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 Diggers were beaten upon the Hill, by William
     Star and John Taylor, and by men in women’s apparel, and so sore
     wounded that some of them were fetched home in a Cart.

     “9.  We had another House pulled down, and the Wood they carried to
     Walton in a Cart.

“10.  They arrested some of us, and some they cast into Prison, and from others they went about to take away their Goods, but that the Goods proved another man’s, which one of the Diggers was servant to.

     “11.  And indeed at divers times besides, we had all our corn
     spoiled.  For the enemy were so mad that they tumbled the earth up
     and down, and would suffer no Corn to grow.