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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62928	The narrative and case of Simson Tonge, Gent. being a true account delivered upon oath before Mr. Justice Bridgeman, in the presence of Dr. Titus Oates, relating to Capt. Sam. Ely, Monsieur Choqueux, &c. and my self, who would have induced me to swear that my father and Dr. Oates, were the contrivers of the horrid Popish Plot, with other material passages omitted in the affidavit, together with some short reflections upon Mr. Le'estranges [sic] dialogue between Zekiel and Ephraim : humbly tendered to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons.	Tonge, Simson, b. 1656 or 7.	1681 (1681)	Wing T1884A; ESTC R16796	26,700	16

THE NARRATIVE AND CASE OF Simson Tonge Gent. BEING A true Account delivered upon Oath before Mr. Justice Bridgeman in the presence of Dr. Titus Oates relating to Capt. Sam. Ely Monsieur Choqueux c. and my self who would have induced me to swear that my Father and Dr. Oates were the Contrivers of the Horrid Popish Plot with other material Passages omitted in the Affidavit together with some short Reflections upon Mr. Le'estranges Dialogue between ZEKIEL and EPHRAIM HUMBLY Tendered to the Consideration of the Honorable House of Commons Published for the Satisfaction of all True Protestants LONDON Printed for c. W. 1681. To the Candid READER BEing ordered to come to my Tryal this last Term but finding it to be deferred for some longer time is the reason why I have publisht my Case being informed that some of those Persons with whom I was concerned are gone particularly Mr. L'estrange and likewise that Captain Ely has absented himself who is one of the principal Abettors in my Business and therefore is particularly mentioned with me in the Information which is Fil'd against me on the Crown Side An other Reason which induced me to Print my Case is that though very few do understand it yet every one thinks himself a competent Judge and with a clamorous Noise common to the Rabble especially exclaiming against me because my Father is concerned in this Affair which therefore in all Persons Opinions renders me the more contemptible I must lay my Hand on my Mouth and confess it is a thing very unnatural and contrary to the Laws of God and Nature which the very Heathens did abhor that a Son should seek to ruine his own Parent who gave him being Being a Crime of a very black and deformed Aspect but hearing that it is commonly reported that I should swear against my Father to take away his Life it is as False as God is True who ever was the Author of that lying Rumor and though my Information upon which I was committed to Newgate was drawn up in these Words For high Misdemeanours and indeavouring by false Accusations and Subornation of Perjury to defame the Kings Evidence and all the Prosecution of the Popish Plot Yet no such thing as Perjury can be proved against me as I hope will apparently appear by the perusal of these Sheets in the case of L'Estrange who would willingly have sworn me to the Objections I drew up against the Plot But I would not consent to it But the great Reason why I was prevailed upon to write those Objections was this that Ely having a very wheedling and cunning Tongue and finding me all along very tender of my Fathers Safety a Duty incumbent on all Children and when ever I mentioned him with many deep Oaths and solemn Asseverations assured me that my Father should not receive any the least Dammage by what I did and to use his own Expression which I have heard him more than once Repeat that a hair of his Head should not be hurt this was the Argument which ingulpht me in this Labyrinth and Pit of Trouble and though I do not desire to palliate my Crime yet I hope this Information will give some Satisfaction to all such Persons as have had no true account of it that as it is my great Trouble so it has been my Misfortune to fall into the Hands of wicked Persons who through their Delusions and Instigations did perswade me to ruine not only my self but that which is more deplorable likewise my innocent Relations and this according to their Logick under the specious Title of undeceiving the Kingdom as to the truth of the Plot and whilst that I am confin'd to a Prison which is a kind of a living Death I hope the Truth will be sought into that those who have been my Abettors will not be suffered to escape Unpunisht having made an ingenuous and full Confession desirous ever since I was first summon'd to appear before the Councel to discover the Truth whom I have here displayed in her naked Simplicity without the affectation of good Language or the flourishes of Rhetorick being likewise very conscientious in the Relation which I do not question will be very acceptable to all Persons who love upright and plain dealing and though an indelible Character may be branded on me for being so undutiful to my Father Yet I make no doubt that when my Case is weighed in the impartial Ballance of an unbiast Judgment though I do not expect to acquit my self from being culpable yet I say I do not dispair but those very Persons who have most accused me will pass more favourable Censures on my impious undertaking against the Kings Evidence and though I may be condemn'd for a great Villain yet withal they will commiserate my Condition for hark'ning to such evil Councellors for as that Wit is accounted best which is dear bought so it will make me more careful for the future to hearken to the like Advice who have sadly found that Maxime true Quae supra nos nihil ad nos for young men as they are too soon prevailed upon to act those things which often prove very prejudicial to them and their Friends for want of Judgment and through inadvertency being wholly unexperienced as to the things of this World so when they imbrace good Counsel and leave off those ways it merits Commendation for it is the pursuit of an evil Action which aggravates the Crime and renders it the more odious which Fault must be left to the Law to determine for where I am guilty as it will be to no purpose to make any Apology for my self so where I am innocent my own Conscience will acquit me from the malevolent Reproaches of evil Men. Da veniam subitis non displicuisse meretur Festinat Patriae qui placuisse suae Kings Bench December 13. 1681. L' Estranges Case coming to my Hands which he calls a civil Dialogue betwixt Zekil and Ephraim and finding several palpable Lyes in it which he endeavours to throw upon the World relating to my Business I thought I was bound in Conscience to vindicate my self and to satisfy the World by a publick and ingenuous Acknowledgment relating to those Persons with whom it has been my misfortune to be concern'd that when my Case is candidly laid down accordingly they will censure and that they will not pin their Faith upon the credibility of L'-Estranges Writings who though he may pass for a man of Wit and has slipt his Neck out of the Collar cannot boast much of his Honesty or Loyalty notwithstanding all his fine Flourishes in his Appeal and other Pamphlets for certainly if any Person make it his Business and Study to pick holes in the Kings Evidence these things are inconsistent with the Loyalty of his Soveraign and the good of the Protestant Religion of which with so many Oaths and solemn Imprecations he tells us he is a zealous Professor but now after all fearing to

