EXCERPTS FROM THE DIGGERS PRIMARY TEXTS: The Earth (which was made to be a Common Treasury of relief for all, both Beasts and Men) was hedged in to In-closures by the Teachers and Rulers, and the others were made Servants and Slaves: And that Earth that is within this Creation made a Common Store-House for all, is bought and sold, and kept in the hands of a few, whereby the great Creator is mightily dishonored, as if he were a respecter of persons, delighting in the comfortable livelihood of some, and rejoicing in the miserable poverty and straits of others. From the beginning it was not so. And so the Earth that was made a Common Treasury for all to live comfortably upon, is become through man's unrighteous actions one over another, to be a place, wherein one torments another. But by subtle selfish Counsels, and by open and violent force; for wherefore is it that there is such Wars and rumors of Wars in the Nations of the Earth? and wherefore are men so mad to destroy one another? But only to uphold Civil propriety of Honor, Dominion and Riches one over another, which is the Curse the Creation groans under, waiting for deliverance. O' thou Powers of England, though thou hast promised to make this People a Free People, yet thou hast so handled the matter, through thy self-seeking humor, that thou hast wrapped us up more in bondage, and oppression lies heavier upon us; not only bringing thy fellow Creatures, the Commoners, to a morsel of bread, but by confounding all sorts <b>...</b>