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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

a Bloody Dispute which is very much feared by many will be except the Succession of the Crown be settled after which Boyer told me that the Crown after the Death of his Majesty doth absolutely belong to the Duke of York Green asked him How could that be being that the King hath a Son which is the Duke of Monmouth whom all the Protestants which I have heard speak thereof do declare to be his Fathers lawful Heir Boyer told me that is not nor cannot be Green wished him to take heed what he said for the Duke of Monmouth is Legitimate for Mr. Benge of Pembridge told me that a very honest Gentleman told him that a Bishop told him he married his Majesty to the Duke of Monmouths Mother Boyer said I do not say the Duke of Monmouth is a Bastard but the Objection is that the King was not married to his Mother with the Consent of the Parliament Green told him that their Objection I supposed would signify little or nothing for if there be a difference between the Duke of York and the Duke of Monmouth and the Parliament do not settle it I believe that all the Protestants in England will adventure their Blood before the Duke of Monmouth shall lose his Birthright and we lose the liberty of our Religion too and Boyer answered And we will adventure all our Lives and Fortunes in the behalf of the Duke of York and for the Interest of our Religion Green asked him what can you do for you be nothing to us said Boyer Do not you think so for although we be but thin here yet there be many in other places and powerful persons too I will raise a Company said Green of what Boyer said of Horse Green asked him how many his Company should be Boyer said an Hundred Green said unto him by that time you have bought an Hundred Horses and armed an Hundred men I suppose you will make a great breach in your Estate then Boyer turned himsel● to me and said I believe I can Raise and Arm Threescore well and do my self no harm what thin● you but said Green where is your Commission said Boyer I am now gotten into the acquaintance of them by whose assistance I can obtain a Commission from the Duke of York assoon as another can and this Discourse was ended in a Meadow called the Mill Meadow with his Face towards a Style between that and a piece of Ground called the Low Furlong at the West end of Luntlow● Mill Garden presently after the long Prorogation of Parliament for 15 months or more N. B. This agrees well with Mr. Ienisons Relation of a Commission promised him And shews by the Proportion this Captain out of a small Estate proposed to raise what Numbers they would have had to Cut our Throats had not God prevented their Design of Assassinating his Majesty the Signal of this Massacre And here it may be noted by what false sly and pernicious Suggestions and Insinuations the Jesuits sow the Seeds of Sedition and Rebellion in the Minds of simple and well meaning Persons of all Degrees as here in the present Case pretending and raising false Titles to the Crown and thereby dividing the Loyal Subjects thereof into bloody feuds and resolutions which practices are dangerous to the Kingdom of England above all others whose People as may be seen in the Example of this Informant a poor Weaver from the Yeoman to the meanest Mechanick are all sensible of and concerned for the publick Affairs and therefore are as a Wise Gentleman long since observe the only Kingdom of Gentry in the World without mixture of Slaves all Intelligent of and touched as Gentlemen in other Countries with and ready to assist with their Persons and Estates in all publick Extremities Sir Rowland Stanly about two years since about Lady day 1677. held a like Discourse concerning the Duke of York and Monmouth with Mr. Becket by which it appears this pretence of their Massacre was universally laid how little soever it may be believed or considered by some concerned to lull us asleep Some Particulars omitted in the foregoing Relation of Greens Discourse with Boyer Numb II. BOYER told Greene that it would be the latter end of next Summer before they should effect their Design Then Green asked Boyer why it should be delayed so long seeing you were ready to execute the same immediately upon the receipt of your Intelligence to which he answered That if that Advantage or Opportunity had fell or happened into our hands we would have made the best Advantage we could have done of the Kings Death but by that time we shall be in a sufficient Order to effect our Design * Which was the Kings being dispatched or killed by the Papists for Mr. Dugdale saith in the Tryal of Whitebread Harcourt and the rest that two years before the said Tryal which was about the time of these Discourses of Green and Boyer he heard it Discoursed for the first time in the little Parlour at my Lord Astons House and at Mr. Ewers Chamber by Mr. Ewers and Mr. Gavan who were the first that broke the matter to him that the King was to be kill'd that he saw a Letter under Whitebreads own Hand enclosed in one from Groves to Mr. Ewers wherein he gave Mr. Ewers a Caution to be sure to chuse those who were Trusty Hardy and Desperate c. to kill the King That there were several Consultations at Mr. Ewers Chamber at Boscobell and several other places for Conspiring the Kings Death That at one of these Consultations held at Tixall about the 21 of September 1678 were present Mr. Gavan Mr. Ewers Mr Peters Mr. Lewson my Lord Stafford and others That he was chosen as a fit Person to kill the King entertained by my Lord Stafford and Mr. Ewers for this purpose and to be sent for this purpose to London to be under the tuition of Mr. Parsons that he saw Mr. Turner when he was going to his Brother Turner in Nottinghamshire with Mr. Ewers Mr. Lewson and others and they did consult and agree there in his hearing about Conspiring the Death of the King Introducing Popery c. That he saw and received several Packets of Letters from several Persons beyond Seas which were by Mr. Harcourts Instruction and communicated by Grove to Mr. Ewers which Letters did contain matters in them for the Introducing of Popery and Killing and Destroying the King He likewise intercepted and read a Hundred Letters given under Mr. Harcourts own Hand to the same purpose That Mr. Gavan used several Arguments to prove the Lawfulness of and shewed him several Examples for King-killing Nay for the killing of any to Introduce their own Religion he endeavoured to prove it by Scripture the Text Mr. Dugdale could not call to mind but it was to shew how it was lawful and good to destroy any for the advantage of their Religion shewing the Example of Father Garnet how by

