Editing Diggers (section)

=== Wellingborough, Northamptonshire ===

This community was probably founded as a result of contact with the Surrey Diggers. 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. According to the newspaper ''A Perfect Diurnall'' the emissaries had travelled a circuit through the counties of [[Surrey]], [[Middlesex]], Hertfordshire, [[Bedfordshire]], Buckinghamshire, [[Berkshire]], Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire before being apprehended.<ref name="Thomas">{{cite journal |author-link=Keith Thomas (historian) |first=Keith |last=Thomas |title=Another Digger Broadside |journal=Past and Present |issue=42 |year=1969 |pages=57–68 |doi=10.1093/past/42.1.57 |jstor=650182}}</ref>

On 15 April 1650 the Council of State ordered Mr Pentlow, a [[justice of the peace]] for Northamptonshire, to proceed against "the Levellers in those parts" and to have them tried at the next Quarter Session.<ref>{{cite book |title=Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1650 |location=London |date=1876 |page=106}}</ref>