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the eng. in this war & give you a taste of their pride & insolence & the craft & subtlety used by them in their enterprises, especially at this time when they were in their highest raffe. Upon the 21 Feb. 1675, very early in the morning a considerable body of Ind. between 3 & 400, in the preceeding night (or rather a little before day,) conveyed themselves secretly into every part of the town especially in the southeast end, next Bedham, fitted themselves with combustible matter & therewith let several houses on fire, as it were, in one instant of time, planting men in ambushment near the houses that as soon as the people came forth, they might shoot them down as they did. There was at this time in the town a foot company of solds. under com. of Cap. Jacob, of about 80 men, & a ply? of horse under command of Coane? & Oaked? about 20 & of the unclear band of the town about 100 men the whole about 200 well armed, but they being quartered scatteringly in the town (excepting about 30 men that were upon the watch at that the corps du guard near the meeting house) in which respect they could not get together into a body to repel the enemy until they were withdrawn & retreated out of the town, for as soon as the alarm was taken those at the main guard firing a great gun 3 or 4 times over gave the alarm effectually insomuch that the unclear to withdraw on a bridge towards Therborne? & firing the bridge impeded the pursuit of the Eng. soldiers. The eng. drew up in a body on the other side of the river, and