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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

A true and plain DECLARATION OF THE Horrible Treasons PRACTISED By WILLIAM PARRY Dr. of the Civil Law BEING A PAPIST AGAINST Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory Because She was a 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 Westminster-hall Together with his Denyal thereof at the place of Execution and his manner of Behaviour there Written in the Year 1584. Audax omnia perpeti Gens Romana ruit per vetitum nefas Published to shew how little credit is to be given to the last and dying words of the Romanists LONDON Printed for William Crook and Charles Harper at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar and at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1679. THE PREFACE TO THE READER READER THE Papists those restless Enemies of the Protestant Religion are not more infamous for the unsoundness of their Doctrines than for the greatness of their Treasons where they cannot convince they labour to destroy and rather than not subdue what they call but cannot prove a pestilent Heresie they will massacre the whole Protestant Party and will pull down a flourishing State to build a corrupt Church Their Subjection to the Pope is in consistent with their Allegiance to the Prince and if they are true Roman Catholicks they cannot be good English Subjects For when they are designed by the Church to be made Saints they never afterwards by the Law can be made Rebels And therefore when God is pleased by discovering their Designs to expose them to Justice there is not a man of them that is guilty but as innocent as the Child unborn For unless their attempts succeed and declare to all the World their actual Treason in despight of all other proofs they will brag of their constant Loyalty Willing enough they are to reap the fruits of Rebellion but take care if the case be hazardous to avoid the Scandal And therefore sometimes they stand behind the Curtain while they spur on others more adventrous though no more wicked to execute their Counsels and by exposing them secure themselves from the Censure and the Punishment To be sure when they have Power they never want Cruelty The Turks and the Pagans have been out-done by their greater Persecutions The Stakes and the Pagots and the Fire bear witness against them And when they have no strength we know they want not malice but labour by Treachery to undermine when by Power they cannot subdue His Majesty and our Religion have been brought into great danger by their secret Plots and Conspiracies The unhappy Quarrels and Dissentions amongst our selves are Tares of their sowing But if they want might or subtilty of their own before they will desist they will crave assistance from abroad Foreign Powers shall be ingag'd to weaken us and rather than Popery should be kept out they will truck for an Invasion Indeed there is no Age no place but gives us too sad Examples of their Villanies either Acted or Contrived Nor is it strange when men call Evil Good that they run into all excess of wickedness With them 't is lawful to tread upon the Royal Diadem to advance the Triple Crown and meritorious to kill the Lords Anointed who is really Gods Vicegerent for the Interest of the Man of Sin who falsly calls himself Christs Vicar Hence it is that these fiery Zealots so often ingage to Assassinate Soveraign Princes and imbroyl Peaceable Kingdoms The proofs hereof are too plain and one would think needless but that the impudence of our Adversaries that teaches them to deny the plainest Evidence will not suffer them to confess the most apparent Crimes Wonder not Good Reader at this their boldness For 't is the old Roman-Catholick usage under a deep guilt to protest an unspotted Innocence and then chiefly to declare that it is not lawful to depose or murther the King when they are not able or want an opportunity The truth is 't is no new thing for them when they have done or intended evil to wipe their mouths and say they have done or intended nothing Tresham one of the Gunpowder Traytors in King James his time when he came to die denied what Garnet the Provincial proved against him and what he himself had formerly confessed And Garnet denied upon his Salvation with horrid imprecations what Father Oldcorn alias Hall proved against him and at his Execution he said he was sorry for dissembling with the Lords of the Council but excus'd it by affirming he did not think they had such proofs against him These things are evident and appear by the Printed Tryals of those Traytors Here I present thee with a true and faithful account of William Parry's Treason against Queen Elizabeth and of his behaviour after his Apprehension upon his Arraignment and at his Execution written in the Year of our Lord 1584. Sir Richard Baker in his History of England p. 366. gives us a short Essay of all the remarkable passages thereof which in this Treatise are more particularly and at large set forth being done by an exact hand immediately after Parry's Execution Peruse it and thou wilt find that the Pope and the Cardinal like Simeon and Levi have joyned hand in hand in wickedness endeavouring by hook or by crook to bring Popery into England And that confederation with Foreign Powers hath heretofore been entred into to root out Protestant Religion Popish Forces uniting to cut off us poor Hereticks And that 't is commendable to destroy the Prince and overthrow the Government to make way for the Popes Supremacy and the Churches Vsurpation Nay that 't is part of the Religion of Rome to commit Treason the greatest Monsters of Mankind being the chiefest Darlings of that Church And that the Laity aswell as the Clergy may be influenc'd so far by the power of wicked Principles as to Espouse the interest of the Church to the loss of their Allegiance Read on and thou wilt likewise find that the Papists formerly have had brows of Brass as well as wanted bowels of Compassion and have been as unwilling to confess Treason as forward to commit it And that the Papist after he hath acknowledg'd his guilt can deny his Confession and impudently contradict what himself hath freely owned For should he suffex as an evil doer he might forfeit the title of his Martyrdom And that 't is no new thing for a Papist to tell a lye with his dying breath Rather than a true Roman Confessor will be foiled his last words shall be the falsest For they that are nurst at Rome are educated at Crete and are as infamus for their Lies as their Blood-shed Let the Church of Rome

