a prey to their cruel Jaws and Venom May our King live for ever and may there never want a man of his Race to sit on his Throne Ruling in Righteousness fearing God and hating evil and that there may be a high-way of HOliness throughout his Dominions that wayfaring men though fools may not erre therein Isa 35.8 Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel Numb 23.23 Rara temporum faelicitas sub Nerva Trajano ubi sentires quae velles dicere quae sEntires FINIS A Postscript shewing the purport of Pius Quintus his Bull against Q. Eliz. and also a form of Indictment of such Papists as were Executed for Treasons in her days that all the VVorld may be the better satisfied that not one of them dyed for any point of Religion and this is as a Supplement to what is so particularly set down in Horae subsecivae PIus Quintus Pontifex Maximus de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine 25. Feb. 1570. declaravit Elizabetham pretenso Regni Jure necnon omni quocunque Dominio Dignitate privilegioque privatam Itemque proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque juraverunt a Juramento hujusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuo absolutos i. e. Pius Quintus the great Bishop of the fulness of Apostolick power hath declared Elizabeth to be bereaved of her pretended right of her Kingdom and also of all and whatsoever Dominion Dignity and Priviledge and also the Nobles Subjects and people of the said Kingdom and all others which had sworn to her any manner of ways to be absolved for ever from such Oath and from all Debt or Duty of Fealty c. with many threatning cursings to all that durst obey her and her Laws And for the Execution hereof to prove that the Effect of this Bull and Message was flat Rebellion mark what Dr. Sanders the Popes Fire-brand in Ireland writeth in his Book de visibili Monarchia Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus Anno Domini 1569. Reverendum presbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit ut certis illustribus viris Authoritate Apostolica denuntiaret Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur hereticam esse ob eamque causam omni dominio potestate excidisse impuneque ab illiis velut Ethnicam haberi posse nec cos illos legibus aut man datis deinceps obedire cogi i. e. Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop Anno Domini 1569. sent the Reverend Priest Nicholas Morton an English man into England That he should denounce or declare by the Apostolick Authority to certain Noble Men Elizabeth who then was in possession to be an Heretick and for that cause to have fallen from all Dominion and power and that she may be had or reputed of them as an Ethnick and that they are not to be compelled to obey her Laws or Commandments Thus you see an Ambassade of Rebellion from the Popes Holiness by an old doting Protestant a Fugitive and Conspiriator unto some Noble Men which were the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland Heads of the Rebellion that followed the success whereof he declares viz. Qua denuntiatione multi nobiles viri adducti sunt de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illa quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affutnros esse Verum etsi aliter quam illi expectabant res evenit quia Catholici omnes nondum probe cognoverant Elizabetham Haereticam esse declaratam tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant i. e. By which denuntiation many Noble men were induced or lead that they were emboldened to think of the freeing of their Brethren and they hoped certainly that all the Catholicks would have assisted them with all their strength bu although the matter happened otherwise than they hoped for because all the Catholicks knew not that Elizabeth was declared an Heretick yet the Councils and Intents of those Noble Men were to be praised This want of Information was soon after diligently and cunningly supplyed by sending multitudes of the Seminaries and Jesuits to inform the people as a Supplement to amend the former error Though Dr. Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as favoured those Two Noble Jesuits Ro. Parsons and Ed. Campion that Dr. Sanders Treason is his proper Treason in allowing and justifying of the said Bull and not to be imputed to Parsons and Campion who notwithstanding had by special Authority charge to Execute the Sentence of this Bull which may appear by the subsequent Writings taken about one of their Confederates immediately after Campions death who in his life time would not be known of any such matter whereby may appear what trust is to be given to such Peudo-Martyrs Facultates concessae P. P. Roberto Parsonio Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia die 14. Apr. 1580. Petatur a summo Domino nostro Explicatio Bullae declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra Elizabetham ei adhaerentes quam Catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo ut obliget semper illam haereticos Catholicos vero nullo modo obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quum publica ejusdem Bulle Executio fieri poterit Then followeth many other Petitions of Faculties for their farther Authorities not needful here to recite in the Close the Pope Answers Has praedictas Gratias concessit Summus Pontifex patri Roberto Parsonio Edm. Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14. Aprilis 1518. presente Oliverio Monarco assistente Faculties granted to the Two Fathers Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion for England the 14. day of April 1580. by Gregory the XIII Let it be asked or required of our most Holy Lord the Explication or meaning of the Bull declaratory made by Pius Quintus against Elizabeth and such as do adhere or obey her which Bull the Catholicks desire to be understood on this manner that the same Bull shall always bind her and the Hereticks but the Catholicks it shall by no means bind as matters now stand or be but hereafter when the publick Execution of that Bull may be had and made Then in the Close was added The highest Pontiff or Bishop granted the aforesaid Graces or Faculties to Father Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion who are now to take their Journey into England 14. April 1580. being present the Father Oliverius Manark assistant By this it is apparent how all the Catholicks in General did desire to have the said Bull which is still in force against all her Successors when ever it shall please his Holiness so to declare it to be understood viz. against the Queen but yet to be free themselves which is made more demonstrable by the Confession of Hart one of their own Fellows and Condemned but not Executed with Campion who ult Decemb. 1580. Confessed That the Bull of Pius Quintus for so much as it is against the Queen is
Treatises and Writings endeavoured to defame their Sovereign and their own Countrey labouring to have many of their Books translated into divers Languages whereby to shew their own disloyalty If Cardinal Allen and Parsons had not published the Renovation of the said Bull by Sixtus Quintus If thereunto they had not added their scurrilous and unmanly Admonition or rather most prophane Libel against Her Maj sty If they had not sought by false perswasions and unghostly Arguments to have allured the hearts of all Catholicks from their allegiance If the Pope had never been urged by them to have thrust the King of Spain into that barbarous Actions against the Realm If they themselves with all the rest of that Generation had not laboured greatly with the said King for the Conquest and Invasion of this Land by the Spaniards who are known to be the cruelest Tyrants that live upon the Earth If the Pope had not ordered Ridolphi to distribute 150000. Crowns to advance the attempt whereof some was sent to Scotland some to the Duke of Norfolk alias And King Philip to send the Duke of Alua and his Forces into England to assist the Duke of Norfolk If in all their whole proceedings they had not from time to time depraved irritated and provoked both Her Majesty and State with those and many other such like their most ungodly and unchristian practises there had been no Speeches amongst us of Racks and Torments nor any cause to have used them for none were ever vexed that way simply for that he was either Priest or Catholick but because they were suspected to have had their hands in some of the said most traiterous designs And most assuredly the State would have loved us or at least born with us and we had been in much better condition than now we are Important Considerations c. fo 39 40 41. printed 1601. Furthermore another in answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gent. by A. C. fo 89. complains of the Jesuits averring That Her Majesty is an Heretick an Excommunicated Princess and consequently to be deposed What Jesabelling of her have I heard them used What questioning whether no Jehu have subdued her why yet she prospereth why yet she Reigns why yet she lives what defaming her what throwing Soil at her Picture what avowing her Rohal Lyons and Flower-de-luze no better worth than to serve for Signs to Baudy-houses Thus do the Jesuits and Jesuited use Her Majesty to my express knowledg and worse which for good manners I omit fo 90. nay they sent one to me in the nature of an Engineer from beyond the Seas to perswade my assisting his firing the Queens Navy throughout England against the next years coming of another Spanish Armado f. 90. Was it not Fa. Parsons and Fa. Creighton F. 9. That with much vehemency and bitterness contended for the disposing of the Crown of England the one for the Lady Infanta the other to his King of Scotland Were they not Jesuits which plotted with the Duke of Parma for surpriseing or stealing awayof the Lady Arabella and sending her into Flanders who imployed the Messenger into England about that affair but Fa-Holt Jesuit who but the same Jesuit was consenting with Sir William Stanley to the sending in of