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A51173	Megalopsychy, being a particular and exact account of the last XVII years of Q. Elizabeths reign, both military and civil the first written by Sir William Monson ..., the second written by Heywood Townsend, Esq. ; wherein is a true and faithful relation ... of the English and Spanish wars, from the year 1585, to the Queens death ; with a full account of the eminent speeches and debates, &c., in the said time ; to which is added Dr. Parry's tryal in the year 1584 ; all written at the time of the actions, by persons eminently acting therein.	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.; Parry, William, d. 1585. True and plain declaration of the horrible treasons.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2465; ESTC R7517	94,931	102

to retain to our eldest Sons God blessed him with many earthly Benefits as Wealth Children and Reputation his eldest Son was called John after his Father and his second William like to your self and Brother but upon what displeasure I know not although we must judge the Son gave the occasion his Father left him the least part of his Fortune though sufficient to equal the best Gentleman of his Shire and particularly the ancient House called after his name His other Son William he invested with what your Uncle now enjoys Both the Sons whilest they lived carried the port and estimation of their Fathers Children though afterwards it fell out that the Son of John and Nephew to William became disobedient negligent and prodigal and spent all his Patrimony so that in conclusion he and his Son extinguished their House and there now remains no memory of them As for the second Line and Race of whom your Uncle and I descended we live as you see though our Estates be not great and of the two mine much the least which notwithstanding is the greater to me in respect I atchieved it with the peril and danger of my Life and you will make my contentment in the enjoyment of it the greater if it be accompanied with that comfort I hope to receive from you The next thing I will handle shall be Arms. Know that Wars by Land or Sea are always accompanied with infinite dangers and disasters and seldom rewarded according to Merit For one Souldier that lives to enjoy that Preferment which becomes his right by Antiquity of Service ten thousand fall by the Sword and other casualties And if you compare that of a Souldier with any other Calling or Profession you will find much difference both in the reward and danger Although Arms have been esteemed in all Ages and the more as there was greater occasion to use them yet you shall find they have been always subject to jealousies and envy Jealousies from the State if the General or other Officer grow great and popular subject to envy from Inferiors who through their perverse and ill dispositions malign other mens Merits The Advancement of Souldiers is commonly made by Councellors at home whose eyes cannot witness the Services performed abroad but a man is advanced as he is befriended which makes the Souldiers Preferment as uncertain as his Life is casual Compare the estate and advancement of Souldiers of our time but with the mean and mercenary Lawyer and you shall find so great a difference that I had rather you should become Apprentice to the one than make Profession of the other A Captain that will seek to get the love of his Souldiers as his greatest praise and felicity of all other vices must detest and abandon Covetousness he must live by spending as the Miser doth by sparing insomuch as few of them can obtain by War wherewith to maintain themselves in peace and where Wealth wants Preferment fails Souldiers that live in peaceable Islands as in England their Profession is undervalued because we see not those dangers which make the Souldiers necessary as others do where Wars are practised And the good success in our Wars hath been such as makes us attribute our Victories not so much to Valour as to Chance I confess the base and ill behaviour of some Souldiers hath made themselves and their Callings the less esteemed for the name of a Captain which was ever wont to be honourable is now became a word of reproach and disdain Souldiers may have Reputation but little Credit Reputation enough to defend their Honours but little Trust in Commerce of the World and not without cause for their security is the worse by how much the danger of death is the greater Learning is as much to be preferred before War as the trade of a Merchant before that of the Factor By Learning you are made sensible of the difference betwixt Men and other Creatures and will be able to judge between the good and the bad and how to walk accordingly By Learning you attain to the knowledge of Heavenly Mysteries and you may frame your Life accordingly as God shall give you grace By Learning you are made capable of Preferment if it concur with Virtue and Discretion and the rather because you are a Gentleman by birth and of good Alliance which I observe next to Money in this Golden Age is the second step to Advancement For one that is preferred by Arms there are twenty by Learning and indeed the Souldier is but a Servant to the Learned for after his many fought Battels and as many dangers of his Life he must yield account of his Actions and be judged corrected and advanced as it shall please the other You may wonder to hear me extoll Learning so highly above my own Profession considering the poor Fortune I shall leave was atchieved by Arms it is enough therefore to persuade you what I say is not conjectural but approved for if I did not find this difference the natural affection of a Father to a Son would make me discover it to you that you may follow that which is most probable and profitable Good Son love Souldiers for your Countries sake who are the Defenders of it for my sake who have made Profession of it but shun the practice of it as you will do Brawls Quarrels and Suits which bring with them perplexities and dangers There are many things to be shunned as being perillous both to Body and Soul as Quarrels and occasions of them which happen through the enormities and abuses of our Age. Esteem Valour as a special virtue but shun Quarrelling as a most detestable vice Of two evils it were better to keep company with a Coward than a Quarreller the one is commonly sociable and friendly the other dangerous in his Acquaintance and offensive to Standersby He is never free from peril that is conversant with a Quarreller either for offence given to himself or to others wherein he may be engaged A true valiant man shall have enough to do to defend his own Reputation without engaging for others nor are all valiant that will fight therefore Discretion makes a difference betwixt Valour and Desperateness Nothing can happen more unfortunate to a Gentleman than to have a Quarrel and yet nothing so ordinary as to give offence it draweth with it many mischiefs both to Body and Soul being slain he is danger of damnation and no less if he kill the other without great repentance He shall perpetually live in danger of revenge from the Friends of the Party killed and fall into the mercy of the Prince and Law where he liveth but if for fear and baseness he avoid and shun a Quarrel he is more odious living than he would be unhappy in dying Drinking is the foundation of other vices it is the cause of Quarrels and then follows Murders It occasions Swearing Whoredom and many other vices depend upon it When you behold a Drunkard

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 little to 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 Mother 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 Creditor 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 slight 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 foon poured out of 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 causes 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