A new-yeers gift for the Parliament and Armie: shewing what the kingly power is; and that the cause of those that 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, of the tenth part of the city Babylon, that fals off from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christs head, to govern the world in righteousness: / by Jerrard Winstanley a lover of Englands freedom and peace.

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Author:	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.
Title:	A new-yeers gift for the Parliament and Armie: shewing what the kingly power is; and that the cause of those that 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, of the tenth part of the city Babylon, that fals off from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christs head, to govern the world in righteousness: / by Jerrard Winstanley a lover of Englands freedom and peace.
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Print source:	A new-yeers gift for the Parliament and Armie: shewing what the kingly power is; and that the cause of those that 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, of the tenth part of the city Babylon, that fals off from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christs head, to govern the world in righteousness: / by Jerrard Winstanley a lover of Englands freedom and peace. Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609. London: Printed for Giles Calvert, 1650.
Subject terms:	Levellers -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Millennialism -- Early works to 1800. Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Church history -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.
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title page A New yeers Gift SENT TO THE PARLIAMENT AND ARMIE. The CURSE and BLESSING that is in MANKINDE. A Bill of Account of the most Remark∣able Sufferings that the Diggers have met with from the great red Dragons power since April 1. 1649. which was the first day that they be∣gan to Digge, and to take Possession of the Commons for the Poor on George-Hill in Surrey.