Richard Hesket for soliciting Ferdinando Earl of Darby to rise against Her Majesty and claim the Crown was it not the same Jesuit that entertained York and Young in the Plot of firing Her Majesties Store-houses that set on work Mr. Francis Dickinson and others to perswade Watermen to fly with Ships and all into the service of the Spaniard f. 93. their Conspiracies were not confined to England only but they were extended also to Scotland whereupon were the Three Catholick Earls Angus Arrol and Huntley convicted of High Treason by Act of Parliament about 1593. if not upon certain plots laid by Fa. Creighton Fa. Gourdon and upon hopes given them of succour from Spain Why was the Lord of Fentry Executed but for the same designs imparted to him by Fa. Ro. Abereronii a Jesuit Was it not the principal cause of Fa James Gordons travel to Rome about the same time to solicite the Pope and other Princes to assist the King of Scots if he enterprise any thing either against England or in his own Countrey 93 94. And yet these matters will not be believed at this day by the Papists though it be their own voluntary confession in several of their printed Books yet extant Priests and Jesuits each deservedly accusing other of Treasons and Conspiracies against the Queen Her Person Crown and Dignity with this difference only that the Priests mostly the Jesuits seldom acknowledged the Queens great favours and lenity towards them the Queen had great reason to believe them both not barely because they peached one the other but because thereof she really found the sad effects And indeed because she and her Council did very wisely consider that Papists some Centuries of Years before ever Jesuits were thought of did universally incline unto and side with the Pope against their temporal Princes usurping many great and exorbitant authorities and priviledges over them whereof Histories are full and therefore it was but high time that the Queen should by wholsom Laws inflicting moderate pains and mulcts provide against both one and the other This is no small Bedrall of Treasons Conspiricies provocations Vide Important consider f. 16 17 18. c. and yet as many more they might have urged nay to do the Secular-priests right they have done it particularly sparsim both in this and divers others their Books and also made large very large acknowledgments of the Queens Bounty Moderation and Clemency towards those Papists that were quiet and faithful a gratefulness that I have not found in any of the Jesuits and in so doing they did the Queen but right for from the year 1. Eliz. unto 11. Papists came to our Church and Service without scruple so that for 10 years they made no Conscience nor Doubt to Communicate with us in prayer But when once the Bull of Pius Quintus often called by the Queen Impius Intus was published wherein the Queen was accursed and deposed and Her Subjects discharged of their obedience and Oaths of Fealty yea cursed if they did obey Her Then and not till then they refrained our Churches and Service so that recusancy in them the name of Recusant being never heard of until the 11. Year of Eliz. as if evident by the very Acts of Parliament is not for for Religion but in an acknowledgment of the Popes power which was little regarded here our famous Kings being never afraid of Popes Bulls no not in the very midnight of Popery as Edward the Confessor Henry I. Edward I. Rich. II. Henry IV. Henry V. c. And in the time of Henry VII and in all their times the Popes Legate never passed Callais but staid there and came not to England until he had taken a
to the Lords Justices by the same Lord Dillon as also by their frame of their new Common-Wealth found in Sir John Dungans house not far from Dublin and sent up thither out of Connaught to be communicated to those of Leinster the sum of which and other such like is summ'd up and may be seen to have that purport in the Irish Rebellion written by Sir John Temple f. 80 81 82. § Indeed if the Irish Papists had been so Loyal and Faithful as they now boast themselves to have been Nay had they had the least spark of gratitude for that King who had disobliged so many by obliging them so much they would never in his distresses have capitulated so severely and on the Swords point with him nor have held him to such hard tearms as they did in all their Treatises which they used only as Stratagems to Trapan not to serve His Majesty For in the Year 1643. when a Cessation was concluded with them by the Kings Authority and both English and Irish Engaged by Articles to Transport their Armies to England for His Majesties Service the English did it the Irish only pretended they would do it when the English were gone and then according to one of their old Maxims Nulla fides servanda cum Haereticis they plotted and attempted the ruine of the small Remnant of English left behind in Munster where the Lord Inchiquin commanding by the Kings Commission and the English with him were necessitated to stand on their own defence