the _Narragansets_, though the far greater multitude, were beaten by the _Wawhiggins_, through the Valour of _Uncas_ their Prince; who perfected his Victory by possessing himself of the Person of _Miantonemo_, whom, having put his Life-guard to flight, he carried away with him in triumph to the Town of _Hartford_, desiring to have the advice of the United Colonies what to do with his Prisoner: Whereupon the Commissioners having had sufficient proof of _Miantonemo_’s treachery towards this Prince, advis’d _Uncas_ to put him to death, but not to exercise that barbarous kind of cruelty which is usual amongst them in these Cases. The _Sachem_, upon this advice, not long after pretended to remove him to a safer place, but by the Way caus’d him to be Executed: His Subjects and Kindred were troubled at his Death, but the little Princes his Neighbors, over whom he had tyranniz’d, rather rejoyc’d. In the Year 1645, the Sons of old _Canonnicus_, their Father being dead, began to fall into hot Contentions with their Neighbors, and being forbidden by the United Colonies, they did not stick to threaten Wars to the _English_ also. Whereupon the Commissioners rais’d an Army of Horse and Foot, and made Major General _Edward Gibbons_ Commander in Chief over them. But the _Indians_ hearing of this Preparation, sent some of their chief Nobility to the Commissioners of the United Colonies, who were assembled at _Boston_, to Treat about Peace; to which the Commissioners agreed, upon condition they should pay a part of the Charges of the War; and that they should send four of their Sons for Hostages till the Sum was paid; and the Hostages being sent back before the _Wapom_ was all paid, the two Princes, _Pesicus_ and _Mexanimo_, upon the sending a Company of Armed Men to demand it, sent the remainder of the Money. In the Year 1647. divers Persons of Quality ventur’d their Estates upon an Iron Mill, which they began at _Braintree_, but it profited the Owners little, rather wasting their Stock, the price of Labor in matters of that nature, being double or treble to what it is in _England_. These are the most material Transactions we find deliver’d by any one which hapned from the first discovery till the Year before mention’d: what hath hapned from that time to this, chiefly relates to the several Revolutions that have been in _England_, and shall be therefore taken notice of when we come to speak of the Government of these Plantations. [Sidenote: The Commodities of this Countrey, together with the Trees and other sorts of Plants.]