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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

If her Majesty by this course would have eased them though she had never preferred me I had with all comfort and patience born it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the Enterprise had held Parry God preserve the Queen and encline her merciful heart to forgive me this desperate purpose and to take my Head with all my heart for her better satisfaction After which for the better manifesting of his Treasons on the 14th of February last there was a Letter written by him to her Majesty very voluntarily all of his own Hand without any motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his Traiterous dealings is as followeth A Letter written by Parry to Her Majesty YOur Majesty may see by my voluntary Confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented minde and how constantly I pursued my first conceived purpose in Venice for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks continued it in Lions and resolved in Paris to put it in adventure for the Restitution of England to the antient Obedience of the See Apostolick You may see withal how it is Commended Allowed and Warranted in Conscience Divinity and Policy by the Pope and some great Divines Though it be true or likely that most of our English Divines less practised in matters of this weight do utterly mislike and condemn it The Enterprise is prevented and Conspiracy discovered by an honourable Gentleman my Kinsman and late familiar Friend Master Edmund Nevil privy and by solemn Oath taken upon the Bible party to the matter whereof I am hardly glad but now sorry in my very Soul that ever I conceived or intended it how commendable or meritoritous soever 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 beseech Christ that my Death and Example may as well satisfie your Majesty and the world as it shall glad and content me The Queen of Scotland is your Prisoner let her be honourably entreated but yet surely guarded The French King is French you know it well enough you will finde him occupied when he should do you good he will not loose a Pilgrimage to save you a Crown I have no more to say at this time but that with my Heart and Soul I do now honour and love you am inwardly sorry for mine Offence and ready to make you amends by my Death and Patience Discharge me à culpâ but not à poenâ good Lady And so farewel most gracious and the best-natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in England From the Tower the 14th of February 1584. W. Parry After which to wit the 18th of February last past Parry in further acknowledging his wicked and intended Treasons wrote a Letter all of his own hand in like voluntary manner to the Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Leicester Lord Steward of her Majesties house the Tenour whereof is as followeth William Parry's Letter to the Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester MY Lords now that the Conspiracy is discovered the Fault confessed my Conscience cleared and Minde prepared patiently to suffer the Pains due for so heinous a Crime I hope it shall not offend you if crying Miserere with the poor Publican I leave to despair with cursed Cain My Case is rare and strange and for any thing I can remember singular A natural Subject solemnly to vow the Death of his natural Queen so born so known and so taken by all men for the Relief of the afflicted Catholicks and Restitution of Religion The Matter first conceived in Venice the Service in general words presented to the Pope continued and undertaken in Paris and lastly commended and warranted by his Holiness digested and resolved in England if it had not been prevented by Accusation or by her Majesties greater Lenity and more gracious Usage of her Catholick Subjects This is my first and last Offence conceived against my Prince or Country and doth I cannot deny contein all other faults whatsoever It is now to be punished by Death or most graciously beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I do confess to have deserved Life I do with all Humility crave if it may stand with the Queens Honour and Policy of the Time To leave so great a Treason unpunished were strange To draw it by my Death in example were dangerous A sworn Servant to take upon him such an Enterprize upon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not been seen in England To Indict him Arraign him bring him to the Scaffold and to publish his Offence can do no good To hope that he hath more to discover than is Confessed or that at his Execution he will unsay any thing he hath written is in vain To conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were very hard and against former Experiences The Question then is whether it be better to kill him or lest the matter be mistaken upon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine own opinion though partial I will deliver you my Conscience The Case is good Queen Elizabeths the Offence is committed against her Sacred Person and she may of her Mercy pardon it without prejudice to any Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled Conscience than to live Pardon poor Parry and relieve him for life without living is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonourable to the Queens Majesty as by your favours I think it full of Honour and Mercy then I beseech your Lordships and no other once to hear me before I be Indicted and afterwards if I must dye humbly to intreat the Queens Majesty to hasten my Trial and Execution which I pray God with all my heart may prove as honourable to her as I hope it shall be happy to me who will while I live as I have done always pray to Jesus Christ for her Majesties long and prosperous Reign From the Tower the 18th of February 1584. W. Parry And where in this mean time Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary to her Majesty had dealt with one William Creichton a Scot for his Birth and a Jesuit by his Profession now Prisoner also in the Tower for that he was apprehended with divers Plots for Invasions of this Realm to understand of him if the said Parry had ever dealt with him in the parties beyond the Seas touching that Question Whether it were lawful to kill her Majesty or not the which at that time the said Creichton called not to his remembrance yet after upon better calling it to minde upon the 20th day of February last past he wrote to Master Secretary Walsingham thereof voluntary all of his own hand to the effect following William Creichtons Letter February 20. RIght honourable Sir when your Honour demanded me if Mr.