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Praise the Lord!
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For God and Parliament!
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Front ranks, present!
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Draw your swords!
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The first article of the
Agreement of the People.
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That the people of England,
being very unequally distributed
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for the election of their
deputies in Parliament...
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I wish you would not make the world believe
we are for anarchy.
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Show me what difference there is why I may
not, by the same right, take your property.
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I think that the poorest
He that is in England
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has a life to live as the greatest He.
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No person has a right
to a share in the kingdom
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that has not a permanent fixed interest
in the kingdom.
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I wonder we soldiers were so deceived.
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There are many in my condition.
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It may be little estate
they have at present,
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but they have as much birthright as those two,
who are our lawgivers, as any in this place.
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And now they demand the birthright
for which they fought!
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Aim!
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Colonel Rich.
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Remove those papers.
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Give fire!
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Recover your muskets!
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Oh, England,
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I, Gerrard Winstanley,
am one of your sons by freedom,
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and I do truly love your peace
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but by your cheating sons
in the thieving art of buying and selling,
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I was beaten out of both estate and trade
in London,
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and forced to accept the goodwill
of my beloved friend William Everard,
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to live a country life.
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And there, likewise, by the burden of taxes
and much free quarter,
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my weak back found the burden
heavier than I could bear.
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Yet not a full year since,
being quiet at my work,
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my heart was filled with sweet thoughts,
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and many things were revealed to me
which I never read in books
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nor heard from the mouth of any flesh.
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And when I began to speak of them,
some people could not bear my words.
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And amongst those
revelations, this was one:
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That the earth shall be made a common treasury
of livelihood to the whole of mankind,
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without respect of persons.
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And I had a voice within me
bade me declare it all abroad,
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which I did obey.
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Then I was made to write a little book,
called The New Law of Righteousness,
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and therein I declared it.
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Yet my mind was not at rest,
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because nothing was acted
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and thoughts ran in me that words and
writings were all nothing, and must die,
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for action is the life of all,
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and if you do not act, you do nothing.
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All men have stood for freedom.
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Plenty of petitions and promises
have been made for freedom,
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and now the common enemy is gone
you are all like men in a mist,
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seeking for freedom,
and knowing not where, nor what it is.
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For freedom is the man
that will tum the world upside down.
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Therefore, no wonder he has enemies.
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We thank thee for thy life, health,
peace and food
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and all thy glories given to us.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
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Good day, Mistress Platt.
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Have the children been fed?
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Yes, Mistress.
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Margaret, I am beset with trouble.
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Margaret?
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Yes, John. I'm listening.
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You are not listening, you are reading.
And I know what you are reading.
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What have I done
that you are so little wife to me?
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The work we are going about is this -
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to dig up George's Hill
and the waste ground thereabouts,
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and to sow com and eat our bread together
by the sweat of our brows.
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And the reason is this:
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That we may work in righteousness,
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and lay the foundation of making the earth
a common treasury for all,
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both rich and poor.
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That everyone that is born in the land
may be fed by the earth, his mother,
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that brought him forth,
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according to the reason
that rules in the creation.
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Not enclosing any part
into any particular hand,
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but all as one man,
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working together and feeding together
as sons of one father,
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members of one family,
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not one lording over another
but all looking upon each other as equals
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in the creation.
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Mr Winstanley,
might I trouble you for a few words?
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Why, Parson Platt, of course.
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The weather is unusual
for the time of the year.
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An early spring is surely a sign?
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A sign? A sign of what, pray?
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Of God's mercy.
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Ah. I see, God is merciful.
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Let us pray that the Almighty
will grant us a better harvest.
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I doubt that the poor can endure
another year of ruin.
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Are the poor so large in your thoughts,
then, Parson?
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I consider godliness in poor men
a most estimable and useful quality.
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However, in men of substance,
it is more conspicuous.
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As lord of the manor and parson,
you have much to thank God for.
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As Luther said, here I stand!
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This is my flock!
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I am ordained.
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England is infected with a plague
of ignorant, ranting hedge-preachers.
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You have already seduced ten of my flock
from out of my church by your ravings.
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You unhinge minds already rendered weak
by poverty and ignorance.
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Then the fault lies in
poverty and ignorance!
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Mr Winstanley?
I would speak with you.
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If I may be of service.
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Please, enter.
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Go on!
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I have read your book.
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I have read it so often I know it by heart.
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The voice of God speaks in you,
and through you.
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You cannot conceive the degree
of my suffering.
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There is a favour I must ask of you.
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One you cannot deny me before God.
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I shall join your flock.
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I, too, shall dig.
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I am with child, but when...
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Our life is hard.
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Friend, is this yours?
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I'm Gerrard Winstanley.
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- You?
- Yes. I wrote it.
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Have you come to join the Diggers?
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You are most welcome.
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True religion and undefiled is this.
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To let everyone quietly
have earth to manure
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that they may live in
freedom by their labours.
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Do not all strive to enjoy the land?
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The gentry strive for land,
the clergy strive for land,
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the common people strive for land.
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And buying and selling is an art
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whereby people endeavour
to cheat one another of the land.
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Now, if any can prove from
the Law of Righteousness
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that the land was made peculiar to him,
and his successively,
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shutting out all others,
he shall enjoy it freely, for my part.
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But I affirm it was made for all,
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and true religion is to
let everyone enjoy it.
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Therefore, you rulers of England,
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make restitution of the land
which the kingly power holds from us.
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Set the oppressed free,
and come in and honour Christ,
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who is the restoring power,
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and you shall find rest.
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Skin and bone.
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Come on. We'll find you a house.
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Please don't cry.
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You'll be well looked after now.
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I have with me a justice of the peace.
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Although you have done serious wrong in
trespassing on another's land, common land,
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owned by Francis Drake, Esquire,
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the action taken against you
was not in accordance with the law,
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and consequently,
I have no alternative but to release you.
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Look! They live like pigs.
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Look, there.
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You certainly do, but I'm
not going to tell him.