against the Popish Army Orery 25. Though in the Year 1645. the Earl of Glamorgan gave as Adventageous tearms as they could ask and condescended to such hard and dishonourable propositions on the Kings part as the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond in Justice and Honour neither could nor would condescend unto and though the Commissions of the confederate Catholicks solemnly engaged the publick Faith for the performance of them one Article whereof was 23. b. That they should send 10000. to serve His Majesty c. yet did they not in due time perform their plighted Troath herein which was a great disservice to His Majesty In which slender performance of theirs they could have no other end than thereby to render the Rebells in England more irreconcilable to His Majesty that so that War might be kept up that they might the better gain by Fishing in those troubled Waters so that they well hoped to give Law to both It was the constant observation of the Protestant Army there that the lower and more unfortunate the King was in his successes in England the higher were the demands of the Irish for the Truth is how Loyal and dutiful soever their pretences were towards the King yet their design was to set up for the Pope and the establishing the Romish Religion and erecting its Spiritual Monarchy at least if not a Temporal with it The Arch-Bishop of Iuum was a principal Agent in the Irish Wars and of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny He attended the Army about this time to visit his Diocess and to put in Execution an Order for the Arrears of his Bishoprick granted to him from the Council at Kilkenny which Order together with the Popes Bull and several other Letters of Correspondence between him and his Agents from Rome Paris and several parts of Ireland were found about him whereby it did appear that the Pope would not at the first engage himself in sending of a Nuntio for Ireland till the Irish Agents had fully satisfied him that the Establishment of the Catholick Religion was a thing feaseable and attainable in that Kingdom in which being satisfied he was content to sollicite their cause with Florence and Venice c. and also to delegate Farmano his Nuntio to attend the Kingdom who after some delays in France was at last posted from thence by express Order from the Pope and he arrived at the River of Kilmore in a Friggot of 21 Guns in October with 26 Italians of his Retinue Secretary Belinges and divers Regular and Secular Priests and also with great Supplies for the service of the King no doubt as 2000 Muskets 4000 Bandaliers 2000 Swords 500 Petronells and 20000 l. of Powder all which arrived at Brooke-Haven the same Month together with 5 or 6 Deskes or Small Truncks of Spanish Gold how far all those Popish Auxiliaries conduced to the Kings service and the Protestant Interest I leave to all Contemporaries to judg As in the year 1645. so in that Year 1646. after a peace concluded with them they treacherously attempted to cut off the Lord Lievtenant and his Army with him who marched out of Dublin on security and confidence of that peace 24. b. The same year the Council and Congregation of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland obliged their General Preston by a solemn Oath to exercise all Arts of Hostility against the Lord Marquess of Ormond the Kings Vice-gerent and his Party and to help and advise with Council and assist in that service the Lord General and Vlster employed in the same Expedition In the Year 1647. from Kilkenny 18. January the General Assembly of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland employed Commissioners to Rome France and Spain to invite a Forrein power into Ireland To Rome they sent their Titular Bishop of Ferns and Nicholas Plunket Esq Knighted there by the Pope for his good service therein to declare that they raised Arms for the freedom of the Catholick Religion which are their own words in the Third Article of those their Instructions Orerey This is consonant to the Oath framed the same Year with some Addition to what had formerly been taken by the said General Assembly and pressed on all sorts of people under pain of high Treason which Oath enjoyns the maintenance of these ensuing Propositions 1. That the Roman Catholicks both Clergy and Laiety in their several Capacities have the free and publick exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and Function throughout the Kingdom in as full lustre and splendour as it was in the Reign of Hen. VII or any other Catholick King his Predecessors Kings of England and Lords of Ireland either in Ireland or in England 2. That the Secular Clergy of Ireland viz. Primates Arch-Bishops Bishops Ordinaries Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-Deacons Prebendaries and other Dignitaries all other Pastours of the Secular Clergy their respective Successors shall have and enjoy all and all manner of Jurisdictions Priviledges and Immunities in full and ample manner as the Roman Catholick Secular Clergy had or enjoyed the same within this Realm at any time during the Reign of the late King Hen. VII sometimes King of England and Lord of Ireland any Law Declaration of Law Statute Power or Authority whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding 3. That all Laws and Statutes made since the 20th Year of Hen. VIII whereby any restraint penalty or other restriction whatsoever is or may be laid upon any of the Roman Catholicks either of the
