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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85837	Publick good without private interest, or, A compendious remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English colonie of Virginea [sic] with a modest declaration of the severall causes ... why it hath not prospered better hitherto ... / humbly presented to His Highness the Lord Protectour, by a person zealously devoted, to the more effectual propagating of the Gospel in that nation ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing G337; ESTC R43857	30,958	46

to assasine him And the Governour upon the discovery thereof required of their King that their three heads which were in that conspiracy should be forthwith sent unto him for the expiating that high offence or else he and his people would revenge it upon the said King and his people The King being unwilling if not affraid by reason of the power and as some say alliance of two of them to execute justice in that rigour upon them all cut of the head of one of the three and sent it to the English Governour by the other two The Governour being not satisfied therewith sent those two with other messengers to their King to know the reason why he sent him but one of those heads when he required all three To which the King returned this answer That he had sent all the three heads that the Governour demanded to be sent And if the Governour were pleased to return two of them back again it was to be ascribed to his goodness and mercy and not to be imputed to any failing in him who had performed what was required There is one story more which I may not omit because it savours not onely of wit but of more true Wisdom and Religion than is usually found in multitudes that call themselves Christians and that is this When some of the English were imployed about building an house and some other work for an Indian King he being by covenant to provide victuals for them did accordingly constantly provide for them what was necessary the whole six daies of the week through but when the Lords day came and he saw the English forbear to work and falling to sporting and playing he commanded that no victuals should be allowed them which when the English complained of they had this answer returned them That the King would allow them no victuals on that day because on that day they did him no work To which when the English replyed That that day was a day set a part to serve God in and not a day to labour or work in It was told them again from the King That if he did see them serve God on that day they should have what is necessary allowed them but he was sure that they could not serve God by sporting and playing Thus may you see That although Wisdom as the son of Sirach brings her in speaking of her self Ecclus 24. had for a long time her dwelling in Jacob and her inheritance in Israel ver 8. And so took root in an honourable people even in the portion of the Lords inheritance and there grew and was exalted and stretched out her branches and cast forth a sweet smell ver 13 14 15 16. And after that was transplanted as the people and inheritance of the Lord was removed or a new people and portion chosen and they cast out Yet those Nations that were not or yet are not the Lords people evermore did and to this day do partake of Wisdoms fruits and in every Nation and People she got a possession ver 6. as we call a small portion of ground taken as the earnest or seasin of the whole in the souls of many And that earnest or seasin may in due time through the Law-Givers mercy and favour intitle her to and invest her in all the rest when for the full compleating of that Prophecy Isa 11.9 The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Then for the excellency of the Country If your Highness can but believe in these faithless times either what sundry men of different faith in other matters have as it were with one soul written concerning this or what divers of approved faith are ready with one voice or mouth farther to attest You may beyond all doubting be assured That the Climate of Virginea is healthfull the Land exceeding fruitfull yielding great plenty of whatsoever corn or grain is sown in it and of all other fruits that are planted in it and affording very great increase of all sorts of cattel that breed in it or that it is stockt withall The Woods which are very vast abound with Deer and other beasts whose carcases or skins or both are very usefull and profitable The Rivers are infinitely stored with all sorts of excellent Fish and water-Fowls as the dry Land is with other fowls The bowels of the earth are fraught with admirable Mines of Iron Lead Copper and as some say Silver And for the upper parts thereof besides what it sends forth naturally which is much variety of delightfull and usefull commodities It would with a little labour and industry in planting and keeping it be made extraordinary rich in the production of Silk Wine Currants Rasins Flaxe and almost any thing that any other Country yields O that it might but once bear as t is said of Canaan Wisdom 12.7 a worthy Colony of Gods children And then Canaan it self could scarce ever have been said to have excelled it Which that it may do shall be the earnest and incessant prayer of him who daily prays that the Lord would incline and move your Highness heart to contribute your best assistance to this great work tending so much to the glory of God the propagation of the Gospel the good and comfort of many thousands of souls in that vast Continent this Nations honour and your Highness highest renown Your Highness humble Remonstrant L. G. FINIS

