Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	ecclesiastical_a	foreign_a	jurisdiction_n	2,075	5	9.5695	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09049	A true and plaine declaration of the horrible treasons, practised by William Parry the traitor, against the Queenes Maiestie The maner of his arraignment, conuiction and execution, together with the copies of sundry letters of his and others, tending to diuers purposes, for the proofes of his treasons. Also an addition not impertinent thereunto, containing a short collection of his birth, education and course of life. Moreouer, a fewe obseruations gathered of his owne wordes and wrytings, for the farther manifestation of his most disloyal, deuilish and desperate purpose.	Parry, William, d. 1585.	1585 (1585)	STC 19342; ESTC S114046	37,575	64

seruice aboue his desert where hee stayed not long but shifted himselfe diuers times from seruice to seruice and from one master to another Nowe he began to forget his olde home his birth his education his parents his friendes his owne name and what he was He aspired to greater matters he challenged the name title of a great gentleman he vanted himselfe to be of kin and alied to noble and worshipfull hee left his olde name which he did beare was cōmonly called by in his childhood and during all the time of his aboad in the countrey which was William ap Harry as the maner in Wales is And because he would seeme to be in deede the man which he pretended hee tooke vpon him the name of Parry being the syrname of diuers gentlemen of great worship and hauiour And because his mothers name by her father a simple priest was Conway He pretended kinred to the familie of Sir Iohn Conway so therby made himselfe of kin to Edmund Neuil Being thus set forth with his new name and newe title of gentleman and commended by some of his good fauourers he matched himselfe in mariage with a widowe in Southwales who brought him some reasonable portion of wealth She liued with him but a short time and the wealth he had with her lasted not long it was soone consumed with his dissolute and wastfull maner of life He was then driuen to his wonted shifts his creditors were many the debt which he owed great he had nothing wherewith to make payment he was continually pursued by Serieants and Officers to arrest him he did often by sleightes and shiftes escape from them In this his needy and poore estate he sought to repaire himselfe againe by a newe match in mariage with another widowe which before was the wife of one Richard Heywood This matter was so earnestly followed by himselfe and so effectually commended by his friends and fauourers that the sisly woman yeelded to take him to husband a match in euery respect very vnequall and vnfit her wealth and yeerely liuelihood was very great his poore and base estate worse then nothing he very yong she of such age as for yeeres she might haue bene his mother When hee had thus possessed himselfe of his newe wiues wealth he omitted nothing that might serue for a prodigall dissolute and most vngodly course of life His ryot and excesse was vnmeasurable hee did most wickedly defloure his wiues owne daughter and sundry wayes pitifully abuse the olde mother He caried himselfe for his outwarde port and countenance so long as his olde wiues bagges lasted in such sort as might well haue suffised for a man of very good hauiour and degree But this lasted not long his proude heart and wastfull hande had soone powred out olde Heywoods wealth He then fell againe to his wonted shiftes borowed where he could finde any to lend and ingaged his credit so farre as any would trust him Amongst others he became greatly indebted to Hugh Hare the gentleman before named Who after long forbearing of his money sought to recouer it by ordinarie meanes of Lawe For this cause Parry conceiued great displeasure against him which hee pursued with all malice euen to the seeking of his life In this murtherous intent hee came in the night time to M. Hares chamber in the Temple broke open the doore assaulted him and wounded him grieuously and so left him in great danger of life For this offence he was apprehended committed to Newgate indicted of burgularie arraigned and founde guiltie by a very substanciall Iurie and condemned to be hanged as the Law in that case requireth He standing thus conuicted her Maiestie of her most gracious clemencie and pitifull disposition tooke compassion vpon him pardoned his offence and gaue him his life which by the Lawe and due course of Iustice hee ought then to haue lost After this hee taried not long but pretending some causes of discontentment departed the Realme and traueiled beyonde the seas Howe hee demeaned himselfe there from time to time and with whom he conuersed is partly in his owne confession touched before This is the man this is his race which hee feared should be spotted if he miscaried in thexecution of his traiterous enterprise this hath bene the course of his life these are the great causes of his discontentment And whereas at his arraignement and execution hee pretended great care of the disobedient popish subiectes of this Realme whom he called Catholiques and in very insolent sort seemed to glory greatly in the profession of his pretensed Catholique religion The whole course and action of his life sheweth plainely how prophanely and irreligiously he did alwayes beare himselfe He vaunted that for these two and twentie yeeres past he had bene a Catholique and during all that time neuer receiued the Communion yet before he traueyled beyond the Seas at three seuerall times within the compasse of those two and twentie yeeres he did voluntarily take the othe of obedience to the Queenes Maiestie set downe in y e statute made in the first yere of her highnesse reigne by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his conscience that no forraigne prince person prelate state or potentate hath or ought to haue any iurisdiction power preeminence or authoritie Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realme and therefore did vtterly renounce and forsake all foraine iurisdictions powers and authorities and did promise to beare faith and true allegiance to the Queenes highnesse her heires and lawfull successours With what conscience or religion he tooke that othe so often if he were then a Papist in deede as sithence the discouerie of his treasons he pretended let his best friends the Papists themselues iudge But perhaps it may be saide that he repented those his offences past that since those three othes so taken by him he was twise reconciled to the Pope and so his conscience cleared and he become a newe man and which is more that in the time of his last trauel he cast away all his former lewde maners that he changed his degree and habite and bought or begged the graue title of a Doctor of lawe for which hee was well qualified with a litle grammer schoole latine that he had plenary indulgence and remission of all his sinnes in consideration of his vndertaking of so holy an enterprise as to kill Queene Elizabeth a sacred anoynted Queene his natural and Soueraigne Ladie that he promised to the Pope and vowed to God to perfourme it that he confirmed the same by receiuing the Sacrament at the Iesuites at one Altar with his two beaupeeres the Cardinalles of Vandosme and Narbone and that since his last returne into England he did take his othe vpon the Bible to execute it These reasons may seeme to beare some weight in deede amongst his friendes the Iesuites and other Papistes of state who haue speciall skill in matters of such importance But nowe lately