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Let us give thanks.
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Come on! Hurry!
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Brothers!
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Brothers! You are welcome!
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You have come to join us.
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I see it writ plainly on your faces.
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- You have come to cast off the...
- Who is leader here?
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I-
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This man we acknowledge as our inspiration.
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I am here by command
of Lord General Fairfax.
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You are trespassing.
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I have a warrant for your dispersal
from the Council of State.
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Trespassing. Trespassing!
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We, the common people,
trespassing on common land which we own?
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Is not the meaning of
the word 'common" clear?
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It belongs to all.
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But to Mr Francis Drake, in particular.
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Have you and I,
the common people of England,
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fought a bloody war for nothing?
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Have we just served one lot of gentry
against another?
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So, friends,
you would turn your sword blades on us -
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defenceless men,
who fought by your sides in the war.
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So would you cut down poor women
and children?
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This is madness.
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Where are your crops?
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You'll not grow anything
here. Not in this dust.
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Then let nature disperse us.
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We'll come to the General, Everard and I,
and explain ourselves to him.
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Good day, gentlemen.
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We observe you do not remove your hats
in the Lord General's presence.
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He is but a fellow creature.
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Give honour where honour is due.
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Would you kindly explain your mission?
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First we will have our hats.
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To keep our brains warm.
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Hold your tongue.
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Our hats.
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Return their hats.
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Now, gentlemen,
will you please come to the point?
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Sir, we violate no man.
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We dig upon the commons in peace.
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Many local gentlemen and freeholders
have complained to the Council of State
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that you are tumultuous,
and a danger to the county.
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You are clearly infringing the laws
and must disperse.
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The abomination of the law
is dead with the King!
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Divide England into three parts.
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Scarce one part is manured, so that here is
land enough to maintain all her children.
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Yet many starve for want, or live
under a heavy burden all their lives.
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And this misery the poor have brought
upon themselves
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through lifting up particular interest
by their labours.
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Common land is for grazing cattle,
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not ploughing.
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As soon as one man
digs, he digs for himself.
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Cattle, on the other
hand, do not discriminate.
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The law is perfectly sensible.
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Communal living is just
an excuse for idleness.
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Let a man work on his own behalf,
then he'll work hard enough.
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But the rich, sir, the lords and gentry,
they do no work.
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They live on rents.
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But they have to attain their
position, damn it, and hold it.
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And that requires more skill
than you can lay claim to.
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Was the earth made to preserve a few
covetous and proud men to live at ease?
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To bag and barn up the
treasures of the earth from others,
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that these should beg and starve
in a fruitful land?
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So you would seize their property
and own it for yourself?
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We offer no offence to any, but do carry
ourselves in love and peace toward all,
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having no intent to meddle with
any man's property,
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till it be freely given
by themselves to us.
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The earth, sirs, was made to be
a common treasury for all.
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What do you propose to do?
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To earn our bread by the sweat of our brow.
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Well...
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strive to preserve the peace.
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That is all I charge you with.
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Thank you, sir.
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And when the Lord thy God shall deliver
mine enemies before thee,
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thou shalt smite them
and utterly destroy them.
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Thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor show mercy unto them
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but thus shall ye deal with them.
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Ye shall destroy their altars
and cut down their crops
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and bum their graven images with fire.
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For thou art an holy people
unto the Lord thy God.
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This is not our battle.
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'Tis a battle for the whole of England!
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- Is it over, then, Tom?
- No, they haven't all flown.
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You gentlemen of Surrey,
and you Parson Platt especially,
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my advice to you is this:
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Hereafter to lie still
and cherish the Diggers.
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For they love you and would not have
your finger to ache if they could help it.
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Why should you be so bitter against them?
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Let them live beside you.
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Some of them have been soldiers
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and some countrymen that were
always friends to the Parliament's cause,
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by whose hardships and means
you enjoy the creatures about you in peace.
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And will you now destroy part of them
that have preserved your lives?
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Do not do so.
248
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Be not so besotted with the kingly power.
249
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Hereafter, let not attorneys or lawyers
neatly counsel your money out of your purse,
250
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and stir you up to beat
and abuse the Diggers
251
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to make all rational
men laugh at your folly,
252
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and condemn you for your bitterness.
253
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If you have yet so much money,
give it not away to destroy men,
254
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but give it to some of the poor
and bid them go and plant the commons.
255
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This will be your honour and your comfort.
256
00:41:04,544 --> 00:41:10,092
Assure yourselves you never must have true
comfort till you be friends with the poor.
257
00:41:10,592 --> 00:41:14,554
For what would you do if you had not such
labouring men to work for you?
258
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Come on, all of you.
259
00:41:18,016 --> 00:41:21,144
Put the wood that's any good
for building somewhere.
260
00:41:32,072 --> 00:41:36,034
No man can be rich, but he must
be rich either by his own labours,
261
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or by the labours of other men helping him.
262
00:41:38,954 --> 00:41:41,248
If a man has no help from his neighbour,
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he shall never gather an estate
of hundreds and thousands a year.
264
00:41:46,128 --> 00:41:51,383
If other men help him to work, then are
those riches his neighbours' as well as his.
265
00:41:51,425 --> 00:41:55,554
For they be the fruit of other
men's labours as well as his own.
266
00:42:20,078 --> 00:42:22,456
Here, Gustav. Here, Adolphus!
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Here!
268
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So you are Mr Winstanley.
269
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I am pleased to make
your acquaintance, sir.
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My wife.
271
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You may feel flattered.
They're usually frightened of strangers.
272
00:42:35,761 --> 00:42:38,388
I must confess, we've
heard so much about you.
273
00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:41,683
We are quite distracted with curiosity.
274
00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,323
It was a most unchristian act.
275
00:43:00,952 --> 00:43:03,789
They behaved with more passion
than good sense.
276
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:10,504
Yet one cannot condemn them entirely,
any more than one can condemn you.
277
00:43:12,297 --> 00:43:14,716
They too must live from the land,
278
00:43:14,758 --> 00:43:17,177
yet you drive their
cattle from the commons.
