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<P>Popi&s;h Cruelties: Wherein may be &s;een that ROMISH TRAITORS Have now the &s;ame Murthering and Trea&s;onable Principles and Practices They had in Q. <HI>ELIZABETH</HI>'s Reign, Again&s;t the E&s;tabli&s;hed Governour and Government of the&s;e KINGDOMS.</P>
<P>And yet after Conviction, Evident Proof, free and frequent Con|fe&s;&s;ion of being Guilty; before, at, and after their Trial, yet at their Execution, to deceive the World and their own Con&s;ciences, they &s;eem <HI>as Innocent as the Child unborn.</HI></P>
<P>All which plainly appears in this exact Account of the Trial, Con|fe&s;&s;ion, Conviction, Condemnation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of Dr. <HI>W. P.</HI></P>
<P>To which are Added Forms of PRAYERS and THANKSGIVINGS to be u&s;ed for all KINGS, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and in the Parliament-Hou&s;e, when there is any danger of <HI>POPERY.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for the Book&s;ellers in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI> 1680.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THE Papi&s;ts, tho&s;e re&s;tle&s;s Enemies of the Prote&s;tant Religion, are not more infamous for the un&s;oundne&s;s of their Doctrines, than for the greatne&s;s of their Trea&s;ons: where they cannot convince, they labour to de&s;troy; and rather than not &s;ubdue what they call (but cannot prove) a pe&s;tilent Here&s;ie, they will ma&s;&s;acre the whole Prote&s;tant Party; and will pull down a flouri&s;hing State, to build a corrupt Church.</P>
<P>Their Subjection to the Pope is in con&s;i&s;tent with their Allegiance to the Prince; and if they are true Roman Catholicks, they cannot be good Engli&s;h Subjects: For when they are de&s;igned by the Church to be made Saints, they never afterwards by the Law can be made Rebels.</P>
<P>And therefore when God is plea&s;ed, by di&s;covering their De&s;igns, to expo&s;e them to Ju&s;tice, there is not a man of them that is guilty, but as innocent as the Child unborn: For unle&s;s their attempts &s;ucceed, and declare to all the World their actual Trea&s;on, in de&s;pight of all other proofs, they will brag of their con&s;tant Loyalty.</P>
<P>Willing enough they are to reap the fruits of Rebellion, but take care (if the ca&s;e be hazardous) to avoid the Scandal: And therefore &s;ometimes they &s;tand behind the Curtain, while they &s;pur on others (more adventrous, though no more wicked) to exe|cute their Coun&s;els; and by expo&s;ing them, &s;ecure them&s;elves from the Cen&s;ure and the Puni&s;hment.</P>
<P>To be &s;ure, when they have Power they never want Cruelty: The <HI>Turks</HI> and the <HI>Pagans</HI> have been out-done by their greater Per&s;ecutions: The Stakes, and the Fa|gots, and the Fire bear witne&s;s again&s;t them.</P>
<P>And when they have no &s;trength, we know they want not malice, but labour by Treachery to undermine, when by Power they cannot &s;ubdue; His Maje&s;ty and our Religion have been brought into great danger by their &s;ecret Plots and Con&s;piracies; The unhappy Quarrels and Di&s;&s;entions among&s;t our &s;elves are Tares of their &s;owing.</P>
<P>But if they want might or &s;ubtilty of their own, before they will de&s;i&s;t, they will crave a&s;&s;i&s;tance from abroad; Foreign Powers &s;hall be ingag'd to weaken us; and ra|ther than Popery &s;hould be kept out, they will truck for an Inva&s;ion.</P>
<P>Indeed there is no Age, no place, but gives us too &s;ad Examples of their Villanies, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ither Acted or Contrived.</P>
<P>Nor is it &s;trange, when men call Evil Good, that they run into all exce&s;s of wickedne&s;s: With them 'tis lawful to tread upon the Royal Diadem to advance the Tri|ple Crown; and meritorious to kill the Lords Anointed, who is really Gods Vicegerent, for the Intere&s;t of the Man of Sin, who fal&s;ly calls him&s;elf Chri&s;ts Vicar.</P>
<P>Hence it is that the&s;e fiery Zealots &s;o often ingage to A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate Soveraign Princes, and imbroyl Peaceable Kingdoms.</P>
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<P>The proofs hereof are too plain, and one would think needle&s;s, but that the impu|dence of our Adver&s;aries, that teaches them to deny the plaine&s;t Evidence, will not &s;uffer them to confe&s;s the mo&s;t apparent Crimes.</P>
<P>Wonder not (Good Reader) at this their boldne&s;s! For 'tis the old Roman-Catho|lick u&s;age, under a deep guilt, to prote&s;t an un&s;potted Innocence; and then chiefly to declare that it is not lawful to depo&s;e, or murther the King, when they are not able, or want an opportunity.</P>
<P>The truth is, 'tis no new thing for them, when they have done or intended evil, to wipe their mouths, and &s;ay they have done or intended nothing: <HI>Tre&s;ham</HI> (one of the Gunpowder Traytors) in King <HI>James</HI> his time, when he came to die, denied what <HI>Garnet</HI> (the Provincial) proved again&s;t him, and what he him&s;elf had formerly con|fe&s;&s;ed: And <HI>Garnet</HI> denied, upon his Salvation, with horrid imprecations, what Fa|ther <HI>Old corn,</HI> alias <HI>Hall,</HI> proved again&s;t him; and at his Execution, he &s;aid he was &s;orry for di&s;&s;embling with the Lords of the Council, but excus'd it, by affirming, he did not think they had &s;uch proofs again&s;t him: The&s;e things are evid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt, and appear by the Printed Tryals of tho&s;e Traytors.</P>
<P>Here I pre&s;ent thee with a true and faithful account of <HI>William Parry's</HI> Trea&s;on, again&s;t Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and of his behaviour after his Apprehen&s;ion, upon his Ar|raignment, and at his Execution, written in the Year of our Lord <HI>1584.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Richard Baker</HI> in his Hi&s;tory of <HI>England,</HI> p. <HI>366.</HI> gives us a &s;hort E&s;&s;ay of all the remarkable pa&s;&s;ages thereof, which in this Treati&s;e are more particularly, and at large, &s;et forth, being done by an exact hand immediately after <HI>Parry's</HI> Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cution.</P>
<P>Peru&s;e it, and thou wilt find, that the Pope and the Cardinal, like <HI>Simeon</HI> and <HI>Levi,</HI> have joyned hand in hand in wickedne&s;s, endeavouring, by hook or by crook, to bring Popery into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And that confederation with Foreign Powers hath heretofore been entred into to root out Prote&s;tant Religion; Popi&s;h Forces uniting to cut off us poor Hereticks.</P>
<P>And that 'tis commendable to de&s;troy the Prince, and overthrow the Government, to make way for the Popes Supremacy, and the Churches &V;&s;urpation.</P>
<P>Nay, that 'tis part of the Religion of Rome to commit Trea&s;on; the greate&s;t Mon|&s;ters of Mankind being the chiefe&s;t Darlings of that Church.</P>
<P>And that the Laity, a&s;well as the Clergy, may be influenc'd &s;o far by the power of wicked Principles, as to E&s;pou&s;e the intere&s;t of the Church, to the lo&s;s of their Allegiance.</P>
<P>Read on, and thou wilt likewi&s;e find, that the Papi&s;ts formerly have had brows of Bra&s;s as well as wanted bowels of Compa&s;&s;ion, and have been as unwilling to confe&s;s Trea&s;on as forward to commit it.</P>
<P>And that the Papi&s;t, after he hath acknowledg'd his guilt, can deny his Confe&s;&s;ion, and impudently contradict, what him&s;elf hath freely owned: For &s;hould he &s;uffer as an evil doer, he might forfeit the title of his Martyrdom.</P>
<P>And that 'tis no new thing for a Papi&s;t to tell a lye with his dying breath; Rather than a true Roman Confe&s;&s;or will be foiled, his la&s;t words &s;hall be the fal&s;e&s;t: For they that are nur&s;t at <HI>Rome,</HI> are educated at <HI>Crete,</HI> and are as infamus for their Lies as their Blood-&s;hed.</P>
<P>Let the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> keep &s;uch a Religion to her &s;elf, and God pre&s;erve the&s;e Nations from it, that we and our Po&s;terity may enjoy our true Religion, our Laws, our E&s;tates, our Liberties and our Lives: And let all good Prote&s;tants &s;ay Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>A true and plain DECLARATION OF THE Horrible Trea&s;ons Practi&s;ed by <HI>WILLIAM PARRY</HI> Again&s;t the Queens Maje&s;ty; AND OF His Conviction and Execution for the &s;ame, The 2d. of <HI>March</HI> 1584. according to the account of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THis <HI>William Parry</HI> being a man of very mean and ba&s;e Parentage, but of a mo&s;t proud and in&s;olent Spirit, bearing him&s;elf always far above the mea&s;ure of his Fortune, after he had long led a wa&s;teful and di&s;&s;o|lute life, and had committed a great Outrage again&s;t one <HI>Hugh Hare,</HI> a Gentleman of the <HI>Inner-Temple,</HI> with an intent to have murthered him in his own Chamber, for the which he was mo&s;t ju&s;tly convicted; &s;eeing him&s;elf generally condemned with all good men for the &s;ame, and other his Mi&s;demeanours, he left his natural Country, and gave him&s;elf to travel into forreign parts beyond the Seas. In the cour&s;e of this his Travel, he for&s;ook his Allegiance and dutiful Obedience to her Maje&s;ty, and was recon|ciled, and &s;ubjected him&s;elf to the Pope. After which, upon con|ference with certain <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> and others of like quality, he fir&s;t conceived his mo&s;t dete&s;table Trea&s;on to kill the Queen (who&s;e life God long pre&s;erve;) which he bound him&s;elf by Promi&s;e, Letters, and Vows, to perform and execute: and &s;o with this in|tent he returned into <HI>England</HI> in <HI>January</HI> 1583; and &s;ince that did practi&s;e at &s;undry times to have executed his mo&s;t devili&s;h purpo&s;e and determination: yet covering the &s;ame, &s;o much as in him lay, with a vail and pretence of great Loyalty to her Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>Immediately upon his return into <HI>England,</HI> he &s;ought to have &s;ecret Acce&s;s to her Maje&s;ty, pretending to have &s;ome matter of great importance to reveal unto her: which obtained, and the
<PB N="2" REF="4"> &s;ame &s;o privately in her Highne&s;s's Palace at <HI>Whitehal,</HI> as her Ma|je&s;ty had but one onely Coun&s;ellor with her at the time of his Acce&s;s, in a remote place, who was &s;o far di&s;tant, as he could not hear his Speech. And there then he di&s;covered unto her Ma|je&s;ty (but &s;hadowed with all crafty and traiterous skill he had) &s;ome part of the Conference and Proceeding, as well with the &s;aid <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> and other Mini&s;ters of the Popes, as e&s;pecially with one <HI>Thomas Morgan,</HI> a Fugitive, re&s;iding at <HI>Paris,</HI> who above all others did per&s;wade him to proceed in that mo&s;t devili&s;h Attempt, (as is &s;et down in his voluntary Confe&s;&s;ion following,) bearing her Maje&s;ty notwith&s;tanding in hand, That his onely intent of pro|ceeding &s;o far with the &s;aid <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> and the Popes Mini&s;ters, ten|ded to no other end, but to di&s;cover the dangerous Practices de|vi&s;ed and attempted again&s;t her Maje&s;ty by her di&s;loyal Subjects, and other malicious per&s;ons in forraign parts. Albeit it hath &s;ince appeared mo&s;t manife&s;tly, as well by his &s;aid Confe&s;&s;ion, as by his dealing with one <HI>Edmond Nevil</HI> E&s;q; That his onely intent of di&s;|covering the &s;ame in &s;ort as he craftily and traiterou&s;ly did, ten|ded to no other end, but to make the way the ea&s;ier to accom|pli&s;h his mo&s;t devili&s;h and wicked purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>And although any other Prince but her Maje&s;ty (who is loath to put on a hard Cen&s;ure of tho&s;e that prote&s;t to be loyal, as <HI>Parry</HI> did,) would rather have proceeded to the puni&s;hment of a Subject that had waded &s;o far, as by Oath and Vow to promi&s;e the taking away of her life (as he to her Maje&s;ties &s;elf did con|fe&s;s;) yet &s;uch was her goodne&s;s, as in&s;tead of puni&s;hing, &s;he did deal &s;o graciou&s;ly with him, as &s;he &s;uffered him not onely to have Acce&s;s unto her pre&s;ence, but al&s;o many times to have private Con|ference with her; and did offer unto him, upon opinion once con|ceived of his fidelity towards her (as though his wicked pretence had been, as he prote&s;ted, for her &s;ervice) a mo&s;t liberal Pen&s;ion.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, to the end that he might not grow hateful to the good and well-affected Subjects of the Realm, (from whom he could in no &s;ort have e&s;caped with &s;afety of his life, if his devili&s;h purpo&s;e had been revealed) her Maje&s;ty did conceal the &s;ame, without communicating it to any creature, untill &s;uch time as he him&s;elf had opened the &s;ame unto certain of her Council; and that it was al&s;o di&s;covered, that he &s;ought to draw the &s;aid <HI>Nevil</HI> to have been a party in his devili&s;h and mo&s;t wicked purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>A very rare Example! and &s;uch as doth more &s;et forth the &s;in|gular goodne&s;s and bounty of her Maje&s;ties Princely nature, than
<PB N="3" REF="4"> commend (if it be lawful for a Subject to cen&s;ure his Soveraign) her providence &s;uch as ought to be in a Prince and per&s;on of her Maje&s;ties wi&s;dom and quality. And as the goodne&s;s of her Ma|je&s;ties nature did hereby mo&s;t manife&s;tly &s;hew it &s;elf to be rare in &s;o extraordinary a ca&s;e, and in a matter of &s;o great peril unto her own Royal Per&s;on; &s;o did the malice of <HI>Parry</HI> mo&s;t evidently appear to be in the highe&s;t and extreame&s;t degree: who notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid extraordinary grace and favour extended towards him, did not onely per&s;wade the &s;aid <HI>Nevil</HI> to be an A&s;&s;ociate in the &s;aid wicked Enterprize, but did al&s;o very vehemently (as <HI>Nevil</HI> confe&s;&s;eth) importune him therein, as an Action lawful, honoura|ble, and meritorious, omitting nothing that might provoke him to a&s;&s;ent thereunto.</P>