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-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

keep such a Religion to her self and God preserve these Nations from it that we and our Posterity may enjoy our true Religion our Laws our Estates our Liberties and our Lives And let all good Protestants say Amen A true and plain DECLARATION OF THE Horrible Treasons Practised by WILLIAM PARRY Against the Queens Majesty AND OF His Conviction and Execution for the same The 2d of March 1584. according to the account of England THis William Parry being a man of very mean and base Parentage but of a most proud and insolent Spirit bearing himself always far above the measure of his Fortune after he had long led a wasteful and dissolute life and had committed a great Outrage against one Hugh Hare a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple with an intent to have murthered him in his own Chamber for the which he was most justly convicted seeing himself generally condemned with all good men for the same and other his Misdemeanours he left his natural Country and gave himself to travel into forreign parts beyond the Seas In the course of this his Travel he forsook his Allegiance and dutiful Obedience to her Majesty and was reconciled and subjected himself to the Pope After which upon conference with certain Jesuites and others of like quality he first conceived his most detestable Treason to kill the Queen whose life God long preserve which he bound himself by Promise Letters and Vows to perform and execute and so with this intent he returned into England in January 1583 and since that did practise at sundry times to have executed his most devilish purpose and determination yet covering the same so much as in him lay with a vail and pretence of great Loyalty to her Majesty Inmediately upon his return into England he sought to have secret Access to her Majesty pretending to have some matter of great importance to reveal unto her which obtained and the same so privately in her Highness's Palace at Whitehal as her Majesty had but one onely Counsellor with her at the time of his Access in a remote place who was so far distant as he could not hear his Speech And there then he discovered unto her Majesty but shadowed with all crafty and traiterous skill he had some part of the Conference and Proceeding as well with the said Jesuites and other Ministers of the Popes as especially with one Thomas Morgan a Fugitive residing at Paris who above all others did perswade him to proceed in that most devilish Attempt as is set down in his voluntary Confession following bearing her Majesty notwithstanding in hand That his onely intent of proceeding so far with the said Jesuites and the Popes Ministers tended to no other end but to discover the dangerous Practices devised and attempted against her Majesty by her disloyal Subjects and other malicious persons in forraign parts Albeit it hath since appeared most manifestly as well by his said Confession as by his dealing with one Edmond Nevil Esq That his onely intent of discovering the same in sort as he craftily and traiterously did tended to no other end but to make the way the easier to accomplish his most devilish and wicked purpose And although any other Prince but her Majesty who is loath to put on a hard Censure of those that protest to be loyal as Parry did would rather have proceeded to the punishment of a Subject that had waded so far as by Oath and Vow to promise the taking away of her life as he to her Majesties self did confess yet such was her goodness as instead of punishing she did deal so graciously with him as she suffered him not onely to have Access unto her presence but also many times to have private Confernce with her and did offer unto him upon opinion once conceived of his fidelity towards her as though his wicked pretence had been as he protested for her service a most liberal Pension Besides 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 sort have escaped with safety of his life if his devilish purpose had been revealed her Majesty did conceal the same without communicating it to any creature untill such time as he himself had opened the same unto certain of her Council and that it was also discovered that he sought to draw the said Nevil to have been a party in his devilish and most wicked purpose A very rare Example and such as doth more set forth the singular goodness and bounty of her Majesties Princely nature than commend if it be lawful for a Subject to censure his Soveraign her providence such as ought to be in a Prince and person of her Majesties wisdom and quality And as the goodness of her Majesties nature did hereby most manifestly shew it self to be rare in so extraordinary a case and in a matter of so great peril unto her own Royal Person so did the malice of Parry most evidently appear to be in the highest and extreamest degree who notwithstanding the said extraordinary grace and favour extended towards him did not onely perswade the said Nevil to be an Associate in the said wicked Enterprize but did also very vehemently as Nevil confesseth importune him therein as an Action lawful honourable and meritorious omitting nothing that might provoke him to assent thereunto But such was the singular goodness of Almighty God who even from her Majesties Cradle by many evident Arguments hath shewed himself her onely and especial Protector that he so wrought in Nevil's heart as he was moved to reveal the same unto her Majesty and for that purpoce made choise of a faithful Gentleman and of good quality in the Court unto whom upon Munday the 8th of February last he discovered at large all that had passed between Parry and him who immediately made it known to her Majesty whereupon her Highnesses pleasure was That Nevil should be examined by the Earl of Leicester and Sir Christopher Hatton who in the evening of the same day did examine him and he affirmed constantly all which he had before declared to the said Gentleman In the mean time her Majesty continued her singular and most Princely magnanimity neither dismaid with the rareness of the Accident nor appaled with the horrour of so villanous an Enterprize tending even to the taking away of her most gracious life a matter especially observed by the Counsellor that was present at such time as Parry after his return did first discover unto her Majesty his wicked purpose who found no other alteration in her countenance than if he had imparted unto her some matter of contentment which sheweth manifestly how she reposeth her confidence wholly in the defence of the Almighty And so her Majesty following the wonted course of her singular Clemency gave order that Parry the same Munday in the evening though not so known to him should be sent to Mr. Secretaries house in London he being then there who