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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

Person For if that be true where are then his Vows which he said were in Heaven his Letters and Promise upon Earth Why hath he stollen out of the Popes shop so large an Indulgence and plenary Remission of all his Sins and meant to perform nothing that he promised Why was his Devotion and Zeal so highly commended Why was he so specially prayed for and remembred at the Altar All these great favours were then bestowed upon him without cause or desert for he deceived the Pope he deceived the Cardinals and Jesuites with a false semblance and pretence to do that thing which he never meant But the matter is clear the Conspiracy and his traiterous intent is too plain and evident it is the Lord that revealed it in time and prevented their malice there lacked no will or readiness in him to execute that horrible fact It is the Lord that hath preserved her Majesty from all the wicked Practices and Conspiracies of that Hellish Rabble it is he that hath most gratiously deliver'd her from the hands of this Traiterous miscreant The Lord is her onely defence in whom she hath always trusted A Prayer for all Kings Princes Countries and People which do profess the Gospel and especially for our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth used in Her Majesties Chappel and meet to be used of all persons within Her Majesties Dominions O Lord God of hosts most loving and merciful Father whose power no creature is able to resist who of thy great goodness hast promised to grant the petitions of such as ask in thy Sons Name We most humbly beséech thee to save and defend all Princes Magistrates Kingdoms Countries and People which have received and no profess thy holy Word and Gospel and namely this Realm of England and thy servant Elizabeth our Queen whom thou hast hitherto wonderfully preserved from manifold Perils and sundry Dangers and of late revealed and ftustrated the Trafterous Practices and Conspiracies of divers against her for the which and all other thy great goodness towards us we give thee most humble and hearty thanks beseeching thee in the Name of thy dear Son Iesus Christ and for his sake still to preserve and continue her unto us and to give her long life and many years to rule over this Land O Heavenly Father the practices of our Enemies and the Enemies of thy word and truth against her and us are manifest and known unto thee Turn them O Lord if it be thy blessed Will or overthrow and confound them for thy Names sake Suffer them not to prevail Take them O Lord in their crafty Wittness that they have invented and let them fall into the Pit which they have digged for others Permit them not ungodly to triumph over us Discomfort them discomfort them O Lord which trust in their own multitude and please themselves in their subtile devices and wicked Conspiracies O loving Father we have not deserved the least of these the Mercies which we crave For we have sinned and grievously offended thee we are not worthy to be called thy Sons We have not been so thankful unto thee as we should for thy unspeakable benefits powred upon us We have abused this long time of Peace and Prosperity We have not obeyed thy Word We have had it in Mouth but not in heart in outward appearance but not in deed We have lived carelesly We have not known the time of our visitation we have deserved utter destruction But thou O Lord art merciful and ready to forgive therefore we come to thy Throne of Grace confessing and acknowledging thee to be our only refuge in all times of peril and danger And by the means of thy Son we most heartily pray thee to forgive us our Vnthankfulness Disobedience Hypocrisie and all other our Sins to turn from us thy heavy wrath and displeasure which we have justly deserved and to turn our hearts truly unto thee that daily we may increase in all goodness and continually more and more fear thy holy Name So shall we glorifie thy Name and sing unto thee in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs And thy enemies and ours shall know themselves to be but men and not able by any means to withstand thee nor to hurt those whom thou hast received into thy protection and defence Grant these things O Lord of Power and Father of Mercy for thy Christ's sake to whom with thee and thy Holy Spirit be all Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen A Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Queen used of all Knights and Burgesses in the High Court of Parliament and very requisite to be used and continued of all her Majesties loving Subjects O Almighty and most merciful God which dost pitch thy tents round about the people to deliver them from the hands of their enemies we thy humble Servants which have ever of old seen thy Salvation do fall down and prostrate ourselves with Praise and Thanksgiving to thy glorious Name who hast in thy tender Mercies from time to time saved and defended the Servant ELIZABETH our most gracious Quéen not only from the hands of strange Children but also of late revealed and made frustrate his bloody and most barbarous Treason who being her natural Subject most unnaturally violating thy Divine Ordinance hath secretly sought to shed her blood to the great disquiet of thy Church and utter discomfort of our Souls his snare is heaven in pieces but upon thy Servant doth the Crown flourish The wicked and bloodthirsty men think to devour Iacob and to lay