279
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- Our commons.
- You cut their wood.
280
00:43:20,972 --> 00:43:23,058
You poach freely.
281
00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:26,645
They are simple people, Mr Winstanley.
282
00:43:26,686 --> 00:43:31,942
Here is waste land enough
and to spare to supply all our wants.
283
00:43:32,651 --> 00:43:34,402
We are to blame.
284
00:43:35,570 --> 00:43:38,490
We failed to evict you, as was our duty,
285
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feeling you would do no harm.
286
00:43:41,243 --> 00:43:43,245
The villagers, alas...
287
00:43:43,286 --> 00:43:47,999
Let us close our differences and restore
our little world to its proper harmony.
288
00:43:49,126 --> 00:43:51,962
We desire no more of you
than the freedom to work.
289
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:56,842
If you deny this freedom,
you must raise collections for the poor.
290
00:43:57,843 --> 00:44:00,345
Many are ashamed to take collection money,
291
00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:04,057
therefore they are desperate,
and would rather rob and steal.
292
00:44:04,099 --> 00:44:07,644
Others that are ashamed to beg
would do any work in order to live
293
00:44:07,686 --> 00:44:09,896
as is the case with many of our Diggers.
294
00:44:10,438 --> 00:44:13,358
But if this freedom of the commons
were granted,
295
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,445
we should have no beggars or idle persons
in the land.
296
00:44:17,487 --> 00:44:23,118
Our justices, do they not
administer poor relief most charitably?
297
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,581
No freeborn Englishman should need to live
by charity!
298
00:44:28,623 --> 00:44:33,753
It is a stain on the Christian religion in
England that there is so much waste land,
299
00:44:33,795 --> 00:44:36,590
and so many starve for want.
300
00:44:36,631 --> 00:44:39,050
Then you are no Christian, Mr Winstanley.
301
00:44:39,885 --> 00:44:44,055
For surely you know that charity
is the command of the Lord.
302
00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:51,146
In His wisdom, He has instituted these
inequalities which you so rail against
303
00:44:51,188 --> 00:44:53,773
that men may obey this command.
304
00:44:54,232 --> 00:44:57,027
Blessed is he that giveth
and he that receiveth.
305
00:44:57,903 --> 00:45:03,533
If all were levelled to a level according to
your preaching, it would be an end to charity.
306
00:45:05,243 --> 00:45:09,289
The President of the Council of State
is much alarmed with your activities,
307
00:45:09,331 --> 00:45:12,626
and has warned us:
Should your trespass continue,
308
00:45:12,667 --> 00:45:15,670
we must seek to take
legal resort against you.
309
00:45:16,546 --> 00:45:22,552
You must understand, we are called,
each of us, to serve in his proper station.
310
00:45:26,723 --> 00:45:30,060
The ministers
who preach up the law of the Scriptures
311
00:45:30,101 --> 00:45:32,395
lay claim to heaven after they are dead.
312
00:45:33,146 --> 00:45:35,774
And yet they require their heaven
in this world too,
313
00:45:35,815 --> 00:45:37,984
and grumble mightily against the people
314
00:45:38,026 --> 00:45:41,238
that will not give them
a large temporal maintenance.
315
00:45:41,905 --> 00:45:46,284
Yet they tell the poor people that
they must be content with their poverty,
316
00:45:46,326 --> 00:45:48,870
and they shall have their heaven hereafter.
317
00:45:48,912 --> 00:45:53,708
But why may we not have our heaven here,
as well as you?
318
00:45:53,750 --> 00:45:57,963
Devoting ourselves
and all our receivings to Thy glory,
319
00:45:58,004 --> 00:46:01,716
in the name of Jesus
Christ our saviour. Amen.
320
00:46:05,136 --> 00:46:09,140
Now, let's see how well
you know your catechism.
321
00:46:09,182 --> 00:46:14,020
Against how many sorts of men
doth Isaiah pronounce woe in Chapter 5?
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Five.
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00:46:15,146 --> 00:46:16,564
Which are the first?
324
00:46:18,108 --> 00:46:19,609
Ex...
325
00:46:20,443 --> 00:46:22,529
Extortioners.
326
00:46:22,988 --> 00:46:24,864
Which are the second?
327
00:46:24,906 --> 00:46:27,826
- Drunkards.
- And the third?
328
00:46:31,913 --> 00:46:33,206
John!
329
00:46:35,875 --> 00:46:37,961
Enticers of vanity.
330
00:46:48,930 --> 00:46:50,515
And the fifth?
331
00:46:52,892 --> 00:46:55,729
Arrogant contemners of government.
332
00:46:55,770 --> 00:46:59,441
Woe unto them who are
wise in their own eyes,
333
00:46:59,482 --> 00:47:02,819
and prudent in their own thoughts.
334
00:47:26,885 --> 00:47:28,553
Is it time?
335
00:47:29,971 --> 00:47:32,140
Parson, it may be time.
336
00:47:39,272 --> 00:47:41,358
This is the day I'm to go to the hill.
337
00:47:45,111 --> 00:47:47,197
My dear, God is with you.
338
00:48:36,579 --> 00:48:41,292
My lord, permit me to suggest
you do not listen to their speeches.
339
00:48:41,334 --> 00:48:43,628
You do not trust me, Mr Platt.
340
00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:45,755
You are a man of great mercy.
341
00:48:46,339 --> 00:48:47,757
And you?
342
00:48:47,799 --> 00:48:50,593
I, sir, obey a sterner law.
343
00:48:54,806 --> 00:48:59,519
Your Excellency, this is Thomas Haydon,
a sergeant in your army for seven years.
344
00:48:59,561 --> 00:49:02,188
He was in your ranks
at Marston Moor and Colchester
345
00:49:02,230 --> 00:49:04,566
and holds you in the highest esteem.
346
00:49:06,484 --> 00:49:10,155
Perhaps His Excellency will honour us
with a visit to our little settlement.