Imperial Crown and Scepter I shall not trouble you with the repetition of many store of the disguised and dark Actings of the Papists against the King and Crown of England they being already extant in several Treaties viz. In hidden works of darkness brought to light Jus Patronatus Mr. Prinne his Speech in Parliament his Memento his Epistle to a reasonable and legal vindication c. Quakers unmarked In which and other Books many particulars may be seen of their secret undermining Actings In the Year 1638. when the Kings had great need both of Men and Money and the Hearts of all his Subjects and their contributions whether Popish or Protestants his Holiness gave directions to his Catholicks in England whereof these following were part viz. You are to command the Catholicks of England in general that they suddenly desist from making such offers of Men towards his Northern Expedition as we hear they have done little to the advantage of their direction And likewise it is requisit considering the penalties already imposed they they be not forward with Money more than what Law and Duty enjoyns them to pay without any Innovation at all or view of making themselves rather weaker Pillars of the Kingdom than they were before Declare unto the best of the Peeres and Gentry by word of mouth or Letters that they ought not at this time to express any averseness in case the High Court of Parliament by called nor shew any discontents against the Acts which do not point blank aim at Religion being in general the most sundamental Law of this Kingdom Advise the Clergy to desist from the foolish nay rather illiterate and childish Custom of distinction in the Protestant and Puritan Doctrin and especially this Error is so much the greater when they undertake to prove that Protestanisme is a Degree nearer to the Faith-Catholick For since both lye without the verge of the Church it is a needless Hypocrisie yea it begets more malice than it is worth All busie Inquirers are defended but especially into Arcanes of State It is affirmed by in a printed Speech before a great Assembly 4. September 1654. p. 16 17. That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Jesuits never came over in those Swarms as they have done since these times That divers Gentlemen could bear witness with him that they had a Consistory and Council abroad that Rules all the Affairs of the things of England That they had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the particular Instruments an episcopal power with Arch-Deacons and other persons to perverâ—◠〈…〉 the midst of all our sad Distractions And I presume it will not be denied Inde quod nuper veteres comgravere Coloni that very many of them have been sent or come over from Forrein Seminaries into England under the disguises of Converted Jews Phisitians Chyrurgians Independants Quakers Fifth Monarchy Men Agitators Mechanicks Merchants Factors Travellers Souldiers that they might the more unsuspectedly have an Influence on the Committees Agitators and Officers of the Army It was confessed to one of the English Nobility at Rome by the English Provincial there that they had then above 1500. of their Society in England able to work in several professions and Trades which they had there taken upon them the better to support and secure themselves from being discovered Who ever considers the fore-mentioned Plat-form laid subtilly by F. F. Parsons and othes to work insensibly our Ruine Vide Smiths Preface fo 12. the Swarms of Papists here ready to joyn Heads and Hands and Hearts on all occasions and opportunities to bring it to pass the new printing about the time of that horrid matchless Murder of thier Dolman that Infamous and Traiterous Libel against our Kings under a new Title of several Speeches delivered at a Conference concerning the powers of Parliaments to proceed against their Kings for mis-government together with what is averred for truth and offered to be justified when ever called thereunto by that learned and worthy Divine Du Moulin in his Vindication Se. 58 59 60. c. will easily conclude that their Merits have not been of that Nature as to be used as Arguments for a Tolleration no nor yet for the least of kindness viz. When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History and time the bringer of Truth to light hath discovered the Mysteries of Iniquity and the depths of Satan which have wrought so much crime and mischief it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of Rome That Jesuits professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and Fifth Monarchy Men that they might pull down the English Monarchy and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church they had their Spies and their Agents § The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our Holy King and Martyr flourished with his Sword and said Now the greatest Enemy we have in the World is gone When the News of that horrible Execution came to Roan a Protestant Gentleman of good credit was present in a great company of Jesuited persons When after great Expressions of Joy the gravest of the Company to whom all gave ear spake much after this sort The King of England at his Marriage had promised us the re-establlshing of the Catholick Religion in England and when he delayed to fulfil his promise we summoned him from time to time to perform it we came so far as to tell him That if he would not do it we should be forced to take those courses which would bring him to his destruction We have given him lawful warning and when no worning would serve we have kept our Word to him since he would not keep his Word to us That grave Rabbies Sentence agreeth with this certain Intelligence which shall be justified whensoever Authority will require it That the Year before the Kings death a select number of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party in England first to Paris to consult with the faculty at Sorbon then altogether Jesuited to whom they put this Question in writing That seeing the state of England was in a likely posture to change Government whether it was lawful for the Catholicks to work the change for the advancing and securing the Catholick Cause in England by making away the King whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresie which was answered affirmatively After which the same persons went to Rome where the Question being propounded and debated it was concluded by the Pope and his Council That it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholicks to promote the alteration of State What followed that Confultation and Sentence all the World knoweth and time the bringer forth of Truth will let us know But when that Horrible Paricide committed on
of the Crown read the Indictment viz. William Parry thou art here Indicted by Oaths of Twelve good and lawful Men of the County of Middlesex before Christopher Wray alias for that thou as a Traytor against the most Noble and Christian Princess Queen Eliz. the most Gralious Sovereign and Liege Lady not having the fear of God before thine Eyes nor regarding the 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 Sovereign Lady didst at Westminster in the County of Middlesex 1. Febr. in the 26. Year of Her Majesties Reign and at divers other times and places in the same County malitiously 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 the 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 of March 26. Year aforesaid didst traiterously receive Letters from one called Cardinal de Como directed unto thee William Parry whereby the said Cardinal did signifie unto thee that the Bishop of Rome had perused the 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 said 26. Year at St. Gyles in the Fields in the same County of Middlesex didst traiterously confer with one Edmund Nevil Esq uttering unto him all the wicked and traiterous devises and then and there didst traiterously move him to assist thee therein and to joyn with thee in those wicked Treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen her Crown and Dignity Which being Read and William Parry being asked whether guilty of these Treasons whereof thou standest here Indicted or not guilty He confessed that he was guilty of all that is therein contained both in matter and form as the same is set down and all the Circumstances thereof Which being Recorded and though confessed willingly by Parry yet because the Justice of the Realm had been of late very impudently slandered That such like Traytors were Executed for Religion and not for Treason the Justice of that Court deemed it necessary to satisfie the World more particularly that though his Confession in Court served sufficiently to have proceeded thereupon to Judgment yet Parry's Confession taken the 11 and 13. Feb. 1584. before the Lord Hunsdon Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and Mr. Secretary and Cardinal de Como's letter and Parry's Letter to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Steward should be openly read to which also Parry himself agreed so readily that he offered to read them himself for the better satisfying of the people All which Letters and his own voluntary confession written and subscribed with his own Hand he acknowledged to have Confessed freely without any constraint and that it was all true and more too And that there is no Treason that hath been sythence 1 Eliz. any way touching Religion saving receipt of Agnus Dei and perswading others wherein he hath not much dealt but he had