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A62925	1. Dr. Tonges relation of the general massacre intended and plotted by the Papists: 2. Brought into Parliament by his direction and assistance: 3. Near the time of their prorogation, about the 22th. of June, 1678. by Richard Greene of Dilwin, in the county of Hereford, who first informed the doctor it.	Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.; Tong, William, 1662-1727, attributed name.; Greene, Richard, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1881; ESTC R219329	16,080	8

to thy self my Sword is drawn as well as thine which Words sounded so shrill in Mr. Boyers mans Iohn Marshal aforesaid ears that he did ride in between them to part the Fray which he did by disarming his Master and by giving Mr. Woodhouse good Words who Woodhouse did afterwards entertain them both at his House that Night but all the Words that passed between them before Mr. Boyers man would not acknowledge upon his examination that he heard any of them and would have denyed that the fray too but that his Master let fall the Scabbard of his Sword in the place and Mr. Woodhouse in kindness did send one or more of his Servants with himself with a Lanthorn and Candle to find the same for at the present the Barrel ended all the Quarrel they drunk the other bout and the Drunken Fit being over it was no more thought upon for a while but afterwards the aforesaid Boyer did desire one Edward Price a Saddler by Trade to make for him some Holsters for Pistols but how many I know not the said Edward Price having neer the same time more Papist Customers for such tackle was jealous of them and thereupon he informed a Justice of the Peace therewith upon which information several Justices met in order to examine the said Price And it happened so that the said Woodhouse being in a Market Town called Presteyn and at the House where the Justices met upon the aforesaid business and in the Company of Iohn Adams and Richard Hill of the same he asked them what was the meaning of the Justices meeting there which was but lately before who told him that Price the Saddler had informed that one Mr. Thomas Boyer a Papist had bespoke of him ten pair of Holsters for Pistols to which the said Woodhouse replyed surely then he is going to raise the Troop of Horse for the Duke of York which he told me he would raise and therewith declared the aforesaid Discourse between Mr. Boyer and himself to them who informed a Justice of the Peace or Lord Bishop of Hereford therewith whereupon the said Woodhouse was forced to Witness the same and then afterwards as it is before declared in the Whitsun week 1676. I went in with my Information and then after that the Justices had many times met together upon the same Concern the said Boyer was committed to Prison there to remain until the next great Assize and We the Witnesses Edward Price Robert Woodhouse Gent. and Richard Greene were bound over to the same to justify our Evidence in his Majesties behalf against Mr. Boyer before the Judge of the Assize to which accordingly we all very diligently gave our Attendance But Judge Wilde who rode that Circuit called the said Boyer and did not trouble himself as was expected in a business of that weight to examine either the Prisoner or the Witnesses but told him that he had read the Depositions against him and that therein he did find that he had spoke very dangerous Words and did very sharply chide him and told him it did not become such a one as him to talk of the overturning of Kingdoms and of the carrying on of the changing of Governments c. and that he might by the Law take a severer Course with him but because he was a young man he would only bind him to his good Behaviour and therefore bid him produce his surety quickly and he the said Boyer as before knowing the issue thereof produced two Papists for his Suretyes standing by him ready for the same purpose Which binding of him was but a letting of him loose as it did afterwards appear to spit his Popish Venom at poor Richard Greene which he and his accomplices did to the purpose for they Prosecuted me with four malitious Law Suits and Threatned me with many more and at last wrongfully Imprisoned me and both before I went to Prison and in the Prison he demanded nothing of me but Submission and Recantation and to declare those Truths which I before upon Oath had Witnessed against him were False and to Acknowledg that I had done him Wrong thereby and that by doing so I may expect his love and favour as formerly and in not doing so I should never come out of Prison which though I never did yet I am out of Prison Thanks be to God but when I came out I was so much impoverished so much Threatned so much Slandered and so much forsaken of Friends for