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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

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 then brought in the face of the whole County So 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

own advantage This was the man who disarmed his Master Boyer he was Baily and both Treated and Threatned Greene as is elsewhere said and would have forsworn the Fray between Mr. Robert Woodhouse and his Master c. Thus Greene. An Account or Narration of what Mr. Thomas Boyer Papist Convict declared to Mr. Robert Woodhouse of the Parish of Stanton upon Arrow in the County of Hereford in the Evening of that day January 74 5. being Pot-valiant on which he had fresh and fasting more at large declared himself in the morning to me Richard Greene as the aforesaid Mr. Woodhouse declared with his own mouth unto me MR. Boyer said Robin I will tell thee some News Woodhouse what is that Boyer there will be a great many Bloody Noses in England this Summer Woodhouse what will become of mine then Boyer thou art an honest Fellow there shall not one Hair of thy Head perish I will stand between thee and all harm Woodhouse what must I be under thy Protection art thou to be so much concerned in it Boyer I will raise a Troop of Horse for the Duke of York Mr. Woodhouse not complying with him nor yet giving him any Thanks for his proffer'd Protecting of him the said Boyer being riding along with and being something behind the said Woodhouse Boyer said God Damn me Robin look to thy self for I will run thee through the Back the said Woodhouse although he slighted his proffer'd Protection yet took notice of his danger and thereupon spurred his Mare which he did ride upon which received all the Wounds that was given in the Combatt upon the receipt of which she started with her Master out of danger and being out of the same he drew his Sword to defend himself and with as fair warning to his Old Friend and new Enemy he said Now Boyer look 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 〈◊〉 and Mr. Woodhouse in kindness did send one or more of his Servants with himself with a Lanthern 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