347
00:49:10,196 --> 00:49:12,449
Sir, we are due in Hounslow.
348
00:49:12,490 --> 00:49:15,076
Come, show me round.
349
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:21,916
No, gentlemen.
I would not wish you to tire yourselves.
350
00:49:23,793 --> 00:49:26,963
If you would come this way, sir.
I'm proud to have you.
351
00:49:50,904 --> 00:49:53,323
We began by thatching the huts ourselves.
352
00:50:02,540 --> 00:50:04,834
Over here is the first hut we completed.
353
00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:07,170
AS you can see, it is
well but crudely built.
354
00:50:07,212 --> 00:50:09,506
Are wives held in common
too, Mr Winstanley?
355
00:50:09,547 --> 00:50:10,798
Ask them, sir.
356
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,760
Can each woman point to one man
who is her husband?
357
00:50:16,930 --> 00:50:19,766
- What is your trade, friend?
- I'm a woodcutter.
358
00:50:20,517 --> 00:50:22,602
Good day.
359
00:50:23,102 --> 00:50:24,979
- He's sleeping well.
- Yes, sir.
360
00:50:25,021 --> 00:50:27,398
- Fine-looking child.
- Thank you, sir.
361
00:50:29,776 --> 00:50:32,779
Perhaps Your Excellency
would care to taste this.
362
00:50:33,988 --> 00:50:36,074
I hope you put some salt in it.
363
00:50:38,576 --> 00:50:40,662
Mm. Good.
364
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,086
I was with you at Marston, sir.
365
00:50:49,170 --> 00:50:50,880
Old friend.
366
00:50:50,922 --> 00:50:53,925
- Are you well?
- Oh, not bad, sir.
367
00:50:54,592 --> 00:50:57,303
I don't do much here.
I'm well looked after.
368
00:50:57,762 --> 00:51:00,014
Fine pigs, friend. Where did you get them?
369
00:51:00,056 --> 00:51:03,476
You mustn't ask an old soldier
where he gets his pigs from.
370
00:51:07,021 --> 00:51:09,941
- Whose house is this?
- Er... two families.
371
00:51:10,942 --> 00:51:12,735
Well built.
372
00:51:12,777 --> 00:51:14,862
- Can I see inside?
- Please.
373
00:51:20,952 --> 00:51:23,037
Well-built house.
374
00:51:26,916 --> 00:51:32,380
This contagious incendiary is puffed up
with devilish self-love and vainglory.
375
00:51:32,922 --> 00:51:37,969
On the other hand, they carry themselves civilly
and have the report of honest, sober men.
376
00:51:40,805 --> 00:51:44,142
Perhaps the greater villains
are the envious inhabitants hereabouts
377
00:51:44,183 --> 00:51:48,104
who pull up the Diggers' barley before
the first green shoots have appeared.
378
00:51:49,814 --> 00:51:52,817
If it be a case for the
law, then take it to the law.
379
00:51:53,526 --> 00:51:56,821
I shall leave Captain Gladman
in the village with five troopers.
380
00:51:56,863 --> 00:52:00,491
- You will be protected.
- But shall we be protected?
381
00:52:03,745 --> 00:52:06,247
It is God's Army, Mr Winstanley.
382
00:52:07,498 --> 00:52:09,584
Did not General Cromwell say so?
383
00:53:49,267 --> 00:53:52,019
Parson? It's a boy.
384
00:54:03,614 --> 00:54:06,075
There. That wasn't too bad, was it?
385
00:54:06,951 --> 00:54:09,036
I'm finished.
386
00:54:09,954 --> 00:54:12,039
You need to sleep.
387
00:54:22,425 --> 00:54:24,510
I will live on the hill.
388
00:54:27,305 --> 00:54:29,390
She needs to rest.
389
00:55:08,971 --> 00:55:10,890
You are welcome.
390
00:55:22,527 --> 00:55:24,237
Please make room.
391
00:55:45,675 --> 00:55:47,301
Let us give thanks.
392
00:55:48,135 --> 00:55:50,388
Prayers? Prayers?!
393
00:55:50,429 --> 00:55:52,807
The righteous can do no sin.
394
00:55:52,849 --> 00:55:54,976
We are the chosen of God,
395
00:55:55,017 --> 00:55:58,354
so that all that we do cannot be sin
but righteousness.
396
00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:02,692
The Virgin Mary was but a common whore,
397
00:56:02,733 --> 00:56:05,820
her son a fleshly creature, such as we.
398
00:56:06,821 --> 00:56:12,159
This, the Holy Bible, has been the cause of all
the misery, bloodshed and division in the world.
399
00:56:12,201 --> 00:56:14,871
- Until all Bibles are burned...
- No, no, no.
400
00:56:14,912 --> 00:56:16,998
'Tis a Holy Bible.
401
00:56:18,291 --> 00:56:20,167
- Yippee!
- Please!
402
00:56:20,209 --> 00:56:23,129
A pack of lies!
403
00:56:29,176 --> 00:56:31,053
This book belongs to us.
404
00:56:55,870 --> 00:56:59,832
Ranters, self-ended spirits.
405
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:53,260
Why do you fear us so?
406
00:57:53,302 --> 00:57:55,763
We have nought but love for you.
407
00:57:55,805 --> 00:57:58,808
Talking of love is no love.
408
00:58:59,744 --> 00:59:01,704
These are gentle people.
409
00:59:02,413 --> 00:59:06,000
If you would stay with us,
pray honour and respect them.
410
00:59:30,274 --> 00:59:32,359
Good afternoon, Parson.
411
00:59:36,322 --> 00:59:38,157
Good afternoon, Parson.
412
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:41,160
Ah. Captain Gladman. Good afternoon.
413
00:59:42,578 --> 00:59:44,663
I was far away.
414
00:59:44,705 --> 00:59:46,791
No further than I would wish to be.
415
00:59:47,666 --> 00:59:50,711
My wife - she's given me a son.
I'm very happy.
