The power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the
creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did murder their
fellow creatures, men, and after plunder or steal away their land, and
left this land successively to you, their children. And therefore,
though you did not kill or thieve, yet you hold that cursed thing in
your hand by the power of the sword; and so you justify the wicked deeds
of your fathers, and that sin of your fathers shall be visited upon the
head of you and your children to the third and fourth generation, and
longer too, till your bloody and thieving power be rooted out of the
land
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England Gerrard Winstanley