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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47918	The shammer shamm'd, in a plain discovery under young Tong's own hand, of a designe to trepann L'Estrange into a pretended subornation against the Popish plot by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1306; ESTC R13119	26,243	43

THE Shammer Shamm'd In a Plain DISCOVERY Under Young TONG' 's Own Hand OF A Designe to Trepann L'ESTRANGE Into a Pretended Subornation against the POPISH PLOT By Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome at the Signe of the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard 1681. The Shammer Shamm'd c. IT is no new thing for L'Estrange to be Baited by the Mercenary Agents of a Seditious and Schismaticall Faction and 't is hard to say whether the Scurrilous Libells or the Obscure Authors of them be the more Contemptible But yet this is a Case wherein I cannot either with Honour Safety or with Good Discretion be Silent In short There is a Knot of Little Fellows but under the Government of better Heads that are now at work to Revive the Old Story of my Tampering with Young Tonge to Invalidate Oates's Evidence and Severall Lies and Scandalls are Printed in favour of that Imposture My Purpose in these Papers is in the first place to lay open the Notorious Falshood and Malice of this Practice And 2 ly to prove that very Design which is charg'd VPON me to be managed AGAINST me It will not be amiss to Enform the Reader by the way that in October 1680. Upon two full hearings before his Majesty and Councell in despight of all that Oates could say and Tong Swear against me I had the Honour to be twice acquitted by the Unanimous Judgment of the whole Board The Particulars of which Proceedings may be seen in a Dialogue under the Title of L'Estranges Case c. which I caused to be Publish'd upon that occasion I shall now as briefly as I can set forth how the same Calumny comes to be started again On the Third of January last past The Loyall Protestant-News-Paper had this following Passage in it concerning Tong but mistaking Samuel for Simson Whereas Mr. Samuel Tonge Son to Dr. Tonge deceased has formerly Sworn That his own Father was the Chief Contriver of the Popish Plot Discovered by a Man who then went under the name of Dr. O Now the Religious good party seemed at that time to be much dissatisfied that an Intrigue so well layed and so effectually managed tho never so ill Contrived should be thus miscarried and then fell upon young Tonge and declared that he was an ill Man for offering to charge his Father with such horrid Crimes after so many Men suffered upon the account of the said Plot and though that it were but a Contrivance of his Father and Dr. O so call'd then that it was an advancement to all Protestant Dissenters in England Ireland and Scotland and used many moderate Reasons with the said Tonge that at last Mr. Tonge Complyed with the Request and Prayer of the good party and when he was sent for again to come before the King and Council utterly Denying all that he had sworn before but since being touched with Remorse of conscience offers to justifie what he had Sworn unto by his own Testimony alone but by such Papers circumstances and witnesses as he is now able to produce without hopes of favour or Reward but as a penitent Sinner that expects mercy from God Almighty Young Tong was so hot upon this Publication that the very next day he directed a Paper to Mr Thompson by way of an Advertisement under his own hand in Confirmation of what was there publish'd though it was not Notified by Thompson till Jan. 19. and in the words following Mr Thompson I have read your Intelligence of the Third of this Instant and do acknowledge that all you write concerning Me is very True and I will Justify it to my death and I do believe that the Great Poverty and Misery that I lye under is fallen on me by the Just Judgment of God because I was Seduced by the Enticements of my Uncle and Others to deny the Truth but you mistake my name for I am not Samuel but Simson Tonge He speaks Truth as to his Miserable Condition for there was not a Poorer Creature in the Prison and Cutting of Pegs for shooes and working hard too for Three-half-pence a day was the best part of his Entertainment It was Thompson's Paper of Jan. 3. that gave the Alarum and stir'd up the Charity of some of the Well-affected Brethren to hearken a little after him He was taken one day out of the Prison as he said by a Printer and at his Return talk'd of something to be Publish'd toward the Middle of the next Week concerning L'Estrange This Visit put him presently into Cloaths and Money in his Pocket by a Providence which must be left to Time and Further Scrutiny to Un-riddle Upon Thomson's First Publication of Jan. 3. Out comes the Buffoon-Courant of Jan. 6. with these words in 't Has not this very Young Tonge set forth at large how he was at first trepann'd so suggest that Story against his Father in a Book Printed by Mr C in the New Exchange but for I know not what Reasons stifled and never suffer'd to be Publish'd Has not this Young Tonge a hundred and a hundred times with tears in his Eyes bewayl'd and repented of that Unnaturall Villany Nay but a fortnight ago he Voluntarily declar'd that the Sense thereof lay so heavy upon him that if ever he got out of Prison where he was like to starve and had scarce Cloaths to cover his Nakedness he would forthwith Transport himself to the West-Indies for his shame for that False and Wicked Accusation was so great that he should not be able to walk in the streets And is this Pittifull