<P>But &s;uch was the &s;ingular goodne&s;s of Almighty God, (who even from her Maje&s;ties Cradle, by many evident Arguments, hath &s;hewed him&s;elf her onely and e&s;pecial Protector) that he &s;o wrought in <HI>Nevil</HI>'s heart, as he was moved to reveal the &s;ame un|to her Maje&s;ty; and for that purpo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e made choi&s;e of a faithful Gentleman, and of good quality in the Court, unto whom upon <HI>Munday</HI> the 8th of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, he di&s;covered at large all that had pa&s;&s;ed between <HI>Parry</HI> and him; who immediately made it known to her Maje&s;ty: whereupon her Highne&s;&s;es plea&s;ure was, That <HI>Nevil</HI> &s;hould be examined by the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> and Sir <HI>Chri|&s;topher Hatton;</HI> who in the evening of the &s;ame day did examine him; and he affirmed con&s;tantly all which he had before declared to the &s;aid Gentleman.</P>
<P>In the mean time, her Maje&s;ty continued her &s;ingular and mo&s;t Princely magnanimity, neither di&s;maid with the rarene&s;s of the Accident, nor appaled with the horrour of &s;o villanous an Enter|prize, tending even to the taking away of her mo&s;t gracious life; (a matter e&s;pecially ob&s;erved by the Coun&s;ellor that was pre&s;ent at &s;uch time as <HI>Parry,</HI> after his return, did fir&s;t di&s;cover unto her Maje&s;ty his wicked purpo&s;e; who found no other alteration in her countenance, than if he had imparted unto her &s;ome matter of con|tentment;) which &s;heweth manife&s;tly how &s;he repo&s;eth her con|fidence wholly in the defence of the Almighty. And &s;o her Ma|je&s;ty, following the wonted cour&s;e of her &s;ingular Clemency, gave order that <HI>Parry</HI> the &s;ame <HI>Munday</HI> in the evening (though not &s;o known to him) &s;hould be &s;ent to Mr. Secretaries hou&s;e in <HI>London,</HI> he being then there; who according unto &s;uch direction as he re|ceived from her Maje&s;ty, did let him under&s;tand, That her High|ne&s;s
<PB N="4" REF="5"> (in re&s;pect of the good will &s;he knew he bare unto the &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> and of the Tru&s;t that <HI>Parry</HI> did outwardly profe&s;s to repo&s;e in Mr. Secretary) had made e&s;pecial choice of him to deal with him in a matter that concerned her highly; and that &s;he doubted not but that he would di&s;charge his duty towards her, according unto that extraordinary devotion that he profe&s;&s;ed to bear unto her.</P>
<P>And thereupon told him that her Maje&s;ty had been adverti&s;ed that there was &s;omewhat intended pre&s;ently again&s;t her own Per|&s;on, wherewith &s;he thought he could not but be made acquainted, con&s;idering the great Tru&s;t that &s;ome of her wor&s;t-affected Sub|jects repo&s;ed in him; and that her plea&s;ure therefore was, That he &s;hould declare unto him his knowledge therein: and whether the &s;aid <HI>Parry</HI> him&s;elf had let fall any &s;peech unto any per&s;on (though with an intent onely to have di&s;covered his di&s;po&s;ition) that might draw him in &s;u&s;pition, as though he him&s;elf had any &s;uch wicked intent. But <HI>Parry</HI> with great and vehement prote|&s;tations denied it utterly; whereupon Mr. Secretary, the rather to induce him to deal more plainly in a matter &s;o important, declared unto him, That there was a Gentleman of Quality, every way as good or better than him&s;elf, and rather his Friend than Enemy, that would avouch it to his face: Yet <HI>Parry</HI> per&s;i&s;ted &s;tubbornly in his former denial, and ju&s;tification of his own innocency; and would not in any re&s;pect yield that he was party or privy to any &s;uch Motion, Enterprize, or intent. And being lodged that night at Mr. Secretaries hou&s;e, the next morning he de&s;ired earne&s;tly to have &s;ome further &s;peech with Mr. Secretary; which granted, <HI>Parry</HI> declared to him, that he had called to remembrance that he had once &s;ome &s;peech with one <HI>Nevil</HI> a Kin&s;man of his (&s;o he called him) touching a point of Doctrine contained in the An&s;wer made to the Book, entituled, <HI>The Execution of Ju&s;tice in</HI> England; by which book it was re&s;olved, That it was lawful to take away the Life of a Prince, in furtherance of the Catholick Religion: But he prote&s;ted that they never had any &s;peech at all of any Attempt intended again&s;t her Maje&s;ties Per&s;on. Which Denial of his (at two &s;undry times, after &s;o much light given him) doth &s;et forth mo&s;t apparently both the Ju&s;tice and Providence of God: His Ju&s;tice, for that (though he was one of a &s;harp conceit) he had no power to take hold of this Overture, thereby to have avoided the danger that <HI>Nevil</HI>'s Accu&s;ation might bring him into by con|fe&s;&s;ing the &s;ame, as a thing propounded onely to feel <HI>Nevil</HI>'s mind,
<PB N="5" REF="5"> whom before he had reported unto Ma&s;ter Secretary he found a per&s;on di&s;contented, and therefore his Confe&s;&s;ion might to very great purpo&s;e have &s;erved to have cleared him&s;elf touching the intent: His Providence, for that of his great Mercy he would not &s;uffer &s;o dangerous and wicked a member to e&s;cape, and to live to Her Maje&s;ties peril.</P>
<P>The &s;ame day at Night <HI>Parry</HI> was brought to the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI>'s hou&s;e, and there eft&s;oons examined before the &s;aid Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> Ma&s;ter Vice-Chamberlain, and Ma&s;ter Secretary: He per&s;i&s;ted &s;till in his denial of all that he was charged with. Whereupon <HI>Nevil,</HI> being brought before him face to face, ju&s;ti|fied his Accu&s;ation again&s;t him. He notwith&s;tanding would not yet yield to confe&s;s it, but very proudly and in&s;olently oppo&s;ed his Credit again&s;t the Credit of <HI>Nevil,</HI> affirming that his <HI>No</HI> was as good as <HI>Nevil</HI>'s <HI>Yea;</HI> and as by way of recrimination, objected the Crime to <HI>Nevil</HI> him&s;elf. On the other &s;ide, <HI>Nevil</HI> did with great Con&s;tancy affirm all that he had before &s;aid, and did &s;et down many probable Circum&s;tances of the Times, Places, and Manners of their &s;undry Conferences, and of &s;uch other Acci|dents as had happened between them in the cour&s;e of that Action. Whereupon <HI>Parry</HI> was then committed to the <HI>Tower,</HI> and <HI>Nevil</HI> commanded by their Honours to &s;et down in writing under his Hand, all that which before he had delivered by words: which he did with his own hand, as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Edmund Nevil</HI> his Declaration the 10th of <HI>Febru|ary, 1584.</HI> &s;ub&s;cribed with his own Hand.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WIlliam Parry</HI> the la&s;t Summer, &s;oon after his repul&s;e in his Suit for the Ma&s;ter&s;hip of St. <HI>Katherines,</HI> repaired to my Lodging in the <HI>White Friars,</HI> where he &s;hewed him&s;elf a per&s;on greatly di&s;contented, and vehemently inveighed again&s;t Her Maje&s;ty, and willed me to a&s;&s;ure my &s;elf, that during this time and &s;tate, I &s;hould never receive Contentment. But &s;ith, &s;aid he, I know you to be Honourably de&s;cended, and a Man of Re&s;olution, if you will give me a&s;&s;urance, either to joyn with me, or not to di&s;cover me, I will deliver unto you the only means to do your &s;elf good. Which when I had promi&s;ed him, he appointed me to come the next day to his Hou&s;e in
<PB N="6" REF="6"> <HI>Fetterlane:</HI> and repairing thither accordingly, I found him in his Bed; whereupon he commanded his men forth, and began with me in this order. <HI>My Lord,</HI> &s;aid he, (for &s;o he called me) <HI>I pro|te&s;t before God, that three Rea&s;ons principally do induce me to enter into this Action, which I intend to di&s;cover unto you; the replanting of Religion, the preferring of the</HI> Scoti&s;h <HI>Title, and the advance|ment of Ju&s;tice, wonderfully corrupted in this Commowealth:</HI> And thereupon entred into &s;ome Di&s;cour&s;es what places were fit to be taken, to give entrance to &s;uch Forreign Forces as &s;hould be be&s;t liked of, for the furtherance of &s;uch Enterprizes as were to be undertaken. And with the&s;e Di&s;cour&s;es he pa&s;&s;ed the time, un|til he went to Dinner: after which, the Company being retired, he entred into his former di&s;cour&s;es. <HI>And if I be not deceived,</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>by taking of</HI> Quinborough-<HI>Ca&s;tle, we &s;hall hinder the pa&s;&s;age of the Queens Ships forth of the River.</HI> Whereunto when he &s;aw me u&s;e no contradiction, he &s;hook me by the hand; <HI>Tu&s;h,</HI> &s;aid he, <HI>this is nothing: If men were re&s;olute, there is an Enterprize of much more moment, and much ea&s;ier to perform; an Act honour|able and meritorious to God and the world.</HI> Which &s;eeing me de|&s;irous to know, he was not a&s;hamed to utter in plain terms, to con&s;i&s;t in killing of her Maje&s;ty: <HI>Wherein,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>if you will go with me, I will loo&s;e my Life, or deliver my Countrey from her bad and tyrannous Government.</HI> At which Speeches finding me di&s;contented, he asked me, if I had read Doctor <HI>Allen</HI>'s Book, out of which he alledged an Authority for it. I an&s;wered, <HI>No, and that I did not believe that Authority.</HI> Well, &s;aid he, what will you &s;ay, if I &s;hew further Authority than this, even from <HI>Rome</HI> it&s;elf a plain Di&s;pen&s;ation for the killing of her, wherein you &s;hall finde it (as I &s;aid before) meritorious? <HI>Good Cou&s;in,</HI> &s;aid I, <HI>when you &s;hall &s;hew it me, I &s;hall think it very &s;trange, when I &s;hall &s;ee one to hold that for meritorious, which another holdeth for damnable.</HI> Well, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> do me but the favour to think upon it till to morrow: And if one man be in the Town, I will not fail to &s;hew you the thing it &s;elf: and if he be not, he will be within the&s;e five or &s;ix days; at which time if it plea&s;e you to meet me at <HI>Chanon-row,</HI> we may there receive the Sacrament to be true each to other, and then I will di&s;cover unto you both the party, and the thing it&s;elf. Whereupon I prayed <HI>Parry</HI> to think better upon it, as a matter of great charge both of Soul and Body. I would to God, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> you were as per|fectly per&s;waded in it as I am, for then undoubtedly you &s;hould do God great &s;ervice.</P>
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<P>Not long after, eight or ten days, (as I remember) <HI>Parry</HI> com|ing to vi&s;it me at my lodging in <HI>Herns</HI> rents in Holborn, as he often u&s;ed, we walked forth into the fields, where he renewed again his determination to kill her Maje&s;ty, whom he &s;aid he thought mo&s;t unworthy to live, and that he wondred I was &s;o &s;crupulous therein. She hath &s;ought, &s;aid he, your ruine and over|throw, why &s;hould you not then &s;eek to revenge it? I confe&s;s, quoth I, that my ca&s;e is hard, but yet am I not &s;o de&s;perate as to revenge it upon my &s;elf, which mu&s;t needs be the event of &s;o un|hone&s;t and unpo&s;&s;ible an enterpri&s;e. Unpo&s;&s;ible, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> I wonder at you; for in truth there is not any thing more ea&s;ie: you are no Courtier, and therefore know not her cu&s;toms of walking with &s;mall train, and often in the Garden very privately, at which time my &s;elf may ea&s;ily have acce&s;s unto her, and you al&s;o when you are known in Court. Upon the fact we mu&s;t have a Barge ready to carry us with &s;peed down the River, where we will have a &s;hip ready to tran&s;port us if it be needfull: but upon my head, we &s;hall never be followed &s;o far. I asked him, How will you e&s;cape forth of the Garden? for you &s;hall not be per|mitted to carry any men with you, and the Gates will then be locked, neither can you carry a Dagge without &s;u&s;pition. As for a Dagge, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> I care not: my Dagger is enough. And as for my e&s;caping, tho&s;e that &s;hall be with her, will be &s;o bu&s;ie about her, as I &s;hall finde opportunity enough to e&s;cape, if you be there ready with the Barge to receive me. But if this &s;eem dangerous in re&s;pect of your rea&s;on before &s;hewed, let it then re&s;t till her coming to St. <HI>James,</HI> and let us furni&s;h our &s;elves in the mean time with men and hor&s;e fit for the purpo&s;e: we may each of us keep eight or ten men without &s;u&s;pition. And for my part, &s;aid he, I &s;hall finde good fellows that will fol|low me without &s;u&s;pecting mine intent. It is much, &s;aid he, that &s;o many re&s;olute men may do upon the &s;uddain, being well ap|pointed with each his Ca&s;e of Dagges: if they were an hundred waiting upon her, they were not able to &s;ave her; you coming of the one &s;ide and I on the other, and di&s;charging our Dagges upon her, it were unhappy if we &s;hould both mi&s;s her. But if our Dagges fail, I &s;hall be&s;tir me well with a &s;word ere &s;he e&s;cape me. Whereunto I &s;aid, Good Doctor give over this odious enterpri&s;e, and trouble me no more with the hearing of that, which in heart I loath &s;o much. I would to God the enterpri&s;e were hone&s;t, that I might make known unto thee whether I want
<PB N="8" REF="7"> re|&s;olution. And not long after, her Maje&s;ty came to St. <HI>James</HI>'s; after which, one morning (the day certain I remember not,) <HI>Parry</HI> revived again his former di&s;cour&s;e of killing her Maje&s;ty, with great earne&s;tne&s;s and importunity per&s;wading me to joyn therein: &s;aying, he thought me the onely man of <HI>England</HI> like to perform it, in re&s;pect of my valure, as he termed it.</P>