416
00:59:50,753 --> 00:59:52,838
Ah, the third, Parson?
417
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:54,840
We've been so blessed.
418
00:59:54,882 --> 00:59:57,468
Oh, well, we're all
human, that's what I say.
419
00:59:58,135 --> 01:00:02,389
Mind you, the Papists say
it takes a priest's mind off his job.
420
01:00:06,977 --> 01:00:10,356
Doubtless you have some business with me,
Captain Gladman.
421
01:00:10,397 --> 01:00:12,608
They're cutting wood on Stoke Common.
422
01:00:13,317 --> 01:00:15,402
My wood!
423
01:00:15,444 --> 01:00:17,530
A timely measure might prevent it.
424
01:00:18,614 --> 01:00:20,699
Where will it end?
425
01:00:20,741 --> 01:00:24,662
Captain Gladman, I really feel
that this is your responsibility.
426
01:00:27,498 --> 01:00:31,127
The Lord General would be most displeased
were he to learn...
427
01:00:58,195 --> 01:01:02,032
Do not look for a God
now, as formerly you did,
428
01:01:02,658 --> 01:01:06,287
to be a place of glory beyond the sun,
moon and stars,
429
01:01:07,079 --> 01:01:10,124
nor imagine a divine
being you know not where,
430
01:01:10,666 --> 01:01:12,751
but you see him ruling within you,
431
01:01:12,793 --> 01:01:14,837
and not only in you,
432
01:01:14,879 --> 01:01:20,843
but you see and know him to be the spirit
or power that dwells in every man and woman.
433
01:01:21,427 --> 01:01:24,638
Yea, in every creature within the globe
of creation.
434
01:01:34,481 --> 01:01:36,567
Now you are enlightened,
435
01:01:36,609 --> 01:01:38,611
now you are saved,
436
01:01:38,652 --> 01:01:42,573
and rise higher and
higher into life and peace
437
01:01:42,615 --> 01:01:48,704
as this manifestation of the Father
increases and spreads within you.
438
01:02:22,821 --> 01:02:24,698
Food!
439
01:02:50,182 --> 01:02:51,976
Right.
440
01:03:01,068 --> 01:03:02,611
Come along, now.
441
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:05,322
Watch him! Watch him!
442
01:03:05,364 --> 01:03:06,865
Watch him!
443
01:03:16,208 --> 01:03:18,585
Get him!
444
01:03:30,848 --> 01:03:33,976
- Round and round!
- Watch him, watch him!
445
01:03:35,102 --> 01:03:36,186
Watch him!
446
01:05:27,214 --> 01:05:29,299
Murderer.
447
01:05:35,514 --> 01:05:38,225
Time and time again we've been beaten.
448
01:05:41,019 --> 01:05:43,522
This is part of a plan to discredit us.
449
01:05:43,564 --> 01:05:48,402
This was the act of a few irresponsible
soldiers under that Captain Gladman.
450
01:05:51,822 --> 01:05:54,032
Love must govern our actions.
451
01:05:54,074 --> 01:05:58,495
You attack our children because you know
we have no redress against you.
452
01:05:58,537 --> 01:06:01,039
I did not attack the boy, Mr Winstanley.
453
01:06:01,081 --> 01:06:04,334
Is a commander not responsible
for the actions of his subordinates?
454
01:06:04,376 --> 01:06:06,503
I understand your grief.
455
01:06:06,545 --> 01:06:09,715
But I must remind you again
that these people are trespassers.
456
01:06:09,756 --> 01:06:11,383
You have no legal case.
457
01:06:11,425 --> 01:06:13,886
We have a moral case, Your Excellency.
458
01:06:13,927 --> 01:06:15,179
I will look into it.
459
01:06:15,220 --> 01:06:18,724
Sir, we are in grave danger
from your Captain Gladman.
460
01:06:18,765 --> 01:06:22,811
I want an assurance that we will
no more be molested by your soldiery.
461
01:06:25,439 --> 01:06:28,692
For lawbreakers,
you take a very high-handed tone.
462
01:06:28,734 --> 01:06:34,406
My lord, we are wronged, we are mutilated,
we suffer one churlish attack after another.
463
01:06:34,448 --> 01:06:38,994
I came to you because in you alone
I have some hopes of justice.
464
01:06:39,036 --> 01:06:44,875
On two occasions, you have shown us Christian
charity when your advisers urged against it.
465
01:06:45,626 --> 01:06:48,629
It takes a rare and
courageous man to do this.
466
01:06:48,670 --> 01:06:54,551
I ask you now to consider not some outdated
law, but reason, equity and justice.
467
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,685
Very well.
468
01:07:04,436 --> 01:07:07,105
This will not happen
again. You have my word.
469
01:08:01,368 --> 01:08:05,038
We, Thomas Haydon,
Henry Bickerstaffe and Gerrard Winstanley
470
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:10,127
are summoned into Kingston court for
a trespass in digging upon George Hill,
471
01:08:10,168 --> 01:08:14,131
being the rights of Mr Drake,
the lord of that manor.
472
01:08:14,172 --> 01:08:17,259
That all men may see
we are neither ashamed,
473
01:08:17,301 --> 01:08:20,012
nor afraid to justify the cause
we are summoned for,
474
01:08:20,053 --> 01:08:23,056
therefore we deliver
ourselves to the court,
475
01:08:23,098 --> 01:08:25,058
although we know lawyers love money
476
01:08:25,100 --> 01:08:28,979
as dearly as a poor man's dog
do his breakfast on a cold morning.
477
01:08:40,490 --> 01:08:42,826
England is a prison.
478
01:08:42,868 --> 01:08:46,580
The variety of subtleties in the laws
preserved by the sword
479
01:08:46,622 --> 01:08:49,458
are the bolts, bars
and doors of the prison.
480
01:08:50,292 --> 01:08:54,338
The lawyers are the jailers,
and poor men are the prisoners.
481
01:08:54,379 --> 01:08:58,967
For let a man fall into the hands
of any from the bailiff to the judge,
482
01:08:59,009 --> 01:09:02,262
and he is either undone
or weary of his life.