waste his dwelling-place But thou O God which rulest in Iacob and unto the ends of the world dost daily teach us still to trust in thée for all thy great Mercies and not to forget thy merciful Kindness shewed to her that feareth thy Name O Lord we confess to thy Glory and Praise that thou only hast saved us from destruction because thou hast not given her over for a prey to the wicked Her Soul is delivered and we are escaped Hear us now we pray thee O most merciful Father and continue forth thy loving Kindness towards thy Servant and evermore to the Glory and our Comfort kéep her in health with long Life and Prosperity whose rest and only refuge is in thée O God of her Salvation Preserve her as thou art wont preserve her from the snare of the Enemy from the gathering together of the froward from the insurrection of wicked Doers and from all the traiterous Conspiracies of those which privily lay wait for her life Grant this O Heavenly Father for Iesus Christs sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen Io. Th. A Prayer used in the Parliament onely O Merciful God and Father forasmuch as no counsel can stand nor any can prosper but only such as are humbly gathered in thy Name to feel the swéet taste of thy Holy Spirit we gladly acknowledge that by thy favour standeth the peaceable protection of our Quén and Realm and likewise this favourable liberty granted unto us at this time to make our méeting together which thy bountiful Goodness we most thankfully acknowledging do withal earnestly pray thy Divine Majesty so to encline our hearts as our counsels may be subject in true obedience to thy Holy Word and Will And sithe it hath pleased thée to govern this Realm by ordinary assembling the thrée Estates of the same Our humble Prayer is that thou wilt graff in us good mindes to conceive frée liberty to speak and on all sides a ready and quiet consent to such wholesome Laws and Statutes as may declare us to be thy people and this Realm to be prosperously ruled by thy good guiding and defence So that we and our Posterity may with chearful hearts wait for thy appearance in Iudgment that art only able to present us faultless before God our Heavenly Father To whom with thée our Saviour Christ and the Holy Spirit be all Glory both now and ever Amen FINIS The Indictment Parry's answer to the Indictment Parry confesseth that he is guilty of all things contained in the Indictment Parry's Confession of his Treasons was read by his own assent A Letter of Cardinal di Como to Parry also read Parry's Letter of the 18th of February to the Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester read The Queens Atturny requires Judgment Parry had for his credit aforetime said very secretly that he had been solicited beyond the Seas to commit the fact but he would not do it wherewith he craftily abused both the Queens Majesty and those two Counsellers whereof he now would help himself with these false Speeches against most manifest proofs Master Vice-chamberlains Speeches proving manifestly Parry's Traiterous intentions Parry reproved of false Speeches and so by himself also confessed The L. of Hunsdon's Speeches convincing Parry manifestly of his Treason The Lord Chief-Justices Speech to Parry The Form of the Judgment against the Traitor 2. Martii William Parry the Traytor Executed Parry Condemned for Burglary Pardoned of the Queen

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

teach Subjects to disobey Princes and that a private wicked person may kill yea and whom A most godly Queen and their own natural and most gracious Soveraign Let all men therefore take heed how they receive any thing from him hear or read any of their Books and how they confer with any Papists God grant her Majesty that she may know by thee how ever she trust such like to come so near her Person But see the end and why thou didst it and it will appear to be a most miserable fearful and foolish thing For thou didst imagine that it was to relieve those that thou callest Catholicks who were most likely amongst all others to have felt the worst of it if thy devilish practice had taken effect But sith thou hast been Indicted of the Treasons comprised in the Indictment and thereupon Arraigned and hast confessed thy self Guilty of them the Court doth award that thou shalt be had from hence to the place whence thou didst come and so drawn through the open City of London upon an Hurdle to the place of Execution and there to be hanged and let down alive and thy privy parts cut off and thy entrals taken out and burnt in thy sight then thy Head to be cut off and thy Body to be divided in four parts and to be disposed at her Majesties pleasure And God have mercy on thy Soul Parry nevertheless persisted still in his rage and fond Speech and ragingly there said he there summoned Queen Elizabeth to answer for his Blood before God wherewith the Lieutenant of the Tower was commanded to take him from the Bar and so he did And upon his departure the people stricken as it were at heart with the horror of his intended Enterprise ceased not but pursued him with out-cryes as Away with the Traitor away with him and such like whereupon he was conveyed to the Barge to pass to the Tower again by water and the Court was adjorned After which upon the second day of this instant March William Parry was by vertue of process in that behalf awarded from the same Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer delivered by the Lieutenant of