<P>Whereupon, I made &s;emblance as if I had been more willing to hear him than before, hoping by that means to cau&s;e him to deliver his minde to &s;ome other that might be witne&s;s thereof with me; wherein neverthele&s;s I failed. After all this, on Saturday la&s;t, being the &s;ixth of <HI>February,</HI> between the hours of five and &s;ix in the afternoon, <HI>Parry</HI> came to my Chamber, and de&s;ired to talk with me apart: whereupon we drew our &s;elves to a win|dow. And where I had told <HI>Parry</HI> before, that a learned man whom I met by chance in the fields, unto whom I proponed the que&s;tion touching her Maje&s;ty, had an&s;wered me that it was an enterpri&s;e mo&s;t villanous and damnable, willing me to di&s;|charge my &s;elf of it: <HI>Parry</HI> then de&s;ired to know that learned mans name, and what was become of him, &s;aying, after a &s;cornful manner, No doubt he was a very wi&s;e man, and you wi&s;er in be|lieving him: and &s;aid further, I hope you told him not that I had any thing from <HI>Rome.</HI> Yes in truth, &s;aid I. Whereunto <HI>Parry</HI> &s;aid, I would you had not named me, nor &s;poken of any thing I had from <HI>Rome.</HI> And thereupon he earne&s;tly per&s;waded me eft|&s;oons to depart beyond the Seas, promi&s;ing to procure me &s;afe pa&s;&s;age into <HI>Wales,</HI> and from thence into <HI>Britain;</HI> whereat we ended. But I then re&s;olved not to do &s;o, but to di&s;charge my con&s;cience, and lay open this his mo&s;t traiterous and abominable intention again&s;t her Maje&s;ty: which I revealed in &s;ort as is be|fore &s;et down.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edmund Nevil.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>After this confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Edmund Nevil, William Parry</HI> the 11th. day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, being examined in the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> by the Lord <HI>Hun&s;don,</HI> Lord Governour of <HI>Barwick,</HI> Sir <HI>Chri|&s;topher Hatton</HI> knight, Vicechamberlain to her Maje&s;ty, and Sir <HI>Francis Wal&s;ingham</HI> Knight, principal Secretary to her Maje&s;ty, did voluntary and without any con&s;traint, by word of mouth make confe&s;&s;ion of his &s;aid Trea&s;on; and after, &s;et it down in writing all with his own hand in his Lodging in the <HI>Tower,</HI> and &s;ent it to the Court the 13th. of the &s;ame, by the <HI>Lieutenant</HI> of the <HI>Tower.</HI> The
<PB REF="7"> parts whereof concerning his manner of doing the &s;ame, and the Trea&s;ons wherewith he was ju&s;tly charged are here &s;et down, word for word, as they are written and &s;igned with his own hand and name, the 11th. of <HI>February,</HI> 1584.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>The voluntary Confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>William Parry,</HI> in writing all with his own hand. The voluntary Confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>William Parry</HI> Doctor of the Laws, (now Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Tower</HI>) and accu&s;ed of Trea&s;on by <HI>Edmund Nevil</HI> E&s;quire, promi&s;ed by him (with all faith and humility) to the Queens Maje&s;ty, in di&s;charge of his Con&s;cience and Duty to|wards God and her. Before the Lord <HI>Hun&s;don,</HI> Lord Governour of <HI>Barwick,</HI> Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Hatton</HI> Knight, Vicechamberlain, Sir <HI>Francis Wal&s;ingham</HI> Knight, principal Secretary, the 13th. of <HI>February, 1584. Parry.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the year 1570. I was &s;worn her Maje&s;ties &s;ervant, from which time until the year 1580. I &s;erved, honoured, and loved her with as great readine&s;s, devotion, and a&s;&s;urance as any poor &s;ubject in <HI>England.</HI> In the end of that year, and until Mid|&s;ummer 1582. I had &s;ome trouble for the hurting of a Gentle|man of the <HI>Temple.</HI> In which action I was &s;o di&s;graced and op|pre&s;&s;ed by two great men (to whom I have of late been behol|den) that I never had contented thought &s;ince. There began my misfortune, and here followeth my woful fall.</P>
<P>In <HI>July</HI> after, I laboured for licence to travail for three years, which (upon &s;ome con&s;ideration) was ea&s;ily obtained. And &s;o in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> I went over with doubtful minde of return, for that being &s;u&s;pected in Religion, and not having received the Com|munion in twenty two years, I began to mi&s;tru&s;t my advance|ment in <HI>England.</HI> In <HI>September</HI> I came to <HI>Paris,</HI> where I was re|conciled to the Church, and advi&s;ed to live without &s;candal, the rather, for that it was mi&s;tru&s;ted by the Engli&s;h Catholiques, that I had Intelligence with the greate&s;t Councellour of <HI>England.</HI> I &s;taied not long there, but removed to <HI>Lions</HI> (a place of great Traffick) where, becau&s;e it was the ordinary pa&s;&s;age of our Nation to and fro, between <HI>Paris</HI> and <HI>Rome,</HI> I was al&s;o &s;u&s;pected.</P>
<P>To put all men out of doubt of me, and for &s;ome other cau&s;e,
<PB REF="8"> I went to <HI>Millain,</HI> from whence, as a place of &s;ome danger (though I found favour there) after I had cleared my con&s;cience, and ju&s;ti|fied my &s;elf in Religion before the Inqui&s;itor, I went to <HI>Venice.</HI> There I came acquainted with father <HI>Benedicto Palmio, a grave and a learned Je&s;uite.</HI> By conference with him of the hard &s;tate of the Catholicks in <HI>England,</HI> and by reading of the Book <HI>De per|&s;ecutione Anglicana,</HI> and other di&s;cour&s;es of like argument, 1 <HI>I conceived a po&s;&s;ible mean to relieve the afflicted &s;tate of our Catho|licks, if the &s;ame might be well warranted in religion and con&s;cience by the Pope, or &s;ome learned Divines. I asked his opinion; he made it clear, commended my devotion, comforted me in it,</HI> and after a while made me known to the <HI>Nuntio Campeggio,</HI> there re&s;ident for his Holine&s;s. <HI>By his means I wrote to the Pope, pre&s;ented the &s;ervice,</HI> and &s;ued for a Pa&s;port to go to <HI>Rome,</HI> and to return &s;afely into <HI>France.</HI> An&s;wer came from Cardinal <HI>Como,</HI> that I might come, and &s;hould be welcome. I mi&s;liked the warrant, &s;ued for a bet|ter, which I was promi&s;ed: but it came not before my departure to <HI>Lions,</HI> where I promi&s;ed to &s;tay &s;ome time for it. And being indeed de&s;irous to go to <HI>Rome,</HI> and loth to go without counte|nance, <HI>I de&s;ired</HI> Chri&s;tofero de Salazar, <HI>Secretary to the Catholick King in</HI> Venice, <HI>who had &s;ome under&s;tanding by conference, of my devotion to the afflicted Catholicks at home and abroad,</HI> to commend me to the Duke <HI>di Nova Terra,</HI> Governour of <HI>Millain,</HI> and to the County of <HI>Olivaris Embi,</HI> then Re&s;ident for the King his Ma&s;ter in <HI>Rome:</HI> which he promi&s;ed to do effectually for the one, and did for the other. And &s;o I took my journey towards <HI>Lyons,</HI> whi|ther came for me an ample Pa&s;&s;eport (but &s;omewhat too late,) that I might come and go <HI>in verbo Pontificis per omnes juri&s;dictones Eccle&s;ia&s;ticas, ab&s;que impedimento.</HI> I acquainted &s;ome good Fathers there, of my nece&s;&s;ity to depart towards <HI>Paris</HI> by promi&s;e, <HI>and prayed their advi&s;es upon divers points; wherein I was well &s;atisfied.</HI> And &s;o a&s;&s;uring them that his Holine&s;s &s;hould hear from me &s;hortly, it was undertaken that I &s;hould be excu&s;ed for that time.</P>
<P>In <HI>October</HI> I came to <HI>Paris,</HI> where (upon better opinion con|ceived of me among&s;t my Catholick Country-men) I found my credit well &s;etled, and &s;uch as mi&s;tru&s;ted me before, ready to tru&s;t and imbrace me. And being one day at the Chamber of <HI>Thomas Morgan</HI> a Catholick Gentleman (greatly beloved and tru&s;ted on that &s;ide) among&s;t other Gentlemen, talking (but in very good &s;ort) of <HI>England,</HI> I was de&s;ired by <HI>Morgan</HI> to go up with him to
<PB REF="8"> another Chamber, where he brake with me, and told me that it was hoped and looked for, that I &s;hould do &s;ome &s;ervice for God and his Church. I an&s;wered him, I would do it, if it were to kill the greate&s;t &s;ubject in <HI>England;</HI> whom I named, and in truth then hated. No, no, &s;aid he, let him live to his greater fall and ruine of his hou&s;e:</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>It is the Queen I mean. I had him as I wi&s;hed, and told him it were &s;oon done, if it might be lawfully done, and warranted in the opinion of &s;ome learned Divines. And &s;o the doubt once re&s;olved (though as you have heard I was before rea&s;onably well &s;atisfied) I vowed to undertake the enterpri&s;e, for the re&s;titution of</HI> England <HI>to the anci|ent obedience of the Sea Apo&s;tolick.</HI> Divers Divines were named. Doctor <HI>Allein</HI> I de&s;ired, <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> I refu&s;ed. And by chance came Ma&s;ter <HI>Wattes</HI> a learned Prie&s;t, with whom I conferred, and was over-ruled.</P>
<P N="3">3 For he plainly pronounced (the ca&s;e onely altered in name) that it was utterly unlawful: with whom many Engli&s;h Prie&s;ts did agree as I have heard, if it be not altered &s;ince <HI>the book made in an&s;wer of The execution of the Engli&s;h Ju&s;tice was publi&s;hed, which I mu&s;t confe&s;s hath taken hard hold in me,</HI> and (I fear me) will do in others, if it be not prevented by more gracious hand|ling of the quiet and obedient Catholick &s;ubjects, whereof there is good and greater &s;tore in <HI>England,</HI> than this age will extingui&s;h. <HI>Well, notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e doubts, I was gone &s;o far by letters and conference in</HI> Italy, <HI>that I could not go back, but promi&s;ed faithfully to perform the enterpri&s;e, if his Holine&s;s upon my offer and letters would allow it, and grant me full remi&s;&s;ion of my &s;ins.</HI> 4 <HI>I wrote my letters the fir&s;t of</HI> January 1584. <HI>by their computation; took advice upon them in confe&s;&s;ion of Father</HI> Anibal <HI>a</HI> Codreto <HI>a learned Je&s;uite in</HI> Paris, <HI>was lovingly embraced, commended, confe&s;&s;ed, and communicated at the Je&s;uites at one altar with the Cardinals of</HI> Vando&s;mi, <HI>and</HI> Narbone, <HI>whereof I prayed certificate, and enclo&s;ed the &s;ame in my Letter to his Holine&s;s, to lead him the rather to ab|&s;olve me; which I required by my Letters, in con&s;ideration of &s;o great an enterpri&s;e undertaken without promi&s;e or reward.</HI> 5 <HI>I went with</HI> Morgan <HI>to the Nuntio</HI> Ragazzoni, <HI>to whom I read the Letter and certificate enclo&s;ed, &s;ealed it, and left it with him to &s;end to</HI> Rome: <HI>he promi&s;ed great care of it, and to procure an&s;wer: And &s;o lovingly imbraced me, wi&s;hed me good &s;peed, and promi&s;ed that I &s;hould be remembred at the altar.</HI> 6 <HI>After this I de&s;ired</HI> Morgan, <HI>that &s;ome &s;pecial man might be made privy to this matter, le&s;t he dying, and I
<PB REF="9"> mi&s;carrying in the execution, and my intent never truly di&s;covered, it might &s;tick for an everla&s;ting &s;pot in my Race.</HI> Divers were na|med, but none agreed upon for fear of beraying. 7 This being done, <HI>Morgan</HI> a&s;&s;ured me, that &s;hortly after my departure, <HI>the</HI> L. Fernehur&s;t (<HI>then in</HI> Paris) <HI>&s;hould go into</HI> Scotland, <HI>and be ready up|on the fir&s;t news of the Queens fall to enter into</HI> England <HI>with</HI> 20 <HI>or</HI> 30000 <HI>Men</HI> to defend the Queen of <HI>Scotland,</HI> (whom, and the King her Son, I do in my con&s;cience acquit of any privity, liking, or con&s;ent to this, or any other bad action, for any thing that ever I did know.) I &s;hortly departed for <HI>England,</HI> and arrived at <HI>Rie</HI> in <HI>January</HI> 1583. from whence I wrote to the Court, adverti&s;ed &s;ome, that I had a &s;pecial &s;ervice to di&s;cover to the Queens Maje|&s;ty; 8 <HI>which I did more to prepare acce&s;s and credit, than for any care I had of her Per&s;on,</HI> though I were fully re&s;olved never to touch her (notwith&s;tanding any Warrant) if by any device, per&s;wa&s;ion, or policy &s;he might be wrought to deal more graciou&s;ly with the Catholicks than &s;he doth, or by our manner of proceeding in Parliament meaneth to do, or any thing yet &s;een. I came to the Court, (then at <HI>Whitehall,</HI>) prayed audience, had it at large, and very privately di&s;covered to her Maje&s;ty this Con&s;piracy, much to this effect, <HI>though covered with all the skill I had:</HI> &s;he took it doubtfully, I departed with fear. And among&s;t other things, I cannot forget her Maje&s;ties gratious &s;peech then uttered touching the Catholicks, which of late, after a &s;ort I avowed in Parliament: &s;he &s;aid to me, that never a Catholick &s;hould be troubled for Re|ligion or Supremacy, &s;o long as they lived like good Subjects. Whereby I mi&s;tru&s;ted that her Maje&s;ty is born in hand, that none is troubled for the one or the other. It may be truly &s;aid, that it is better than it hath been, though it be not yet as it &s;hould be.</P>
<P>In <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, while I was at <HI>Greenwich</HI> (as I remember) &s;uing for St. <HI>Katherines, came Letters to me from Cardinal</HI> Como, <HI>dated at</HI> Rome, <HI>the la&s;t of</HI> January <HI>before, whereby I found the enterpri&s;e commended, and allowed, and my &s;elf ab&s;olved (in his Holine&s;s name) of all my &s;ins, and willed to go forward in the name of God.</HI> That Letter I &s;hewed to &s;ome in Court, who imparted it to the Queen: what it wrought, or may work in her Maje&s;ty, God knoweth: onely this I know, 9 that <HI>it confirmed my re&s;olution to kill her, and made it clear in my con&s;cience, that it was lawful and meritorious.</HI> And yet was I determined never to do it, if either policy, practice, per&s;wa&s;ion, or motion in Parliament could prevail. I feared to be tempted, and therefore always when I came near her, I left my
