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A63451	A true and plain declaration of the horrible treasons practised by William Parry ... being a papist, against Queen Elizabeth (of blessed memory,) because she was Protestant, and of his tryal, conviction, and execution for the same : being a full account of his design to have murthered the said Queen, with the copy of a letter written to him by Cardinal Como, by the Popes order, to incourage him to kill the Queen : and of his confession of his treason, both to the Lords of the Council, and at his tryal upon his indictment in Westmminster-Hall : together with his denyal thereof at the place of execution, and his manner of behaviour there : written in the year, 1584.	Parry, William, d. 1585, defendant.	1679 (1679)	Wing T2572; ESTC R1897	35,089	41

Parry did ask me If it was reason to kill the Queen indeed and verity then I had no remembrance at all thereof But since thinking on the matter I have called to mind the whole fashion of his dealing with me and some of his Arguments for he dealt very craftily with me I dare not say maliciously For I did in no ways think of any such design of his or of any other and did answer him simply after my conscience and knowledge to the verity of the question For after that I had answered him twice before Quòd omnino non liceret he returned late at Even by reason I was to depart early in the next Morning toward Chamberie in Savoy where I did remain and being return'd out of the Close within one of the Classes of the Colledge he proponed to me of the new matter with his Reasons and Arguments First he alledged the utility of the deed for delivering of so many Catholicks out of misery and restitution of the Catholick Religion I answered that the Scripture answereth thereto saying Non sunt facienda mala ut veniant bona So that for no good how great that ever it be may be wrought any evil how little that ever it be He replyed that it was not evil to take away so great evil and induce so great good I answered That all good is not to be done but that onely Quod bene legitime fieri potest And therefore Dixi Deum magis amare adverbia quàm nomina Quia in actionibus magis ei placent bene legitime quam bonum Ita ut nullum bonum liceat facere nisi bene legitimè fieri possit Quod in hoc casu fieri non potest Yet said he that several learned men were of the opinion Quod liceret I answered that they men perhaps were of the opinion that for the safety of many in Soul and Body they would permit a particular to his danger and to the occult judgment of God Or perhaps said so moved rather by some compassion and commiseration of the miserable estate of the Catholicks not for any such Doctrine that they did finde in their Books For it is certain that such a thing is not licite to a particular without special revelation Divine which exceedeth our Learning and Doctrine And so he departed from me Your Honours poor servitor in Christ Jesu William Creichton Prisoner Out of the Prison in the Tower the 20th of February And where also the same Parry was on the same 20th day of February examined by Sir Francis Walsingham Knight what was become of the Letter contained in his Confession to be written unto him by the Cardinal de Como he then answered that it was consumed and burnt and yet after the next day following being more vehemently urged upon that point in examination because it was known that it was not burnt he confessed where he had left it in the Town whereupon by Parrys direction it was sent for where it had been lapped up together with other frivolous papers and written upon the one side of it The last Will of William Parry the which Letter was in the Italian Tongue as hereafter followeth with the same in English accordingly Translated A mon Signore mon Signore Guglielmo Parry MOn Signore la Santita di N. S. ha veduto le Lettere di V. S. del primo con la fede inclusa non puo se non landare la buona disposittione risolutione che serive di tenere verso il servitio beneficio publico nel che la Santita sua lessorta di perseverare con farne riuscire li effetti che V. S. promette Et accioche tanto maggiormente V. S. sia ajutata da quel buon Spirito che l'ha mosso le concede sua Beneditione plenaria Indulgenza remissione di tutti li peccati secondo che V. S. ha chiesto assicurandos si che oltre il merito che n'havera in cielo vuole anco sua Santita constituirsi debitore a riconoscere li meriti di V. S. in ogni miglior modo che potra cio tanto pin quanto che V. S. usa maggior modestia in non pretender niente Metta dunque ad effetto li suoi santi honorati pensieri attenda astar sano Che per fine io me le offero di core le desidero ogni buono felice successo Di Roma a 30 di Gennaro MDLXXXIV Al piacer di V. S. N. Cardinale di Como Al Sig. Guglielmo Parri Cardinal de Como's Letter to Will Parry January 30th 1584. by accompt of Rome MOnsignor the Holiness of our Lord hath seen the Letter of your Signory of the first with the assurance included and cannot but commend the good disposition and resolution which you write to hold towards the Service and Benefit publick Wherein his Holiness doth exhort you to persevere with causing to bring forth the effects which your Signorie promiseth And to the end you may be so much the more holpen by that good Spirit which hath moved you thereunto his Blessedness doth grant to you plenary Indulgence and Remission of all your Sins according to your request Assuring you that besides the Merit that you shall receive therefore in Heaven his Holiness will further make himself Debtour to re-acknowledge the deservings of