The Diggers, following a court case in…

The Diggers, following a court case in which they had been forbidden to speak in their own defense, are found guilty of being Ranters, a radical sect associated with liberal sexuality (though in fact Winstanley had reprimanded Ranter Laurence Clarkson for his sexual practices).

Having lost the court case, if they do not leave the land, the army can be used to enforce the law and evict them; so in August 1649 they abandon St. George's Hill, much to the relief of the local freeholders.