<PB REF="9"> Dagger at home. 10 <HI>When I looked upon her Maje&s;ty, and remem|bred her many excellencies, I was greatly troubled: And yet I &s;aw no remedy, for my Vows were in Heaven, my Letters and Promi&s;es in Earth,</HI> and the ca&s;e of the Catholick Recu&s;ants, and others, little bettered. Sometimes I &s;aid to my &s;elf, Why &s;hould I care for her? what hath &s;he done for me? have I not &s;pent 10000 Marks &s;ince I knew her &s;ervice, and never had peny by her? It may be &s;aid, &s;he gave me my life. But I &s;ay (as my ca&s;e &s;tood) it had been Tyranny to take it: And I fear me it is little le&s;s yet. If it plea&s;e her gratiou&s;ly to look into my di&s;contentments, I would to Je&s;us Chri&s;t &s;he had it, for I am weary of it. And now to come to an end of this tragical di&s;cour&s;e: In <HI>July</HI> I left the Court, utterly rejected, di&s;contented, and as her Maje&s;ty might perceive by my pa&s;&s;ionate Letters, carele&s;s of my &s;elf, I came to <HI>London:</HI> Doctor Alleins <HI>Book was &s;ent me out of</HI> France: 11 <HI>it redoubled my former conceits: Every word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind: It taught that Kings may be excommunicated, deprived, and violently handled: It proveth that all Wars Civil or Forraign undertaken for Religion, is Honorable.</HI> Her Maje&s;ty may do well to read it, and to be out of doubt (if things be not amended) that it is a warning, and a Doctrine full dangerous. This is the Book I &s;hewed, in &s;ome places read, <HI>and lent it to my Cou&s;in</HI> Nevil (the accu&s;er) who came often to mine hou&s;e, put his finger in my Di&s;h, his hand in my Pur&s;e; and the night wherein he accu&s;ed me, was wrapped in my Gown, &s;ix moneths at lea&s;t after we had entred into this Con&s;piracy: In which &s;pace her Maje&s;ty, and ten Princes in &s;eve|ral Provinces might have been killed. God ble&s;s her Maje&s;ty from him: for before Almighty God, I joy and am glad in my &s;oul, that it was his hap <HI>to di&s;cover me in time,</HI> though there were no danger near.</P>
<P>And now to the manner of our meetings. He came to me in the beginning of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and &s;pake to me in this or like &s;ort. Cou&s;in, let us do &s;omewhat, &s;ithens we can have nothing. I offered to joyn with him, and gladly heard him, <HI>hoping becau&s;e I knew him to be a Catholick, that he would hit upon that I had in my head:</HI> but it fell not out &s;o. He thought the delivery of the Queen of <HI>Scotland</HI> ea&s;ie, pre&s;uming upon his Credit and Kindred in the North: I thought it dangerous to her, and impo&s;&s;ible to men of our fortunes: He fell from that to the taking of <HI>Barwick:</HI> I &s;pake of <HI>Quinborough</HI> and the Navy, rather to entertain him with di&s;cour&s;e, than that I cared for tho&s;e motions, <HI>my head being full
<PB REF="10"> of a greater matter:</HI> 12 I told him that I had another manner of Enterpri&s;e, more honourable and profitable to us, and the Catho|licks Common-wealth, than all the&s;e, if he would joyn in it with me, as he pre&s;ently vowed to do: He pre&s;&s;ed to know it; I wil|led him to &s;leep upon the motion: He did &s;o, (and belike over|taken) came to me the next morning to my Lodging in <HI>London,</HI> offered to joyn with me, and <HI>took his Oath upon a Bible, to conceal and con&s;tantly to pur&s;ue the enterpri&s;e for the advancement of Religion; which I al&s;o did, and meant to perform: the killing of the Queen was the matter.</HI></P>
<P>The manner and place, to be on Horsback, with eight or ten hor&s;es, when &s;he &s;hould ride abroad about St. <HI>James,</HI> or &s;ome other like place. It was once thought fit in a Garden, and that the e&s;cape would be ea&s;ie&s;t by water into <HI>Shepey,</HI> or &s;ome other part: but we re&s;olved upon the fir&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>This continued as agreed upon many moneths,</HI> until he heard of the death of <HI>We&s;tmoreland,</HI> who&s;e Land and Dignity (whereof he a&s;&s;ured him&s;elf) bred belike this Con&s;cience in him to di&s;cover a Trea&s;on in <HI>February,</HI> contrived and agreed upon in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> If it co&s;t him not an ambitious Head at la&s;t, let him never tru&s;t me. He brought a tall Gentleman (whom he commended for an ex|cellent Pi&s;tolier) to me to <HI>Chanon-Row,</HI> to make one in the match: but I refu&s;ed to deal with him, being loth to lay my head upon &s;o many hands.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Nevil</HI> hath (I think) forgotten, that he did &s;wear to to me at divers times, that all the advancement &s;he could give, &s;hould &s;erve but for her &s;courge, if ever time and occa&s;ion &s;hould &s;erve: and that though he would not lay hand upon her in a cor|ner, his heart &s;erved him to &s;trike off her Head in the field. Now leaving him to him&s;elf, this much (to make an end) I mu&s;t confe&s;s of my &s;elf, I did mean to try what might be done in Parliament, to do my be&s;t to hinder all hard cour&s;es, to have prayed hearing of the Queens Maje&s;ty, to move her (if I could) to take compa&s;|&s;ion upon her Catholick Subjects; <HI>and when all had failed, to do as I intended.</HI> If her Maje&s;ty by this cour&s;e would have ea&s;ed them, though &s;he had never preferred me, I had with all comfort and patience born it: 13 but if &s;he had preferred me without ea&s;e or care of them, the Enterpri&s;e had held.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Parry.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>God pre&s;erve the Queen, and encline her merciful heart to forgive me this de&s;perate purpo&s;e; and to take my Head (with all my heart) for her better &s;atisfaction.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<PB REF="10">
<P>After which, for the better manife&s;ting of his Trea&s;ons, on the 14th of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, there was a Letter written by him to her Maje&s;ty, very voluntarily, all of his own Hand, with|out any motion made to him: The tenor whereof, for that which concerneth the&s;e his Traiterous dealings, is as followeth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>A Letter written by <HI>Parry</HI> to Her Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P>YOur Maje&s;ty may &s;ee by my voluntary Confe&s;&s;ion, the dangerous fruits of a di&s;contented minde; and how con&s;tantly I pur|&s;ued my fir&s;t conceived purpo&s;e in <HI>Venice,</HI> for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks; continued it in <HI>Lions,</HI> and re&s;olved in <HI>Paris</HI> to put it in adventure, for the Re&s;titution of <HI>England</HI> to the antient Obedience of the See Apo&s;tolick. You may &s;ee withal, how it is Commended, Allowed, and Warranted in Con&s;cience, Divinity, and Policy, by the Pope and &s;ome great Divines: Though it be true or likely, that mo&s;t of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Divines (le&s;s practi&s;ed in matters of this weight) do utterly mi&s;like and condemn it.</P>
<P>The Enterpri&s;e is prevented, and Con&s;piracy di&s;covered by an honourable Gentleman, my Kin&s;man and late familiar Friend, Ma|&s;ter <HI>Edmund Nevil,</HI> privy and by &s;olemn Oath (taken upon the Bible) party to the matter, whereof I am hardly glad, but now &s;orry (in my very Soul) that ever I conceived or intended it, how com|mendable or meritoritous &s;oever I thought it. God thank him, and forgive me, who would not now (before God) attempt it (if I had liberty and opportunity to do it) to gain your Kingdome. I be&s;eech Chri&s;t, that my Death and Example may as well &s;atisfie your Maje&s;ty and the world, as it &s;hall glad and content me.</P>
<P>The Queen of <HI>Scotland</HI> is your Pri&s;oner; let her be honourably entreated, but yet &s;urely guarded.</P>
<P>The <HI>French</HI> King is <HI>French,</HI> you know it well enough, you will finde him occupied when he &s;hould do you good; he will not loo&s;e a Pilgrimage to &s;ave you a Crown. I have no more to &s;ay at this time, but that with my Heart and Soul I do now honour and love you; am inwardly &s;orry for mine Offence, and ready to make you amends by my Death and Patience. Di&s;charge me <HI>&agrave; culp&acirc;,</HI> but not <HI>&agrave; poen&acirc;,</HI> good Lady. And &s;o farewel, mo&s;t gracious, and the be&s;t-natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the <HI>Tower,</HI>
<DATE>the 14th of <HI>February, 1584.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>W. Parry.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<PB REF="11">
<P>After which, to wit, the 18th of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, <HI>Parry,</HI> in further acknowledging his wicked and intended Trea&s;ons, wrote a Letter all of his own hand, in like voluntary manner, to the Lord Trea&s;urer of <HI>England,</HI> and the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> Lord Steward of her Maje&s;ties hou&s;e; the Tenour whereof is as fol|loweth.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD><HI>William Parry's</HI> Letter to the Lord Trea&s;urer, and the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MY Lords, now that the Con&s;piracy is di&s;covered, the Fault confe&s;&s;ed, my Con&s;cience cleared, and Minde prepared patiently to &s;uffer the Pains due for &s;o heinous a Crime: I hope it &s;hall not offend you, if crying <HI>Mi&s;erere</HI> with the poor Publican, I leave to de&s;pair with cur&s;ed <HI>Cain.</HI> My Ca&s;e is rare and &s;trange, and, for any thing I can remember, &s;ingular: A natural Subject &s;olemnly to vow the Death of his natural Queen (&s;o born, &s;o known, and &s;o taken by all men) for the Relief of the afflicted Catholicks, and Re&s;titution of Religion. The Matter fir&s;t conceived in <HI>Venice,</HI> the Service (in general words) pre&s;ented to the Pope, continued and un|dertaken in <HI>Paris;</HI> and la&s;tly, commended and warranted by his Holine&s;s, dige&s;ted and re&s;olved in <HI>England,</HI> if it had not been prevented by Accu&s;ation, or by her Maje&s;ties greater Lenity and more gracious U&s;age of her Catholick Subjects. This is my fir&s;t and la&s;t Offence conceived again&s;t my Prince or Country, and doth (I cannot deny) contein all other faults what&s;oever. It is now to be puni&s;hed by Death, or mo&s;t graciou&s;ly (beyond all common expectation) to be par|doned. Death I do confe&s;s to have de&s;erved; Life I do (with all Humility) crave, if it may &s;tand with the Queens Honour, and Policy of the Time. To leave &s;o great a Trea&s;on unpuni&s;hed, were &s;trange: To draw it by my Death in example, were dangerous: A &s;worn Servant to take upon him &s;uch an Enterprize, upon &s;uch a ground, and by &s;uch a war|rant, hath not been &s;een in <HI>England:</HI> To Indict him, Ar|raign him, bring him to the Scaffold, and to publi&s;h his Offence, can do no good: To hope that he hath more to di&s;cover than is Confe&s;&s;ed, or that at his Execution he will un&s;ay any thing he hath written, is in vain: To conclude, that it is im|po&s;&s;ible for him in time to make &s;ome part of amends, were
<PB REF="11"> very hard, and again&s;t former Experiences. The Que&s;tion then is, whether it be better to kill him, or (le&s;t the matter be mi&s;taken) upon hope of his amendment to pardon him. For mine own opinion (though partial) I will deliver you my Con|&s;cience. The Ca&s;e is good Queen <HI>Elizabeths,</HI> the Offence is committed again&s;t her Sacred Per&s;on, and &s;he may (of her Mercy) pardon it without prejudice to any. Then this I &s;ay, in few words, as a man more de&s;irous to di&s;charge his troubled Con&s;cience, than to live. Pardon poor <HI>Parry,</HI> and relieve him: for life without living is not fit for him. If this may not be, or be thought dangerous, or di&s;honourable to the Queens Maje&s;ty (as by your favours, I think it full of Honour and Mercy) then I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hips (and no other) once to hear me be|fore I be Indicted, and afterwards (if I mu&s;t dye) humbly to intreat the Queens Maje&s;ty to ha&s;ten my Trial and Execu|tion, which I pray God (with all my heart) may prove as honourable to her, as I hope it &s;hall be happy to me; who will, while I live, (as I have done always) pray to Je&s;us Chri&s;t for her Maje&s;ties long and pro&s;perous Reign.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the <HI>Tower,</HI>
<DATE>the 18th of <HI>February,</HI> 1584.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>W. Parry.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>And where in this mean time Sir <HI>Francis Wal&s;ingham,</HI> Secre|tary to her Maje&s;ty, had dealt with one <HI>William Creichton,</HI> a <HI>Scot</HI> for his Birth, and a Je&s;uit by his Profe&s;&s;ion, now Pri&s;oner al&s;o in the <HI>Tower,</HI> for that he was apprehended with divers Plots for Inva&s;ions of this Realm, to under&s;tand of him, if the &s;aid <HI>Parry</HI> had ever dealt with him in the parties beyond the Seas touching that Que&s;tion, Whether it were lawful to kill her Maje&s;ty, or not: the which at that time the &s;aid <HI>Creichton</HI> called not to his remembrance; yet after upon better calling it to minde, upon the 20th day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, he wrote to Ma&s;ter Secretary <HI>Wal&s;ingham</HI> thereof voluntary, all of his own hand, to the effect following.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>William Creichtons <HI>Letter.</HI> February 20.</HEAD>
<P>RIght honourable Sir, when your Honour demanded me if Mr. <HI>Parry</HI> did ask me, If it was rea&s;on to kill the Queen, indeed and verity, then I had no remembrance at all thereof. But &s;ince, thinking on the matter, I have called to mind the whole fa&s;hion of his dealing with me, and &s;ome of his
<PB REF="12"> Arguments: for he dealt very craftily with me, I dare not &s;ay maliciou&s;ly. For I did in no ways think of any &s;uch de&s;ign of his, or of any other, and did an&s;wer him &s;imply after my con&s;ci|ence and knowledge to the verity of the que&s;tion. For after that I had an&s;wered him twice before, <HI>Qu&ograve;d omnino non liceret,</HI> he returned late at Even, by rea&s;on I was to depart early in the next Morning toward <HI>Chamberie</HI> in <HI>Savoy</HI> where I did remain, and being return'd out of the Clo&s;e within one of the Cla&s;&s;es of the Colledge, he proponed to me of the new matter, with his Rea&s;ons and Arguments. Fir&s;t, he alledged the utility of the deed for delivering of &s;o many Catholicks out of mi&s;ery, and re&s;titution of the Catholick Religion. I an&s;wered, that the Scripture an&s;wereth thereto, &s;aying, <HI>Non &s;unt facienda mala, ut veniant bona.</HI> So that for no good, how great that ever it be, may be wrought any evil, how little that ever it be. He re|plyed, that it was not evil to take away &s;o great evil, and induce &s;o great good. I an&s;wered, That all good is not to be done, but that onely, <HI>Quod bene &amp; legitime fieri pote&s;t.</HI> And there|fore, <HI>Dixi, Deum magis amare adverbia qu&agrave;m nomina. Quia in actionibus magis ei placent bene &amp; legitime, quam bonum. Ita ut nullum bonum liceat facere, ni&s;i bene &amp; legitim&egrave; fieri po&s;&s;it. Quod in hoc ca&s;u fieri non pote&s;t.</HI> Yet &s;aid he, that &s;everal learn|ed men were of the opinion, <HI>Quod liceret.</HI> I an&s;wered, that they men perhaps were of the opinion that for the &s;afety of many in Soul and Body, they would permit a particular to his danger, and to the occult judgment of God: Or perhaps &s;aid &s;o, moved rather by &s;ome compa&s;&s;ion and commi&s;eration of the mi&s;erable e&s;tate of the Catholicks, not for any &s;uch Do|ctrine that they did finde in their Books. For it is certain, that &s;uch a thing is not licite to a particular, without &s;pecial revela|tion Divine, which exceedeth our Learning and Doctrine. And &s;o he departed from me.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honours poor &s;ervitor in Chri&s;t Je&s;u.</HI> William Creichton <HI>Pri&s;oner.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Out of the Pri&s;on in the Tower,</HI>
