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r of a Family shall suffer more meat to be dressed at a dinner or supper than will be spent and eaten by his household or company present, or within such a time after before it be spoilt. If there be any spoil constantly made in a family of the food of man, the Overseer shall reprove the Master for it privately; if that abuse be continued in his family, through his neglect of family government, he shall be openly reproved by the Peacemaker before all the people, and ashamed for his folly; the third time he shall be made a servant for twelve months under the Task-master, so that he may know what it is to get food, and another shall have the oversight of his house for the time. 62. No man shall be suffered to keep house and have servants under him till he hath served seven years under command to a Master himself. The reason is that a man may be of age and of rational carriage before he be made a Governor of a Family, that the peace of the Commonwealth may be preserved. BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPLETE LIST OF "DIGGER" PUBLICATIONS. WINSTANLEY, The Mystery of God concerning the Whole Creation, Mankind.--April 1648. (British Museum, Press Mark, 4377, a. 1.) " The Breaking of the Day of God.--May 1648. (British Museum, P. M., 4377, a. 2.) " The Saints' Paradise: Or the Father's Teaching the Only Satisfaction to Waiting Souls.--August or September 1648. (British Museum, P. M., E. 2137.) " Truth Lifting up its Head above Scandals.--October 1648. (British Museum, P. M., 4372, a.a. 17.) " (?) Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.--December 1648. (British Museum, P. M., E. 475 (11).) " (?) More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.--March 1649. (British Museum, P. M., E. 548 (33).) " (?) A Declaration from the Well Affected in the County of Buckinghamshire.--May 1649. (British Museum, P. M., E. 555.) " The New Law of Righteousness.--January 1649. (Jesus College Library, Oxford.) " Fire in the Bush: The Spirit burning, not consuming but purging, Mankind.--March 1649. (Bodleian Library.) " A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England.--March 1649. (British Museum, Press Mark, 1027, i. 16 (3).) " The True Levellers' Standard Advanced: Or the State of Community opened and presented to the Sons of Men.--April 1649. (British Museum, P. M., E. 552.) " A Declaration of the Bloody and
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