"The rise of the Quakers, with their studied rejection of secular authority and distinctions of social rank, was particularly ominous, and the Baptists, though in fact comparatively innocuous, were always associated with the excesses of the notorious Anabaptists of Munster a century before, while the Fifth Monarchists' belief in the imminent return of Christ to reign on earth for a thousand years with his saints had obvious and profoundly disturbing political implications. Economic depression and continued unemployment enhanced the general working-class unrest, and it was no coincidence that in April 1649, with food prices still rising, Gerrard Winstanley and his Diggers made their famous occupation of common land on St George's Hill, Surrey, denouncing property as 'a Norman invention'."
Stuart England, J.P. Kenyon, p. 180.
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