the Tower early in the morning unto the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex who received him at the Tower-hill and thereupon according to the judgment caused him there to be forthwith set on the Hurdel From whence he was drawn thereupon threw the midst of the City of London unto the place for his Execution in the Pallace at Westminster where having long time of stay admitted unto him before his Execution he most maliciously and impudently after some other vain discourses eftsoons and often delivered in Speech that he was never guilty of any intention to kill Queen Elizabeth and so without any request made by him to the people to pray to God for him or prayer publickly used by himself for ought that appeared but such as he used if he used any was private to himself he was executed according to the judgment And now for his intent howsoever he pretended the contrary in words yet by these his own Writings Confessions Letters and many other proofs afore here expressed it is most manifest to all persons how horrible his intentions and Treasons were and how justly he suffered for the same and thereby greatly to be doubted that as he had lived a long time vainly and ungodly and like an Atheist and godless man so he continued the same course till his death to the outward sight of men Here endeth the true and plain course and process of the Treasons Arrest Arraignment and Execution of William Parry the Traitor An addition not unnecessary for this purpose FOr as much as Parry in the abundance of his proud and arrogant humour hath often both in his Confession and Letters pretended some great and grievous causes of discontentment against her Majesty and the present State It shall not be impertinent for better satisfaction of all persons to set forth simply and truly the condition and quality of the man what he was by Birth and Education and in what course of life he had lived This vile and Traiterous Wretch was one of the younger Sons of a poor man called Harry ap David he dwelled in North-Wales in a little Village called Northoppe in the County of Flint there he kept a common Ale-house which was the best and greatest stay of his living In that house was this Traitor Born his Mother was the reputed Daughter of one Conway a Priest Parson of a poor Parish called Halkin in the same County of Flint his his eldest Brother dwelleth at this present in the same House and there keepeth an Ale-house as his Father did before him This Traitor in his Childhood so soon as he had learned a lttleto Write Read was put to serve a poor man dwelling in Chester named John Fisher who professed to have some small skill and understanding in the Law With him he continued divers years and served as a Clerk to write such things as in that Trade which his master used he was appointed During this time he learned the English Tongue and at such times of leasure as the poor man his Master had no occasion otherwise to use him he was suffered to go to the Grammer-School where he got some little understanding in the Latin Tongue In this his Childhood he was noted by such as best knew him to be of a most villanous and dangerous nature and disposition He did often run away from his Master and was often taken and brought to him again His Master to correct his perverse and froward conditions did many times shut him as Prisoner in some close place of his house and many times caused him to be chained locked and clogged to stay his running away Yet all was in vain For about the third year of her Majesties Reign for his last farewel to his poor Master he ran away from him and came to London to seek his Adventures He was then constrained to seek what Trade he could to live by and to get meat and drink for his belly and cloaths for his back His good hap in the end was to be entertained in place of Service above his Desert where he staid not long but shifted himself divers times from Service to Service and from one Master to another Now he began to forget his old Home his Birth his Education his Parents his Friends his own Name and what he was He aspired to greater matters he challenged the Name and Title of a great Gentleman he vaunted himself to be of Kin and allied to Noble and Worshipful he left his old Name which he did bear and was commonly called by in his Childhood and during all the time of his abode in the Country which was William ap Harry as the manner in Wales is And because he would seem to be indeed the man which he pretended he took upon him the Name of Parry being the Sirname

of divers Gentlemen of great Worship and Honour And because his Mothers Name by her Father a Priest was Conway he pretended Kindred to the Family of Sir John Conway and so thereby made himself of kin to Edmund Nevil Being thus set forth with his new Name and new Title of Gentleman and commended by some of his good Favourers he matched himself in Marriage with a Widow in South-Wales who brought him some reasonable Portion of Wealth She lived with him but a short time and the wealth he had with her lasted not long it was soon consumed with his dissolute and wastful manner of life He was then driven 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 Serjeants and Officers to Arrest him he did often by slights and shifts escape from them In this his needy and poor estate he sought to repair himself again by a new match in Marriage with another Widow which before was the Wife of one Richard Heywood this matter was so earnestly followed by