1. VVHether all men (by the grant of God) are not alike free, and all to enjoy the Earth with the fulneſs thereof alike, (Geneſes 1. from the 26. verſe, to the end of the Chapter, and the 9. Chap. from the 1. to the 18. verſe,) untill they ſell their Birth-right and Inheritance, for a proud idle life: the 2. of the Theſſalonians, and the 3. Chapter, from the 6. to the 13. verſe?

2. Whether the Scriptures in many places, do not complain of mans Lording over his own kind, (as in Iſaiah 3.15. Luke 22.24.25. and 26. verſes. Mat. 23. chap. from the firſt to the 13. verſe,) Calling ſuch men for their nature and cruelty, Lyons, Wolves, Foxes, Doggs, (Iſaiah 56.10 11. Ezek. 22.27. The men call ſome of them, Lords of Man • ors, Miniſters, and Lawyers?)

3. Whether particular propriety, was not brought into the roome of publick Community, by Murther and Theft; and accordingly have been upheld and maintained? In which Acts of cruelty, whether thoſe devouring Creatures before mentioned, have not been chief, and whether ſuch naked ſhameleſs doings do not lie lurking under fig-leave Clothing, ſuch as Sabboth, Faſting, and Thankſgiving dayes, Doctrines, Formes, and Worſhips?

4. Whether the Lords of Mannors, do not hold their Right and Title to the Commons, meerly from the Kings Will, (which Will proving a Burthen to the Nation, cauſed the King to looſe his head) and whether the ſtrongeſt point in their Law for the keeping up their Title, be not, Take him Jaylor?

5. Whether the Common People of England may not ſeize upon the Land, which is called after their own name, to wit, the Commons, for to dreſſe and improve it for their beſt advantage; for theſe Reaſons following, without paying fines, Quit-rents, Heriots, or ſwearing Fealty, (or any other curſed and diabolicall payments whatſoever,) to any Tyrant ſoever?

Firſt, Becauſe the great Creator of all things, ordained that the earth with the fulneſs thereof ſhould be a common Treaſury of Livelihood for all, and that none ſhould Lord over his own kind; but that all ſhould love as Brethren, and ſo glorifie the Creator in the work of his hands.

Secondly. Becauſe the Common People of England, have (theſe ſix or ſeven hundred years) been ſhut out from having any benefit of the Earth, except that which they have bought by their ſlaviſh payments. And all this by & through the meanes of that illegitimate Lord and Maſter propriety, which was uſhered into the Creation, by thoſe two grand diſturbers of our Peace, Murther and Theft; and therefore now it is high time for them (the Common People) to lay hold upon the waſt Land, that ſo they may receive ſome benefit freely, and may no longer live in a ſtarving condition: and this cannot with reaſon be denyed by the Gentry and Clergy, if they conſider what cruelty they have acted towards their fellow-Creatures theſe many years, who have a priviledg to the Earth equall with themſelves.

Thirdly. Becauſe there is no Statute-Law in the Nation that doth hinder the common people from ſeizing upon their own Land, (but onely the mercinary wills of men,) and therefore where there is no Law, there is no tranſgreſſion.

Fourthly. Becauſe oppreſſion and cruelty doth bear ſo much ſway in the Nation, that poor men will be neceſſitated to make a breach of the Lawes of the Nation, if they are not ſuffered to labour the Earth for their maintenance.

Whether it would not prove an Inlet to Liberty and Freedom, if poor men which want Imployment, and others which work for little wages, would go to digging and manuring the Commons, and moſt places of the Earth; conſidering effects that this would produce?

As 1. If men would do as aforeſaid, rather then to go with Cap in hand, and bended knee, to Gentlemen and Farmers, begging and intreating to work with them for 8 d. or 10 d. a day, which doth give them an occaſion to tyrannize over poor people, (which are their fellow-Creatures,) if poor men would not go in ſuch a ſlaviſh poſture, but do as aforeſaid. then rich Farmers would be weary of renting ſo much Land of the Lords of Mannors.

2. If the Lords of Mannors, and other Gentlemen who covet after ſo much Land, could not let it out by percells, but muſt be conſtrained to keep it in their own hands, then would they want thoſe great baggs of money, (which do maintain pride, Idleneſs, and fulneſs of bread, which are carried into them by their Tenants, who go in as ſlaviſh a poſture as may be; namely, with Cap in hand, and bended knee, crouching and creeping from corner to corner, while his Lord (rather Tyrant) walkes up and down the Roome with his proud lookes, and with great ſwelling words, queſtions him about his holding.

3. If the Lords of Mannors, and other Gentlemen, had not thoſe great bagges of mony brought into them. Then down would fall the Lordlineſs of their ſpirits, and then poor men might ſpeak to them; then there might be an acknowledging of one another to be fellow-Creatures.

For, what is the Reaſon that great Gentlemen covet after ſo much Land, is it not becauſe Farmers and others creep to them in a ſlaviſh manner, proffering them great ſummes of money for ſuch and ſuch percells of it, which doth give them an occaſion to tyrannize over their fellow Creatures which they call their Inferiours.

Secondly. And what is the Reaſon that Farmers and others are ſo greedy to rent Land of the Lords of Mannors: Is it not becauſe they expect great gaines, and becauſe poor men are ſo fooliſh and ſlaviſh as to creep to them for imployment, although they will not give them wages enough to maintain them and their Families comfortably: All which do give them an occaſion to tyrannize over their fellow-Creatures, which they call their Inferiors.

All which conſidered, if poore men which want Imployment and others which work for little wages, would go to dreſſe and improve the common and waſt Lands, whether it would not bring down the prizes of Land, which doth principally cauſe all manner of things to be deare?

Whether a Livelihood be not the right and propriety of every man; Looke in the firſt Query.

Whether this be not intruded into by thoſe which do impoveriſh their fellow-Creatures by their buying and ſelling, and by their incloſing and appropriating the Earth, with the fruits thereof unto themſelves (purpoſely to uphold their Lordly ſpirits) as moſt men do; and ſo (in plain Engliſh) rob and ſteafe from their fellow Creatures, their proper right and Inheritance?

Whether thoſe Scriptures which ſay, Love thy Neighbour as thy ſelfe; and do unto all men as you would they ſhould do unto you: and He that hath this Worlds goods, and ſeeth his Brother in want, and yet ſhutteth up the bowells of Compaſſion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Matt. 7 12, John the firſt Chapt. the 3. verſe the 17.

And many ſuch Scriptures; Whether they are not leaſt ſpoken of, and leſſe practiſed among men now a dayes, although in them is contained the whole Law and Prophets?