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63 hee shewed him an order of the councill, But the captaine could shew him no order, but the comission to kill and destroy the enimy, But mr Hoare said those were friends & under order, But the captain would not be satisfyed with his answer: But commanded his corporall forthwith to breake open the ^ ? doore, and take the indians all away which was don accordingly: and som of the souldiers. plundored the poore creatures of their shirts, shoes, dishes, and such other things as they could lay their hands upon, though the Captaine comanded the contrary: In sum they werre brought all to Charlestown, with a guard of twenty men, And the captaine wrote a letter to the General Court, then sittng giveing them an Acct account of his action; this thing was very offensive to the council. That a private captaine should (without Comission or some express order) do an act so contradictory to their former orders, and the Govorner and severall others, spake of it at a conferense with the deputies in the Genll Court manifesting their dissatisfaction at the great irregulatiry in setting up a milittary power in opposition to the cheefe Authority of the contry declaring of what evil consequence such a precedent was; instancing the ill effects of like aproches in England in lattor times, urging that Due testimony might bee born: against the same, by the whole court, the deputies seemeed genorely to agree to the reason of the majestraits in this matter, yet notwithstanding the captaine (who appeared in the court shortly after upon an other ocasion) met with no rebuke for this