"They visited these towns to promote the business: Colebrook,
Hanworth, Hounslow, Harrowhill, Watford, Redburn, Dunstable,
Barton, Amersley, Bedford, Kempson, North Crawley, Cranfield,
Newport, Stony Stratford, Winslow, Wendover, Wickham, Windsor,
Cobham, London, Whetston, Mine, Wellin, Dunton, Putney, Royston,
St. Needs, Godmanchester, Wetne, Stanton, Warbays, Kimolton, from
Kimolton to Wellingborrow."
Before this date, however, some of the inhabitants of Wellingborrow had
followed the example of their brothers in Surrey. From a beautifully
printed broadsheet,[150:1] bearing date March 12th, 1649 (1650), and
issued by Giles Calvert, we find the following account of their doings,
which incidentally reveals the terrible state of the rural working
population at the time it was written:
"A DECLARATION OF THE GROUNDS AND REASONS why we the poor
inhabitants of the Town of Wellinborrow, in the County of
Northampton, have begun and give consent to dig up, manure and
sow corn upon the Commons and Waste Ground called Bareshanke,
belonging to the inhabitants of Wellinborrow, by those that
have subscribed and hundreds more that give consent.
"1. We find in the word of God that God made the Earth for the use
and comfort of all mankind, and sat him in it to till and dress it,
and said, That in the sweat of his brow he should eat his bread.
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