Led by Gerrard Winstanley, Diggers wanted an even more equal society than the Levellers.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Various libertarian socialist authors have identified the written work of English Protestant social reformer Gerrard Winstanley and the social activism of his group, the Diggers, as anticipating this line of thought.

The first was Gerrard Winstanley ( 1609-c. 1660 ), a linen draper who led the small movement of the Diggers during the Commonwealth.

In Germany its foremost spokesman during the Peasant Wars was Thomas Muenzer ; in England, Gerrard Winstanley, a leading participant in the Digger movement.

* The Law of Freedom in a Platform ( 1652 ), by Gerrard Winstanley.

Gerrard Winstanley ( 1648 ), Richard Coppin ( 1652 ), Jane Leade ( 1697 ), and then George de Benneville in America, taught that God would grant all human beings salvation.

** Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer ( d. 1676 )

* September 10 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer ( b. 1609 )

The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers ( 1649 – 50 ) led by Gerrard Winstanley, and they sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism.

The concept of wage slavery could conceivably be traced back to pre-capitalist figures like Gerrard Winstanley from the radical Christian Diggers movement in England, who wrote in his 1649 pamphlet, The New Law of Righteousness, that there " shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man ," and " there shall be none Lord over others, but every one shall be a Lord of himself.

At the same time that John Lilburne began his campaign, another group led by Gerrard Winstanley styling themselves True Levellers ( and became known as Diggers ), advocated equality in property as well as political rights.

* Gerrard Winstanley, ( 1609 – 1676 ), reformer, lived in Cobham from 1643 and was churchwarden in 1667-8.

Even Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of another English dissenting group called the Diggers, commented on Ranter principles by denoting them as " a general lack of moral values or restraint in worldly pleasures.

* date unknown – Gerrard Winstanley, political writer ( died 1676 )

The Diggers were a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as Diggers due to their activities.

Royalists wished to place King Charles II on the throne ; men like Oliver Cromwell wished to govern with a plutocratic Parliament voted in by an electorate based on property, similar to that which was enfranchised before the civil war ; agitators called Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate of every male head of a household ; Fifth Monarchy Men advocated a theocracy ; and the Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, advocated a more radical solution.

Gerrard Winstanley and 14 others published a pamphlet in which they called themselves the True Levellers to distinguish their ideas from those of the Levellers.

In late March 1650, four emissaries from the Surrey colony were arrested in Buckinghamshire bearing a letter signed by the Surrey Diggers including Gerrard Winstanley and Robert Coster inciting people to start Digger colonies and to provide money for the Surrey Diggers.

* Truth Lifting up its Head above Scandals ( 1649, Dedication dated October 16, 1648 ), Gerrard Winstanley

* The New Law Of Righteousness ( January 26, 1649 ), Gerrard Winstanley

Gerrard Winstanley, Richard Goodgroome, Thomas Starre, William Hoggrill, Robert Sawyer, Thomas Eder, Henry Bickerstaffe, John Taylor, & c. ( April 20, 1649 )

* A DECLARATION FROM THE Poor oppressed People OF ENGLAND, DIRECTED To all that call themselves, or are called Lords of Manors, through this NATION ... Gerrard Winstanley, John Coulton, John Palmer, Thomas Star, Samuel Webb, John Hayman, Thomas Edcer, William Hogrill, Daniel Weeden, Richard Wheeler, Nathaniel Yates, William Clifford, John Harrison, Thomas Hayden, James Hall.

* A Declaration of The bloudie and unchristian acting of William Star and John Taylor of Walton ( June 22, 1649 ), Gerrard Winstanley

Richard Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne ( 1587 – 1633 ), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir George Barne III ( 1532-d. 1593 ), the Lord Mayor of London and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I ; and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir William Garrard, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

By the mid-18th century, the aristocrats who had been living in Soho Square or Gerrard Street had moved away.

That same year, two side projects emerged: Soma was formed by Thrussell and Pieter Bourke — who has since worked with Dead Can Dance and Lisa Gerrard — and Thrussell formed solo project Black Lung.

Lisa Gerrard ( born 12 April 1961 ) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry.

It is the work of multi-skilled producer and director Clive Collier and features extensive interviews with Gerrard and various people who have collaborated with her in the past, including Michael Mann, Russell Crowe, Hans Zimmer and Niki Caro.

It is named after the Gerrard family who in the early 17th century owned a manor here.

The musicians who performed on this album, as well as on the EP, were Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, Paul Erikson, James Pinker, Scott Rodger and Peter Ulrich.

Neil Francis Gerrard ( born 3 July 1942 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Walthamstow from 1992 until 2010.

The album begins with two traditional songs: An hini a garan, with Lisa Gerrard, and E garnison !, with Louise Ebrel, who had already toured with Prigent.

It was in prison that Farace first met Gerrard " Jerry " Chilli Sr. Chilli had unofficially " adopted " Farace who at that point was in his late twenties as a protegé and stayed in contact when they got out of prison.

The Norwegians Carl W. Mueller, Knud Naerum, Peder Fagerland, Ottar Ryan, Tor Gerrard Rydland, Hans Bernhard Risanger and Arne Sørvag who had been condemned to forced labor under the same charge received reduced sentences at Sven Hedin ’ s request.

Gerrard Winstanley, who published a pamphlet calling for communal ownership and social and economic organization in small agrarian communities in the 17th century, is considered another of the forerunners of modern anarchism.

Though Lampard played every minute of England's 2006 World Cup matches, he went scoreless as England were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Portugal on penalties, and he was one of the three England players who missed their penalties, alongside Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.

His death is believed to be the result of an altercation with his cell mate, Matthew Gerrard MacDonald, 60, of Port au Port, N. L, who killed Theriault and has been charged with the killing.

In early November 2008 Wing Commander Paul Gerrard, who is based at the station, was involved in an unusual mid-air rescue.

The Diggers were a group begun by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649 who attempted to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based upon their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

Bertrand Russell, in his History of Western Philosophy, writes that the Anabaptists " repudiated all law, since they held that the good man will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit ... rom this premiss they arrive at communism ...." Prior to Leo Tolstoy, Christian anarchism found one of its most articulate exponents in Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the Diggers movement in England during the English Civil War.

He claimed he was acting on orders from Jon Gerrard ( who had replaced Hasselfield as leader ), and did not appear to be comfortable with his actions.