your Signorie in the best manner that he can And that so much the more in that your Signorie useth the greater Modesty in not pretending any thing Put therefore to effect your holy and honourable thoughts and attend your Health And to conclude I offer my self unto you heartily and do desire all good and happy success From Rome the 30th of January 1584. At the pleasure of your Signorie N. Card. of Como UPon all which former Accusation Declaration Confessions and Proofs upon Munday the 22th day of February last past at Westminster-Hall before Sir Christopher Wray Knight Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of the Pleas before her Majesty to be holden and Will. Perriam one of the Justices of the Common Pleas by vertue of her Majesties Commission to them and others in that behalf directed The same Parry was Indicted of High Treason for intending and practising the Death and Destruction of her Majesty whom God long prosper and preserve from all such wicked attempts The tenour of which Indictment appeareth more particularly in the course of his Arraignment following The manner of the Arraignment of Will Parry the 25th of February 1584. at Westminster in the place where the Court commonly called the Kings-Bench is usually kept by vertue of her Majesties Commission of Oyer and Terminer before Henry Lord Hunsdon Governour of Barwick Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of the Queens Majesties

Houshold Sir James Croft Knight Comptroller of the same Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty Sir Christopher Wray Knight Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Edmund Anderson Knight chief-Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Chief-Baron of the Exchequer and Sir Thomas Hennage Knight Treasurer of the Chamber FIrst three Proclamations for silence were made according to the usual course in such cases Then the Lieutenant was commanded to return his Precept which did so and brought the Prisoner to the Bar to whom Miles Sandes Esquire Clerk of the Crown said William Parry hold up thy hand and he did so Then said the Clerk of the Crown Thou art here Indicted by the Oaths of twelve good and lawful men of the County of Middlesex before Sir Christopher Wray Knight and others which took the Indictment by the name of William Parry late of London Gentleman otherwise called William Parry late of London Doctor of the Law for that thou as a false Traitor against the most Noble and Christian Prince Queen Elizabeth thy most gracious Soveraign and Liege-Lady not having the fear of God before thine eyes nor regarding thy due Allegiance but being seduced by the instigation of the Devil and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hearty Love and due Obedience which true and faithful Subjects should bear unto the same our Soveraign Lady didst at Westminster in the County of Middlesex on the first day of February in the 26th year of her Highness Reign and at divers other times and places in the same County maliciously and traiterously conspire and compass not only to deprive and depose the same our Sovereign Lady of her Royal Estate Title and Dignity but also to bring her Highness to Death and final Destruction and Sedition in the Realm to make and the Government thereof to subvert and the sincere Religion of God established in her Highness Dominions to alter and subvert And that whereas thou William Parry by thy Letters sent unto Gregory Bishop of Rome didst signifie unto the same Bishop thy purposes and intentions aforesaid and thereby didst pray and require the same Bishop to give thee Absolution that thou afterwards that is to say the last day of March in the 26th year aforesaid didst traiterously receive Letters from one called Cardinal de Como directed unto thee William Parry whereby the same Cardinal did signifie unto thee that the Bishop of Rome had perused thy Letters and allowed of thine intent and that to that end he had absolved thee of all thy Sins and by the same Letter did animate and stir thee to proceed with thine Enterprize and that thereupon thou the last day of August in the 26th year aforesaid at Saint Giles in the fields in the same County of Middlesex didst traiterously confer with one Edmund Nevil Esquire uttering to him all thy wicked and traiterous devises and then and there didst move him to assist thee therein and to joyn with thee in those wicked Treasons aforesaid against the Peace of our said Soveraign Lady the Queen her Crown and Dignity What sayest thou William Parry Art thou guilty of these Treasons whereof thou standest here Indicted or not guilty Then Parry said Before I plead not guilty or confess my self guilty I pray you give me leave to speak a few words and with humbling himself began in this manner God save Queen Elizabeth and God send me grace to discharge my duty to her and to send you home in charity But touching the matters that I am Indicted of some were in one place and some in another and done so secretly as none can see into them except that they had eyes like unto God wherefore I will not lay my Blood upon the Jury but do minde to confess the Indictment It containeth but the parts that have been openly read I pray you tell me Whereunto it was answered that the Indictment contained the parts he had heard read and no other whereupon the Clerk of the Crown said unto Parry Parry thou must answer directly to the Indictment whether thou be guilty or not Then said Parry I do confess that I am guilty of all that is therein contained And further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the Clerk of the