Newbury, Oct. ye 26.
Cousin Rebecca gone to Boston, and not expected
home until next Week. The House seems lonelie
without her. R. Pike looked in upon us this morning,
telling us that there was a rumor in Boston, brought by
way of the New York Colony, that a great Papist Plot
had been discovered in England, and that it did cause
much alarm in London, and thereabout. R. Pike saith
he doubts not the Papists doe plott, it being the custom
of their Jesuits soe to doe; but that nevertheless, it
would be no strange thing if it should be found that the
Bishops and the Government did set this rumor a-going,
for the excuse and occasion of some new Persecutions
of Independents and godly people.
