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16 By this order, ( which the council was in a manner nessesitated to put forth to quiet the people). The poore chtian indians were reduced to great sufferings, beeing hindred from their hunting and looking after their catle, swine, & getting in their corn: or lauboring among the English to get clothes: & many other waies incomoded. also were daily exposed to bee slaine or imprisoned if at any time they were found within their limmets, And there wanted not some English ( if wileng to them] that tooke ocasion to sease upon them & take away yr guns & detayne them to this day & to bring them to prison, And wheras it was intended and ordered by the councill, that two or three English men should bee kept at entry of the indian plantations afforsaid, to Inspect their carrrige