<DATE>the 20th <HI>of</HI> February.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>And where al&s;o the &s;ame <HI>Parry</HI> was on the &s;ame 20th day of <HI>February</HI> examined by Sir <HI>Francis Wal&s;ingham</HI> Knight, what was become of the Letter contained in his Confe&s;&s;ion to be written
<PB REF="12"> unto him by the Cardinal <HI>de Como,</HI> he then an&s;wered, that it was con&s;umed and burnt: and yet after, the next day following, be|ing more vehemently urged upon that point in examination (be|cau&s;e it was known that it was not burnt) he confe&s;&s;ed where he had left it in the Town: whereupon, by <HI>Parrys</HI> direction it was &s;ent for, where it had been lapped up together with other frivo|lous papers, and written upon the one &s;ide of it, <HI>The la&s;t Will of William Parry,</HI> the which Letter was in the <HI>Italian</HI> Tongue, as hereafter followeth, with the &s;ame in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> accordingly Tran&s;|lated.</P>
<LETTER LANG="ita">
<HEAD>A mon Signore, mon Signore <HI>Guglielmo Parry.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MOn Signore, la Santita di N. S. ha veduto le Lettere di V. S. del primo con la fede inclu&s;a, &amp; non puo &s;e non laudare la buona di&s;po&s;ittione &amp; ri&s;olutione che &s;crive di tenere ver&s;o il &s;ervitio &amp; beneficio publico, nel che la Santita &s;ua le&s;&s;orta di per&s;everare, con farne riu&s;cire li effetti che V. S. promette: Et accioche tanto maggiormente V. S. &s;ia ajutata da quel buon Spirito che l'ha mo&s;&s;o, le concede &s;ua Beneditione, plenaria Indulgenza &amp; remi&s;&s;ione di tutti li peccati, &s;econdo che V. S. ha chie&s;to, a&s;&s;icurandos &s;i che oltre il merito, che n'havera in cielo, vuole anco &s;ua Santita con&s;tituir&s;i de|bitore a ricono&s;cere li meriti di V. S. in ogni miglior modo che potra, &amp; cio tanto piu, quanto che V. S. u&s;a maggior mode&s;tia in non pre|tender niente. Metta dun&abque; ad effetto li &s;uoi &s;anti &amp; honorati pen|&s;ieri, &amp; attenda a&s;tar &s;ano. Che per fine io me le offero di core, &amp; le de&s;idero ogni buono &amp; felice &s;ucce&s;&s;o.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Di <HI>Roma</HI>
<DATE>a <HI>30</HI> di <HI>Gennaro, MDLXXXIV.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Al piacer di V. S.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>N. Cardinale di Como.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Al Sig. Guglielmo Parri.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Cardinal <HI>de Como's</HI> Letter to <HI>Will. Parry,</HI> Janu|ary <HI>30th 1584.</HI> by accompt of <HI>Rome.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MOn&s;ignor, the Holine&s;s of our Lord hath &s;een the Letter of your Signory of the fir&s;t, with the a&s;&s;urance in|cluded, and cannot but commend the good di&s;po&s;ition and re&s;olution, which you write to hold towards the Service and Benefit publick: Wherein his Holine&s;s doth exhort you to per&s;evere, with cau&s;ing to bring forth the effects which your
<PB N="20" REF="13"> Signorie promi&s;eth. And to the end you may be &s;o much the more holpen, by that good Spirit which hath moved you thereunto, his Ble&s;&s;edne&s;s doth grant to you plenary Indulgence and Remi&s;&s;ion of all your Sins, according to your reque&s;t. A&s;&s;uring you, that be&s;ides the Merit that you &s;hall receive therefore in Heaven, his Holine&s;s will further make him&s;elf Debtour, to re-acknowledge the de&s;ervings of your Signorie in the be&s;t manner that he can. And that &s;o much the more, in that your Signorie u&s;eth the greater Mode&s;ty, in not pre|tending any thing. Put therefore to effect your holy and honourable thoughts, and attend your Health. And to con|clude, I offer my &s;elf unto you heartily, and do de&s;ire all good and happy &s;ucce&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>At the plea&s;ure of your Signorie, <HI>N.</HI> Card. of <HI>Como.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From <HI>Rome</HI>
<DATE>the 30th of <HI>January,</HI> 1584.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>UPon all which former Accu&s;ation, Declaration, Confe&s;&s;ions, and Proofs, upon <HI>Munday</HI> the 22th day of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> before Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Wray</HI> Knight, Chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> Sir <HI>Gilbert Gerrard</HI> Knight, Ma&s;ter of the Rolls, Sir <HI>Edmund Ander&s;on</HI> Knight, Chief Ju&s;tice of the Common Pleas, Sir <HI>Roger Manwood</HI> Knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir <HI>Thomas Gawdy</HI> Knight, one of the Ju&s;tices of the Pleas before her Maje&s;ty to be holden, and <HI>Will. Perriam,</HI> one of the Ju&s;tices of the Common Pleas, by vertue of her Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion to them and others in that behalf directed; The &s;ame <HI>Parry</HI> was Indicted of High Trea&s;on, for intending and practi&s;ing the Death and De&s;truction of her Maje&s;ty, whom God long pro&s;per, and pre&s;erve from all &s;uch wicked attempts. The tenour of which Indictment appeareth more particularly in the cour&s;e of his Arraignment following.</P>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="arraignment">
<HEAD>The manner of the Arraignment of <HI>Will. Parry</HI> the 25th of <HI>Fe|bruary, 1584.</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> in the place where the Court, commonly called the <HI>Kings-Bench,</HI> is u&s;ually kept, by vertue of her Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion of Oyer and Terminer, before <HI>Henry</HI> Lord <HI>Hun&s;don</HI> Governour of <HI>Barwick,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Knolles</HI> Knight, Trea&s;urer of the Queens Maje&s;ties Hou&s;hold, Sir <HI>James Croft</HI> Knight, Comptroller of the &s;ame Hou&s;hold, Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Hatton</HI> Knight, Vice-Chamberlain to her Maje&s;ty, Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Wray</HI> Knight, Chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> Sir <HI>Gilbert Gerrard</HI>
<PB N="24" REF="13"> Knight, Ma&s;ter of the Rolls, Sir <HI>Edmund Ander&s;on</HI> Knight, Chief-Ju&s;tice of the Common-Pleas, Sir <HI>Roger Manwood</HI> Knight, Chief-Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir <HI>Thomas Hennage</HI> Knight, Trea&s;urer of the Chamber.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, three Proclamations for &s;ilence were made, according to the u&s;ual cour&s;e in &s;uch ca&s;es. Then the Lieutenant was commanded to return his Precept; which did &s;o, and brought the Pri&s;oner to the Bar, to whom <HI>Miles Sandes</HI> E&s;quire, Clerk of the Crown, &s;aid, <HI>William Parry,</HI> hold up thy hand; and he did &s;o. Then &s;aid the Clerk of the Crown, Thou art here Indicted by the Oaths of twelve good and lawful men of the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> before Sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Wray</HI> Knight, and others, which took the Indictment<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Indictment.</NOTE> by the name of <HI>William Parry,</HI> late of <HI>London,</HI> Gentleman, otherwi&s;e called <HI>William Parry,</HI> late of <HI>London,</HI> Doctor of the Law; for that thou, as a fal&s;e Traitor again&s;t the mo&s;t Noble and Chri&s;tian Prince, Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> thy mo&s;t gracious Soveraign and Liege-Lady, not having the fear of God before thine eyes, nor re|garding thy due Allegiance; but being &s;educed by the in&s;tigation of the Devil, and intending to withdraw and extingui&s;h the hearty Love and due Obedience which true and faithful Sub|jects &s;hould bear unto the &s;ame our Soveraign Lady, did&s;t at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> in the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> on the fir&s;t day of <HI>Febru|ary,</HI> in the 26th year of her Highne&s;s Reign, and at divers other times and places in the &s;ame County, maliciou&s;ly and traiterou&s;ly con&s;pire and compa&s;s, not only to deprive and depo&s;e the &s;ame our Sovereign Lady of her Royal E&s;tate, Title and Dignity; but al&s;o to bring her Highne&s;s to Death and final De&s;truction, and Sedition in the Realm to make, and the Government thereof to &s;ubvert, and the &s;incere Religion of God e&s;tabli&s;hed in her Highne&s;s Dominions to alter and &s;ubvert. And that, whereas thou <HI>William Parry,</HI> by thy Letters &s;ent unto <HI>Gregory</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> did&s;t &s;ignifie unto the &s;ame Bi&s;hop thy purpo&s;es and in|tentions afore&s;aid, and thereby did&s;t pray and require the &s;ame Bi&s;hop to give thee Ab&s;olution; that thou afterwards, that is to &s;ay, the la&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> in the 26th year afore&s;aid, did&s;t trai|terou&s;ly receive Letters from one called <HI>Cardinal de Como,</HI> di|rected unto thee <HI>William Parry,</HI> whereby the &s;ame Cardinal did &s;ignifie unto thee, that the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> had peru&s;ed thy Let|ters, and allowed of thine intent; and that to that end he had
<PB N="22" REF="14"> ab&s;olved thee of all thy Sins, and by the &s;ame Letter did animate and &s;tir thee to proceed with thine Enterprize; and that there|upon, thou, the la&s;t day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> in the 26th year afore&s;aid, at Saint <HI>Giles in the fields,</HI> in the &s;ame County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> did&s;t traiterou&s;ly confer with one <HI>Edmund Nevil</HI> E&s;quire, uttering to him all thy wicked and traiterous devi&s;es, and then and there did&s;t move him to a&s;&s;i&s;t thee therein, and to joyn with thee in tho&s;e wicked Trea&s;ons afore&s;aid, again&s;t the Peace of our &s;aid Soveraign Lady the Queen, her Crown and Dignity. What &s;aye&s;t thou, <HI>William Parry,</HI> Art thou guilty of the&s;e Trea&s;ons whereof thou &s;tande&s;t here Indicted, or not guilty?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry's</HI> an&s;wer to the In|dictment.</NOTE>Then <HI>Parry</HI> &s;aid, Before I plead not guilty, or confe&s;s my &s;elf guilty, I pray you give me leave to &s;peak a few words: and with humbling him&s;elf, began in this manner. God &s;ave Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and God &s;end me grace to di&s;charge my duty to her, and to &s;end you home in charity. But touching the matters that I am Indicted of, &s;ome were in one place, and &s;ome in another, and done &s;o &s;ecretly, as none can &s;ee into them, except that they had eyes like unto God; wherefore I will not lay my Blood upon the Jury, but do minde to confe&s;s the Indictment. It containeth but the parts that have been open|ly read, I pray you tell me? Whereunto it was an&s;wered, that the Indictment contained the parts he had heard read, and no o|ther: whereupon the Clerk of the Crown &s;aid unto <HI>Parry, Parry,</HI> thou mu&s;t an&s;wer directly to the Indictment, whether thou be guilty or not.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry</HI> confe&s;&s;eth that he is guilty of all things con|tained in the Indictment.</NOTE>Then &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> I do confe&s;s that I am guilty of all that is therein contained: And further too, I de&s;ire not life, but de&s;ire to die. Unto which the Clerk of the Crown &s;aid, If you confe&s;s it, you mu&s;t confe&s;s it in manner and form as it is compri&s;ed in the Indictment. Whereunto he &s;aid, I do confe&s;s it in manner and form as the &s;ame is &s;et down, and all the circum&s;tances thereof. Then the Confe&s;&s;ion being Recorded, the Queens learned Council being ready to pray Judgment upon the &s;ame Confe&s;&s;ion, Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain &s;aid, The&s;e matters contained in this Indictment, and confe&s;&s;ed by this man, are of great importance: they touch the Per&s;on of the Queens mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty in the highe&s;t de|gree, the very &s;tate and well-doing of the whole Common-wealth, and the truth of Gods Word e&s;tabli&s;hed in the&s;e her Maje&s;ties Dominions, and the open demon&s;tration of that capital envy of
<PB REF="14"> the man of <HI>Rome,</HI> that hath &s;et him&s;elf again&s;t God and all godli|ne&s;s, all good Princes and good Government, and again&s;t good men. Wherefore, I pray you, for the &s;atisfaction of this great Multitude, let the whole matter appear, that every one may &s;ee that the matter of it &s;elf is as bad as the Indictment purporteth, and as he hath Confe&s;&s;ed. Whereto in re&s;pect that the Ju&s;tice of the Realm hath been of late very impudently &s;landered, all yielded as a thing nece&s;&s;ary to &s;atisfie the world in particular, of that which was but &s;ummarily compri&s;ed in the Indictment, though in the Law, his Confe&s;&s;ion &s;erved &s;ufficiently to have proceeded thereupon unto Judgment. Whereupon the Lords and others the Commi&s;&s;ioners, her Maje&s;ties learned Councel, and <HI>Parry</HI> him&s;elf agreed, that <HI>Parry</HI>'s Confe&s;&s;ion (taken the 11th and 13th of <HI>February</HI> 1584. before the Lord of <HI>Hun&s;don,</HI> Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain, and Ma&s;ter Secretary,) and Cardinal <HI>de Como</HI> his Letters, and <HI>Parry</HI>'s Letters to the Lord Trea&s;urer and Lord Steward, &s;hould be openly read.</P>
