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mareleborough & other places, sundry other matterill things Job informed us of touching the Narragansits & their designes. moreover hee & others ( friends among tho emimy) had contrived a way & appointed a time for the escape of his children, & some honest Indians with them & agreed upon a place & time to meet them in the woods that hee might conduct them Safe to the Engliish & in special Joseph. Tuckuppawillin. Pastor of the churh church (late at Hassannesit) & his aged father Naoas the Decon of that church, with their wives & children which were of that number. And for this purpose Job mad a pettition to the council to have liberty and opertunty to goe at the time appointed to fetch them in & it was granted him; words crossed out But not withstanding there was vissicitudes of intervening providens, that befell, those poor indians & Job also, beefore it was effected, as in that which follows will appeare, After the coming back of those two spyes they were sent againe to deare Iland. and although they had runne such hazards & done so good service (in the judgment of the Authority of that Country & other wise & prudent men yet the vulgar spared not to load them with reproches, and to impute the Burning of mendon (A deserted village) onto them, And to say that all they informed were lies & that they held correspondance with the enimy, or else they had not come back safe, and divers other things were muttered both against the spyes & Authority that sent them tending to callumniate the poor men, that had undertaken and effected blurred great afftayre, which none else (but they) were willing to engage in; which declares the rude temper of those times