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The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth

The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth

by Lewis Henry Berens

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Author
Berens, Lewis Henry
Title
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
Credits
E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Louise Pryor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from page images generously made available by the Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries
Language
English
LoC Class
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
Subject
Land use
Category
Text
eBook-No.
17480
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17480
Release Date
January 8, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Louise Pryor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from page images generously made available by the Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries — THE DIGGER MOVEMENT IN THE DAYS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
  2. 2.CONTENTS — THE DIGGER MOVEMENT
  3. 3.CHAPTER I THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY
  4. 4.CHAPTER II THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND
  5. 5.CHAPTER III THE GREAT CIVIL WAR
  6. 6.CHAPTER IV THE DIGGERS
  7. 7.CHAPTER V GERRARD WINSTANLEY
  8. 8.CHAPTER VI WINSTANLEY’S EXPOSITION OF THE QUAKER DOCTRINES (1648-1649)
  9. 9.CHAPTER VII THE NEW LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
  10. 10.CHAPTER VIII LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
  11. 11.CHAPTER IX THE DIGGERS’ MANIFESTOES
  12. 12.CHAPTER X A LETTER TO LORD FAIRFAX AND HIS COUNCIL OF WAR; AND AN APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
  13. 13.CHAPTER XI A WATCHWORD TO THE CITY OF LONDON, ETC.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XII A NEW YEAR’S GIFT FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMY
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIII A VINDICATION; A DECLARATION; AND AN APPEAL
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIV GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S UTOPIA: THE LAW OF FREEDOM
  17. 17.CHAPTER XV GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S UTOPIA
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVI GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S UTOPIA
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVII CONCLUDING REMARKS
  20. 20.APPENDIX A THE FUNDAMENTAL AND JUST CHIEF ARTICLES OF ALL THE PEASANTRY AND VILLEINS BY WHICH THEY DEEM THEMSELVES OPPRESSED
  21. 21.APPENDIX B TOLERATION
  22. 22.APPENDIX C WHAT MAY BE THOSE PARTICULAR LAWS, OR SUCH A METHOD OF LAWS, WHEREBY A COMMONWEALTH MAY BE GOVERNED?
  23. 23.BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. 24.INDEX

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