many sought to merit the favour of my Adversaries by doing me Injuries by which I was forced to sell my Goods and Cattle and my Wife my fellow Sufferer with me in all this took our flight together from our Native Country These are the poor mans own Words Written down in his own hand who in another proceeds thus in his Relation Anno Domini 1676. ABout Whitsuntide one Thomas Woodhouse of Standbeach in Herefordshire Hatter bringing Richard Greene a Hat said My Brother Robort Woodhouse was in a great deal of trouble about Mr. Boyer aforesaid and very sorry he had occasioned him to be questioned for Words spoken to him Greene questioned Thomas Woodhouse about what time the Words were spoken by Mr. Boyer to Mr. Robert Woodhouse the said Hatters Brother and he found by him that it was the same time that he the said Greene had the same conference with Captain Thomas Boyer viz. Ianuary 75 6. which confirmed him more in his fear of a Massacre Thomas Woodhouse related this Discourse with Greene to his Brother Robert who sent for him to speak with him and R. W. related that Boyer had told him there would be many Bloody Noses that Summer but a hair of his Head should not be touched and that the said Boyer would raise a Troop of Horse for the Duke of York and enquired what Boyer had spoken to him Greene replyed he would be excused Then Woodhouse said he would have him Summoned to Hereford where he was himself to appear the next day to this he replyed he scorned to be forced to Witness for his King and Country if he would lend him a Horse he would go with him and accordingly he did and testifyed his knowledge in the Particulars aforesaid before the Justices of the Peace then and there assembled as hath been related above And then it was viz. about Whitsuntide 1676. that the said Robert Woodhouse Richard Greene and several others were examined before Sir Iames Bridges now Lord Shandoes and other Justices of the Peace of the County of Hereford as aforesaid upon whose examinations the said Captain Tho. Boyer was committed to Prison c. It is to be observed That against the said Assizes following when the said Richard Greene attended to give Evidence against Captain Thomas Boyer he had reserved many considerable particulars of his evidence against the time of the Tryal to which he expected that Captain Boyer would have been the● brought in the face of the whole County So

man to seek employment for Himself and Wife amongst Strangers The fear of this Massacre and his hard usage by his Landlord Boyer terrifyed Greene so that he advised with his Wife to go out of England to Virginy or elsewhere but his Wife not consenting he removed himself assoon as he could further from the said Boyer as distrusting his pretended kindness * For Greene was Boyers Kinsman and had been very intimate with him till called to Witness against bim if any rising should be and with an intent also to be more free and at liberty to testify what he knew of this Plotted Massacre when further off from him This was in February and March 1676. Dr. Tonge having laid this Foundation of a Discovery of this Plot and brought it thus into Parliament with one Witness present to attest it he hoped that by the Wisdom Industry and Intelligence of that Honorable House upon examination of Greene and other two Witnesses formerly sworn and of the two Thomas Boyers Master and Servant forementioned some effectual course might have been taken to prevent such Bloody Designs of the Papists as were then on foot and suppress the growth of Popery for the future and so thereby to avoid the danger of such Plots Tumults and Massacres for the Ages to come from which otherwise these Kingdoms can never be secured as is now most manifest N. B. This Captain Thomas Boyer hath since taken the Oath of Allegiance c. Albeit the Prorogation of the Parliament which followed shortly after did render this first Attempt of the Doctors producing this Plot into that High Court and Propositions for Suppressing Popery ineffectual at that time yet it much encouraged him in his Proceedings in the next Discovery which he made shortly after in the latter end of Iuly 1678. by Mr Oats's Papers and relation of the same Universal Massacre in that he had given some Light of it to the House of Commons before and had some Evidence of the general Design by the Testimony of Greene and others whom he hoped to produce in Parliament if he could by any means bring Mr. Oats's Papers into that High Court and caused his Oath to be taken by Sir Edmund bury Godfrey for that purpose in three several Depositions one of 73 Articles September 6th and two of 81 Articles September 28. 