483
01:09:02,804 --> 01:09:05,599
Octavo die Septembri versu manucaptores
484
01:09:05,641 --> 01:09:09,728
ad quem diem manicaptor attulit in curia
prefatum Henricum Bickerstaffe,
485
01:09:09,770 --> 01:09:14,358
superquo ad petitionem querentis predictus
Henricus committitur.
486
01:09:14,399 --> 01:09:16,943
Habeat diem in vicesimo
primo die Augusti...
487
01:09:16,985 --> 01:09:19,488
...ad quem diem defendens nihil dicit...
488
01:09:19,529 --> 01:09:21,406
...ideo intret judicium.
489
01:09:21,448 --> 01:09:25,327
Querens petit venire facias retornabile
vicesimo octabo...
490
01:09:25,369 --> 01:09:28,080
- We are waiting, sir...
- Silence!
491
01:09:30,248 --> 01:09:31,083
Waiting?
492
01:09:31,124 --> 01:09:33,502
To know what is laid at our charge.
493
01:09:33,543 --> 01:09:34,961
Who is their attorney?
494
01:09:35,003 --> 01:09:36,672
We will speak for ourselves.
495
01:09:36,713 --> 01:09:39,049
Do not waste the time of this court.
496
01:09:39,091 --> 01:09:42,177
Sir, we cannot and
will not fee an attorney.
497
01:09:42,219 --> 01:09:45,263
We know of no lawyer
we can trust with the business.
498
01:09:45,305 --> 01:09:50,936
This case cannot proceed
until your lawyer can speak for you.
499
01:09:50,977 --> 01:09:54,022
We desire the Declaration against us.
500
01:09:55,065 --> 01:09:56,983
We will pay for it if necessary.
501
01:09:57,776 --> 01:10:02,781
The cause is not entered.
You will return tomorrow with an attorney.
502
01:10:02,823 --> 01:10:05,033
You have not appeared.
503
01:10:17,921 --> 01:10:23,427
I am not empowered to hear your case
until you have a lawyer to speak for you.
504
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:26,513
You will return in three days.
505
01:10:37,190 --> 01:10:40,235
Sir, this is the third time
you have summoned us here!
506
01:10:40,277 --> 01:10:42,487
With what funds should we fee a lawyer?
507
01:10:42,529 --> 01:10:44,406
We could, of course, pay them in barley
508
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:48,577
had not those in the pay of Parson Platt and
Mr Drake several times ravaged our crops.
509
01:10:48,618 --> 01:10:52,330
I must repeat to you, as I have endeavoured
to make clear upon each occasion,
510
01:10:52,372 --> 01:10:56,752
that the court cannot proceed until you
have a qualified lawyer to speak your case.
511
01:10:56,793 --> 01:10:57,836
Sir!
512
01:10:57,878 --> 01:11:01,423
You may not speak without one
and thus make a mockery of this court.
513
01:11:01,465 --> 01:11:03,467
I will not have it.
514
01:11:03,508 --> 01:11:06,344
We shall proceed to
judgment in your absence.
515
01:11:06,386 --> 01:11:09,306
In four passages,
you have gone against your own...
516
01:11:09,347 --> 01:11:10,599
Silence!
517
01:11:18,023 --> 01:11:20,525
Ten pounds damages,
518
01:11:20,567 --> 01:11:23,862
29 shillings and a penny costs.
519
01:11:23,904 --> 01:11:26,823
Enough for a poor man's family
to live on for a year.
520
01:11:31,870 --> 01:11:33,955
Oi! O, oi!
521
01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:41,963
Oi!
522
01:11:42,005 --> 01:11:44,090
One moment!
523
01:11:45,550 --> 01:11:47,469
One moment.
524
01:11:48,303 --> 01:11:51,556
I wonder if perhaps
you might take something else?
525
01:11:51,598 --> 01:11:54,017
- Who are you?
- Winstanley.
526
01:11:54,059 --> 01:11:56,102
No. 'Tis your cows we must seize.
527
01:11:56,144 --> 01:11:58,897
But these do not belong to me.
528
01:11:58,939 --> 01:12:00,690
'Tis cows we must have.
529
01:12:00,732 --> 01:12:03,735
My door is open. Take what you please.
530
01:12:03,777 --> 01:12:05,737
No. 'Tis your cattle we must seize.
531
01:12:05,779 --> 01:12:10,325
Take me. I will go to Kingston
to speak to the Norman barons.
532
01:12:10,367 --> 01:12:12,828
No, no. 'Tis your cows we must have.
533
01:12:12,869 --> 01:12:14,913
Then I beg of you. Do not hit them.
534
01:12:14,955 --> 01:12:18,500
They are neither beggars nor vagrants.
535
01:12:24,464 --> 01:12:26,383
Oi! Come back!
536
01:12:29,761 --> 01:12:32,430
And so I went away and left them,
537
01:12:32,472 --> 01:12:37,352
saying that if I could not get meat to eat,
I would feed upon bread, milk and cheese.
538
01:12:37,394 --> 01:12:40,397
And if they take the cows
and I cannot feed upon this,
539
01:12:40,438 --> 01:12:45,193
then I'll feed upon bread and beer till the
King of Righteousness clears up my innocence
540
01:12:45,235 --> 01:12:47,696
and the justice of his own cause.
541
01:12:47,737 --> 01:12:49,573
And if this be taken from me,
542
01:12:49,614 --> 01:12:54,411
then I'll stand still and see what he
will do with me, for as yet I know not.
543
01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:10,677
And what have we to eat tonight?
544
01:13:14,681 --> 01:13:17,893
Magnificent repast!
545
01:13:17,934 --> 01:13:20,770
How well provided for are we!
546
01:13:20,812 --> 01:13:24,983
Gerrard Winstanley
is a matchless commissary general.
547
01:13:27,527 --> 01:13:29,613
And where have I been today?
