st our
King of Righteousness in us, shall cause men to beat their swords
into plough-shares, their spears into pruning-hooks, and Nations
shall learn war no more. Everyone shall delight to let each other
enjoy the pleasures of the Earth, and shall hold each other no more
in bondage. Then what will become of your power? Truly he must be
cast out as a murderer. I pity you for the torment your spirit must
go through, if you be not fore-armed as you are abundantly
fore-warned from all places. But I look on you as part of the
Creation that must be restored; and the Spirit may give you wisdom
to fore-see a danger, as he hath admonished divers of your rank
already to leave those high places and to lie quiet and wait for
the breaking forth of the powerful day of the Lord. Farewell, once
more, Let Israel go free."

As a sort of appendix to this pamphlet there appears the following
interesting document:

"A BILL OF ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE SUFFERINGS THAT THE
DIGGERS HAVE MET WITH SINCE APRIL 1ST, 1649, which was the
first day they began to dig and to take possession of the
Commons for the Poor on George Hill in Surrey.

"1. The first time divers of the Diggers were carried prisoners
into Walton Church, where some of them were struck in the Church
by the bitter Professors and rude multitude; but after some time
they were freed by a Justice.

"2. They were fetched by above a hundred rude people, whereof John
Taylor was the leader, who took away their spades, and some of them
they never had again: and carried them first to prison in Walton,
and then to a Justice in Kingston, who presently dismissed them.

"3. The enemy pulled down a house which the Diggers had built upon
George Hill, and cut their spades and hoes to pieces.

"4. Two Troops of Horse were sent from the General to fetch us
before the Council of War, to give account of our Digging.

"5. We had another House pulled down, and our Spades cut to pieces.

"6. One of the Diggers had his head sore wounded, and a Boy beaten,
and his clothes taken from him: divers being by.

"7. We had a Cart and Wheels cut in pieces, and a Mare cut over the
back with a Bill when we went to fetch a load of wood from Stoak
Common, to build a house upon George Hill.

"8. Divers of the Digger