1. Winstanley , Gerrard . 1649 . The Mysterie of God Concerning the Whole Creation, Mankinde 74 London (edition), sig. A. 2. The Registers of the Parish Church of Wigan in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Burials, and Weddings 1580–1625, edited by Joseph Arrowsmith and F. Wrigley (Wigan: Lancashire Parish Register Society, 1899), p.
2. Berens , Lewis H. 1906 . The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth as Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger 41 – 42 . London Eduard Bernstein, Sozialismus und Demokratie in der grossen Englischen Revolution (Stuttgart, 1908), translated by H.J. Stenning as Cromwell and Communism (London, 1930; 1963 reprint), p. 130. David Petegorsky, Left-Wing Democracy in the English Civil War: A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley (London, 1940), pp. 121–24; The Works of Gerrard Winstanley, edited by George H. Sabine (Cornell, 1941; 1965 reprint), pp. 5–7; The Law of Freedom and Other Writings, edited by Christopher Hill (London, 1973), pp. 11–12; Olivier Lutaud, Winstanley: Socialisme et Christianisme sous Cromwell (Paris, 1976), pp. 39–42. Thomas Wilson Hayes, Winstanley the Digger, A Literary Analysis of Radical Ideas in the English Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1979) pp. 3–5. David Mulder, The Alchemy of Revolution: Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism (New York, 1990), pp. 327–28
3. Hill . 1984 . Law of Freedom 11 Oxford This portrayal has been accepted in: G.E. Aylmer, ‘The Religion of Gerrard Winstanley’, in Radical Religion in the English Revolution, edited by J.F. McGregor and B. Reay, p. 93Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Richard L. Greaves and Robert Zaller, 3 vols (Brighton, 1984), III, 329–30; F.D. Dow, Radicalism in the English Revolution 1640–1660 (Oxford, 1985), p. 75; George M. Shulman, Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley, 1989), pp. ix, 2; Mulder, Alchemy of Revolution, p. 328. Note also Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (London, 1972), p. 112
4. Hill . 1651 . Law of Freedom 11 The reference to Winstanley's attack on the universities is to his tract, The Law of Freedom.
5. Public Record Office (P.R.O.), SP 12/235, fo. 7.