<P>And <HI>Parry,</HI> for the better &s;atisfying of the people and &s;tanders by, offered to read them him&s;elf: but being told that the Order was, the Clerk of the Crown &s;hould read them, it was &s;o re&s;olved of all parts. And then Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain cau&s;ed to be &s;hewed to <HI>Parry</HI> his &s;aid Confe&s;&s;ion, the Cardinals Letter, and his own Letter afore&s;aid; which after he had particularly viewed every leaf thereof, he confe&s;&s;ed, and &s;aid openly they were the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain, Before we proceed to &s;hew what he hath Confe&s;&s;ed, what &s;ay you, &s;aid he to <HI>Parry,</HI> is that which you have Confe&s;&s;ed here true and did you Confe&s;s it freely and willingly of your &s;elf, or was then any extort means u&s;ed to draw it from you?</P>
<P>Surely, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> I made that Confe&s;&s;ion freely without any con&s;traint, and that is all true, and more too: for there is no Trea|&s;on that hath been &s;ithens the fir&s;t year of the Queen, any way touching Religion, &s;aving receipt of <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> and per&s;wading of others, wherein I have not much dealt, but I have offended in it. And I have al&s;o delivered mine opinion in writing, who ought to be Succe&s;&s;or to the Crown, which he &s;aid to be Trea&s;on al&s;o.</P>
<P>Then his Confe&s;&s;ion of the eleventh and thir|teenth of <HI>February,</HI> all of his own hand writing,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry's</HI> Confe&s;&s;ion of his Trea&s;ons was read by his own a&s;&s;ent.</NOTE> and before particularly &s;et down, was openly,
<PB N="21" REF="15"> and di&s;tinctly read by the Clerk of the Crown. And that done, the Cardinal <HI>di Como</HI> his Letter in Italian was delivered unto <HI>Par|ry</HI>'s hand by the direction of Ma&s;ter Vicechamberlain, which <HI>Parry</HI> there peru&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Letter of Cardinal <HI>di Como</HI> to <HI>Parry,</HI> al&s;o read.</NOTE> and openly affirmed to be wholly of the Cardinals own hand writing, and the Seal to be his own al&s;o, and to be with a Cardinals Hat on it: And him&s;elf did openly read it in <HI>Italian,</HI> as before is &s;et down. And the words bearing &s;ence as it were written to a Bi&s;hop, of to a man of &s;uch degree, it was demanded of him by Ma&s;ter Vice-Chamberlain, Whether he had not taken the degree of a Bi&s;hop? He &s;aid, No: But &s;aid at fir&s;t, tho&s;e terms were proper to the Degree he had taken. And after &s;aid, that the Cardinal did vouch&s;afe, as of a favour, to write &s;o to him. Then the Copy of that Letter in <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as before is al&s;o &s;et down, was in like manner openly read by the Clerk of the Crown; which <HI>Parry</HI> then acknowledged to be truely tran&s;lated.</P>
<P>And thereupon was &s;hewed unto <HI>Parry</HI> his Letter of the 18th of <HI>February,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry's</HI> Letter of the <HI>18th</HI> of <HI>February</HI> to the Lord Trea&s;urer and the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> read.</NOTE> written to the Lord Trea&s;urer, and the Lord Steward: which he confe&s;&s;ed to be all of his own Hand|writing, and was as before is &s;et down.</P>
<P>The&s;e matters being read openly, for manife&s;tation of the matter, <HI>Parry</HI> prayed leave to &s;peak: Whereto Ma&s;ter Vice|chamberlain &s;aid, <HI>If you will &s;ay any thing for the better opening to the world of tho&s;e your foul and horrible Facts, &s;peak on: but if you mean to make any excu&s;e of that which you have confe&s;&s;ed, which el&s;e would have been and do &s;tand proved again&s;t you, for my part, I will not &s;it to hear you.</HI></P>
<P>Then her Maje&s;ties Attourney-General &s;tood up and &s;aid, <HI>It appeareth before you, my Lords, that this man hath been Indicted and Arraigned of &s;everal mo&s;t hainous and horrible Trea&s;ons, and hath confe&s;&s;ed them, which is before you of Record; wherefore there re&s;teth no more to be done, but for the Court to give Judgment accordingly,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queens Atturny requires Judgment.</NOTE> <HI>which here I require in the behalf of the Queens Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Parry, I pray you hear me for di&s;|charging of my Con&s;cience. I will not go about to excu&s;e my &s;elf, nor to &s;eek to &s;ave my Life, I care not for it; you have my Confe&s;&s;ion of record, that is enough for my Life. And I mean to utter more, for which I were worthy to die.</HI> And &s;aid, <HI>I pray you hear me, in that I am to &s;peak to di&s;charge my Con&s;cience.</HI></P>
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<P>Then &s;aid Ma&s;ter Vice-Chamberlain, <HI>Parry,</HI> then do thy Du|ty according to Con&s;cience, and utter all that thou can&s;t &s;ay concerning tho&s;e thy mo&s;t wicked Facts.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Parry, My cau&s;e is rare, &s;ingular and unnatural, conceived at</HI> Venice, <HI>pre&s;ented in general words to the Pope, undertaken at</HI> Paris, <HI>commended and allowed of by his Holine&s;s, and was to have been executed in</HI> England, <HI>if it had not been prevented. Yea, I have committed many Trea&s;ons, for I have committed Trea&s;on in being reconciled, and Trea|&s;on in taking Ab&s;olution.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry</HI> had for his credit aforetime &s;aid very &s;ecret|ly, that he had been &s;oli|cited beyond the Seas to commit the fact, but he would not do it; where|with he craftily abu&s;ed both the Queens Maje&s;ty, and tho&s;e two Coun&s;ellers whereof he now would help him&s;elf with the&s;e fal&s;e Speeches, again&s;t mo&s;t manife&s;t proofs.</NOTE> <HI>There hath been no Trea|&s;on &s;ithens the fir&s;t year of the Queens Reign tou|ching Religion, but that I am guilty of (except for receiving of</HI> Agnus Dei, <HI>and per&s;wading as I have &s;aid:) And yet never intended to kill Queen</HI> Elizabeth. <HI>I appeal to her own knowledge, and to my Lord Trea&s;urers, and Ma&s;ter Secretaries.</HI></P>
<P>Then &s;aid my L^d <HI>Hun&s;don, Ha&s;t thou acknow|ledged it &s;o often, and &s;o plainly in writing under thy hand, and here of record; and now, when thou &s;houlde&s;t have thy judgment according to that which thou ha&s;t Confe&s;&s;ed thy &s;elf guilty of, doe&s;t thou go back again, and deny the ef|fect of all? How can we believe that thou now &s;aye&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>Then &s;aid Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlains Speeches, proving mani|fe&s;tly <HI>Parry's</HI> Traiterous intentions.</NOTE> This is ab&s;urd. Thou ha&s;t not onely Confe&s;&s;ed ge|nerally, that thou wert guilty according to the Indictment, which &s;ummarily, and yet in ex|pre&s;s words doth contain that thou had&s;t Traiterou&s;ly compa&s;&s;ed and intended the death and de&s;truction of her Maje&s;ty; but thou al&s;o &s;aid&s;t particularly that thou wert guilty of every of the Trea|&s;ons contained therein, whereof the &s;ame was one, in plain and expre&s;s letter &s;et down, and read unto thee. Yea, thou &s;aid&s;t that thou wert guilty of more Trea&s;ons too be&s;ides the&s;e. And did&s;t thou not upon thy examination voluntarily confe&s;s, how thou wa&s;t moved fir&s;t thereunto by mi&s;like of thy &s;tate after thy departure out of the Realm, And that thou did&s;t mi&s;like her Ma|je&s;ty for that &s;he had done nothing for thee; How by wicked Pa|pi&s;ts and Popi&s;h Books, thou wert per&s;waded that it was lawful to kill her Maje&s;ty; How thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked &s;ort, that held her Maje&s;ty for neither lawful Queen nor Chri&s;tian, And that it was meritorious to kill her? And did&s;t thou not &s;ignifie that thy purpo&s;e to the Pope by Let|ters and, received&s;t Letters from the Cardinal, how he allowed of
<PB REF="16"> thine intent, and excited thee to perform it, and thereupon did&s;t receive Ab&s;olution? And did&s;t thou not conceive it, promi&s;e it, vow it, &s;wear it, and receive the Sacrament that thou would&s;t do it? And did&s;t not thou thereupon affirm, that thy Vows were in Heaven, and thy Letters and Promi&s;es on Earth to binde thee to do it? And that what&s;oever her Maje&s;ty would have done for thee, could not have removed thee from that intention or purpo&s;e, unle&s;s &s;he would have de&s;i&s;ted from dealing as &s;he hath done with the Catholicks, as thou calle&s;t them? All this thou ha&s;t plainly Confe&s;&s;ed: And I prote&s;t before this great A&s;&s;embly, thou ha&s;t Confe&s;&s;ed it more plainly and in better &s;ort, than my memory will &s;erve me to utter: And &s;ai&s;t thou now, that thou never meant'&s;t it?</P>
<P>Ah, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> your Honours know, how my Confe&s;&s;ion upon mine Examination was extorted.</P>
<P>Then both the Lord <HI>Hun&s;don</HI> and Ma&s;ter Vice-Chamberlain affirmed, that there was no Torture or threatning words offered him.</P>
<P>But <HI>Parry</HI> then &s;aid, that they told him, that if he would not confe&s;s willingly, he &s;hould have torture: whereunto their Ho|nours an&s;wered, that they u&s;ed not any &s;peech or word of torture to him.</P>
<P>You &s;aid, &s;aid <HI>Parry,</HI> that you would proceed with rigour again&s;t me, if I would not confe&s;s it of my &s;elf.</P>
<P>But their Honours expre&s;ly affirmed, that they u&s;ed no &s;uch words. But I will tell thee, &s;aid Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain, what we &s;aid. I &s;pake the&s;e words: If you will willingly utter the truth of your &s;elf, it may do you good, and I wi&s;h you to do &s;o: If you will not, we mu&s;t then proceed in ordinary cour&s;e to take your Examina|tion. Whereunto you an&s;wered, that you would tell the truth of your &s;elf.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry</HI> reproved of fal&s;e Speeches, and &s;o by him|&s;elf al&s;o confe&s;&s;ed.</NOTE> Was not this true? Which then he yielded unto.</P>
<P>And hereunto, her Maje&s;ties Attourney-General put <HI>Parry</HI> in remembrance what Speeches he u&s;ed to the Lieutenant of the Tower, the Queens Maje&s;ties Serjeant at Law, Ma&s;ter <HI>Gaudie,</HI> and the &s;ame Attourney, on Saturday the twentieth of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, at the <HI>Tower,</HI> upon that he was by them then examined by Order from the Lords: which was, that he acknow|ledg'd he was mo&s;t mildly and favourably dealt with, in all his Ex|aminations: which he al&s;o at the Bar then acknowledg'd to be true.</P>
<P>Then Ma&s;ter Vice-chamberlain &s;aid, that it was wonder to &s;ee the magnanimity of her Maje&s;ty, which after that thou had&s;t
<PB REF="16"> opened tho&s;e Trayterous Practices in &s;ort as thou ha&s;t laid it down in thy Confe&s;&s;ion, was neverthele&s;s &s;uch, and &s;o far from all fear, as that &s;he would not &s;o much as acquaint any one of her Highne&s;s Privy-Council with it, to his knowledge, no not until after this thine Enterpri&s;e di&s;covered and made manife&s;t. And be&s;ides that which thou ha&s;t &s;et down under thine own hand, thou did&s;t confe&s;s, that thou had&s;t prepared two <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Dag|gers, fit for &s;uch a purpo&s;e; and tho&s;e being di&s;po&s;ed away by thee, thou did&s;t &s;ay, that another would &s;erve thy turn. And withal, <HI>Parry,</HI> did&s;t thou not al&s;o confe&s;s before us, how wonderfully thou wert appaled and perplexed upon a &s;udden, at the pre&s;ence of her Maje&s;ty at <HI>Hampton-Court</HI> this la&s;t Sum|mer, &s;aying, that thou did&s;t think, thou then &s;awe&s;t in her, the very likene&s;s and image of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh? And that therewith, and upon &s;ome Speeches u&s;ed by her Maje&s;ty, thou did&s;t turn about and weep bitterly to thy &s;elf? And yet did&s;t call to minde that thy Vows were in Heaven, thy Letters and Promi&s;es on Earth; and that therefore thou did&s;t &s;ay with thy &s;elf, that there was no remedy but to do it? Did&s;t thou not confe&s;s this? The which he acknowledged.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Hun&s;don,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The L. of <HI>Hun&s;don's</HI> Speeches, convincing <HI>Parry</HI> manife&s;tly of his Trea|&s;on.</NOTE> <HI>Saye&s;t thou now, that thou did&s;t never mean to kill the Queen? Did&s;t thou not confe&s;s, that when thou did&s;t utter this practice of treachery to her Maje&s;ty, that thou did&s;t cover it with all the skill thou had&s;t, and that it was done by thee, rather to get credit and acce&s;s thereby, than for any regard thou had&s;t of her Per&s;on? But in truth thou did&s;t it, that thereby thou mighte&s;t have better opportunity to perform thy wicked Enterpri&s;e. And woulde&s;t thou have run into &s;uch fear as thou did&s;t confe&s;s that thou wert in, when thou did&s;t utter it, if thou had&s;t never meant it? What rea&s;on can&s;t thou &s;hew for thy &s;elf?</HI> With that he cryed out in a furious manner, <HI>I never meant to kill her: I will lay my Blood upon Queen</HI> Elizabeth <HI>and you, before God and the World:</HI> And thereupon fell into a rage and evil words with the Queens Maje&s;ties Attourney-General.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Hun&s;don,</HI> This is but thy Popi&s;h Pride and O&s;tentation, which thou would&s;t have to be told to thy fellows of that Faction, to make them believe that thou die&s;t for Po|pery, when thou die&s;t for mo&s;t horrible and dangerous Trea&s;ons again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, and thy whole Country. For thy laying of thy Bloud, it mu&s;t lye on thine own Head, as a ju&s;t Reward
<PB REF="17"> of thy wickedne&s;s. The Laws of the Realm mo&s;t ju&s;tly con|demn thee to die, out of thine own mouth, for the con&s;piring the De&s;truction both of her Maje&s;ty, and of us all: Therefore thy Bloud be upon thee; neither her Maje&s;ty nor we at any time &s;ought it, thy &s;elf ha&s;t &s;pilt it.</P>