for the people of God to assemble in together to worship and serve him publikely and to communicate of his holy ordinances solemnly and unanimously that they be decently beautifyed adorned both for the honour of our Religion and for the better inviting and alluring and attracting of the poor Heathen unto them and to the performance of those religious offices and duties that shall be reverently and devoutly practised in them all superstitious and Idolatrous deckings and trimmings being abominated And that there be alo pubick Schools erected for the educating both of the English of the Indians Children in good learning and in the true Christian Religion 11. That there be a certain coyn made current amongst them of the Planattion that so the business of Trade and commerce amongst themselvs may be transacted with much less trouble and difficultie than now it is by reason of the bukness of Tobacco the onely thing yet used instead of coyn in that Colonie 12. That Forts be built and maintained in all meet places both for the keeping off all forein invasion and for the preventing or supressing any insurrection that may happen to be made by the Indians 13. That a small Pinnace be set forth and imployed to discover the south coast of Virginea that the Navigation may be more safe whereas now for want of knowing that coast many ships miscarry in their passage thither And that every year some select number of able discreet well-armed men may also be sent out by Land to discover the inland Country and the nature and secrets thereof and where one company leaves off one year there another company with two or thre of the former for their guides to begin the next and so to go on till they have discovered as much as is possible And of what importance and advantage this would be to this Nation as well as to that Colonie men skilled in Navigation and that wish well to such noble attempts especially such renouned Heroes as have adventured their persons in them will soon inform you 14. In the last place which will actuate and give life and motion and promotion to all the rest and without which all other attempts and indeavors for the good and prosperity of that Colonie and whatsoever else can be designed by the most pious and publick Spirits that are concerning any particulars mentioned will prove vain and ineffectual As the great Lord of heaven and earth must be constantly and incessantly supplicated for his direction assistance and blessing upon what shall be undertaken in this great and honourable worke so the Governour of that Plantation must be assisted supported and incouraged by a comfortable and honourable allowance that so he may spend his time wholly save what he spends in the more immediate worship and service of God and in the refreshing and recreating his toiled body and Spirits in and for the publick good of that Colonie And that allowance need not to be taken out of any stock or treasure of this Nation but may be raised and leavied upon foreiners trading in that Country and out of those moneys which the English already use to pay willingly and is by consent of the Colonie laid upon the inhabitants that come to take up land there All which or the greatest part thereof hath been imbezled by inferiour unworthy men and would amount to a very considerable revenue sufficient to maintain the Governour in all his necessarie expences about the Government and afford an overplus for the raising of forces in time of need against the enemies thereof and for the doing of many other publick workes and in a few years afford something to the publick treasure of this Nation and yet all the other taxes and impositions under which the people of the Colonie now groan might be taken off which must not otherwise be hoped for or expected All those informations and intimations of the present sad state and condition of the English Colonir in Virginea and of the true causes thereof as also of the several and probably-succesfull meanes and waies for curing all or the most of her dangerous distempers are humbly presented unto your Highness serious consideration As the preventing its hastening ruine is devoutly recommended to Gods gracious mercy and to your compassionate care And if the ingenuity of the Indian natives the excellency of the Country superadded to all the other arguments may any way invite and quicken your Highness in the indeavouring its reformation and preservation be pleased to admit of some few instances of both for those many which might be given and have been published by others of each For testimonie of their ingenuity suffer me after so much tyring your patience to recreate you with two or three tragi-comical stories and no fictions When the English complained to one of the neighbouring Indian Kings that some of his Indians had taken away some of their Hoggs He assured them that it was contrarie to his will and command but they might well forbear the aggravating that fact so much as they did for that many of the English had oftentimes killed and carried away divers of his Deer And when the English replyed that their hoggs were all marked so that the Indians might know them to be theirs which they could not his deer He presently answered T is true indeed none of my deer are marked and by that you may know them to be mine and when you meet with any that are marked you may do with them what you please for they are none of mine At another time there were twelve of the Indians murthered by the English For which bloody fact the King of those Indians desired of the English Roanoke and wampampege are a kind of beads current amongst the Indians for money and is as their silver and gold that justice might be executed upon the persons that were guilty The English yielded thereunto but said the English the satisfaction shall be made according to your Indian custome by giving so much Roanoke and Wampampege for each mans life such a quantity The Indian king told them that he expected such justice to be done and such punishment to be inflicted upon those murderers as the English used to inflict upon the like amongst themselves But seeing that would not be granted he required that then according to the Indian custome so many in number of the English as there were Indians slain should bring that Roanoke and Wampampage and tender it to him which when they did The Indian King to fright them into a deeper sense of that their injustice told them that he would now slay eleven of them and send back again by the twelfth so much Roanoke and Wampampege proportionably as they had sent for the like number that they had slain Another time there were three Indians whereof two were of great power and honour amongst them that were accused for attempting to poyson the Governour of the English or otherwise