Crown said If you confess it you must confess it in manner and form as it is comprised in the Indictment Whereunto he said I do confess it in manner and form as the same is set down and all the circumstances therof Then the Confession being Recorded the Queens learned Council being ready to pray Judgment upon the same Confession Master Vice-chamberlain said These matters contained in this Indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the Person of the Queens most excellent Majesty in the highest degree the very state and well-doing of the whole Common-wealth and the truth of Gods Word established in these her Majesties Dominions and the open demonstration of that capital envy of the man of Rome that hath set himself against God and all godliness all good Princes and good Government and against good men Wherefore I pray you for the satisfaction of this great Multitude let the whole matter appear that every one may see that the matter of it self is as bad as the Indictment purporteth and as he hath Confessed Whereto in respect that the Justice of the Realm hath been of late very impudently slandered all yielded as a thing necessary to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarily comprised in the Indictment though in the Law his Confession served sufficiently to have proceeded thereupon unto Judgment Whereupon the Lords and others the Commissioners her Majesties learned Councel and Parry himself agreed that Parry's Confession taken the 11th and 13th of February 1584. before the Lord of Hunsdon Master Vice-chamberlain and Master Secretary and Cardinal de Como his Letters and Parry's Letters to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Steward should be openly read And Parry for the better satisfying of the people and standers by offered to read them himself but being told that the Order was the Clerk of the Crown should read them it was so resolved of all parts And then Master Vice-chamberlain caused to be shewed to Parry his said Confession the Cardinals Letter and his own Letter aforesaid which after he had particularly viewed every leaf thereof he confessed and said openly they were the same Then said Master Vice-chamberlain Before we proceed to shew what he hath Confessed what say you said he to Parry is that which you have Confessed here true and did you Confess it freely and willingly of your self or was then any extort means used to draw it from you Surely said Parry I made that Confession freely without any constraint and that is all true and more too for there is no Treason that hath been sithens the sirst year of the

according unto such direction as he received from her Majesty did let him understand That her Highness in respect of the good will she knew he bare unto the said Parry and of the Trust that Parry did outwardly profess to repose in Mr. Secretary had made especial choice of him to deal with him in a matter that concerned her highly and that she doubted not but that he would discharge his duty towards her according unto that extraordinary devotion that he professed to bear unto her And thereupon told him that her Majesty had been advertised that there was somewhat intended presently against her own Person wherewith she thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great Trust that some of her worst-affected Subjects reposed in him and that her pleasure therefore was That he should declare unto him his knowledge therein and whether the said Parry himself had let fall any speech unto any person though with an intent onely to have discovered his disposition that might draw him in suspition as though he himself had any such wicked intent But Parry with great and vehement protestations denied it utterly whereupon Mr. Secretary the rather to induce him to deal more plainly in a matter so important declared unto him That there was a Gentleman of Quality every way as good or better than himself and rather his Friend than Enemy that would avouch it to his face Yet Parry persisted stubbornly in his former denial and justification of his own innocency and would not in any respect yield that he was party or privy to any such Motion Enterprize or intent And being lodged that night at Mr. Secretaries house the next morning he desired earnestly to have some further speech with Mr. Secretary which granted Parry declared to him that he had called to remembrance that he had once some speech with one Nevil a Kinsman of his so he called him touching a point of Doctrine contained in the Answer made to the Book entituled The Execution of Justice in England by which book it was resolved That it was lawful to take away the Life of a Prince in furtherance of the Catholick Religion But he protested that they never had any speech at all of any Attempt intended against her Majesties Person Which Denial of his at two sundry times after so much light given him doth set forth most apparently both the Justice and Providence of God His Justice for that though he was one of a sharp conceit he had no power to take hold of this Overture thereby to have avoided the danger that Nevil's Accusation might bring him into by confessing the same as a thing propounded onely to feel Nevil's mind whom before he had reported unto Master Secretary he found a person discontented and therefore his Confession might to very great purpose have served to have cleared himself touching the intent His Providence for that of his great Mercy he would not suffer so dangerous and wicked a member to escape and to live to Her Majesties peril The same day at Night Parry was brought to the Earl of Leicester's