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 LONDON Printed by T. D. for John Smith Bookseller in Great Queen-street 1679. THE Publisher to the READER Courteous Reader WHilst Dr. Tonge finds many Lets and Discouragements to go through with the solid History of the Plot he hath been importuned by nothing more then his Charity towards this poor Witness to part with and permit and assist him to publish in Print these his Papers the Originals whereof received from him at several times are still in the Doctors Custody Written in his own Hand The Collections the Doctor prepared for the other 3 parts namely his Discoveries and Demonstrations of the Jesuites acting in this Plot as Assassines Regicides and Incendiaries are already in the Press on designs of like Charity and to the end that if he shall be still disenabled or disappointed in his publication of his intended History Posterity may have sufficient ground to believe publish to the World and relate to all Ages the Bloody Treacherous and Ungrateful practices of these restless beautefewes against the most Gracious Princes King James King Charles the Martyr and his Majesty that now lives an unparallell'd Miracle of Gods wonderful and merciful Providence and against the Churches and Kingdoms wherein they did or might have lived with as much liberty and less suspicion at least as some dissenting Protestants had they known any moderation If we find these have favourable entertainment we shall be encouraged to proceed to other parts which the Doctor hath provided as materials for his History and may with better satisfaction as we hope to the Publick be dispersed into many hands by the Press then concealed for his own use only in his private Papers And it is hoped that whilst the Doctor thus waves both his Credit and Profit with a greater respect to Charity and Publick Good it will not be expected that these things should appear in any other dress than that of their native simplicity Da veniam subitis non displicuisse meretur Festinat Patriae qui placuisse suae Pardon kind Readers what you can't commend This hast to please deserves not to offend To the Honourable the Committee of the House of Commons appointed for the Examinations of the Popish Conspiracies I Commend unto you this plain Relation of the first Discovery of the Popish plotted Conspiracy for subverting the Government and Religion and Massacring the People of the Kingdom of England and other his Majesties Dominions and the assassinating his Royal Person as I drew it up for my own satisfaction out of several pieces at several times and of the first Discoverers thereof according to the notices I have been able to procure of them and so far as they are willing to be known You will be pleased to excuse the rudeness and imperfection thereof it is one part of a large rough draught of the general Narrative which I have in hand and wherein I propose to my self to omit nothing that I conceive may by your Wisdom and diligence improved conduce to the clearing the simplicity sincerity integrity ingenuity candor or truth of the Witnesses produced or to be produced in this affair or for the discovery of any matter of fact or circumstance that may tend to the disclosing of this Conspiracy or any the Conspirators therein or any further evidence against them or refuting the Scandals Lyes Aequivocations Forgeries Briberies Subornations and Perjuries wherewith they so mightily impose upon Multitudes of People darken the clearest Evidences and contradict most manifestly the truest Narratives I know some minute Circumstances and passages and such as relate to some accidental occurrences by which these things were brought to Light which I have purposely inserted to refute some studied Cavils representing them as politick contrivances are lyable to exceptions and sinister interpretations of some concerned persons but those who are candid will find therein cause to give God all the Glory Who by the accidental Circumstances of undesigned uncontrived events discovers disciphers displays suddenly the long projected most craftily contrived deeply hid and vigorously prosecuted unjust machinations of wicked Politicians and Conspirators against his secret purposes By these next to nothing and many times meerly imaginary appearances jealousies and panick fears he rejoyceth to expose to contempt and render altogether ridiculous and ineffectual what in all humane appearance was wisely designed and strongly built and as he first made all things out of so he often shakes Heaven and Earth with things that do not appear whilst he chuseth not the mighty and wise of the World to confound such as themselves and frequently catcheth most subtle Machiavellian Politicians in the crafty Snares they have laid and the deadly Pits they have digg'd for others c. Not unto us not unto us but to thy Name be the Praise So let all thy Enimies Perish O God Amen The Right Reverend Father in God Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford had long since some notice of this Plot either from the Information or Depositions of Mr. Robert Woodhouse Richard Green and several others made about Whitsuntide 1676. at Hereford before Sir James Bridges now Lord Shandoes and other Justices of the Peace of the County of Hereford by Order of his Majesty upon a report spread in those parts of change of Government and insurrections of Papists which Examinations and Depositions were by the said Justices sent up to his Majestie and Captain Thomas Bowyer was committen to Prison upon them or else from other persons or by other means as his words following will shew taken out of his Epistle prefixed to his Legacy Printed Anno Domini 1678 and Dedicated or directed to his Diocess IT is now a year and half since viz. in the year 1676. I told you of my sad apprehensions of Popish Design to destroy both us and our Religion for though no particular discovery could then be made yet the discourse and actings of several Papists in these parts did plainly shew they were then preparing that which is now discover'd for they were then providing Horses and Arms they posted about Day and Night they threatned many That they must ere long Turn or Burn and some told their Friends That if it came to Cutting of Throats they should be saved which made it evident that not only they had some bloody design but also thought themselves sure to effect it Whereupon I besought you to Arm your selves against the day of Tryal 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 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 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. 16●8 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 Asfassins 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 Note It appears though Green hath not named the particular day wherein he had his conference 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 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 Prefbyterians 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 * This agrees with Dugdales Deposition that they had three times a Week constantly and sometimes by Expresses Letters from London Viz. about the 29 of January 1674 5. 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. * 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 sit 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 several of his Relicks beyond Sea great Miracles had been done And in the Tryal of Langhorne he saith he was in most of their Consultations for the Murder of the King that he heard the very words used was hired to be an Actor in it was to have a summ of Money and a place appointed him to do it and that the Persons who put him upon it was Mr. Ewers Gavan Lewson Vavasser who were all Iesuits The Sum promised by Lord Stafford and confessed by Lord Aston was 500 l. advance mony and farther Reward Preferment c. Note That Mr. Dugdale saith in Whitebreads Tryal that at some Consultations he heard speak of a Massacre that there was a Massacre intended and an Army to be raised that if any did escape the Massacre whom they could not be sure to be Papists they might be cut off by the said Army and in Langhorns Tryal he saith that Ewers Gavan Lewson and Vavasser did always speak of an Army that was to be raised but not actually till the King was kill'd That it was first concluded to raise an Army but the last resolutton was that no Armies should appear till the King was kill'd upon whose Death was to be the Massacre and then a pretty considerable Army to be raised which was to cut of those who escaped the Massacre Note That the Summer 1675. in which this Plot was designed to be executed and consequently the King to be killed was in the time of the 15 months Prorogation of the Parliament and Boyer said that was to be begun so that it might be fully executed before the time that the Parliament was to meet again * For Greene was Boyers Kinsman and had been very intimate with him till called to Witness against bim