Commons and Digger Movement Texts
This shelf gathers Gerrard Winstanley and Digger movement writings from the English Revolution. These texts speak for common land, spiritual freedom, the end of lordly power, and the hope that the earth might be restored as a common treasury.
The works below include printed Winstanley tracts, co-signed Digger declarations, manuscript witnesses, and related Digger movement texts preserved with their own public attributions. Some pages retain
[unknown]where a source transcription is damaged, missing, or unreadable.
Gerrard Winstanley and Co-Signed Digger Texts
- The Mysterie of God
- The Breaking of the Day of God
- The Saints Paradice
- The New Law of Righteousnes
- Fire in the Bush
- Truth Lifting Up Its Head Above Scandals
- The True Levellers Standard Advanced
- A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England
- A Letter to the Lord Fairfax, and his Councell of War
- A Declaration of the Bloudie and Unchristian Acting of William Star and John Taylor
- An Appeal to the House of Commons
- A Watch-word to the City of London, and the Armie
- An Appeale to All Englishmen
- An Humble Request to the Ministers of Both Universities
- A New-yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie
- The Law of Freedom in a Platform
- A Vindication of Those Whose Endeavors Is Only to Make the Earth a Common Treasury
- A Letter Taken at Wellingborough
Manuscript and Associated Material
Related Digger Movement Witnesses
- Council of State Order to Mr. Pentlow
- A Declaration of the Grounds and Reasons by the Wellingborough Diggers
- The Diggers Mirth
- The Diggers Song
- Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
- More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
- A Declaration of the Wel-Affected in Buckinghamshire
- A Mite Cast into the Common Treasury
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This public shelf page was prepared for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church in 2026. It links the Digger writings and related movement witnesses currently published in this Commons shelf.
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