Levellers and Diggers Documents On-Line, as of 03.18.03

All the documents on "The Land and Freedom Pages", http://www.bilderberg.org/land/index.htm, as of 2.18.02

The True Levellers' Standard Advanced --

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/diggers.htm#True

Winstanley, "A New-yeers Gift FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMIE: SHEWING, What the KINGLY Power is; And that the CAUSE of those They call DIGGERS Is the life and marrow of that Cause the Parliament hath Declared for, and the Army Fought for;..." --

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/gift.htm

Winstanley, "A DECLARATION FROM THE Poor oppressed People OF ENGLAND

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/poor.htm

Winstanley, "A LETTER TO The Lord Fairfax, AND His Councell of War, WITH Divers Questions to the Lawyers, and Ministers: Proving it an undeniable Equity, That the common People ought to dig, plow, plant and dwell upon the Commons, with- out hiring them, or paying Rent to any"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/letter.htm

Winstanley, "The Law of Freedom in a Platform"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/lawofree.htm

White, Francis. "A T R U E R E L A T I O N O F T H E P R O C E E D I N G S I N T H E Business of Burford"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/truerel.htm

The Great Leveller Petition of 11 September 1648, "TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND in Parliament assembled"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/petition.htm

Lilburne, John (1648, see above petition)."E N G L A N D S N E W C H A I N S D I S C O V E R E D"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/newchai1.htm

"The Second Part OF E N G L A N D S N e w - C h a i n e s DISCOVERED"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/newchai2.htm

"A SOLEMNE ENGAGEMENT of the Army",

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/solemn.htm

Thompson, William. "FOR A New Parliament BY THE A G R E E M E N T OF THE P E O P L E ENGLAND'S STANDARD A d v a n c e d"

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/thompson.htm

Lilburne, John. "AN A G R E E M E N T OF THE Free People of England", Leveller manifesto of May 1649.

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/leveller.htm

The Putney Debates, complete (thanks to Jim Holstun):

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~muss/webstuff/putney.htm

"AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR A firme and present Peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome;" (1647),

http://www.mindspring.com/~strecorsoc/docs/agreement.html

Overton, Richard. "A Remonstrance Of Many Thousand Citizens, and other Free-born People of England, To their owne House of Commons"

http://www.libertystory.net/LSDOCOVERTONREMONSTRANCE.htm

Documents on the Page "Selected Works of the Levellers", http://www.constitution.org/lev/levellers.htm

  1. John Lilburne, 'On the 150th page': An untitled broadsheet of August 1645 3
  2. William Walwyn, Toleration justified and persecution condemned. 29 January 1646 9
  3. John Lilburne, Postscript to The freeman's freedom vindicated. 16 June 1646 31
  4. Richard Overton with William Walwyn's collaboration, A remonstrance of many thousand citizens. 7 July 1646 33
  5. Richard Overton, An arrow against all tyrants. 12 October 1646 54
  6. William Walwyn, Gold tried in the fire. 4 June 1647 73
  7. Several hands, An agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right and freedom. 28 October 1647 92
  8. Members of the New Model Army and civilian Levellers, Extract from the debates at the General Council of the Army, Putney. 29 October 1647 102
  9. John Lilburne and others, The petition of 11 September 1648 131
  10. John Lilburne, England's new chains discovered. 26 February 1649 140
  11. William Walwyn, and on behalf of John Lilburne, Thomas Prince and Richard Overton, A manifestation. 14 April 1649 158
  12. John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince and Richard Overton, An agreement of the free people of England. 1 May 1649 168
  13. John Lilburne, The young men's and the apprentices' outcry. 29 August 1649

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Documents on the page "The English Civil War: John Lilburne and the Levellers".

[NOTE: These were formerly on line at http://www.felix2.f2s.com/english/levelle.html and the pages once linked on it. As of March 2003 these pages were no longer on line. I have downloaded the original files from the Internet Archive and put them on my own server at Montclair State University, in PDF format. If and when the original page owners put them on line again, or contact me, I'll be glad to change the links. - GF]

The English Souldiers Standard (Levellers)

"The poore Wise-mans ADMONITION UNTO All the plaine People of London, and the Neighbour-Places"

"A Solemne Engagement of the Army..."

"A Manifestation..."

"THE BAITING OF THE GREAT BULL OF BASHAN Unfolded and Presented to the Affecters and approvers of the PETITION of the 11 Sept. 1648",

Grover Furr's Web Pages:

„A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/gbi/docs/Light_Shining_In_Buckinghamshire.pdf

"More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/gbi/docs/More_Light_Shining_In_Buckinghamshire.pdf

"Killing No Murder"

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/gbi/docs/Killing_No_Murder.pdf

Some Additional Resources:

Christopher Hill, lecture - "Gerard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston" . A lecture on the Diggers.

Christopher Hill, book - The English Revolution 1640. First published in 1940. Hill later disowned this book.

Page on the film Winstanley, by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. It has many other links to good resources at the end.