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27 (Tho' none of those were praying Inds.} had proved perfidious & were become enemies, hence it was that all the Inds. are reckoned to be false & perfidious.Things growing so this weighs among the Eng., the gov. & council, agst? their own reason & inclination, were put upon a kind of necessity, for granting ye people to disband all the praying Inds., & so make & publish an order to confine them to 5 of their own villages, & not to stir above one mile from the center of such place upon peril of their lives. The copy of which order here followeth. At a council held in Boston, 20 Aug. 1675. The Council judging it of absolute necessity for unknown of the Eng. & Ind. in amity with as , unkown they be restrained their usual commerce with the Eng. & hunting in the woods during the time of hostility with those that are out enemies do order, that all those Ind. that are desirous to approve themselves faithful to the Eng. be confined to the several places under written, until the council shall take further order & that the do order the desisting of their wigwams that they may stand compact in one place of their plantations, respectively where it may be best for their own provision & defense, & that none of them do presume to travel above one mile from the center of such of their dwellings unless in company of some Eng., or in their service, excepting for gathering in their corn with one Eng. man in company, on peril being taken as our enemies, or their assessors. And in case any of them be taken without the limits aforesaid except as above said, & do lose their lives or be otherwise damnified by Eng. or Inds. The council do hereby declare that they shall account themselves wholly innocent, & their blood, or other damage by them