house and there eftsoons examined before the said Earl of Leicester Master Vice-Chamberlain and Master Secretary He persisted still in his denial of all that he was charged with Whereupon Nevil being brought before him face to face justified his Accusation against him He notwithstanding would not yet yield to confess it but very proudly and insolently opposed his Credit against the Credit of Nevil affirming that his No was as good as Nevil's Yea and as by way of recrimination objected the Crime to Nevil himself On the other side Nevil did with great Constancy affirm all that he had before said and did set down many probable Circumstances of the Times Places and Manners of their sundry Conferences and of such other Accidents as had happened between them in the course of that Action Whereupon Parry was then committed to the Tower and Nevil commanded by their Honours to set down in writing under his Hand all that which before he had delivered by words which he did with his own hand as followeth Edmund Nevil his Declaration the 10th of February 1584. subscribed with his own Hand WIlliam Parry the last Summer soon after his repulse in his Suit for the Mastership of St. Katherines repaired to my Lodging in the White Friars where he shewed himself a person greatly discontented and vehemently inveighed against Her Majesty and willed me to assure my self that during this time and state I should never receive Contentment But sith said he I know you to be Honourably descended and a Man of Resolution if you will give me assurance either to joyn with me or not to discover me I will deliver unto you the only means to do your self good Which when I had promised him he appointed me to come the next day to his House in Fetterlane and repairing thither accordingly I found him in his Bed whereupon he commanded his men forth and began with me in this order My Lord said he for so he called me I protest before God that three Reasons principally do induce me to enter into this Action which I intend to discover unto you the replanting of Religion the preferring of the Scotish Title and the advancement of Justice wonderfully corrupted in this Commowealth And thereupon entred into some Discourses what places were fit to be taken to give entrance to such Forreign Forces as should be best liked of for the furtherance of such Enterprizes as were to be undertaken And with these Discourses he passed the time until he went to Dinner after which the Company being retired he entred into his former discourses And if I be not deceived said he by taking of Quinborough Castle we shall hinder the passage of the Queens Ships forth of the River Whereunto when he saw me use no contradiction he shook me by the hand Tush said he this is nothing If men were resolute there is an Enterprize of much more moment and much easier to perform an Act honourable and meritorious to God and the world Which seeing me desirous to know he was not ashamed to utter in plain terms to consist in killing of her Majesty Wherein saith he if you will go with me I will loose my Life or deliver my Countrey from her bad and Tyrannous Government At which Speeches finding me discontented he asked me if I had read Doctor Allen's Book out of which he alledged an Authority for it I answered No and that I did not believe that Authority Well said he what will you say if I shew further Authority than this even from Rome itself a plain Dispensation for the killing of her wherein you shall finde it as I said before meritorious Good Cousin said I when you shall shew it me I shall think it very strange when I shall see one to hold that for meritorious which another holdeth for damnable Well said Parry do me but the favour to think upon it

whom I have of late been beholden that I never had contented thought since There began my misfortune and here followeth my woful fall In July after I laboured for licence to travail for three years which upon some consideration was easily obtained And so in August I went over with doubtful minde of return for that being suspected in Religion and not having received the Communion in twenty two years I began to mistrust my advancement in England In September I came to Paris where I was reconciled to the Church and advised to live without scandal the rather for that it was mistrusted by the English Catholiques that I had Intelligence with the greatest Councellour of England I staied not long there but removed to Lions a place of great Traffick where because it was the ordinary passage of our Nation to and fro between Paris and Rome I was also suspected To put all men out of doubt of me and for some other cause I went to Millain from whence as a place of some danger though I found favour there after I had cleared my conscience and justified my self in Religion before the Inquisitor I went to Venice There I came acquainted with father Benedicto Palmio a grave and a learned Jesuite By conference with him of the hard state of the Catholicks in England and by reading of the Book De persecutione Anglicana and other discourses of like argument 1 I conceived a possible mean to relieve the afflicted state of our Catholicks if the same might be well warranted in religion and conscience by the Pope or some learned Divines I asked his opinion he made it clear commended my devotion comforted me in it and after a while made me known to the Nuntio Campeggio there resident for his Holiness By his means I wrote to the Pope presented the service and sued for a Pasport to go to Rome and to return safely into France Answer came from Cardinal Como that I might come and