<P>Then he was asked, What he could &s;ay, why Judgment of Death ought not to be awarded again&s;t him.</P>
<P>Whereto he &s;aid, he did &s;ee that he mu&s;t die, becau&s;e he was not &s;ettled.</P>
<P>What meane&s;t thou by that, &s;aid Ma&s;ter Vice-Chamberlain? Said he, Look into your Study, and into your new Books, and you &s;hall finde what I mean.</P>
<P>I prote&s;t (&s;aid his Honour) I know not what thou meane&s;t: thou do&s;t not well to u&s;e &s;uch dark Speeches, unle&s;s thou would&s;t plainly utter what thou meane&s;t thereby. But he &s;aid, he cared not for Death, and that he would lay his Bloud among&s;t them.</P>
<P>Then &s;pake the Lord Chief-Ju&s;tice of <HI>En|gland,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lord Chief-Ju|&s;tices Speech to <HI>Parry.</HI></NOTE> being required to give the Judgment, and &s;aid, <HI>Parry,</HI> you have been much heard, and what you mean by being &s;ettled, I know not; but I &s;ee you are &s;o &s;ettled in Popery, that you cannot &s;ettle your &s;elf to be a good Subject. But touching that you &s;hould &s;ay, to &s;tay Judgment from being given again&s;t you, your Speeches mu&s;t be of one of the&s;e kinds, either to prove the Indictment (which you have confe&s;&s;ed to be true) to be in&s;ufficient in Law; or el&s;e to plead &s;omewhat touching her Maje&s;ties Mercy, why Ju&s;tice &s;hould not be done of you. All other Speeches, wherein you have u&s;ed great Liberty, is more than by Law you can ask. The&s;e be the matters you mu&s;t look to, what &s;ay you to them? Whereto he &s;aid nothing.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid the Lord Chief-Ju&s;tice, <HI>Parry,</HI> thou ha&s;t been be|fore this time Indicted of divers mo&s;t horrible and hateful Trea|&s;ons, committed again&s;t thy mo&s;t gracious Soveraign and Native Country: the matter mo&s;t dete&s;table, the manner mo&s;t &s;ubtle and dangerous, and the occa&s;ions and means that led thee there|unto, mo&s;t ungodly and villanous. That thou did&s;t intend it, it is mo&s;t evident by thy &s;elf. The matter was the de&s;truction of a mo&s;t Sacred and an Anointed Queen, thy Sovereign and Mi&s;tri&s;s, who hath &s;hewed thee &s;uch Favour, as &s;ome thy betters have not obtained: Yea, the Overthrow of thy Country where|in thou wert born, and of a mo&s;t happy Commonwealth where|of
<PB N="29" REF="17"> thou art a Member, and of &s;uch a Queen, as hath be&s;towed on thee the Benefit of all benefits in this world, that is, thy Life, heretofore granted thee by her Mercy, when thou had&s;t lo&s;t it by Ju&s;tice and De&s;ert. Yet: thou her Servant, &s;worn to defend her, meant'&s;t with thy bloudy hand to have taken away her Life, that mercifully gave thee thine, when it was yielded into her hands: This is the matter wherein thou ha&s;t offended. The manner was mo&s;t &s;ubtle and dangerous, beyond all that before thee have committed any Wickedne&s;s again&s;t her Maje&s;ty. For thou, making &s;hew as if thou woulde&s;t &s;imply have uttered for her &s;afety the Evil that others had contrived, did&s;t but &s;eek thereby credit and acce&s;s, that thou mighte&s;t take the apter opportunity for her De&s;truction. And for the occa&s;ions and means that drew thee on, they were mo&s;t ungodly and villanous, as the per&s;wa&s;ions of the Pope, of Papi&s;ts, and Popi&s;h Books. The Pope pretendeth that he is a Pa&s;tor, when as in truth, he is far from feeding of the Flock of Chri&s;t; but rather as a Wolf, &s;eeketh but to feed on and to &s;uck out the blood of true Chri&s;tians, and as it were thir|&s;teth after the bloud of our mo&s;t Gracious and Chri&s;tian Queen. And the&s;e Papi&s;ts and Popi&s;h Books, while they pretend to &s;et forth Divinity, they do indeed mo&s;t ungodly teach and per|&s;wade, that which is quite contrary both to God and his Word. For the Word teaches Obedience of Subjects towards Princes, and forbideth any private man to kill: But they teach Subjects to di&s;obey Princes, and that a private wicked per&s;on may kill; yea, and whom? A mo&s;t godly Queen, and their own natural and mo&s;t gracious Soveraign. Let all men therefore take heed how they receive any thing from him, hear or read any of their Books, and how they confer with any Papi&s;ts. God grant her Maje&s;ty, that &s;he may know by thee, how ever &s;he tru&s;t &s;uch like to come &s;o near her Per&s;on. But &s;ee the end, and why thou did&s;t it; and it will appear to be a mo&s;t mi&s;erable, fearful, and fooli&s;h thing: For thou did&s;t imagine, that it was to relieve tho&s;e, that thou calle&s;t Catholicks, who were mo&s;t likely among&s;t all others to have felt the wor&s;t of it, if thy devili&s;h practice had taken effect. But &s;ith thou ha&s;t been Indicted of the Trea&s;ons com|pri&s;ed in the Indictment, and thereupon Arraigned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Form of the Judgment again&s;t the Traitor.</NOTE> and ha&s;t confe&s;&s;ed thy &s;elf Guilty of them, the Court doth award, that thou &s;halt be had from hence to the place whence thou did&s;t come, and &s;o drawn through the open City of <HI>London</HI> upon an Hurdle to the place of Exe|cution,
<PB N="30" REF="18"> and there to be hanged and let down alive, and thy privy parts cut off, and thy entrals taken out and burnt in thy fight, then thy Head to be cut off, and thy Body to be divided in four parts, and to be di&s;po&s;ed at her Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure: And God have mercy on thy Soul.</P>
<P><HI>Parry</HI> neverthele&s;s per&s;i&s;ted &s;till in his rage and fond Speech, and ragingly there &s;aid, he there &s;ummoned Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> to an&s;wer for his Blood before God: wherewith, the Lieutenant of the <HI>Tower</HI> was commanded to take him from the Bar, and &s;o he did. And upon his departure, the people &s;tricken as it were at heart with the horror of his intended Enterpri&s;e, cea&s;ed not, but pur&s;ued him with out-cryes, as, Away with the Traitor, away with him, and &s;uch like: whereupon he was conveyed to the Barge, to pa&s;s to the <HI>Tower</HI> again by water, and the Court was adjorned.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> Martii. <HI>William Par|ry</HI> the Traytor Executed.</NOTE>After which, upon the &s;econd day of this in&s;tant <HI>March, William Parry</HI> was by vertue of proce&s;s in that behalf, awarded from the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> delivered by the Lieutenant of the <HI>Tower</HI> ear|ly in the morning, unto the Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> who received him at the <HI>Tower-hill,</HI> and thereupon, according to the judgment, cau&s;ed him there to be forthwith &s;et on the Hurdel. From whence he was drawn thereupon threw the mid&s;t of the City of <HI>London,</HI> unto the place for his Execution in the <HI>Pallace</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter:</HI> where, having long time of &s;tay admitted unto him before his Execution, he mo&s;t maliciou&s;ly and impudently, after &s;ome other vain di&s;cour&s;es eft&s;oons and often delivered in Speech, that he was never guilty of any intention to kill Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and &s;o (without any reque&s;t made by him to the people to pray to God for him, or prayer publickly u&s;ed by him&s;elf for ought that appear|ed; but &s;uch as he u&s;ed, if he u&s;ed any, was private to him&s;elf) he was executed according to the judgment. And now for his intent, how&s;oever he pretended the contrary in words, yet by the&s;e his own Writings, Confe&s;&s;ions, Letters, and many other proofs afore here expre&s;&s;ed, it is mo&s;t manife&s;t to all per&s;ons, how horrible his intentions and Trea&s;ons were, and how ju&s;tly he &s;uffered for the &s;ame; and thereby greatly to be doubted, that as he had lived a long time vainly and ungodly, and like an Athei&s;t and godle&s;s man, &s;o he continued the &s;ame cour&s;e till his death to the outward &s;ight of men.</P>
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<TRAILER>Here endeth the true and plain cour&s;e and proce&s;s of the Trea|&s;ons, Arre&s;t, Arraignment, and Execution of <HI>William Par|ry</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Traitor.</TRAILER>
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<PB N="31" REF="18">
<HEAD>An addition not unnece&s;&s;ary for this purpo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>FOr as much as <HI>Parry</HI> in the abundance of his proud and arro|gant humour, hath often both in his Confe&s;&s;ion, and Letters, pretended &s;ome great and grievous cau&s;es of di&s;contentment again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, and the pre&s;ent State: It &s;hall not be impertinent, for better &s;atisfaction of all per&s;ons, to &s;et forth &s;imply and tru|ly, the condition and quality of the man, what he was by Birth and Education, and in what cour&s;e of life he had lived.</P>
<P>This vile and Traiterous Wretch was one of the younger Sons of a poor man, called <HI>Harry ap David:</HI> he dwelled in <HI>North-Wales</HI> in a little Village called <HI>Northoppe,</HI> in the County of <HI>Flint:</HI> there he kept a common Ale-hou&s;e, which was the be&s;t and great|e&s;t &s;tay of his living. In that hou&s;e was this Traitor Born, his Mother was the reputed Daughter of one <HI>Conway</HI> a Prie&s;t, Par&s;on of a poor Pari&s;h called <HI>Halkin,</HI> in the &s;ame County of <HI>Flint:</HI> his his elde&s;t Brother dwelleth at this pre&s;ent in the &s;ame Hou&s;e, and there keepeth an Ale-hou&s;e as his Father did before him. This Traitor in his Childhood, &s;o &s;oon as he had learned a lttle to Write &amp; Read, was put to &s;erve a poor man dwelling in <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> named <HI>John Fi&s;her,</HI> who profe&s;&s;ed to have &s;ome &s;mall skill and under|&s;tanding in the Law. With him he continued divers years, and &s;erved as a Clerk, to write &s;uch things, as in that Trade which his ma&s;ter u&s;ed, he was appointed. During this time, he learned the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Tongue, and at &s;uch times of lea&s;ure, as the poor man his Ma&s;ter had no occa&s;ion otherwi&s;e to u&s;e him, he was &s;uf|fered to go to the Grammer-School, where he got &s;ome little un|der&s;tanding in the Latin Tongue. In this his Childhood he was noted by &s;uch as be&s;t knew him, to be of a mo&s;t villanous and dangerous nature and di&s;po&s;ition. He did often run away from his Ma&s;ter, and was often taken and brought to him again. His Ma&s;ter, to correct his perver&s;e and froward conditions, did many times &s;hut him as Pri&s;oner in &s;ome clo&s;e place of his hou&s;e, and many times cau&s;ed him to be chained, locked, and clogged, to &s;tay his running away. Yet all was in vain: For about the third year of her Maje&s;ties Reign, for his la&s;t farewel to his poor Ma&s;ter, he ran away from him, and came to <HI>London</HI> to &s;eek his Adven|tures. He was then con&s;trained to &s;eek what Trade he could to live by, and to get meat and drink for his belly, and cloaths for his back. His good hap in the end was to be entertained in
<PB N="32" REF="19"> place of Service above his De&s;ert; where he &s;taid not long, but &s;hifted him&s;elf divers times from Service to Service, and from one Ma&s;ter to another. Now he began to forget his old Home, his Birth, his Education, his Parents, his Friends, his own Name, and what he was. He a&s;pired to greater matters, he challenged the Name and Title of a great Gentleman, he vaunted him&s;elf to be of Kin and allied to Noble and Wor&s;hipful; he left his old Name, which he did bear and was commonly called by in his Childhood, and during all the time of his abode in the Country, which was <HI>William ap Harry</HI> (as the manner in <HI>Wales</HI> is.) And becau&s;e he would &s;eem to be indeed the man which he pre|tended, he took upon him the Name of <HI>Parry,</HI> being the Sir|name of divers Gentlemen of great Wor&s;hip and Honour. And becau&s;e his Mothers Name by her Father (a Prie&s;t) was <HI>Conway,</HI> he pretended Kindred to the Family of Sir <HI>John Conway,</HI> and &s;o thereby made him&s;elf of kin to <HI>Edmund Nevil.</HI> Being thus &s;et forth with his new Name and new Title of Gentleman, and commended by &s;ome of his good Favourers, he matched him|&s;elf in Marriage with a Widow in <HI>South-Wales,</HI> who brought him &s;ome rea&s;onable Portion of Wealth. She lived with him but a &s;hort time, and the wealth he had with her la&s;ted not long: it was &s;oon con&s;umed with his di&s;&s;olute and wa&s;tful manner of life. He was then driven to his wonted &s;hifts, his Creditors were ma|ny, the Debt which he owed great, he had nothing wherewith to make Payment, he was continually pur&s;ued by Serjeants and Officers to Arre&s;t him, he did often by &s;lights and &s;hifts e&s;cape from them. In this his needy and poor e&s;tate, he &s;ought to repair him&s;elf again by a new match in Marriage with another Widow, which before was the Wife of one <HI>Richard Heywood;</HI> this matter was &s;o earne&s;tly followed by him&s;elf, and &s;o effectually com|mended by his Friends and Favourers, that the Woman yielded to take him to Husband: a Match in every re&s;pect very unequal and unfit; her Wealth and yearly Livelihood was very great, his poor and ba&s;e E&s;tate wor&s;e than nothing; he very young, &s;he of &s;uch age, as for years &s;he might have been his Mother. When he had thus po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of his new Wives wealth, he omitted nothing that might &s;erve for a prodigal, di&s;&s;olute, and mo&s;t ungodly cour&s;e of Life. His Riot and Exce&s;s was un|mea&s;urable; he did mo&s;t wickedly deflower his Wives own Daughter, and &s;undry ways pitifully abu&s;e the old Mother: He carried him&s;elf for his outward port and countenance (&s;o long as
