To conquer them by love, come in now, come in now,
To conquer them by love, come in now;
To conquer them by love, as it does you behove,
For He is King above, no Power is like to Love. 
Glory here, Diggers all!”

FOOTNOTES: 

[112:1] King’s Pamphlets.  British Museum, Press Mark, E. 573.  Also at the Guildhall Library.

[115:1] Mr. Drake was the Lord of the Manor, and the patron of Parson Platt.  He was made an Ejector for the County of Surrey by Cromwell, and Platt made Lay Ejector.

[122:1] See A Declaration of the Bloody and Unchristian Acting of William Star and John Taylor of Walton, with divers men in women’s apparell, in opposition to those that dig upon St. Georges Hill.  King’s Pamphlets.  British Museum, Press Mark, E. 561.

[122:2] Clarke Papers, vol. ii. pp. 215-217.  No date is attached; but Winstanley’s second letter, which immediately follows it, is dated December 8th, 1649.

[124:1] See Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1649-1650, p. 335.

[124:2] Clarke Papers, vol. ii. pp. 217-220.

[126:1] King’s Pamphlets.  British Museum, Press Mark, E. 585.

[129:1] King’s Pamphlets.  British Museum, Press Mark, E. 1365.

[130:1] Vol. ii. p. 221.

CHAPTER XII

A NEW YEAR’S GIFT FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMY

“Hear, O thou Righteous Spirit of the Whole Creation, and judge, who is the thief, he who takes away the Freedom of the Common Earth from me, which is my Creation Right; Or I, who take the Common Earth to plant upon for my free livelihood, endeavouring to live as a Free Commoner, in a Free Common-wealth, in Righteousness and Peace.”—­WINSTANLEY, The Law of Freedom.

It was probably during the anxious times that beset the little community of Diggers during the winter of 1649-1650, that Winstanley wrote the long and bitter pamphlet, to which is attached a detailed list of the injuries inflicted upon them, and which early in 1650 appeared in book form under the following title: 

“A NEW YEAR’S GIFT FOR THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMY:[132:1]

Showing 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.  The
perfecting of which work will prove England to be the First of
Nations, or the Tenth Part of the City Babylon, that falls off
from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christ’s
head, to govern the World in Righteousness.

By JERRARD WINSTANLEY,
A Lover of England’s Freedom and Peace.

Die Pride and Envy; Flesh take the Poor’s advice. 
Covetousness begone:  Come Truth and Love arise. 
Patience take the Crown; throw Anger out of doors: 
Cast out Hypocrisy, and Lust, and mere invented Laws.[133:1]
Then England sit in rest; Thy Sorrows will have end;
Thy Sons will live in Peace, and each will be a friend.