Status Updates From Gerrard Winstanley: The Dig...

"If you labour the earth, and work for others that lives at ease, and follows the waies of the flesh by your labours, eating the bread which you get by the sweat of your brows, not their own: Know this, that the hand of the Lord shall break out upon every such hireling labourer, and you shall perish with the covetous rich men, that have held, and yet doth hold the Creation under the bondage of the curse." -Winstanley

"The view that the Diggers were chiefly urban radicals who descended upon an unsuspecting rural community... has been influential over the years, but it provides a rather misleading picture of support for the Diggers... His core support came as much as from the rural inhabitants of his adopted parish... as from members of London's radical religious milieu."