Fool Furbish'd up to make a New Attacque But on the Contrary What if this be only a Contrivance of the Popish Traytors and their Implement Nat What if herein he most in pudently abuses both Old Tonge and Young Tonge and the Publique Then no doubt his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell the Judges and all Inferiour Magistrates and every Protestant English-man will think it Necessary to Punish Exemplarily the Villain that in Print has Broach'd such a Horrid Scandall on the Honour Justice Prudence and Safety of the Nation Truly I do hope and wish with all my heart that the Government may and will proceed against all Cheats of this Kind with the most Severity Imaginable But how comes Care to know more of Tongs Doings then Tong does of his own for Every syllable which Thompson says of Tonge Tonge says of himself And the Question is not here whether it be True or False but whether or no Tonge sayd it The matter rested here till Jan. 19. Upon which day came forth Tong 's Advertisement in Justification of Thomson and Tong 's Pretended Vindication in Contradiction to that Advertisement 't was publish'd by Curtis and the Author of it may be as well known by his Paw as by his Face The Pacquet and the Vindication bearing all together the same Style and Design and in many Particulars the very same words So that the Courantier the

Name of Ambrose My Father took him home and gave him Cloaths Lodging and Dyet saying he would put him into a way And then he perswaded him to get acquainted among the Papists and when he had done so then my Father told him there had been many Plots in England to bring in Popery and if he would go over among the Jesuites and Observe their ways it was possible it might be One now and if he could make it out it would be his Preferment for ever But however if he could get their Names and a little Acquaintance from the Papists it would be an Easie matter to stir up the people to fear Popery And again My Father and He Dr. Oates went and Lodg'd at Fox-Hall at One Lamberts a Bell-Founder which House was call'd by the Neighbours the Plot-House And there Oates's Narrative was Written whereof several Copies were VVritten very Different the One from the Other and the Four Jesuites Letters wherein Oates pretended was the whole Discovery were Counterfeits c. All this I have to shew under Tonge 's Hand and I Appeal to Men and Angels if it be not the Boldest Attempt that ever was yet made upon the Credit of the Popish Conspiracy And sufficient to shake any Man's Faith as to That Point that were not Proof against the Utmost Effects of Malice Impudence and Imposture So many Particulars so Boldly and Openly Attested in the Face of so many Witnesses Tryals Convictions Sentences and Executions And all this Expresly Level'd at the Honour of our Parliaments and the Dignity of Publique Justice with only the Profligate and Faithless Practices of the Instrument to Weigh against the Impious Design and the Desperate Effects and Consequences of so Daring a Scandal But let the suggestions be never so Incredible and Ridiculous It is a thing of great Mischief yet to suffer the Authors of these B●●its and Rumours to pass Unpunish'd for Malevolent Spirits will be apt to say If there were not something into how is it that the Reporters of these Fables come to scape The Best thing he has to say for himself will be perhaps that he has not so much publish'd These Shamms by way of Affront to the Plot as thrown them out for a Bait for L'Estrange to Chop at So that the Credit of the Protestant Religion and the English Government must at this rate be Expos'd upon the Experiment of Trying to Engage and Hamper L'Estrange in the Intrigue But alas I am so thoroughly satisfied in the Business of the Plot and the whole Scheme of it is so Perfectly and Distinctly in my Head that I have not the least Curiosity in the World to know more on 't Beside That In vain is the Net spread in the sight of the Bird. I have not Concern'd my self to Hunt after his Fathers Papers to Trace out his Fathers Agents nor Directly or Indirectly made any sort of Applications Pursuant to his Purpose and Desire but Innocently held him in play with Letter for Letter to keep up the Rest. The Only Thing that stuck with me upon the thought of this Publication was the Nicety of Committing those Papers to a Publique View which might seem perhaps to be deposited in my Hands under some sort of Confidence and Trust But when I consider'd on 〈◊〉 other hand that These Letters were meant only as Snares to me under the Semblance of That Confidence I was my own Confessor in the Case and easily discharg'd my self of That Scruple And not without a Further Sense neither of Duty to the Government In Conclusion I have here made a Fair Discovery of a Foul Practice both upon the Publique and upon my Self I was to have been Trappan'd the One way and Tonge is Detected the Other I shall remit the rest to the Wisdom of my Superiors how far it may be either Safe or Expedient to Encourage this way of Proceeding Even to the Violation of Common-Faith and Society The Plot 's a Sham says Tonge If L'Estrange says so too 't is almost as much as his Neck 's worth Why should not This Scandalous Affront now be as Dangerous to Tonge for the Starting of it as it would have been to L'Estrange if he had Joyn'd in 't Trapanning will become a Trade Nay and Forswearing too if Men shall find it their Interest First to play the Knaves or the Cheats and then as I said before come off for the Discovery and set up for Enformers This is the Case and if I had done less I had been wanting both to the Publique and to My Self FINIS