1678. that in Case he had failed of Success in the Privy Council he might have one Copy at least to produce in Parliament In the latter eny of December 1678. Richard Greene after he had been examined before the Secret Committee of the House of Commons was ordered to go before Sir William Scroggs the Lord Chief Justice and make Affidavit of the Truth of his Information the Tuesday following that the Persons Concerned and the other Witnesses might be sent for but the Parliament was Prorogued on the Munday the day before that Tuesday appointed for his appearing before the Lord Chief Justice so that this purpose was defeated and he remains yet either not fully examined or not sworn to his information and particularly not to the point of the Universal Massacre intended by the Papists in the long recess of Parliament in the Summer 1676. That Dr. Tonge hath not beenable as yet to procure a Copy of the Affidavits or Examinations of Richard Greene Robert Woodhouse and the other Witnesses taken in Herefordshire before the Lord Shandoes nor the Transcript of them sent up to the Privy Council as he desired and intreated the assistance of the Committe therein for the greater certainty of his Narrative of this Discovery and the Confirmation of the Evidence and the refutation of the Scandals raised against both him and it Against him as a Contriver or Inventer of this Plot and its Discovery to King and Parliament and the Plot as his Malitious Invention Richard Greenes Depositions Put into the Secret Committee of the Honorable the House of Commons by Dr. Tonge in May 1679. RIchard Greene late of Dilwin in the County of Hereford Weaver maketh Oath that he received the relation of the following Particulars of the several Massacres designed by the Papists against his Majesties Protestant Subjects from the mouth of Captain Thomas Boyer of Luntlow in the Parish aforesaid and he verily believes the said Relation to be True I. That in Case his Majesty had dyed of the Swooning Fit he had in the latter end of the year 1675. the Papists had then risen in Arms and overturned all the Foundations of the Government with such an Earthquake as hath not been in England this Hundred Years II. That albeit the King recovered of that which was his Third Fit contrary to the Proverb yet they hoped to be ready by the latter end of Summer 1676. for their Design III. That if they could not then fully accomplish their Design yet at farthest before the next Session of Parliament then Prorogued for 16 or 17 Months they hoped to effect it IV. That in this Design all the Papists at Home and Abroad were engaged and especially the French and expected no assistance from any other Separate Party V. That no Protestants Presbyters Independants c. were to be spared VI. That Thomas Boyer aforesaid was to raise a Troop of Horse for this Design VII That this Deponent was to be at first examined at Hereford Assizes with other Witnesses where Iustice Wild put off the Tryal And only bound the Person aforementioned viz. Boyer to his Good Behaviour 1676. and secondly before the House of Commons in June 1678. who shortly after his Petition delivered into the Grand Committee of the House For Suppressing Popery was Prorogued Thirdly before the Lord Chief Iustice Scroggs by Order of the Secret Committee the last Sessions of Parliament who immediately thereupon was first Prorogued and then Dissolved VIII That he was never yet examined upon Oath since though he attended the Secret Committee several times Richard Greene. Juravit coram me Iohn Hoskyns Master of Chancery May the 12th 1679. Advertisements DOctor Tonge doth hereby disown whatever Books or Papers have hitherto been Printed or Published in his Name as Composed by him or seen and allowed by him to be Printed or Published or shall hereafter unless attested under his Hand as revised by him from the Press exept some Translations out of French Courteous Reader There are in the Press and will shortly be published An Abridgment of Controversies being a brief and solid Confutation of Popish Errors by express Texts out of the Bible of their own Translation Also the History of the Turkish Affassins and a Parallel of the them with the Popish and other Papers of that Subject the former long since translated and both now published by Dr. Tonge Be pleased to take notice also of that excellent Treatise intituled The Hearts Sovereign long since published at the Charge of the Author Mr. Tho. Jones late Houshold Chaplain to his Highness the D. of York in which Family he so vigorously opposed the Favorers and Connivers at the Growth of POPERY of which he is able if called to give a good Account That for that cause he was removed from that Place to make way for them to pervert his Highness's family and since hath been by their Contrivance ruined in his Estate and Reputation as he hopes to make appear if admitted to Audience Errata For 1674 5 read 1675 6. FINIS