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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
ARTICLE XXVIII. The Epilogue of a Long Tragedy.
For the present then, the Indians have Done Murdering; They'll Do so no more till next Time. Let us then have done Writing; when we have a little informed our selves what is become of the chief Murderers among those Wretches, for whom if we would find a Name of a Length like one of their own Indian Long-winded words, it might be, ⟨p. 154⟩Bombardo gladio-sun hast-flammi-loquentes.
FOr the present then, the Indians have Done Murdering; They'l Do so no more till next Time. Let us then have done Writing; when we have a little informed our selves what is become of the chief Murderers among those Wretches, for whom if we would find a Name of a Length like one of their own Indian Longwinded words, it might be, ⟨p. 154⟩Bombardo gladio-sun hast-flammi-loquentes.
Major Convers, and Captain Alden, in pursuance of Instructions Received from the Lieut. Governor and Council, arriving at Penobscot, on Oct. 14. 1698. were there informed, That Madockawando, the noted Sagamore, with several other Sachems of the East, were lately Dead. And six days after this, the chief Sachems now Living, with a great Body of Indians, Entertained them with a Friendly Discourse; wherein they said, That the Earl of Frontenac had sent them, word, there was a Peace concluded between the Kings of France and England, and that one of the Articles in the Peace was, for Prisoners on both sides to be Returned, and they were Resolved to obey the Earl of Frontenac as their Father; and accordingly such Prisoners of ours, as they had now at hand, might immediately Return, if we could persuade them, for They would not Compel them. When our English Messengers argued with them, upon the perfidiousness of their making a New War, after their Submission, the Indians replied, That they were Instigated by the Erench to do what they did, against their own Inclinations; adding, That there were two Jesuits, one toward Amooscoggin, the other at Narridgaway, both of which, they desired the Earl of Bellomont, and the Earl of Frontenac, to procure to be Removed; otherwise it could not be expected, that any