be severely handled by the Hands of Justice he is fairly fled for 't which in his Appeal he calls the seeking of an other World where I shall leave him to that Beloved Repose which he tells us he has long desired being as weary of the World as Peevishness it self can be of him where I shall leave him be it where it will in his so much beloved Elizium and give you a true and impartial account of all the Transactions which have past betwixt Captain Ely Monsieur Choquveux c. and my self About the Month of May last my Father did remove out of the Lodgings which he had in Whitehal into the City and I then lodged with one Mr. King in Shandoys Street and being out of all Employment not knowing well how to spend my time having formerly lodged with one Mrs. Lane I frequently went to her House which was to my best remembrance about June or July last where the said Mrs. Lane did often ask me what news there was and what was become of the Popish Plot and she said that it was now apparent to all the World that the Plot was contrived by the Presbyterians that her Husband was wrongfully turned out of his Place and that her Son Lane in the Kings Bench was Fined and Pillory'd for speaking the Truth but she hoped to see that day when the Truth would be found out and that she should live to see Doctor Oates and Mr. Bedloe hanged for they had only been the disturbers of the Nation instead of being the Preservers of it with such like railing and impudent Discourse About the midst of June or July going about some Business to Westminster Hall I met old Mr. Lane who desired me to go to his House which I did and there entring into discourse with Mrs. Lane she told me amongst other Discourse which I cannot well remember that she had something to say to me which might make my Fortune for ever and that no Person was so fit to do what she should propose as my self I asked her what that was for having been for some considerable time out of all manner of Employment I should be very willing and ready to imbrace any honest way to get a Livelihood Then she replied Mr. Tonge if you will draw up some Objections against the Plot you need not fear sufficient Encouragement for I can procure several Persons that will stand by you and I know a particular Friend one Captain Ely which is a Person of very great Interest at Court who will introduce you to the speech of the King and because you may be tender of your Fathers welfare he being involved with Doctor Oates and likely to be mentioned with him in your Papers I will procure your Fathers Pardon by the means of Captain Ely for truly I did once look upon your Father to be a very honest Man but now I am of the contrary Opinion since I am told he is in his Writings so bitter against the Papists but notwithstanding I verily believe he was meerly drawn in by Doctor Oates so that your Father being innocent it will be very easie to get his Pardon upon which I repli'd I did not know any thing of the Plot Mrs. Lane answered that having written so many things for my Father I could not be so stupid but I could raise some Objections out of those Papers which if I would do she would give me what Assistance lay in her Power after which Discourse I went to my Lodging she having appointed me to come and see her again as soon as I could and then she would give me a farther Account of her Sentiments concerning that Business I came not near her House a good while after but her Husband having got knowledg of my Lodging came to me and said that his Wife had been several times to seek Captain Ely but could not find him but now she had found him out and that he promised to be at her House that Evening and desired me to go along with him which at his importuning of me I did and Mrs. Lane told me she had found out Captain Ely who was very glad and willing to embrace the Offer and had promised her to come which Ely did and calling for Drink fell into Discourse with me concerning my Condition and how I lived I told him my Condition was not very plentiful and he replied God help you and if I would take his Advice I might quickly raise my Fortune and said likewise come Mr. Tonge you are an ingenious young Man and I am perswaded you know a great deal of this Plot I mean as to the truth of it as for my own particular part at first I did believe this Plot and thought thus with my self when I heard that there was a Plot discovered to his Majesty God has been pleased to make these Persons very Instrumental for the good of these Kingdoms and therefore they ought to be encouraged and rewarded according to the Merit of such Services but when I did afterward seriously consider what the Persons were which pretended to discover it being most of them Persons of profligate Life I was then quite of an other mind and now I am so far from being of my former Opinion that I do no more believe the Plot that none being present but you and I in this Room any one should endeavour to perswade me that there are a thousand Persons in company with us and withal desired me according to Mrs. Lanes first request that I would draw up some Objections against the Plot. I told him I was Ignorant of any Transactions of the Plot only that my Father brought Doctor Oates into the Councel upon which Ely replied that was nothing to the Purpose all the World knew that but if I brought any thing which might stand as an Objection against the Plot it must be matter of Fact that must do the business and something of Falshood and Contrivance must be proved to have been betwixt my Father and Doctor Oates and that these must be the measures I must take to overthrow the Kings Evidence and was very importunate with me to draw up some such Papers and told me he would meet me again at the same place the next Day I having some Business at Westminster-Hall at my return called at Mrs. Lanes House expecting Elys coming but missing of him I went away in the Evening and having drawn up a Paper being very much troubled in my Mind I went to a Person whose Name I cannot remember but was by his Profession a Tallow-Chandler and was before the Councel the first time that I was Summoned to appear before the right Honourable Board I read that Paper to this Person who as soon as he had heard it told me Mr. Tonge this is a very dangerous Paper and may prove of ill Consequence to you and therefore as a Friend I would advise you to burn it and whoever those Persons are who have advised you