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Gerrard Winstanley, the Glossary

Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England.^[1]

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17th-century Christian universalists
British housing rights activists
Diggers
English Christian universalists
People of the English Civil War
Proto-anarchists
Quaker universalists
Squatter leaders

Abram, Greater Manchester

Abram is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles (Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.

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Agrarian socialism is a political ideology that promotes social ownership of agrarian and agricultural production as opposed to private ownership.

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Alchemy

Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.

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Alexander Garden Obelisk

The Alexander Garden Obelisk is an obelisk located within the Alexander Garden, near the walls of Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia.

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Andrew Mollo

Andrew Mollo (born 15 May 1940 in Epsom, Surrey, England)Kevin Brownlow: How It Happened Here. UKA Press, London/Amsterdam/Shizuoka 2007,, p. 201.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Aspull

Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Billinge and Winstanley Urban District

Billinge (from 1927 Billinge and Winstanley) was, from 1872 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.

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Books of Samuel

The Book of Samuel (Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament.

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Christian anarchism

Christian anarchism is a Christian movement in political theology that claims anarchism is inherent in Christianity and the Gospels.

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Christian libertarianism

Christian libertarianism is the synthesis of Christian beliefs with libertarian political philosophy, with a focus on beliefs about free will, human nature, and God-given inalienable rights.

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Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus.

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Christian universalism

Christian universalism is a school of Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will ultimately be saved and restored to a right relationship with God.

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Christian views on poverty and wealth

There have been a variety of Christian views on poverty and wealth.

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Christianity and politics

The relationship between Christianity and politics is a historically complex subject and a frequent source of disagreement throughout the history of Christianity, as well as in modern politics between the Christian right and Christian left.

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Christopher Hill (historian)

John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003) was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history.

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Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba were a British anarcho-punk band who formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Churchwarden

A churchwarden is a lay official in a parish or congregation of the Anglican Communion or Catholic Church, usually working as a part-time volunteer.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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Cobham, Surrey

Cobham is a village in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, centred south-west of London and northeast of Guildford on the River Mole.

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Common land

Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Commonwealth of England

The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.

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David Caute

John David Caute (born 16 December 1936 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.

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Diggers

The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism.

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Diggers' Song

"The Diggers' Song" (also known as "Levellers and Diggers") is a 17th-century English ballad by Gerrard Winstanley, a protest song about land rights inspired by the Diggers movement. Gerrard Winstanley and Diggers' Song are Diggers.

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Edward Burrough

Edward Burrough (1634–1663) was an early English Quaker leader and controversialist. Gerrard Winstanley and Edward Burrough are 17th-century Quakers, Converts to Quakerism and English Quakers.

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Eleanor Davies (poet)

Eleanor Davies (formerly Eleanor Tuchet) (1590–1652) was a prolific English writer publishing almost seventy pamphlets during her lifetime. Gerrard Winstanley and Eleanor Davies (poet) are 17th-century English writers.

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Enclosure

Enclosure or inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege.

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English Rebel Songs

English Rebel Songs is the third studio album by English band Chumbawamba.

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First English Civil War

The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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Geolibertarianism

Geolibertarianism is a political and economic ideology that integrates libertarianism with Georgism.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.

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Guild

A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.

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Haigh, Greater Manchester

Haigh is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.

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Highway Act 1835

The Highway Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hindley, Greater Manchester

Hindley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

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Hundred of Elmbridge

The Hundred of Elmbridge or Elmbridge/Emley Hundred was a geographic subdivision (called a "hundred") in the north of the county of Surrey, England.

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Ince-in-Makerfield

Ince-in-Makerfield or Ince is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

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It Happened Here

It Happened Here (also known as It Happened Here: The Story of Hitler's England) is a 1964 British black-and-white war film written, produced and directed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, who began work on the film as teenagers.

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John Ball (priest)

John Ball (1338 – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow (born Robert Kevin Brownlow; 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Land reform

Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership.

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Left-libertarianism

Left-libertarianism, also known as left-wing libertarianism, is a political philosophy and type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality.

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Leon Rosselson

Leon Rosselson (born 22 June 1934, Harrow, Middlesex, England) is an English songwriter and writer of children's books.