<PB REF="19"> his Old wives Bags la&s;ted) in &s;uch &s;ort, as might well have &s;uffi|ced for a man of very good haviour and degree. But this la&s;ted not long; his proud heart and wa&s;tful hand had foon poured out old <HI>Heywood</HI>'s Wealth. He then fell again to his wonted &s;hifts, borrowed where he could finde any to lend, and engaged his Credit &s;o far as any would tru&s;t him. Among&s;t others, he became greatly indebted to <HI>Hugh Hare,</HI> the Gentle|man before-named; who after long forbearing of his Money, &s;ought to recover it by ordinary means of Law. For this cau&s;e <HI>Parry</HI> conceived great di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t him, which he pur&s;ued with all Malice, even to the &s;eeking of his Life. In this mur|therous intent, he came in the night-time to Mr. <HI>Hares</HI> Chamber in the <HI>Temple,</HI> broke open the door, a&s;&s;aulted him, and wounded him grievou&s;ly, and &s;o left him in great danger of Life. For this Offence he was Apprehended, Committed to <HI>Newgate,</HI> In|dicted of Burglary, Arraigned, and found Guilty by a very &s;ub&s;tantial Jury,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Parry</HI> Condemned for Burglary, Par|doned of the Queen.</NOTE> <HI>and Condemned to be Hanged, as the Law in that Ca&s;e requireth.</HI> He &s;tanding thus Convicted, her Maje&s;ty, of her mo&s;t gracious Clemency, and pitiful Di&s;po&s;ition, took com|pa&s;&s;ion upon him, pardoned his Offence, and gave him his Life, which by the Law and due cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice he ought then to have lo&s;t. After this he tarried not long, but pretending &s;ome cau&s;es of di&s;contentment, departed the Realm, and travelled be|yond the Seas. How he demeaned him&s;elf there from time to time, and with whom he conver&s;ed, is partly in his own Con|fe&s;&s;ion touched before. This is the man, this is his Race, which he feared &s;hould be &s;potted, if he mi&s;carried in the execution of his Traiterous Enterpri&s;e; this hath been the cour&s;e of his Life, the&s;e are the great cau&s;es of his Di&s;contentment.</P>
<P>And whereas at his Arraignment and Execution, he pretended great care of the di&s;obedient Popi&s;h Subjects of this Realm, whom he called Catholicks, and in very in&s;olent &s;ort &s;eemed to glory greatly in the Profe&s;&s;ion of his preten&s;ed Catholick Reli|gion: The whole cour&s;e and action of his Life &s;heweth plainly, how profanely and irreligiou&s;ly he did always bear him&s;elf. He vaunted, that for the&s;e two and twenty years pa&s;t he had been a Catholick, and during all that time never received the Com|munion: Yet before he travelled beyond the Seas, at three &s;e|veral times within the compa&s;s of tho&s;e two and twenty years, he did voluntarily take the Oath of Obedience to the Queens Maje&s;ty, &s;et down in the Statute made in the fir&s;t year of her Highne&s;s
<PB REF="20"> Reign; by which, among&s;t other things, he did te&s;tifie and declare in his Con&s;cience, that no Forreign Prince, Per&s;on, Pre|late, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Juri&s;diction, Power, Preeminence, or Authority, Eccle&s;ia&s;tical or Spiritual, with|in this Realm; and therefore did utterly renounce and for&s;ake all Forreign Juri&s;dictions, Powers, and Authorities; and did promi&s;e to bear Faith and true Allegeance to the Queens High|ne&s;s, her Heirs and lawful Succe&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>With what Con&s;cience or Religion he took that Oath &s;o often, if he were then a Papi&s;t indeed, as &s;ithence the di&s;covery of his Trea&s;ons he pretended, let his be&s;t friends the Papi&s;ts them&s;elves judge. But perhaps it may be &s;aid, that he repented tho&s;e his Offences pa&s;t; that &s;ince tho&s;e three Oaths &s;o taken by him, he was twice reconciled to the Pope, and &s;o his Con&s;cience cleared, and he become a new man; and (which is more) that in the time of his la&s;t Travel, he ca&s;t away all his former lewd manners: that he changed his degree and habit, and bought or begged the grave Title of a Doctor of Law, for which he was well qualified with a little Grammar-School <HI>Latine;</HI> that he had Plenary In|dulgence, and Remi&s;&s;ion of all his Sins, in con&s;ideration of his undertaking of &s;o holy an Enterpri&s;e as to kill Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a &s;acred anointed Queen, his Natural and Soveraign Lady: That he promi&s;ed to the Pope, and vowed to God to perform it: that he confirmed the &s;ame by receiving the Sacrament at the Je&s;uits, at one Altar with his two <HI>Beaupeers,</HI> the Cardinals of <HI>Vendo&s;me</HI> and <HI>Narbonne:</HI> And that &s;ince his la&s;t return into <HI>England,</HI> he did take his Oath upon the Bible to execute it. The&s;e Rea&s;ons may &s;eem to bear &s;ome weight indeed among&s;t his Friends the Je|&s;uits, and other Papi&s;ts of State, who have &s;pecial Skill in mat|ters of &s;uch importance.</P>
<P>But now lately in the beginning of this Parliament in <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, he did eft&s;oons &s;olemnly in publick place take the Oath be|fore mentioned, of obedience to her Maje&s;ty. How that may &s;tand with his reconciliations to the Pope, and with his Promi&s;es, Vows, and Oath to kill the Queen, it is a thing can hardly be warranted, unle&s;s it be by &s;ome &s;pecial priviledge of the Popes omnipotency.</P>
<P>But let him have the glory he de&s;ired, to live and die a Papi&s;t. He de&s;erved it, it is fit for him, his death was corre&s;pondent to the cour&s;e of his life, which was di&s;loyal, perjured, and Traiterous towards her Maje&s;ty, and fal&s;e and perfidious towards the Pope him&s;elf, and his Catholicks, if they will believe his &s;olemn prote&s;ta|tions
<PB N="35" REF="20"> which he made at his Arraignment and Execution, that he never meant nor intended any hurt to her Highne&s;s Per&s;on. For if that be true, where are then his Vows which he &s;aid were in Heaven, his Letters and Promi&s;e upon Earth? Why hath he &s;tol|len out of the Popes &s;hop &s;o large an Indulgence and plenary Re|mi&s;&s;ion of all his Sins, and meant to perform nothing that he pro|mi&s;ed? Why was his Devotion and Zeal &s;o highly commended? Why was he &s;o &s;pecially prayed for and remembred at the Altar? All the&s;e great favours were then be&s;towed upon him without cau&s;e or de&s;ert: for he deceived the Pope, he deceived the Car|dinals, and Je&s;uites, with a fal&s;e &s;emblance, and pretence to do that thing which he never meant.</P>
<P>But the matter is clear, the Con&s;piracy, and his traiterous intent is too plain and evident: it is the Lord that revealed it in time, and prevented their malice: there lacked no will, or readine&s;s in him to execute that horrible fact. It is the Lord that hath pre|&s;erved her Maje&s;ty from all the wicked Practices and Con&s;piracies of that Helli&s;h Rabble: it is he that hath mo&s;t gratiou&s;ly deliver'd her from the hands of this Traiterous mi&s;creant. The Lord is her onely defence, in whom &s;he hath always tru&s;ted.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer for all Kings, Princes, Countries and People which do profe&s;s the Go&s;pel; and e&s;pecially for our Soveraign Lady Queen <HI>Elizabeth:</HI> u&s;ed in Her Maje&s;ties Chappel, and meet to be u&s;ed of all per&s;ons within Her Maje&s;ties Dominions.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O</HI> Lord God of ho&s;ts, mo&s;t loving and merciful Father, who&s;e power no creature is able to re&s;i&s;t, who of thy great goodne&s;s ha&s;t promi|&s;ed to grant the petitions of &s;uch as ask in thy Sons Name: We mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech thee to &s;ave and defend all Princes, Magi&s;trates, Kingdoms, Countries and People which have received and do profe&s;s thy holy Word and Go&s;pel; and namely this Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and thy &s;ervant <HI>Elizabeth</HI> our Queen, whom thou ha&s;t hitherto wonderfully pre&s;erved from manifold Perils and &s;undry Dangers, and of late revealed and fru&s;tra|ted the Traiterous Practices and Con&s;piracies of divers again&s;t her: for the which, and all other thy great goodne&s;s towards us, we give thee mo&s;t humble and hearty thanks, be&s;eeching thee in the Name of thy dear Son Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and for his &s;ake, &s;till to pre&s;erve and continue her unto us, and to give her long life and many years to rule over this Land. O Hea|venly Father, the practices of our Enemies, and the Enemies of thy word and truth, again&s;t her and us, are manife&s;t and known unto thee. Turn them, O Lord, if it be thy ble&s;&s;ed Will, or overthrow and confound them, for thy Names &s;ake: Suffer them not to prevail: Take them, O Lord, in their crafty Wiline&s;s that they have invented, and let them fall into the Pit which they have digged for others. Permit them not ungodly to triumph over us: Di&s;comfort them, di&s;comfort them, O Lord, which tru&s;t in their own multitude, and plea&s;e them&s;elves in their &s;ubtile devices, and wicked Con&s;piracies. O loving Father, we have not de&s;erved the lea&s;t of the&s;e thy Mercies which we crave: For we have &s;inned, and grievou&s;ly oftended thee; we are not worthy to be called thy Sons: We have not been &s;o thankful unto thee as we
<PB REF="21" MS="y"> &s;hould, for thy un&s;peakable benefits powred upon us: W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">e abu&s;ed this long time of Peace and Pro&s;perity: We have not obeyed thy Word: We have had it in Mouth, but not in heart; in outward ap|pearance, but not in deed: We have lived carele&s;ly: We have not known the time of our vi&s;itation: we have de&s;erved utter de&s;truction. But thou, O Lord, art merciful, and ready to forgive; therefore we come to thy Throne of Grace, confe&s;&s;ing and acknowledging thee to be our only refuge in all times of peril and danger: And by the means of thy Son, we mo&s;t heartily pray thee to forgive us our Vnthank|fulne&s;s, Di&s;obedience, Hypocri&s;ie, and all other our Sins; to turn from us thy heavy wrath and di&s;plea&s;ure, which we have ju&s;tly de|&s;erved; and to turn our hearts truly unto thee, that daily we may increa&s;e in all goodne&s;s, and continually more and more fear thy holy Name: So &s;hall we glorifie thy Name, and &s;ing unto thee in P&s;alms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: And thy enemies and ours &s;hall know them&s;elves to be but men, and not able by any means to with|&s;tand thee, nor to hurt tho&s;e whom thou ha&s;t received into thy pro|tection and defence. Grant the&s;e things, O Lord of Power, and Fa|ther of Mercy, for thy Chri&s;t's &s;ake; to whom with thee and thy Holy Spirit, be all Honour and Glory for ever and ever. Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer and Thank&s;giving for the Queen, u&s;ed of all the Knights and Bur|ge&s;&s;es in the High Court of Parliament, and very requi&s;ite to be u&s;ed and continued of all her Maje&s;ties loving Subjects.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O</HI> Almighty and mo&s;t merciful God, which do&s;t pitch thy tents round about thy peo|ple, to deliver them from the hands of their enemies; we thy humhle Servants, which have ever of old &s;een thy Salvation, do fall down and pro&s;trate our &s;elves with Prai&s;e and Thank&s;giving to thy glorious Name, who ha&s;t in thy tender Mercies from time to time &s;aved and defended thy Servant ELIZABETH, our mo&s;t gracious Qu&eacute;en, not only from the hands of &s;trange Children, but al&s;o of late revealed and made fru&s;trate his bloody and mo&s;t barbarous Trea&s;on, who being her natural Subject, mo&s;t unnaturally violating thy Divine Ordinance, hath &s;ecretly &s;ought to &s;hed her hlood, to the great di&s;quiet of thy Church, and utter di&s;comfort of our Souls: his &s;nare is hewen in pieces, but upon thy Servant doth the Crown flouri&s;h. The wicked and blood thir&s;ty men think to devour Iacob, and to lay wa&s;te his dwelling-place: But thou (O God) which rule&s;t in Iacob, and unto the ends of the world, do&s;t daily teach us &s;till to tru&s;t in th&eacute;e for all thy great Mercies, and not to forget thy merciful Kindne&s;s &s;hewed to her, that feareth thy Name. O Lord, we confe&s;s to thy Glory and Prai&s;e, that thou only ha&s;t &s;aved us from de&s;truction, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t not given her over for a prey to the wicked: Her Soul is delivered, and we are e&s;caped. Hear us now we pray th&eacute;e, (O mo&s;t merciful Father) and continue forth thy loving Kindne&s;s towards thy Servant, and evermore to thy Glory and our Comfort, k&eacute;ep her in health, with long Life, and Pro&s;perity; who&s;e re&s;t and only refuge is in th&eacute;e, O God of her Salvation. Pre&s;erve her, as thou art wont, pre&s;erve her from the &s;nate of the Enemy, from the gathering together of the froward, from the in&s;urrection of wicked Doers, and from all the traiterous Con&s;piracies of tho&s;e which privily lay wait for her life. Grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Ie&s;us Chri&s;ts &s;ake, our only Mediator and Advocate, Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer u&s;ed in the Parliament onely.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O</HI> Merciful God and Father, fora&s;much as no coun&s;el can &s;tand, nor any can pro&s;per, but only &s;uch as are humbly gathered in thy Name, to f&eacute;el the &s;w&eacute;et ta&s;te of thy Holy Spirit; we gladly acknowledge, that by thy favour &s;tandeth the peaceable pro|tection of our Qu&eacute;en and Realm, and likewi&s;e this favourable liverty granted unto us at this time to make our m&eacute;eting together; which thy bountiful Goodne&s;s we mo&s;t thankfully acknowledging, do withal earne&s;tly pray thy Divine Maje&s;ty &s;o to encline our hearts, as our coun&s;els may be &s;ubject in true obedience to thy Holy Word and Will. And &s;ithe it hath plea&s;ed th&eacute;e to govern this Realm by ordinary a&s;&s;embling the thr&eacute;e E&s;tates of the &s;ame: Our humble Prayer is, that thou wilt graff in us good mindes to conceive, fr&eacute;e liberty to &s;peak, and on all &s;ides a ready and quiet con&s;ent to &s;uch whole&s;ome Laws and Statutes, as may declare us to be thy people, and this Realm to be pro&s;perou&s;ly ruled by thy good guiding and defence; So that we and our Po&s;terity may with chearful hearts wait for thy appearance in Iudgment, that art only able to pre&s;ent us faultle&s;s before God our Heavenly Father: To whom with th&eacute;e our Saviour Chri&s;t, and the Holy Spirit, be all Glory both now and ever. Amen.</P>
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