548
01:13:30,864 --> 01:13:34,492
Is your only remedy for hunger
to steal from other poor folk,
549
01:13:34,534 --> 01:13:36,912
and place your comrades in greater peril?
550
01:13:36,953 --> 01:13:39,456
Don't round on me with your holy wrath.
551
01:13:39,497 --> 01:13:41,958
Action is the life of all things.
552
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:43,919
And not to act is to do nothing.
553
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,213
Those words are Gerrard Winstanley's.
554
01:13:47,714 --> 01:13:52,177
The holiness and righteousness of Gerrard
Winstanley will not fill your bellies tonight.
555
01:13:52,218 --> 01:13:56,139
He loves himself above all others,
and would have you do the same...
556
01:13:56,181 --> 01:13:58,350
...even if you starve.
557
01:13:59,351 --> 01:14:01,436
There is a vainglory nursed in his heart
558
01:14:01,478 --> 01:14:05,023
by which his name might be great amongst
the poor of the nation.
559
01:14:05,065 --> 01:14:06,900
That is why you dig!
560
01:14:06,942 --> 01:14:10,570
That is why you go hungry.
Is there nobody you love more?
561
01:14:15,659 --> 01:14:17,744
Let us give thanks.
562
01:16:40,011 --> 01:16:42,097
Oi, here!
563
01:17:14,587 --> 01:17:19,968
Show me a friendly face
in this ruffian's hall of hell!
564
01:17:21,636 --> 01:17:23,972
Ah... Will.
565
01:17:25,056 --> 01:17:27,684
Well, Winstanley.
566
01:17:29,519 --> 01:17:31,521
See who's here. Will Everard!
567
01:17:42,365 --> 01:17:43,950
You old...
568
01:17:43,992 --> 01:17:45,952
Whatever possessed you to leave us?
569
01:17:45,994 --> 01:17:49,747
First things first. I must
leave again tomorrow.
570
01:17:51,249 --> 01:17:52,500
And now...
571
01:17:58,006 --> 01:18:00,800
Oh, my Lord.
572
01:18:04,846 --> 01:18:06,723
I bring you greetings...
573
01:18:06,764 --> 01:18:08,683
- from the Diggers!
- Diggers?
574
01:18:08,725 --> 01:18:11,644
From the Diggers at Aylesbury.
575
01:18:11,686 --> 01:18:13,771
From the Diggers of Shrewsbury.
576
01:18:15,481 --> 01:18:17,817
And Dunstable in Bedfordshire.
577
01:18:21,279 --> 01:18:24,157
- Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.
- Oh!
578
01:18:28,369 --> 01:18:30,872
Bosworth in Leicestershire.
579
01:18:33,791 --> 01:18:38,421
Cox Hall in Kent, and
Iver in Buckinghamshire.
580
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:44,886
The fire has spread.
581
01:19:06,950 --> 01:19:09,035
Gerrard?
582
01:19:24,634 --> 01:19:27,095
May we give you food?
583
01:19:28,638 --> 01:19:30,139
I need rest.
584
01:19:31,015 --> 01:19:33,184
Mistress Mather will look after you.
585
01:20:39,334 --> 01:20:42,920
For after our work of the earthly community
is advanced,
586
01:20:42,962 --> 01:20:47,467
we must make use of gold and silver
as we do of other metals,
587
01:20:47,508 --> 01:20:50,219
but not to buy and sell withal.
588
01:20:50,261 --> 01:20:56,559
For buying and selling is the great cheat that
robs and steals the earth one from another.
589
01:20:57,185 --> 01:21:02,648
It is that which makes some lords,
some beggars, some rulers,
590
01:21:02,690 --> 01:21:04,400
others to be ruled.
591
01:21:05,401 --> 01:21:08,154
That will make no earthquake in their ear.
592
01:21:08,196 --> 01:21:11,908
We must go at it as a bull at a cow.
None of this butterfly taffety.
593
01:21:12,950 --> 01:21:13,993
Perhaps...
594
01:21:17,955 --> 01:21:19,415
If I might...
595
01:21:22,418 --> 01:21:24,504
I feel you are misled.
596
01:21:24,545 --> 01:21:26,923
Does not Mr Milton say...
597
01:21:26,964 --> 01:21:30,176
'What stirs the Englishman
sooner to rebellion
598
01:21:30,218 --> 01:21:34,138
than violent and heavy hands
upon his goods and purses?'
599
01:21:34,180 --> 01:21:36,307
Have all things common,
600
01:21:36,349 --> 01:21:41,062
or else the plagues of God
will rot and consume all that you have.
601
01:21:41,646 --> 01:21:46,192
Deliver your money to rogues and cutpurses,
602
01:21:46,234 --> 01:21:51,072
who are ready to starve in plaguey jails
and nasty dungeons.
603
01:21:51,114 --> 01:21:52,824
Who is this?
604
01:21:53,699 --> 01:21:56,202
So this is your wife of whoredom!
605
01:22:01,916 --> 01:22:06,546
Touch not the flesh of God!
Touch not the flesh of God!
606
01:22:06,587 --> 01:22:09,674
Touch not the flesh of God!
607
01:22:10,758 --> 01:22:13,386
Touch not the flesh
of...
608
01:22:15,721 --> 01:22:18,599
Those very men who
punish others for theft...
609
01:22:18,641 --> 01:22:22,562
...do thieve and rob as judges and lawyers
610
01:22:22,603 --> 01:22:26,190
that take bribes and
take their client's money
611
01:22:26,899 --> 01:22:29,735
and through neglect lose their cause.
612
01:22:29,777 --> 01:22:33,114
Parliament and army live in theft
when they take...
613
01:22:34,115 --> 01:22:35,366
Come here!
614
01:22:46,419 --> 01:22:49,922
That's
not the voice of God.
615
01:23:03,227 --> 01:23:05,813
Communal wives, communal living,
616
01:23:05,855 --> 01:23:07,732
the children bastards.