should be welcome I misliked the warrant sued for a better which I was promised but it came not before my departure to Lions where I promised to stay some time for it And being indeed desirous to go to Rome and loth to go without countenance I desired Christofero de Salazar Secretary to the Catholick King in Venice who had some understanding by conference of my devotion to the afflicted Catholicks at home and abroad to commend me to the Duke di Nova Terra Governour of Millain and to the County of Olivaris Embi then Resident for the King his Master in Rome which he promised to do effectually for the one and did for the other And so I took my journey towards Lyons whither came for me an ample Passeport but somewhat too late that I might come and go in verbo Pontificis per omnes jurisdictones Ecclesiasticas absque impedimento I acquainted some good Fathers there of my necessity to depart towards Paris by promise and prayed their advises upon divers points wherein I was well satisfied And so assuring them that his Holiness should hear from me shortly it was undertaken that I should be excused for that time In October I came to Paris where upon better opinion conceived of me amongst my Catholick Country-men I found my credit well setled and such as mistrusted me before ready to trust and imbrace me And being one day at the Chamber of Thomas Morgan a Catholick Gentleman greatly beloved and trusted on that side amongst other Gentlemen talking but in very good sort of England I was desired by Morgan to go up with him to another Chamber where he brake with me and told me that it was hoped and looked for that I should do some service for God and his Church I answered him I would do it if it were to kill the greatest subject in England whom I named and in truth then hated No no said he let him live to his greater fall and ruine of his house 2. It is the Queen I mean I had him as I wished and told him it were soon done if it might be lawfully done and warranted in the opinion of some learned Divines And so the doubt once resolved though as you have heard I was before reasonably well satisfied I vowed to undertake the enterprise for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the Sea Apostolick Divers Divines were named Doctor Allein I desired Parsons I refused And by chance came Master Wattes a learned Priest with whom I conferred and was over-ruled 3 For he plainly pronounced the case onely altered in name that it was utterly unlawful with whom many English Priests did agree as I have heard if it be not altered since the book made in answer of The execution of the English Justice was published which I must confess hath taken hard hold in me and I fear me will do in others if it be not prevented by more gracious handling of the quiet and obedient Catholick subjects whereof there is good and greater store in England than this age will extinguish Well notwithstanding all these doubts I was gone so far by letters and conference in Italy that I could not go back but promised faithfully to perform the enterprise if his Holiness upon my offer and letters would allow it and grant me full remission of my sins 4 I wrote my letters the first of January 1584. by their computation took advice upon them in confession of Father Anibal a Codreto a learned Jesuite in Paris was lovingly embraced commended confessed and communicated at the Jesuites at one altar with the Cardinals of Vandosmi and Narbone whereof I prayed certificate and enclosed the same in my Letter to his Holiness to lead him the rather to absolve me which I required by my Letters in consideration of so great an enterprise undertaken without promise or reward 5 I went with Morgan to the Nuntio Ragazzoni to whom I read the Letter and certificate enclosed sealed it and left it with him to send to Rome he promised great care of it and to procure answer And so lovingly imbraced me wished me good speed and promised that I should be remembred at the altar 6 After this I desired Morgan that some special man might be made privy to this matter lest he dying and I miscarrying in the execution and my intent never truly discovered it might stick for an everlasting spot in my Race Divers were named but none agreed upon for fear of beraying 7 This being done Morgan assured me that shortly after my departure the L. Fernehurst then in Paris should go into Scotland and be ready upon the first news of the Queens fall to enter into England with 20 or 30000 Men to defend the Queen of Scotland whom and the King her Son I do in my conscience acquit of any privity liking or consent to this or any other bad action for any thing that ever I did know I shortly departed for England and arrived at Rie in January 1583. from whence I

unto And hereunto her Majesties Attourney-General put Parry in remembrance what Speeches he used to the Lieutenant of the Tower the Queens Majesties Serjeant at Law Master Gaudie and the same Attourney on Saturday the twentieth of February last at the Tower upon that he was by them then examined by Order from the Lords which was that he acknowledg'd he was most mildly and favourably dealt with in all his Examinations which he also at the Bar then acknowledg'd to be true Then Master Vice-chamberlain said that it was wonder to see the magnanimity of her Majesty which after that thou hadst opened those Trayterous Practices in sort as thou hast laid it down in thy Confession was nevertheless such and so far from all fear as that she would not so much as acquaint any one of her Highness Privy-Council with it to his knowledge no not until after this thine