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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

after we had entred into this Conspiracy In which space her Majesty and ten Princes in several Provinces might have been killed God bless her Majesty from him for before Almighty God I joy and am glad in my soul that it was his hap to discover me in time though there were no danger near And now to the manner of our meetings He came to me in the beginning of August and spake to me in this or like sort Cousin let us do somewhat sithens we can have nothing I offered to joyn with him and gladly heard him hoping because I knew him to be a Catholick that he would hit upon that I had in my head but it fell not out so He thought the delivery of the Queen of Scotland easie presuming upon his Credit and Kindred in the North I thought it dangerous to her and impossible to men of our fortunes He fell from that to the taking of Barwick I spake of Quinborough and the Navy rather to entertain him with discourse than that I cared for those motions my head being full of a greater matter 12 I told him that I had another manner of Enterprise more honourable and profitable to us and the Catholicks Common-wealth than all these if he would joyn in it with me as he presently vowed to do He pressed to know it I willed him to sleep upon the motion He did so and belike overtaken came to me the next morning to my Lodging in London offered to joyn with me and took his Oath upon a Bible to conceal and constantly to pursue the enterprise for the advancement of Religion which I also did and meant to perform the killing of the Queen was the matter The manner and place to be on Horsback with eight or ten horses when she should ride abroad about St. James or some other like place It was once thought fit in a Garden and that the escape would be easiest by water into Shepey or some other part but we resolved upon the first This continued as agreed upon many moneths until he heard of the death of Westmoreland whose Land and Dignity whereof he assured himself bred belike this Conscience in him to discover a Treason in February contrived and agreed upon in August If it cost him not an ambitious Head at last let him never trust me He brought a tall Gentleman whom he commended for an excellent Pistolier to me to Chanon-Row to make one in the match but I refused to deal with him being loth to lay my head upon so many hands Master Nevil hath I think forgotten that he did swear to to me at divers times that all the advancement she could give should serve but for her scourge if ever time and occasion should serve and that though he would not lay hand upon her in a corner his heart served him to strike off her Head in the field Now leaving him to himself this much to make an end I must confess of my self I did mean to try what might be done in Parliament to do my best to hinder all hard courses to have prayed hearing of the Queens Majesty to move her if I could to take compassion upon her Catholick Subjects and when all had failed to do as I intended If her Majesty by this course would have eased them though she had never preferred me I had with all comfort and patience born it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the Enterprise had held Parry God preserve the Queen and encline her merciful heart to forgive me this desperate purpose and to take my Head with all my heart for her better satisfaction After which for the better manifesting of his Treasons on the 14th of February last there was a Letter written by him to her Majesty very voluntarily all of his own Hand without any motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his Traiterous dealings is as followeth A Letter written by Parry to Her Majesty YOur Majesty may see by my voluntary Confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented minde and how constantly I pursued my first conceived purpose in Venice for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks continued it in Lions and resolved in Paris to put it in adventure for the Restitution of England to the antient Obedience of the See Apostolick You may see withal how it is Commended Allowed and Warranted in Conscience Divinity and Policy by the Pope and some great Divines Though it be true or likely that most of our English Divines less practised in matters of this weight do utterly mislike and condemn it The Enterprise is prevented and Conspiracy discovered by an honourable Gentleman my Kinsman and late familiar Friend Master Edmund Nevil privy and by solemn Oath taken upon the Bible party to the matter whereof I am hardly glad but now sorry in my very Soul that ever I conceived or intended it how commendable or meritoritous soever I thought it God thank him and forgive me who would not now before God attempt it if I had liberty and opportunity to do it to gain your Kingdome I beseech Christ that my Death and Example may as well satisfie you Majesty and the world as it shall glad and content me The Queen of Scotland is your Prisoner let her be honourably entreated but yet surely guarded The French King is French you know it well enough you will finde him occupied when he should do you good he will not loose a Pilgrimage to save you a Crown I have no more to say at this time but that with my Heart and Soul I do now honour and love you am inwardly sorry for mine Offence and ready to make you amends by my Death and Patience Discharge me à culpâ but not à poenâ good Lady And so farewel most gracious and the best-natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in England From the Tower the 14th of February 1584. W. Parry After which to wit the 18th of February last past Parry in further acknowledging his wicked and intended Treasons wrote a Letter all of his own hand in like voluntary manner to the Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Leicester Lord Steward of her Majesties house the Tenour whereof is as followeth William Parry's Letter to the Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester MY Lords now that the Conspiracy is discovered the Fault confessed my Conscience cleared and Minde prepared patiently to suffer the Pains due for so heinous a Crime I hope it shall not offend you if crying Miserere with the poor Publican I leave to despair with cursed Cain My Case is rare and strange and for any thing I can remember singular A natural Subject solemnly to vow the Death of his natural Queen so born so known and so taken by all men for the Relief of the afflicted Catholicks and Restitution of Religion The Matter first conceived in Venice the Service in general words presented to the Pope continued and undertaken in