parliament that by their counsels and decrees they might find some freedom But Charles the then King perceiving that the Freedom they strove for would derogate from his Prerogative-tyranny therupon he goes into the North to raise a War against the Parliament and took WILLIAM the Conqueror's Sword into his hand again thereby to keep under the former conquered English and to uphold his Kingly power of self-will and Prerogative which was the power got by former Conquests that is to rule over the lives and estates of all men at his will and so to make us pure slaves and vassals Well This Parliament that did consist of the chief Lords Lords of Manors and Gentry and they seeing that the King by raising an Army did thereby declare his intent to enslave all sorts to him by the sword and being in distresse and in a low ebb they call upon the common people to bring in their Plate Moneys Taxes Free-quarter Excise and to adventure their lives with them and they would endeavour to recover England from that Norman yoak and make us a free people and the common people assent hereunto and call this the Parliaments Cause and own it and adventure person and purse to preserve it and by the joynt assistance of Parliament and People the King was beaten in the field his head taken off and his Kingly power voted down and we the Commons thereby virtually have recovered our selves from the Norman Conquest we want nothing but possession of the spoyl which is a free use of the Land for our livelyhood And from hence we the common people or younger brothers plead our propriety in the Common land as truly our own by vertue of this victory over the King as our elder brothers can plead proprietie in their Inclosures and that for three reasons in Englands law First By a lawfull purchase or contract between the Parliament and us for they were our Landlords and Lords of Mannors that held the freedom of the Commons from us while the King was in his power for they held title thereunto from him he being the head and they branches of the Kingly power that enslaved the people by that ancient Conquerors Sword that was the ruling power For they said Come and help us against the King that enslaves us that we may be delivered from his Tyranny and we will make you a free People Now they cannot make us free unlesse they deliver us from the bondage which they themselves held us under and that is they held the freedom of the Earth from us for we in part with them have delivered our selves from the King now we claim freedom from that bondage you have and yet do hold us under by the bargain and contract between Parliament and us who I say did consist of Lords of Manors and Landlords whereof Mr. Drake who hath arrested me for digging upon the Common was one at that time Therefore by the law of Bargain and Sale we claim of them our freedom to live comfortably with them in this Land of our Nativity and this we cannot do so long as we lie under poverty and must not be suffered to plant the commons and waste land for our livelihood for take away the land from any people and those people are in a way of continuall death and misery and better not to have had a body than not to have food and rayment for it But I say they have sold us our freedom in the common and have been largely paid for it for by means of our bloods and money they sit in peace for if the King had prevailed they had lost all and been in slavery to the meanest Cavalier if the King would Therfore we the Commons say Give us our bargain if you deny us our bargain you deny God Christ and Scriptures and all your profession then is and hath been hypocrisie Secondly The Commons and Crown land is our propriety by equall conquest over the Kingly power for the Parl did never stir up the people by promises and covenant to assist them to cast out the King and to establish them in the Kings place and prerogative power No but all their Declarations were for the safety and peace of the whole Nation Therefore the common-people being part of the Nation and especially they that bore the greatest heat of the day in casting out the oppressor and the Nation cannot be in peace so long as the poor oppressed are in wants and the land is intangled and held from them by bondage But the Victory being obtained over the King the spoyl which is properly the Land ought in equity to be divided now between the two Parties that is Parliament and Common-people The Parliament consisting of Lords of Manors and Gentry ought to have their inclosure Lands free to them without molestation as they are freed from the Court of Wards And the Common-people consisting of Souldiers and such as paid Taxes and Free-quarter ought to have the freedom of all waste and common land and Crown-land equally among them the Souldiery ought not in equity to have all nor the other people that paid them to have all but the spoyle ought to be divided between them that stay'd at home and them that went to Warr for the Victory is for the whole Nation And as the Parliament declared they did all for the Nation and not for themselves onely so we plead with the Armie they did not fight for themselves but for the freedom of the Nation and I say we have bought our Freedom of them likewise by Taxes and Free-quarter therefore we claim an equall Freedom with them in this Conquest over the King Thirdly We claim an equall portion in the Victory over the King by vertue of the two Acts of Parliament the One to make England a Free-Common-wealth the Other to take away Kingly power Now the Kingly power you have heard is a power that rules by the Sword in covetousnesse and self giving the earth to some and denying it to others and this Kingly power was not in the hand of the King alone but Lords and Lords of Manors and corrupt Judges and Lawyers especially held it up likewise for he was the head and they with the Tything-priests are the branches of that Tyrannical Kingly power and all the several limbs and members must be cast out before Kingly power can be pulled up root and branch Mistake me not I do not say Cast out the persons of men No I do not desire their fingers to ake