Beneath the veil of Creek complicity in fulfilling Britain’s overall imperial aims, however, we find more than a murmur of discontent within Creek country being sounded principally by Quilate and other Spanish sympathizers who made themselves useful to the Florida regime. Some Lower Creeks accomplished this service by continuing to provide Spanish officials with intelligence, an enterprise that ran counter to the wishes of Oglethorpe’s friends living at Yamacraw and beyond. In September 1735, for instance, English traders reported the presence of three Spanish diplomats among the Lower Creeks. They had come to the Creek towns to invite the chiefs to fulfill earlier promises to meet Governor Moral Sanchez in St. Augustine.83 Though unable to meet the governor at the time, pro-Spanish Creeks continued to keep the governor apprised of British activity.