Enterprise discovered and made manifest And besides that which thou hast set down under thine own hand thou didst confess that thou hadst prepared two Scottish Daggers fit for such a purpose and those being disposed away by thee thou didst say that another would serve thy turn And withal Parry didst thou not also confess before us how wonderfully thou wert appaled and perplexed upon a sudden at the presence of her Majesty at Hampton-Court this last Summer saying that thou didst think thou then sawest in her the very likeness and image of King Henry the Seventh And that therewith and upon some Speeches used by her Majesty thou didst turn about and weep bitterly to thy self And yet didst call to minde that thy Vows were in Heaven thy Letters and Promises on Earth and that therefore thou didst say with thy self that there was no remedy but to do it Didst thou not confess this The which he acknowledged Then said the Lord Hunsdon Sayest thou now that thou didst never mean to kill the Queen Didst thou not confess that when thou didst utter this practice of treachery to her Majesty that thou didst cover it with all the skill thou hadst and that it was done by thee rather to get credit and access thereby than for any regard thou hadst of her Person But in truth thou didst it that thereby thou mightest have better opportunity to perform thy wicked Enterprise And wouldest thou have run into such fear as thou didst confess that thou wert in when thou didst utter it if thou hadst never meant it What reason canst thou shew for thy self With that he cryed out in a furious manner I never meant to kill her I will lay my Blood upon Queen Elizabeth and you before God and the World And thereupon fell into a rage and evil words with the Queens Majesties Attourney-General Then said the Lord Hunsdon This is but thy Popish Pride and Ostentation which thou wouldst have to be told to thy fellows of that Faction to make them believe that thou diest for Popery when thou diest for most horrible and dangerous Treasons against her Majesty and thy whole Country For thy laying of thy Bloud it must lye on thine own Head as a just Reward of thy wickedness The Laws of the Realm most justly condemn thee to die out of thine own mouth for the conspiring the Destruction both of her Majesty and of us all Therefore thy Bloud be upon thee neither her Majesty nor we at any time sought it thy self hast spilt it Then he was asked What he could say why Judgment of Death ought not to be awarded against him Whereto he said he did see that he must die because he was not settled What meanest thou by that said Master Vice-Chamberlain Said he Look into your Study and into your new Books and you shall finde what I mean I protest said his Honour I know not what thou meanest thou dost not well to use such dark Speeches unless thou wouldst plainly utter what thou meanest thereby But he said he cared not for Death and that he would lay his Bloud amongst them Then spake the Lord chief-Chief-Justice of England being required to give the Judgment and said Parry you have been much heard and what you mean by being settled I know not but I see you are so settled in Popery that you cannot settle your self to be a good Subject But touching that you should say to stay Judgment from being given against you your Speeches must be of one of these kinds either to prove the Indictment which you have confessed to be true to be insufficient in Law or else to plead somewhat touching her Majesties Mercy why Justice should not be done of you All other Speeches wherein you have used great Liberty is more than by Law you can ask These be the matters you must look to what say you to them Whereto he said nothing Then said the Lord Chief-Justice Parry thou hast been before this time Indicted of divers most horrible and hateful Treasons committed against thy most gracious Soveraign and Native Country the matter most detestable the manner most subtle and dangerous and the occasions and means that led thee thereunto most ungodly and villanous That thou didst intend it it is most evident by thy self The matter was the destruction of a most Sacred and an Anointed Queen thy Sovereign and Mistriss who hath shewed thee such Favour as some thy betters have not obtained Yea the Overthrow of thy Country wherein thou wert born and of a most happy Commonwealth whereof thou art a Member and of such a Queen as hath bestowed on thee the Benefit of all benefits in this world that is thy Life heretofore granted thee by her Mercy when thou hadst lost it by Justice and Desert Yet thou her Servant sworn to defend her meant'st 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 hast offended The manner was most subtle and dangerous beyond all that before thee have committed any Wickedness against her Majesty For thou making shew as if thou wouldest simply have uttered for her safety the Evil that others had contrived didst but seek thereby credit and access that thou mightest take the apter opportunity for her Destruction And for the occasions and means that drew thee on they were most ungodly and villanous as the perswasions of the Pope of Papists and Popish Books The Pope pretendeth that he is a Pastor when as in truth he is far from feeding of the Flock of Christ but rather as a Wolf secketh but to feed on and to suck out the blood of true Christians and as it were thirsteth after the bloud of our most Gracious and Christian Queen And these Papists and Popish Books while they pretend to set forth Divinity they do indeed most ungodly teach and perswade 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