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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

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