Publick good without private interest
Subtitle: or, A compendious remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English colonie in Virginea [sic].  With a modest declaration of the severall causes (so far as by the rules of right, reason, and religious observation may be collected) why it hath not prospered better hitherto. As also, a submissive suggestion of the most prudentiall probable wayes, and meanes, both divine and civill (that the inexpert remembrancer could for the present recall to minde) for its happyer improvement aud [sic] advancement for the future
By: Humbly presented to His Highness the Lord Protectour by a person zealously devoted, to the more effectual propagating of the gospel in that nation, and to the inlargement of the honour and benefit, both of the said colonie, and this whole nation, from whence they have been transplanted
Publisher: Printed for Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Crown in S. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: History; Description and travel
Other titles: Publick good without private interest.; Compendious remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English colonie in Virginea.; Compendious remonstrance of the present sad state and condition of the English colonie in Virginia.
Notes: Signed on p. 26, 2nd count: L.G.

Attriubuted to Lionel Gatford by Wing.

The words "so far as by the rules of right, reason, and religious observation may be collected" and "that the inexpert remembrancer could for the present recall to minde" are printed within parentheses on title page.

The author complains against immigration policies, injustices to Indians, unfair trading, especially with regards to tobacco, and neglect of God's ordinances in Virginia. He appeals for specific administrative reforms.

Signatures: A⁴ (A1 verso blank) b⁴ c² (c2 verso blank) B-D⁴ E² (-E2)

Errors in paging: p. 6 and 24 misnumbered 9 and 25.

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Wing (2nd ed.) G337.

Virginia State Library. Colonial Virginia, 75.

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland, 47.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island II:472.

European Americana 657/42.

English short title catalogue R43857.

Purchase; 1859; 02126.