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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70144	The popish massacre as it was discovered to the honorable House of Commons, sitting in a grand committee for the suppression of popery, in the month of June 1678 at the time of the Parliaments prorogation / by Richard Greene ; or, the IV part of the present Popish Plot, farther discovered and demonstrated ; being part of Dr. Tonges collections on that subject, published for his vindication ; whereby it may appear, who were the inventers, and contrivers of this plot, and who the movers of the first discoveries of it, in which he is still a great sufferer and no plotter.	Greene, Richard, 17th cent.; Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680. Jesuits assassins. Part 4. Selections.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1827; ESTC R21002	19,098	14

Preached a Sermon to that effect And not knowing what kind of Pastor you might have after my Death whether a Protestant Pastor not well verst in such matters or a Popish Pastor wholly Devoted to them I resolved at my Decease to leave you these Sermons as a Legacy c. 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. 1. 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 Truth Boyer I could wish so too said he but it is to no purpose now for they be further off now than ever they were Then Green said you have been amongst them lately what did you hear from them Bowyer said they be Devilish high higher than ever they were I pray God grant they may 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 2. Thomas Boyer of Luntlow in the Parish of Dilwin Gentleman Papist Convict lately returned from a Journey into Staffordshire meeting him the said Richard Greene accidentally in the Fields asked him What Newes to which he replyed that he had heard of an Earthquake and that at London the Foundations of several Houses were sunk by it and worse news then all that That the King was dead and that it was a Week before the News of the King was contradicted to which the said Boyer replyed That the said Earthquake was generally all over England but no Houses sunk at London and that the News was there where he Travelled That the King was dead but it continued not above 24 hours that if it had continued 48 uncontradicted the News of his recovery had come too late for had it the News of his Death continued it would have been an Earthquake indeed such an Earthquake as had not been in England this Hundred years it had not only shaken but overturned the very Foundations Whereupon Green said you have good Intelligence to hear that News and to have it contradicted in 24 hours Boyer answered the best Intelligence in England 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 Green replyed that God be praised the Proverb was not fulfilled on hic 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 next 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 grand 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 to 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 were amongst them ready to get up on Horse back to cut our Throats said 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 mouth 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 have 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 Inheritance 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 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