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Levellers

The Levellers were a political movement active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance.

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Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management.

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Lollardy

Lollardy, also known as Lollardism or the Lollard movement, was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation.

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Margaret Jacob

Margaret Candee Jacob (born 1943) is an American historian of science and Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions of material things.

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Mercery

Mercery (from French mercerie, meaning "habderdashery" (goods) or "haberdashery" (a shop trading in textiles and notions) initially referred to silk, linen and fustian textiles among various other piece goods imported to England in the 12th century. Eventually, the term evolved to refer to a merchant or trader of textile goods, especially imported textile goods, particularly in England.

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New Covenant

The New Covenant (diathḗkē kainḗ) is a biblical interpretation which was originally derived from a phrase which is contained in the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:31–34), in the Hebrew Bible (or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible).

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Norman yoke

The Norman yoke is a term denoting the oppressive aspects of feudalism in England, attributed to the impositions of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England, his retainers and their descendants.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Orrell, Greater Manchester

Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Overseer of the poor

An overseer of the poor was an official who administered poor relief such as money, food, and clothing in England and various other countries which derived their law from England such as the United States.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Peasants' Revolt

The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.

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Pemberton, Greater Manchester

Pemberton is an area of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Pirton, Hertfordshire

Pirton is a large village and civil parish three miles northwest of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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Political theology

Political theology is a term which has been used in discussion of the ways in which theological concepts or ways of thinking relate to politics.

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While Marxism had a significant impact on socialist thought, pre-Marxist thinkers (before Marx wrote on the subject) have advocated socialism in forms both similar and in stark contrast to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' conception of socialism, advocating some form of collective ownership over large-scale production, worker-management within the workplace, or in some cases a form of planned economy.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Radical politics

Radical politics denotes the intent to transform or replace the principles of a society or political system, often through social change, structural change, revolution or radical reform.

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Religious rejection of politics

Religious rejection of politics is a philosophy that can be found in a life of contemplation of nature.

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Sacred history

Sacred history is the retelling of history narratives "with the aim of instilling religious faith" regardless of whether or not the narratives are founded on fact.

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St George's Hill

St George's Hill is a private gated community in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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The Land is Ours

The Land is Ours is a British land rights campaign advocating access to the land, its resources, and the planning processes set up in 1995 by George Monbiot and others.

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The Law of Freedom in a Platform

The Law of Freedom in a Platform, or True Magistracy Restored is a six-chapter book (described in the English of the time as a 'pamphlet') published in 1652 by Gerrard Winstanley, a participant in the Diggers movement.

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Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tower of London

The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.

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Up Holland

Up Holland (or Upholland) is a village in Skelmersdale and civil parish in the West Lancashire district, in the county of Lancashire, England, west of Wigan.

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Verso Books

Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review (NLR) and includes Tariq Ali and Perry Anderson on its board of directors.

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Wat Tyler

Walter "Wat" Tyler (4 January 1341 (disputed) – 15 June 1381) was a leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England. He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the institution of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms. While the brief rebellion enjoyed early success, Tyler was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield, London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Winstanley

Also known as Gerard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness.

, Left-libertarianism, Leon Rosselson, Levellers, Libertarian socialism, Lollardy, Margaret Jacob, Materialism, Mercery, New Covenant, New Testament, Norman yoke, Northamptonshire, Orrell, Greater Manchester, Overseer of the poor, Oxford University Press, Pamphlet, Pantheism, Parish church, Peasants' Revolt, Pemberton, Greater Manchester, Pirton, Hertfordshire, Political philosophy, Political theology, Pre-Marx socialists, Protestantism, Quakers, Radical politics, Religious rejection of politics, Sacred history, St George's Hill, Surrey, The Land is Ours, The Law of Freedom in a Platform, Tony Benn, Tower of London, Up Holland, Verso Books, Wat Tyler, West Derby Hundred, Wigan, Winstanley (film), Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors.

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See also

17th-century Christian universalists

British housing rights activists

Diggers

English Christian universalists

People of the English Civil War

Proto-anarchists

Quaker universalists

Squatter leaders

References