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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47918	The shammer shamm'd, in a plain discovery under young Tong's own hand, of a designe to trepann L'Estrange into a pretended subornation against the Popish plot by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1306; ESTC R13119	26,243	43

THE Shammer Shamm'd In a Plain DISCOVERY Under Young TONG' 's Own Hand OF A Designe to Trepann L'ESTRANGE Into a Pretended Subornation against the POPISH PLOT By Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome at the Signe of the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard 1681. The Shammer Shamm'd c. IT is no new thing for L'Estrange to be Baited by the Mercenary Agents of a Seditious and Schismaticall Faction and 't is hard to say whether the Scurrilous Libells or the Obscure Authors of them be the more Contemptible But yet this is a Case wherein I cannot either with Honour Safety or with Good Discretion be Silent In short There is a Knot of Little Fellows but under the Government of better Heads that are now at work to Revive the Old Story of my Tampering with Young Tonge to Invalidate Oates's Evidence and Severall Lies and Scandalls are Printed in favour of that Imposture My Purpose in these Papers is in the first place to lay open the Notorious Falshood and Malice of this Practice And 2 ly to prove that very Design which is charg'd VPON me to be managed AGAINST me It will not be amiss to Enform the Reader by the way that in October 1680. Upon two full hearings before his Majesty and Councell in despight of all that Oates could say and Tong Swear against me I had the Honour to be twice acquitted by the Unanimous Judgment of the whole Board The Particulars of which Proceedings may be seen in a Dialogue under the Title of L'Estranges Case c. which I caused to be Publish'd upon that occasion I shall now as briefly as I can set forth how the same Calumny comes to be started again On the Third of January last past The Loyall Protestant-News-Paper had this following Passage in it concerning Tong but mistaking Samuel for Simson Whereas Mr. Samuel Tonge Son to Dr. Tonge deceased has formerly Sworn That his own Father was the Chief Contriver of the Popish Plot Discovered by a Man who then went under the name of Dr. O Now the Religious good party seemed at that time to be much dissatisfied that an Intrigue so well layed and so effectually managed tho never so ill Contrived should be thus miscarried and then fell upon young Tonge and declared that he was an ill Man for offering to charge his Father with such horrid Crimes after so many Men suffered upon the account of the said Plot and though that it were but a Contrivance of his Father and Dr. O so call'd then that it was an advancement to all Protestant Dissenters in England Ireland and Scotland and used many moderate Reasons with the said Tonge that at last Mr. Tonge Complyed with the Request and Prayer of the good party and when he was sent for again to come before the King and Council utterly Denying all that he had sworn before but since being touched with Remorse of conscience offers to justifie what he had Sworn unto by his own Testimony alone but by such Papers circumstances and witnesses as he is now able to produce without hopes of favour or Reward but as a penitent Sinner that expects mercy from God Almighty Young Tong was so hot upon this Publication that the very next day he directed a Paper to Mr Thompson by way of an Advertisement under his own hand in Confirmation of what was there publish'd though it was not Notified by Thompson till Jan. 19. and in the words following Mr Thompson I have read your Intelligence of the Third of this Instant and do acknowledge that all you write concerning Me is very True and I will Justify it to my death and I do believe that the Great Poverty and Misery that I lye under is fallen on me by the Just Judgment of God because I was Seduced by the Enticements of my Uncle and Others to deny the Truth but you mistake my name for I am not Samuel but Simson Tonge He speaks Truth as to his Miserable Condition for there was not a Poorer Creature in the Prison and Cutting of Pegs for shooes and working hard too for Three-half-pence a day was the best part of his Entertainment It was Thompson's Paper of Jan. 3. that gave the Alarum and stir'd up the Charity of some of the Well-affected Brethren to hearken a little after him He was taken one day out of the Prison as he said by a Printer and at his Return talk'd of something to be Publish'd toward the Middle of the next Week concerning L'Estrange This Visit put him presently into Cloaths and Money in his Pocket by a Providence which must be left to Time and Further Scrutiny to Un-riddle Upon Thomson's First Publication of Jan. 3. Out comes the Buffoon-Courant of Jan. 6. with these words in 't Has not this very Young Tonge set forth at large how he was at first trepann'd so suggest that Story against his Father in a Book Printed by Mr C in the New Exchange but for I know not what Reasons stifled and never suffer'd to be Publish'd Has not this Young Tonge a hundred and a hundred times with tears in his Eyes bewayl'd and repented of that Unnaturall Villany Nay but a fortnight ago he Voluntarily declar'd that the Sense thereof lay so heavy upon him that if ever he got out of Prison where he was like to starve and had scarce Cloaths to cover his Nakedness he would forthwith Transport himself to the West-Indies for his shame for that False and Wicked Accusation was so great that he should not be able to walk in the streets And is this Pittifull Fool Furbish'd up to make a New Attacque But on the Contrary What if this be only a Contrivance of the Popish Traytors and their Implement Nat What if herein he most in pudently abuses both Old Tonge and Young Tonge and the Publique Then no doubt his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell the Judges and all Inferiour Magistrates and every Protestant English-man will think it Necessary to Punish Exemplarily the Villain that in Print has Broach'd such a Horrid Scandall on the Honour Justice Prudence and Safety of the Nation Truly I do hope and wish with all my heart that the Government may and will proceed against all Cheats of this Kind with the most Severity Imaginable But how comes Care to know more of Tongs Doings then Tong does of his own for Every syllable which Thompson says of Tonge Tonge says of himself And the Question is not here whether it be True or False but whether or no Tonge sayd it The matter rested here till Jan. 19. Upon which day came forth Tong 's Advertisement in Justification of Thomson and Tong 's Pretended Vindication in Contradiction to that Advertisement 't was publish'd by Curtis and the Author of it may be as well known by his Paw as by his Face The Pacquet and the Vindication bearing all together the same Style and Design and in many Particulars the very same words So that the Courantier the