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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

he was sorry for it and would have acknowledg'd it sooner had he had Opportunity But that he was put on by his Uncle and Others to do what he did and desir'd the Bearer hereof to deliver the Letter together with the Contents above written All which he did of his own accord Decem. 30. 1681. In the Presence of c. The Petition that came in company with this Letter is Word for Word as follows Those Names only Excepted that are Inseparable from the Matter in Question For my Business is only to Expose the Falshood of this miserable Wretch without Involving others in the Consequences of his Calumnies To His Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Simson Tonge Prisoner in the King 's Bench. Sheweth THat after your Petitioner had Declared the Truth to your Majesty concerning the Contrivance of his Father and Mr. Titus Oates Your Petitioner being in great Want of Necessaries his Uncle Captain Tonge having sent for him was compelled to go to him for Relief and Captain Tonge made your Petitioner Drunk and then threatned and forced him to deny the Truth and to Sign a Paper which the said Captain Tonge had written your Petitioner not knowing what he did and afterwards when your Petitioner was committed to Newgate College came to him and by Threats and Promises forced your Petitioner to deny the Truth for the which your Petitioner hath been ever since under great trouble of Mind for his great Wickedness and Cowardize to deny the Truth But your Petitioner doth Protest in the Presence of Almighty God that it is very true that the Plot was Contrived by my Father and Titus Oates when he returned the second time beyond the Seas my Father and he writ much of it out of Houselife Queen Elizabeth That Word Houselife I could not make out and out of the Book writ by Hooper or Hocker that came from Rome and swore against CampJan and the other Jesuites as will appear both by the said Books and by my Father's Papers ' if your Majesty please to cause them to be searched into They first Writ at where the Plot was Written by Oates in Greek Letters and afterwards went to Fox-Hall and one of the Jesuites Letters is in my Father's Hand Wherefore your Petitioner doth most Humbly Pray and beseech Your Sacred Majesty to Pity the sad Condition of Your Petitioner and to Pardon his Great Crime of going from the Truth And to let him be brought to his Tryal and to have his Father's Papers deliver'd to him to make his Defence And Your Petitioner hopes to make what he hath Written so Clear that Your Majesty will think Him more fit for Your Pity than Your Anger And forgive the Great Wickedness of Your Petitioner for the which he is truly Penitent and will rather perish here in Prison than ever be Guilty of the like As he hath shewed to those that have been with him since his Great Poverty to pervert Him farther from the Truth but Your Petitioner would not Therefore Your Petitioner doth most Humbly Beseech Your Majesty to Pity the sad and miserable Condition of Your Petitioner and not to let him lie here and starve for want of Cloth and Bread And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray c. Simson Tonge This Petition made it as Clear as the Day that he was Entring anew upon the Old Haunt and that he lay upon the Catch for an Opportunity to do me a Good Turn So I thought it but reasonable to keep my self out of his Reach and return'd him for Answer this Following Letter Addressed For Mr. Simson Tonge c. Mr. Tonge YOurs of the 28 th Instant came Yesterday to my hand with the Draught of a Penitent Petition which you desire may be presented to His Majesty You must be more Particular and Clear before I presume to undertake the Office As for Instance 1. You say that you were prest by your Uncle first and afterward by College and Oates to Accuse me falsly But you say nothing what they would have had you to Accuse me of more than you did What means they us'd to bring you to 't whether there was any Money or Reward either given or promised By whom What or how much How or in what manner this was done If any thing of this kind Or if any man can prove This besides your self 2. That Captain Tonge made you Drunk and sign a Paper of his writing when you knew not what you did But you do not say either where what Liquor what quantity at what time who saw you together or afterwards saw you Drunk 3. That the Captain sent for you And that you were Compelled by your Necessities to go to him for Relief But you do not say how often he sent for you by whom to what place or places whether by word of mouth or by Letter Or if upon your going when sent for he made you Drunk at the same time who can prove his sending for you nor what Relief you had from him either in Money or otherwise Or what Promises what Conditions or what Discourses toward or concerning all this passed betwixt you 4. You say that your Uncle threatned and forc'd you to deny the Truth But you do not say what those Menaces were what Truth you were to deny what Arguments or Discourses he made use of to prevail upon you or if any Conditions were offer'd ye in case of your ComplJance 5. You say that College came to ye in Newgate and Threaten'd and Forc'd you also to deny the Truth But you say nothing to the Queries upon Num. 1. 6. You say the Plot was Contrived by your Father and Oates upon Oate's second Return from beyond the Seas and name some Books the Names of them you cannot make out upon the Subject of Queen Eliz. Out of which they have a good part of the Contrivance and refer to those Books for the Agreement of the Matter But you do not speak to Particulars what that Contrivance was how managed who privy or assistant to it Or what Discourses past upon it So that here 's no matter of Fact set forth Neither do I understand what Books you mean 7. You say that Oates wrote the Plot first at in Greek Characters and that afterward they went Both to Fox-Hall But you do not say why in Greek what became of the Copy what Discourse upon it what Assistants or Advisers what was done afterwards at Fox-Hall how they came to go thither 8. You say that One of the Jesuits Letters is in your Fathers hand But not which of them Nor in one word How you come to know all this Or who can speak to all these Particulars 9. You desire the Sight of your Father's Papers but say not in whose Custody they are You Protest the Truth of all you say as in the Presence of Almighty God And in the Name of that Almighty God I Adjure you and Entreat you to say nothing

