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A Protestant plot no paradox, or, Phanaticks under that name plotting against the king and government proved first, from their principles, secondly, from their practices.
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Tonge, Thomas, d. 1662.
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afraid I will not speak any evil of them Magistracy is an Ordinance of God and the end of Magistracy is for the punishment of evil-doers and the praise of them that do well and for this purpose I do desire that the Lord will give to the supreme Magistrate here on earth wisdom and understanding a wise Council a Council fearing God and hating covetousness that they may study to exalt the Throne of the King in righteousness and truth O that we may all praise the Lord for deliverance out of condemnation and I say it is the duty of all the Subjects of the Kings Majesty in all his Kingdoms and Dominions to live peaceably and to pray for the Kings Majesty Prayers and intercessions ought to be made for all men especially for Kings and Governours for this very end and purpose that thereby we may live in all quietness godliness honesty and justice and to this very end the Lord bless our Magistracy give them Counsel and Wisdom that they may love them that love the Lord and hate them that hate the Lord. After Gibbs had done speaking then Stubbs began who went over all the particulars of his Tryal at large to which for brevities sake we refer you only saith he as followeth Friends and Country-men IT is true and I must confess my sin in the presence of God and did ask mercy of the King that I was in the company when I did hear wicked and Treasonable words spoken and I being ignorant and not knowing the Law did not discover what I did hear As to my Judgment truly I desire to own what the Scriptures own I shall speak of that place in the Hebrews which is the command of Christ I desire the Churches and people every one to live the life of Faith and love one another I am confident it would be a means of abundance of comfort here in the Nation there is a kind of heart-burning and rising one against another you are so and so throw dirt one against the other it is our and your duty still to be studying to live in love and bear with one another not be angry destroy and fight one with another O that we might live that life of love that God has commanded then we may expect the presence of God to be with us surely God hath a great Judgment against his own people for not loving one another Phillips Mr. Sheriff I Have only one word to speak before I go to my Prayers that is Here I see some Gentlemen present that are in the capacity that I was in as a Souldier I say be faithful to your trust and beg of God that you may stand fast and not dishonour God nor be disobedient to the King when the Fifth-monarchy-men were up I was free and willing to lay down my life for the interest of the Nation and did venture as much as any young man in London Therefore good friends have a care I am now brought to suffer it is true I was guilty of concealing it I desire your Prayers that now as we are going to the State of Eternity from whence there is no redemption I humbly beseech you as Christians and friends that you would seek earnestly to God that now he may receive our souls into everlasting rest and happiness which he has been pleased to bestow on them that love him and fear him and the Lord knows my heart I speak it in his presence that had the King been pleased to shew mercy to me I should have been a faithful and true Subject to him all my days but seeing it is the righteous hand of God that now I am come to this untimely death I desire you to lift up your Hearts and Souls to God with me that when my soul shall leave this body that the Lord Jesus Christ may with his everlasting arms receive me to glory There is no redemption after death we shall either go to eternal woe or eternal happiness therefore good friends I desire you to look up to God that when my Soul departs it may be received to glory Mr. Phillips his Prayer O Eternal Lord God thou that art the great Creator of Mankind and thou that formedst him in the womb hear thy poor and sinful creature now he is coming to make his last approaches to thy Throne O that thou wouldst be pleased to look down in mercy upon my Soul O Lord that thou wouldst be pleased now to take my soul and wash it and hath it in the blood of Jesus Christ who hath died and risen again for me O that now I could see the heavens opened and Jesus Christ ready to receive my soul Be pleased O Lord to look upon me in thy tender mercy and compassion and as thou hast said thou dost not delight in the death of a sinner therefore good Lord look down upon my poor soul and receive me into the everlasting mansions which Jesus Christ is gone before to prepare for all them that love thee O Lord we are now going I hope to an estate of happiness where we shall sin and sorrow no more but where we shall ever reign with Jesus Christ O Lord had we not some hopes had we not some sight of the Lord Jesus Christ made known to our souls we durst not appear before thee this day we durst not stand before thee in thy presence O that thou wouldest more and more manifest thy gracious presence with me that thou wouldest uphold me to take the bitter cup and drink it freely O Lord I desire to come unto thee I have been a great sinner before thee but Jesus Christ has died is risen and is now at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us And good Lord as thou hast commanded us to come unto thee and to believe in thee and hast said thou wilt in no wise cast off the soul that comes unto thee in confidence of that hope I desire to fix my soul upon thee before I go hence and be no more Bow down the heavens O Lord and hear the request of the poor soul before thee and I beseech thee for Christ his sake as thou wouldst forgive me so freely forgive all that have done evil against me Be pleased to let the Kings Majesty reign in righteousness and holiness put a spirit of power and might in his soul and let him see wherein the stability of his Crown lies in following Righteousness and Justice and Judgment and preserving of that Truth that is made known to him out of the book of the Lord. Come down Lord to his soul and let him see wherein is his hope and O that he may at last liâ—e and reign with Jesus Christ for evermore Good Lord look upon me I am coming unto thee these are my last words O that thou wouldest be pleased to receive us this day that we may dine with thee in Paradise make known thy everlasting kindness to my soul before I go hence