617
01:23:08,524 --> 01:23:10,443
Shameless, godless,
618
01:23:10,485 --> 01:23:12,987
they live like animals!
619
01:23:16,365 --> 01:23:19,452
John, I entreat your forgiveness.
620
01:23:20,828 --> 01:23:24,123
I have sinned exceedingly against you.
621
01:23:26,334 --> 01:23:28,419
I thought you unjust.
622
01:23:32,673 --> 01:23:35,635
Mohammed had as mean
and as despicable beginning
623
01:23:35,676 --> 01:23:37,595
as this self-styled prophet,
624
01:23:37,637 --> 01:23:42,725
and his damnable infection has spread
over the face of half the universe.
625
01:23:42,767 --> 01:23:46,854
How can you restrain the use of force
when the law of the land is broken?
626
01:23:47,939 --> 01:23:50,149
They are men of peace.
627
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:56,531
I will show you, my
lord, that they are not.
628
01:25:02,597 --> 01:25:05,057
It's Tom Haydon.
629
01:26:08,871 --> 01:26:10,706
The ban is on again.
630
01:26:10,748 --> 01:26:14,168
We cannot buy in Cobham,
nor in Kingston, nor in Walton.
631
01:26:14,210 --> 01:26:17,505
The Cobham shopkeepers must give us
food and clothing for the winter.
632
01:26:17,546 --> 01:26:20,466
Under no law
are we justified in forcing shopmen
633
01:26:20,508 --> 01:26:22,218
to give us goods without payment.
634
01:26:22,259 --> 01:26:25,429
Next spring, when our crop flourishes,
all will be repaid.
635
01:26:25,471 --> 01:26:28,015
What has Parson Platt preached all along?
636
01:26:28,683 --> 01:26:34,105
That our respect for possession is nothing more
than a cloak, to be thrown off when it suits us.
637
01:26:34,146 --> 01:26:37,358
We have turned the cheek once too often.
Soon we shall be without a face.
638
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,443
You are free men.
639
01:26:39,485 --> 01:26:41,320
I say only this to you.
640
01:26:41,362 --> 01:26:44,949
Forcible persuasion
is a sin against universal love,
641
01:26:44,990 --> 01:26:48,661
against your families
and against your fellow Diggers.
642
01:26:48,703 --> 01:26:51,455
Are we to do nothing
but watch our children sicken and die?
643
01:26:51,497 --> 01:26:55,501
Take this step and our
work here is finished.
644
01:26:55,543 --> 01:26:59,964
Unless we break the trading ban,
we are faced with a winter of utter ruin.
645
01:27:00,005 --> 01:27:06,721
By doing this, not only Parson Platt but General
Fairfax and the army will move against us.
646
01:27:06,762 --> 01:27:10,266
Fairfax understands. He is a solider.
We were all together once.
647
01:27:10,307 --> 01:27:12,393
They hang men for less!
648
01:27:12,435 --> 01:27:15,187
Gerrard! This breach between us
is of your making.
649
01:27:15,229 --> 01:27:18,691
Your piety is fine and good
but it does nothing for my son.
650
01:27:18,733 --> 01:27:22,111
He is sick, he is hungry
and I will not stand to see him suffer so.
651
01:27:23,696 --> 01:27:25,531
Tom, do not go.
652
01:27:26,282 --> 01:27:29,869
This hour is sent to test our courage
and our strength.
653
01:27:29,910 --> 01:27:32,913
The decision is mine and mine alone.
Who is with me?
654
01:27:32,955 --> 01:27:34,832
- We have no choice.
- I'm with you.
655
01:27:34,874 --> 01:27:36,041
Me too.
656
01:27:36,083 --> 01:27:39,420
You have no wife, you have no son,
you cannot understand.
657
01:29:46,797 --> 01:29:50,968
The soldiers will have orders
merely to support the sheriff.
658
01:29:53,596 --> 01:29:56,223
What mortal sin do we commit?
659
01:29:56,265 --> 01:29:57,892
One may search the Scriptures...
660
01:29:57,933 --> 01:30:01,270
Mr Winstanley, let us
bring this matter to a head.
661
01:30:01,312 --> 01:30:03,272
If you can make good your action
662
01:30:03,314 --> 01:30:06,483
by the power of the Scriptures,
I will trouble you no more.
663
01:30:06,525 --> 01:30:09,820
If you can show me that
the Bible supports you,
664
01:30:09,862 --> 01:30:14,033
I will cast in all my estates
and become one with the Diggers.
665
01:30:16,535 --> 01:30:19,121
There is not the least tittle spoken
666
01:30:19,163 --> 01:30:24,668
that one part of mankind should subdue
and rule in oppression over another.
667
01:30:29,715 --> 01:30:34,887
Upon our discourse, Parson Platt seemed to
consent to many things and was very moderate,
668
01:30:34,929 --> 01:30:37,598
and promised me to read it over
and give me an answer.
669
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:42,227
Moreover, he promised me that if the Diggers
would not cut the wood upon the commons
670
01:30:42,269 --> 01:30:44,647
he would not pull down their houses.
671
01:30:44,688 --> 01:30:48,359
And the Diggers resolved for peace sake
to let the wood alone
672
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:51,737
till people did understand
their freedom a little more.
673
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:27,147
Parson Platt and the soldiers.
674
01:31:47,584 --> 01:31:48,877
- Wait.
- My lord!
675
01:32:06,770 --> 01:32:09,356
So this is your answer!
676
01:32:09,398 --> 01:32:11,483
Fire the houses!
677
01:35:06,658 --> 01:35:14,041
And here I end, having put my arm as far as
my strength will go to advance righteousness.
678
01:35:14,833 --> 01:35:19,129
I have writ, I have acted, I have peace.
679
01:35:20,839 --> 01:35:25,802
And now I must wait to see the Spirit
do his own work in the hearts of others,
680
01:35:25,844 --> 01:35:28,430
and whether England shall be the first land
681
01:35:28,472 --> 01:35:32,517
or some other wherein truth
shall sit down in triumph.
55680
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