subjection. Although the Quakers also propagated ideas of social equality, Ranterism truly became an imagined community for the socially dissatisfied ‘lower sort.’ Although the Quakers and Ranters promoted greater social equality (and did take much action), the greatest and most dynamic promoters of socioeconomic equality were the Diggers. Similar to the Ranters being a ‘counter-cultural movement,’ the Diggers were a community founded primarily in reaction to the increasing privatization of the English countryside. During the medieval period, lands appointed for common access and pasturing had formed an important part of local communities. During the sixteenth century, the Tudors initiated a program of land enclosure, shifting lands towards