now A Book under that Title was brought to me to Licence which upon the Perusal I refused to do and the Bookseller that brought it gave me to understand who was the Author of it and a Fair Hint in his very Countenance what might come on 't in case I would not Pass it Upon This for fear of After-Claps I went to Whitehall and discours'd the matter with Dr. Tonge himself in words to this Effect Doctor said I You must Excuse me if I dare not Licence your Book for there are Reflections in it upon the Com't Where you say That the Bed-Chamber men Pick the King's Pockets and not without a Mixture of Reproaches upon the King Himself Beside that you are mistaken in your Annals There 's matter of Fact misplac'd mis-tim'd and misapply'd and from thence we proceeded to a Reasoning upon some Passages in his Preface Doctor said I 'T is well that both you your self and Dr. Oates in those days a Dr. have so absolutely purg'd your selves to the World that there can be no longer any doubt of your Integrity for otherwise there are two or three Passages in your Preface that people would go near to stumble at As to the Business of the Bed-Chamber-men I 'le Justifie it says the Doctor and if there be any slips in the Story we can set them Right But what 's your Exception to the Preface So I told him that in Substance the Matter was thus You tell the World that you have with Great Care drawn up the History of the Old Popish Plot the business of Habernsfelt c. And that shewing it to Dr. Oates who very much approv'd of the Draught you told him Titus It were worth the while to know if this Plot does not go on still Go you and put your self among the Jesuits and enform your self whether it does or no. You say further That Dr. Oates did go among them pretending to be One of them and that when he came back he told you that the Business went on and that it was no New Plot but the Old One continued Well! says the Dr. All this is True and where 's the Offence So I told him that it might be look'd upon as a strange Councel either to Give or to Take The Advice Given is This Go you over Titus and pretend to be a Papist Take all their Oathes and Tests joyn with them in an Idolatrous Worship and swear your self to the Devil through Thick and Thin only to see whether it be Cross or Pile This seems to be the Advice Given And the following of this Advice upon Fore-thought and Consideration may be taken for a Resolution very Extraordinary The Doctor 's Answer was to this Purpose God Almighty will do his own Work by his own Ways and Methods I have been the more Punctual in this Relation to shew as well the Reasons why I would not Licence that Book in respect of my self as the Tenderness I had for the Credit of the Doctor and for the Common Cause by not consenting to Expose any thing to the Publick that might be liable either to a Censure or a Mistake He says further in his Narrative P. 1. That L'Estrange in his abusive Lying Dialogue makes Choqueux to speak of L'Estrange ' s refusing to Licence The Royal Martyr which Tonge took very ill at L'Estrange ' s hands but Choqueux knew nothing of it The Truth of these Things shall be made appear in their Proper Place And again in the same Page Mr. Choqueux saies he recommended me to L'Estrange as a Person very worthy of my acquaintance and told him I had drawn up several Papers as Objections against the Plot and he did presume I should be very glad of his Assistance therein L'Estrange told me he would to his power assist me what he could and asked me where my Papers were for he would gladly peruse them for he was enformed those Papers had very material things in them against the Plot. That he was a great admirer of all such things as he did not question he had demonstrated to the World by his Collections he had made concerning the Popish Plot where Dr. Oates was pleased to be silent and said that for his part he found the whole Plot was replenish'd with nothing else but Improbabilities and Ridiculous Absurdities c. And then Choqueux and L'Estrange discours'd concerning the late Wars c. Ibid. Take notice that Tonge had drawn up some Objections against the Plot and L'Estrange desired a sight of 'em and yet no Papers shew'd him nor any Answer return'd him to that Question but thereupon he went his way Now see forward Going out with L'Estrange sayes the Narrative Pag. 12. I ask'd him when I should wait upon him and if he had any writing I would transcribe any thing for him which he had to Print but he said he had no such business but that any Evening he should be glad to see me and Mr. Choqueux at his House in Holborn and went away from us Here 's Tonge pinning himself upon L'Estrange and L'Estrange shuffling him off as far as decently could be done in such a Case But see now how Tonge plies him yet with Importunities The next day after sayes he Ibid. Mr. Choqueux went to L'Estrange's House and told me he was newly gone out but he said to morrow in the Evening I should go along with him to L'Estrange You will see by and by that I went out of the way on purpose to avoid him and that Tonge wrote me a Letter next Morning desiring me in regard that he miss'd me last night to appoint him some other time for he had something to say to me whereupon I appointed him at seven that Evening And see how he proceeds Crawley sayes he Ibid. coming to the Savoy before we Choqueux and Tonge were gone went along with us whom I suppose L'Estrange had no acquaintance with But Crawley went thinking he might have something to say to him in relation to his Papers So soon as we came into the Room where L'Estrange was he desired Mr. Choqueux and Crawley to withdraw for he said it look'd too much like a Consultation who went out and expected my coming out into the street It is false that Choqueux and Crawley were desir'd to with draw but Mr. Crawley and a fourth person that came with them in Company were fairly hinted to withdraw because as I said it would look like a consult And they did withdraw but Choqueux stay'd a while after them Then being together sayes the Narrative Ibid. meaning Tonge and L'Estrange he asked me whether I had a Copy of that Enformation which was delivered to the King I told him I had not only some loose Papers relating to it but I could recite several Material Passages of it Then L'Estrange writ them down and asked me whether I had no more to say I told him I had not and said when he had more leisure and had all my Enformations