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 of it Greenes Relation delivered to Dr. Tonge about the 20th of June 1678. as he had Written it long before with his own hand for his own better remembrance the Original whereof the Doctor keeps for his own Justification and will produce when he shall be required Sunday the 23. of January 1674 5. I Greene coming from Dilwins Church on the Lords Day being the 23d of Ian. last with Thomas Boyer Servant and Kinsman to Mr. Thomas Boyer of Luntlow in the Parish of Dilwin had a Discourse as followeth said Thomas Boyer Mr. Iohnson doth take a great deal of pains to Preach against the Papists but they care little for it Said Green because they come not to hear him and said Boyer No nor never will come now Green I wish that the Lord would be pleased to open their Ears and Hearts to hear and know the ●ruth Boyer I could wish so too said he but it is to no purpose now for they be further off now ●●an ever they were Then Green said you have been amongst them lately what did you hear from ●●em Bowyer said they be Devilish high higher than ever they were I pr●y God grant they ●●y never have their Wills they make account it will All be their own Note he was lately returned from Staffordshire with his Master Captain Boyer Thomas Boyer of Luntlow in the Parish of Dilwin Gentleman Papist Convict lately returned ●●om a Journey into Staffordshire meeting him the said Richard Greene accidentally in the Fields ●…ed him What Newes to which he replyed that he had heard of an Earthquake ●…te It appears though Green hath not named the particular day wherein he had his ●onference with this Boyer that it was betwixt Sunday the 23d and Saturday the 29th of January 1674 5. and that Captain Boyer made the like Discourse whereof his mind was very full the very same day to Mr. Robert Woodhouse another of the Witnesses mentioned in the following Relation as they rode together to Mr. Woodhouses House vide infra ●…d that at London the Foundations of several Houses were sunk by it and worse news then all that ●hat the King was dead and that it was a Week before the News of the King was contradicted to ●hich the said Boyer replyed That the said Earthquake was generally all over England but no ●ouses sunk at London and that the News was there where he Travelled That the King was dead but 〈◊〉 continued not above 24 hours that if it had continued 48 uncontradicted the News of his recovery ●…d come too late for had it the News of his Death continued it would have been an Earthquake Note That Mr. Dugdale in the Tryal of Whitebread Harcourt Gavan and the rest saith that if the Kings Death should happen they should have been ready to give the first allarm in the Country and that a Letter was sent into the Country to shew it was the Opinion of them at Paris and St. Omers to give out that it was in Case the King had been kill'd still those King killing Presbyterians that had done the Fact thereby to bring the Protestants over to their side to revenge themselves of the Presbyterians and cut them off that they might more easily deal with the Protestants themselves and cut them off likewise afterwards and this shews both what overturning Earthquake Boyer spoke of ●…ed such an Earthquake as had not been in England this Hundred years it had not only shaken 〈◊〉 overturned the very Foundations Whereupon Green said you have good Intelligence to hear that News and to have it contradicte● in 24 hours Boyer answered the best Intelligence in England * This agrees with Dugdales Deposition that they had three times a Week constantly and sometimes by Expresses Letters from London He the said Boyer also said that this was the third Fit of an Apoplexy or Trance that the King had had To which when Gree● replyed that God be praised the Proverb was not fulfilled on hi● Majesty which is If a man have two shrewd Turns let him beware of the Third Boyer said its true he hath escaped the third but let England beware of the nex● said Boyer See some particulars here omitted below Numb 5. and Marginal Notes there inserted of their Design upon the Kings Death set out by Dugdale Memorandum This was the effect of Greens Depositions put in with his Petition into the gran● Committee of the House of Commons Iune 78. then assembled for suppressing Popery 3. Green says In the latter end of the same Week the said Thomas Bowyer Servant and Kinsman t● Captain Boyer cometh into my Shop it being after I had discoursed with his Master and then after some Friendly greeting had passed between us I the said Green said Cousin Thomas for Green was his Kinsman what were the Papists whilst you wen● V●z about the 29 of January 1674 5. amongst them ready to get up on Horse back to cut our Throats sai● Boyer I sure enough it seems so said Green for had not their News been quickly contradicted of his Majesties being dead they were ready to mount said Boyer Who told you said Green you are very close but I have had some Discourse with your Master since you came home said Boyer did he tell you so I 'le tell you nothing they be a Bloody sort of People God bless us out of their hands and so Boyer departed with that Prayer in his month Note That by these Words compared with other passages in this Relation Richard Greene wrote this Paper within a twelve month after his aforesaid talk with Captain Boyer viz. before February 1675 6. Upon chance within the space of one year since I met with Mr. Boyer walking along his Grounds and after we had greeted each other according to the time of the Day Boyer asked me What News Green told him I heard not any I pray what have you heard Boyer answered I hav● heard none but that the Parliament is adjourned Green asked him What they had done Boyer told me nothing at all but they were about to make a most unreasonable Act Green asked him what it was Boyer told him it was that which he had told me of which was to settle the Inheritanc● of the Crown upon a Protestant Successor Green asked him if the Parliament would have made such an Act I pray you what did hinder them and Boyer told me that all the Parliament were not so enclined but only a factious party of them in hatred towards the Duke of York because he is a Papist Green told him that I wished the Succession of the Crown might be settled whilst his Majesty doth live to prevent