good from the Parliament and the Grandees of the Army,
"finding the Grandees of the Army to be the men that hinder both the
honest soldiery that stand for absolute freedom, and doth imprison and
put them to death that are for Just Principles of Common Right and
Equity, so that those honest men are by those proud Commanders
persecuted by the name of Levellers...."[85:1]

"Therefore we declare our intentions that the World may take notice
of our principles, which are for Common Right and Freedom. And
therefore--

"1. We do protest against all Arbitrary Courts, Terms, Lawyers,
Impropriators, Lords of Manors, Patents, Privileges, Customs,
Tolls, Monopolisers, Incroachers, Enhancers, etc., or any other
interest-parties, whose powers are arbitrary, etc., as not to allow
or suffer ourselves to be inslaved by any of those parties, but
shall resist, as far as lawfully we can, all their Arbitrary
Proceedings.

"2. We protest against the whole Norman Power, as being too
intolerable a burden any longer to bear.

"3. We protest against paying Tythes, Tolls, Customs, etc.

"4 We protest against any coming to Westminster Terms, or to give
any money to the Lawyers, but will endeavour to have all our
Controversies ended by 2, 3 or 12 men of our own neighborhood, as
before the Norman Conquest.

"5. We protest against any trial by a Martial Court as arbitrary,
tyrannical and wicked, and not for a Free People to suffer in times
of peace.

"6. We shall help to aid and assist the Poor to the regaining all
their Rights, dues, etc., that do belong unto them, and are
detained from them by any Tyrant whatsoever.

"7. And likewise will further and help the said Poor to manure,
dig, etc., the said Commons, and to sell those woods growing
thereon to help them to a stock, etc.

"8. All well affected persons that joyn in Community in God's way,
as those Acts 2. v. 44, and desire to manure, dig and plant in the
waste grounds and commons, shall not be troubled or molested by any
of us, but rather furthered therein.

"We desire to go by the Golden Rule of Equity, viz., To do to all
men as we would they should do to us, and no otherwise: and as we
would tyrannise over none, so we shall not suffer ourselves to be
slaves to any whosoever."

That such views were not restricted