The LEVELLERS INSTITUTIONS FOR A GOOD PEOPLE, AND A GOOD PARLIAMENT, According to this their present Declaration, and the Gallant Rights and Christian Privileges of this NATION.  
Together with their Summons to all gallant common Soldiers serving under the Excellent FAIRFAX, and faithful CROMWELL, to stand to their Colours.  
London, Printed for W. B. in the Year MDCXLVIII.   

The Levellers Institutions for a good People, and a good Parliament, etc. The first Institution.  
TO all true cordial English Souls, inhabitant or dispersed through Europe, Asia, Africa and America; To Jew and Gentile, Freeborn and Slave, to whom these our ●nstitutions shall come, Greeting. Be it by these Presents made known, published and declared, That We, the legitimate Princes of the Earth, Justice, Freedom, and Honesty, having for a time, times, and half a time, by the Tyranny of unjust Monarches and Arbitrary Lords, been forcibly exiled, and from our Native Rights debarred; are now, at the time of the end, come down into the World to chastise Injustice, to settle Peace, and to reassume the Sceptre in our own hands, as our proper due, against Emperors, Kings, Armies, Counsels, maugre Men and Devils; Commanding all other Princes to lay down their Sceptres at our feet, and Greatness to come under the command of Goodness: for this is the first Fundamental Right of the Sea-Green Order.  
Secondly, Be it next declared, That We intent to advance our Royal Standard, first in England, this present year of King Jesus 1648: and this by Commission from God our King, and the Parliament of Heaven, unalterably, uncontrollably; and have for that purpose made choice of the deep Sea-green for our Flag and Colours, and do hereby ordain and authorise it to be worn as the lively badge of Constancy, Sufferance and Valour in grain, the cognizance of Justice, and the mark of Freedom and Deliverance.  
Thirdly, Be it by us ordered, That whatsoever noble heart shall abhor the yoke of Prerogative-pleasure, the Chains of Slavery and Tyranny by Princes, the Agents and cruel Instruments of Princes: Whosoever shall detest the Arbitrary Power and Voice Negative: Whosoever shall abominare the self-willed pomp and dominion of Lords temporal and spiritual, the juggling of bribed Judges, the devilish inextriable mares of the Law-Courts, and their pettifogging sitting Dogs, (Pleaders, Officers of Court, Attorneys, Solicitors, perjured Sergeants, Bailiffs, Undersheriffs) with all their quirks, demurs, and quillets: Whosoever is seeing and sensible of the late bloody Plots, and still raging designs of Antichristian Christians: Whosoever groans under the present Extortions, unequal Taxes, unjust Levies, inevitable Monopolies, new Charters, Plunders and avarice of Committees, bondage of Prison under inhuman Gaolers, oppression of Landlords, all Wardships, all Hardship●; Let them upon sight hereof, take up the Cross, and follow Christ their King; take up our Colours, and follow us their Leaders; and in so doing, the Sea-green shall be the badge of their warrant and protection.  
Fourthly, be it hereby instituted, That every one so wearing our Colours in hatband, cuff, garment, hilt, bridle, main, or sail, in relation to Equity, Freedom and Honesty shall from henceforth, according to our noble Order, be entitled the Freeborn Assistant of Justice, (but according to the Order of King Charles, Levellers) his is new, ours is old.  
Fifthly, be it further instituted, That every Champion of the Sea-green Order shall vow a sacred vow, in all his prayers and endeavours, to levelly first the mountain of his own hart, pride, ambition, avarice, self-hopes, self-ends, self-revenge; for this is the true level of the internal Antichrist.  
Sixthly, it is decreed, That every such Assistant of Justice, shall fearlessly resolve, promise & assent to his utmost power, to levelly to the earth all the unequal knobbiness— and uneven rise— of injustice, pomp, tyranny and oppression, as the very causes of this War, and things abominated in the eyes of an angry God, Saints and Angels; be it in Prince, Peer, Prelate, Judge, Magistrate, and that without difference or exception of persons, parties, Religions, relations, titles, dignities, indifferently and indistinctly; for this is the Level of the external Antichrist: So help him Christ, and the three Machabean Princes.  
Next, it is hereby concluded, That Honesty among the Levellers shall be counted for the best Policy, and Simplicity shall bear up the Buckler against a whole Junto of Machavil, and politics Woodbee.  
Be it also hereby known to all the gallant common Soldiers, serving under the excellent Fairfax, and faithful Crumwell, That however their Grandee-Masters have ill repaid their labours, yet we their Captains have from time to time carefully enrolled their valour, sufferings, scorns, nakedness, and losses in the Register of Equity, man by man; and do by these presents engage our Honours for a full requital, far above Indemnity, with money, bays, and thanks, according to the degrees of each man's desert in War; provided that the said Soldier go on as he hath begun, stand to our Colours, and appear at our Summons, according to the Rights of the SEA GREEN ORDER.  
Lastly, be it enacted and Declared, That whosoever shall jeer, baffle, or vilify our Colours, or reproach the Wearer— shall be censured an Anti Leveller, a Malignant Revolter, Grandee Creature, or Dammee Varlet, and to be registered by the SEA-GREEN Scout, in the Roll of Justice and Revenge; but whoever shall constantly and habitually affect us, and our Colours, shall be admitted into our favour, whether gallant Cavalier, or valiant Reformadoe.  
Signed by Captain Mordocai Love-Right, Secretary-General to the three Machabean Princes, and the noble State of Levellers.  
FINIS.