himself and so effectually commended by his Friends and Favourers that the Woman yielded to take him to Husband a Match in every respect very unequal and unfit her Wealth and yearly Livelihood was very great his poor and base Estate worse than nothing he very young she of such age as for years she might have been his Mother When he had thus possessed himself of his new Wives wealth he omitted nothing that might serve for a prodigal dissolute and most ungodly course of Life His Riot and Excess was unmeasurable he did most wickedly deflower his Wives own Daughter and sundry ways pitifully abuse the old Mother He carried himself for his outward port and countenance so long as his Old wives Bags lasted in such sort as might well have sufficed for a man of very good haviour and degree But this lasted not long his proud heart and wastful hand had soon poured out old Heywood's Wealth He then fell again to his wonted shifts borrowed where he could finde any to lend and engaged his Credit so far 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 recover it by ordinary means of Law For this cause Parry conceived great displeasure against him which he pursued with all Malice even to the seeking of his Life In this murtherous intent he came in the night-time to Mr. Hares Chamber in the Temple broke open the door assaulted him and wounded him grievously and so left him in great danger of Life For this Offence he was Apprehended Committed to Newgate Indicted of Burglary Arraigned and found Guilty by a very substantial Jury and Condemned to be Hanged as the Law in that Case requireth He standing thus Convicted her Majesty of her most gracious Clemency and pitiful Disposition took compassion upon him pardoned his Offence and gave him his Life which by the Law and due course of Justice he ought then to have lost After this he carried not long but pretending some causes of discontentment departed the Realm and travelled beyond the Seas How he demeaned himself there from time to time and with whom he conversed is partly in his own Confession touched before This is the man this is his Race which he feared should be spotted if he miscarried in the execution of his Traiterous Enterprise this hath been the course of his Life these are the great canses of his Discontentment And whereas at his Arraignment and Execution he pretended great care of the disobedient Popish Subjects of this Realm whom he called Catholicks and in very insolent sort seemed to glory greatly in the Profession of his pretensed Catholick Religion The whole course and action of his Life sheweth plainly how profanely and irreligiously he did always bear himself He vaunted that for these two and twenty years past he had been a Catholick and during all that time never received the Communion Yet before he travelled beyond the Seas at three several times within the compass of those two and twenty years he did voluntarily take the Oath of Obedience to the Queens Majesty set down in the Statute made in the first year of her Highness Reign by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his Conscience that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore did utterly renounce and forsake all Forreign Jurisdictions Powers and Authorities and did promise to bear Faith and true Allegeance to the Queens Highness her Heirs and lawful Successors With what Conscience or Religion he took that Oath so often if he were then a Papist indeed as sithence the discovery of his Treasons he pretended let his best friends the Papists themselves judge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his Offences past that since those three Oaths so taken by him he was twice reconciled to the Pope and so his Conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time of his last Travel he cast away all his former lewd manners that he changed his degree and habit and bought or begged the grave Title of a Doctor of Law for which he was well qualified with a little Grammar-School Latine that he had Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all his Sins in consideration of his undertaking of so holy an Enterprise as to kill Queen Elizabeth a sacred anointed Queen his Natural and Soveraign Lady That he promised to the Pope and vowed to God to perform it that he confirmed the same by receiving the Sacrament at the Jesuits at one Altar with his two Beaupeers the Cardinals of Vendosme and Narbonne And that since his last return into England he did take his Oath upon the Bible to execute it These Reasons may seem to bear some weight indeed amongst his Friends the Jesuits and other Papists of State who have special Skill in matters of such importance But now lately in the beginning of this Parliament in November last he did eftsoons solemnly in publick place take the Oath before mentioned of obedience to her Majesty How that may stand with his reconciliations to the Pope and with his Promises Vows and Oath to kill the Queen it is a thing can hardly be warranted unless it be by some special priviledge of the Popes omnipotency But let him have the glory he desired to live and die a Papist He deserved it it is fit for him his death was correspondent to the course of his life which was disloyal perjured and Traiterous towards her Majesty and false and perfidious towards the Pope himself and his Catholicks if they will believe his solemn protestations which he made at his Arraignment and Execution that he never meant nor intended any hurt to her Highness