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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

that the Depositions taken before the said Justices are not so full as these Informations in several particulars Judge Wilde who went that Circuit at that Assizes never suffered any Witnesses to be produced or examined against Captain Boyer as is said but only said he had read the Affidavits and ordered him to be bound to his Good Behaviour Let it be examined by whose Order or Advice he suppressed the evidence of so horrid a Massacre its probable some of them in question did contrive thus to Suppress this Discovery their Names also who bespoke the other Cases of Holsters should be inquired as probably Conscious and agents in this Suppression That by this means Greenes Evidence being Suppressed the Discovery which he designed upon his Oath to make in the face of the County of a general Massacre of all Protestants of what Profession soever and that universally over all the Kingdom to be made by the Papists Armed and Conspired together in that Plot was Concealed in a great part and the Papists thereby encouraged to go on ever since more confidently and fiercely in their Plot both against the Kings Life whose Death was their Signal and against all his Protestant Subjects that were to be Massacred thereupon as far as the Papists Swords could reach and those whom the Massacre reach 't not weakned thereby were to be pursued and cut off by War and Foreign Assistance under the Duke of Yorks Authority In Iune 1678. about the 20th day a little before the Parliament was Prorogued Dr. Tonge attending on the Parliament with some Propositions for suppressing of Popery and relief of the Poor happened accidentally into the Company of Richard Greene with whom he entred some Discourse about promoting the Linnen Manufacture and his the Doctors employing so many poor Women to Spin as might find the said Greene constant Work but found he had sold his Loomes and fled his Country for fear of the Papists That upon this occasion Greene related the whole Plot unto Dr. Tonge and his Sufferings occasioned by the discovery thereof and the accidental manner of his being brought for an Evidence against his kind Kinsman and Landlord and great confident by Mr. Woodhouse Then out of Compassion to the said Greene and for encouragement of the like Discoverers and Discoveries for the future Dr. Tonge advised the said Greene to complain to the Parliament then sitting in a grand Committee for suppressing of Popery drew him a Petition and Articles out of his the said Greenes own information and directed him how to deliver it and least by any accident he might miscarry wrote a note for him to the Door keeper to call out some worthy member to receive his Petition and followed him himself to the House and saw his Papers delivered into Sir Trevor Williams hand and heard they were read in the Grand Committee Richard Greenes Petition To the Honourable the Committe for suppressing of POPERY The Humble Petition of Richard Greene late of Biton in the County of Hereford his Native Country and thence terrifyed and forced by Malicious Suits and Terrours by Thomas Boyer Gent. Papist Convict and his Accomplices Most Humbly Sheweth THAT your Petitioner being a poor Weaver held a House and Land of Thomas Boyer of Dilwins in the County aforesaid Papist Convict for several years paid him his Rent constantly had never any difference with him till about Whitsuntide 1676. at which time your Petitioner with several others was examined upon Reports spread in those parts of Change of Government expected and Insurrections to be made thereupon by the Papists That after such time as your Petitioner had made Oath of the particulars upon which he was examined for his Majestie contained in a Paper hereunto annexed whereupon the said Boyer was committed to Prison and was discharged he the said Boyer after caused your said Petitioner to be causelessly Arrested at the Suit of him the said Boyer demanding only by persons sent to him during his Imprisonment Submission and Acknowledgement that your Petitioner had done him wrong in his said Deposition without which he should be kept in Prison and have no discharge notwithstanding your Petitioner did tender common Bayle which as your Petitioner was advised was all the Law did require and your Petitioner was accordingly detained in Prison about a fortnight till he could procure a Supersedeas from the Sheriff who was then in London to his great expence and loss of his whole subsistence for himself and Family depending on his Labour and Trade That the said Boyer having given out that he would Arrest your Petitioner again as he was credibly informed which would have been his utter Ruine and refused 16 shillings Rent tendred as soon as Due he was forced to sell off the necessary Looms and other Tooles and Instruments of his Trade to discharge his Debts contracted by his Imprisonment and to fly his Native Country to which he still is in fear to return for Reasons hereunto annexed Humply Prayes That your Honours would according to your Wisdom provide and apply such relief for your oppressed Petitioner and Satisfastion for his unjust Imprisonment and Ruine of his Family as may stand with Iustice and Honour of Parliament that your Petitioner and other his Majesties faithful Subjects may not be deterred from Testifying their Knowledge on behalf of his Majesty when they are thereunto required nor to bayl assist and relieve one another when Malitiously prosecuted by Papists as in your Petitoners Case And your Petitioner shall Pray c. The effect of Richard Greenes Depositions against Thomas Boyer may be seen above in the second Paragraph of this Relation which he put into the Committee with his Petition and these Articles The means by which Richard Greene hath been forced and terrifyed out of his Country by Thomas Boyer Papist Convict and his accomplices annexed to and put into Parliament with his Petition 1. HE arrested the said Greene without Cause and detained him in Prison refusing Legal Bayl till he had got a Supersedeas 2. He terrified the special Bayl he had procured by his Agents that he shrunk from him though he knew him Innocent 3. He terrifyed all his Neighbours so that when he was to pay 16 s. his last Rent due to Boyer for a Tenement and Land he held of him none durst tender it for him nor Witness it and Boyer himself refused to take it when he tender'd it before Witness that he might terrify him with pretence of a Suit 4. He had so frighted the Neighbours that none would help him Reap his Crop of Rye nor carry it for him and was forced to get Strangers to do it that when he had brought a Team to carry his Grain a Threatning Message was sent to him that carryed it that by those means being in a very destitute condition and in fear of his life or some other mischief to befal him he hath been compelled ever since to Wander from Place to Place like a Banished