to Captain Fosters and saw you there Gibbs Did I tell you Mr. Riggs that my brother said Ludlow was in Town and there would be a rising shortly Riggs Mr. Hill Beasly Stubbs and I and you were together Mr. Thomas and your Brother came in your Brother Beasly Stubbs and Thomas were private in discourse when you came again to us we asked you what news you said before we came you knew not much but your Brother could tell but then you said Ludlow was in Town the Council was broke up and that Messengers were sent to give notice to the Countrey Gibbs I deny that ere my Brother said so Maynard Know you any thing of surprizing the Kings Council or Whitehall or any thing of that of altering the Government Tyler As for altering the Govenment that must needs be designed for Tonge said it was debated and thought convenient as being the desire of several in the Country that the old Parliament should be chosen again that was to say that so many of them that had approved themselves faithful from first to last to the Common-wealths interest especially in the times of Dissention Secondly that none should have power to elect or be elected but such also as have approved themselves faithful as aforesaid Thirdly this House was to be filled up within a Month. Fourthly that it should continue one year and no more Fifthly that they should not have power in things of an Ecclesiastical nature to impose any thing upon the Consciences of the people Sixthly that it should be High-Treason among them to assert the interest of a King house of Lords or single person Seventhly that they should not appoint any Salary-Officers Eighthly that while they keep to this it should be High-Treason to disturb them As touching Arms and things of that nature the truth is the business which was very much urged is this that there should be an uniting of all interests together Quakers Fifth monarchy men Anabaptists Independents Presbyterians and Levellers to which purpose every one was obliged at the Meeting to see what interest they could make among the Presbyters because they looked upon them as persons that had most money and strength I think there was no Presbyterian spoken of except one who is lately secured in the Tower he said that if so be Col. Beanes was at liberty he believed he could engage him There was one man that was there which was one Prior I suppose Tonge knew him he said he had very much acquaintance with the Presbyters knew many in the Countrey and that there they did not meet with any difficulties as here for all interests Quakers and Presbyterians and the rest are all agreed Sir Hen. Finch Very well you see Tonge was at all these Meetings at the Wheat-sheaf and Sheares and there were the Colonels proposed Did you hear of any Orders given out in any of these Consultations to make the rising in the Countrey at the same time as in London Tyler Mr. Gibbs's Brother told us that he kept a Correspondence in the Countrey that in Essex he knew there were divers Horse ready there and I my self spoke with one who is lately secured who said there were divers Horse ready thereabouts I remember there were several at the Half-moon at Bishops-gate one Smith a Northamptonshire man and one Elose of Chesterfield and Tonge and we heard that at Mansfield and Nottingham there was a rising intended and it was assured that the Countrey was very ripe and forward for action We were informed that there was 200 Horse at Bristol one person not yet secured did affirm to us that one Col. Templar in Essex had two or three thousand men ready his name was Thomas that Templar was now in Town if we would we might go and speak with him Said I surely he doth but tell you this saith he his Lieutenant Col. gave me this Information and assures me that this Colonel had converted his Estate into Money to pay his Souldiers Upon this having occasion to go down into Essex I promised Tonge I would enquire further there and understanding that one Thornback a Glover was one of Templars men formerly I went to his house and being not at home I rode to Holsted Fair and riding there the man pulled me by the Coat for he knew me saith he Mr. Tyler my servant said you were at my house to speak with me Yes said I I understand your name is Thornback that you can give me some account concerning Col. Templar we hear in London that he hath two or three thousand men in readiness I pray inform me saith he I do not believe any such matter I have served him long and if occasion were he would be for you I asked him the news saith he We all dread a Massacre we understand by a Letter from Ipswich that the Papists intend a Massacre of all Protestants about Alhallontide and that the Countrey was in great fear about it This Thomas the Coppersmith told us another story about some Roman-Catholicks in Southwark that had a purpose to rise and take off all Phanaticks After this the Court directed that Phillips's Examination should be shewed him at the Bar and he acknowledged his hand thereto and was read as followeth The Examination of George Phillips Serjeant and Bringer up to Col. Sir William Wale's Company of Trained-bands in the City of London taken this 29 of October 1662. before me Richard Brown Who saith THat he knoweth one Parson Riggs late Chaplain to Blake who is now Clerk to one Friend a Brewer in Cats-hole near the Iron-gate in St. Katherines which said Riggs told him this Examinant That there would be a rising of divers godly people in Arms for preservation of Religion about the time the Queen came to Town and that they intended to seize the Kings Person about Camberwell in his passage to see the Queen-mother at Greenwich but after the Queen was come to Town this Examinant asked the said Riggs why it was not done according to their intendment who replyed they were not then ready because the Congregational Churches and they were not fully agreed but now they were come to an agreement and the work would be done in a short time that all things were now near ready both in Countrey and City and that a Frigat or more would revolt from the King to them Not long after the said Riggs carried him the said Phillips to the house of one Tonge an old Army-Captain but now a seller of Tobacco and Strong-water in Tower-ditch where he heard Tonge say unto Riggs that he had been at Windsor-Castle and had made a Captain two Serjeants and a Gunner to be of their Party and that they had undertaken to deliver up the said Castle to that Party which were now to rise to which Riggs replyed You have done well And further said I am now going to surprize two Castles in Kent one of them as this Deponent remembreth was to be Deal-Castle and