offended in it And that he had demanded his opinion in writing who ought to be Successor to the Crown which he said to be Treason also All which Letters and Confession being first shewed to him Leaf by Leaf were openly and distinctly read by the Clark of the Crown Which done Parry having obtained favour of the Court to speak in discharge as he pretended of his Conscience assuring them that he would not go about to excuse himself and that he intended to utter more He said my Cause is rare singular and unnatural conceived at Venice presented in general Words to the Pope undertaken at Paris commended and allowed of by his Holiness and to have been Executed in England I have committed many Treasons for I have committed Treason in being reconciled and Treason in taking Absolution and yet never intended to kill Queen Eliz. Which said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain retorted upon him in that he both in Court and else where under his Hand voluntarily confessed That he did mislike Her Majesty for that she had done nothing for thee how by wicked Papists and Popish Books thou wert perswaded that it was lawful to kill Her Majesty how thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort that held Her Majesty for neither lawful Queen nor Christian and that it was Meritorious to kill her And didst thou not signifie that thy purpose to the Pope by Letters and receivedst Letters from the Cardinal how he allowed of thine intent and Excited thee to perform it and thereupon didst receive Absolution And didst thou not conceive it promise it vow it swear it and receive the Sacrament that thou wouldst do it And didst not thou there upon affirm that thy Vows were in Heaven thy Letters and Promises on Earth to bind thee to do it And that whatsoever Her Majesty would have done for thee could not have removed thee from the intention or purpose unless she would have desisted from dealing as she hath done with the Catholicks as thou calledst them And didst thou not confess besides that which thou didst set down under thine own Hand that thou hadst prepared Two Scottish Daggers fit for such a purpose Notwithstanding all these and more Demonstrations of his Bloody Intentions against the Queen by Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Hunsdon and others of the Lords Commissioners he thereupon in a furious manner cry'd I never meant to kill Her I will lay my Blood upon Her and you before God and the World and so fell into a great rage and rayling Which madness of his the Lord Hunsdon thus rebuked This is but thy Popish pride and ostentation which thou would have to be told to thy Fellows of thy Faction to make them believe that thou dyedst for Popery when thou diedst for most horrible and dangerous Treason against Her Majesty and the whole Countrey Thus you see what little Faith is to be given to such who flatter with their Lips and dissemble with their double Hearts These things rightly considered I do not doubt but that all good Subjects will clearly see and all deluded and wavering persons will perceive how they have been seduced to wander out of the right way and that all strangers especially Christian Princes having Sovereign Estates being hereby acquainted with the true just and necessary Grounds and Reasons of His Majesties late Act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants made purely for the defence of His Majesties Crown Religion and People and for prevention of Intestine Jars that otherwise might be occasioned through different Religions Religions as discrepant as light and darkness good and evil which naturally occasions disputes and sometimes btows that all the World perceiving upon how great Reasons of State and Grounds of Religion that Act was made may be satisfied that no prudent State could do less especially the concern of Religion being a considerable Ingredient therein which often sets variance between nearest Relations And I cannot doubt but that this His Majesties just Act will have the like happy entertainment and success as had King James of ever blessed memory his Monitory Preface unto his Apology upon the coming forth of which Book there were no States that disavowed the Doctrin of it in the point of the Kings power the Venetians justified it both by Pen and Practise the Sorbons maintained it and Bellarmine and Suarez their Books to the contrary were burnt in France with scorn and disdain Passus damna semel cautior esse solet Romam vade liber sed Nescis Heu nescis Dominae fastidia Romae Mujores nusquam Ronchi Juvenesque Senesque Et pueri Nasum Rhinocerotis habent I fuge sed poteras tutior esse domus ERRATA PAge 11. Line 16. r. potest l. 21. r. sentiamus p. 2. l. 19. r. that p. 18. l. 4. r. Domini p. 29. l. 2. r. against p. 37. l. 12. r. if it had taken p. 44. l. ult r. Houses p. 58. l. 15. r. stories l. 31. r. discretion p. 74. l. 3. r. thou shall not plough p. 112. l. 3. r. likes of one bread l. 28. r. and add 14 new p. 127. l. 5. for Confession r. profession FINIS