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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

Parry did ask me If it was reason to kill the Queen indeed and verity then I had no remembrance at all thereof But since thinking on the matter I have called to mind the whole fashion of his dealing with me and some of his Arguments for he dealt very craftily with me I dare not say maliciously For I did in no ways think of any such design of his or of any other and did answer him simply after my conscience and knowledge to the verity of the question For after that I had answered him twice before Quòd omnino non liceret he returned late at Even by reason I was to depart early in the next Morning toward Chamberie in Savoy where I did remain and being return'd out of the Close within one of the Classes of the Colledge he proponed to me of the new matter with his Reasons and Arguments First he alledged the utility of the deed for delivering of so many Catholicks out of misery and restitution of the Catholick Religion I answered that the Scripture answereth thereto saying Non sunt facienda mala ut veniant bona So that for no good how great that ever it be may be wrought any evil how little that ever it be He replyed that it was not evil to take away so great evil and induce so great good I answered That all good is not to be done but that onely Quod bene legitime fieri potest And therefore Dixi Deum magis amare adverbia quàm nomina Quia in actionibus magis ei placent bene legitime quam bonum Ita ut nullum bonum liceat facere nisi bene legitimè fieri possit Quod in hoc casu fieri non potest Yet said he that several learned men were of the opinion Quod liceret I answered that they men perhaps were of the opinion that for the safety of many in Soul and Body they would permit a particular to his danger and to the occult judgment of God Or perhaps said so moved rather by some compassion and commiseration of the miserable estate of the Catholicks not for any such Doctrine that they did finde in their Books For it is certain that such a thing is not licite to a particular without special revelation Divine which exceedeth our Learning and Doctrine And so he departed from me Your Honours poor servitor in Christ Jesu William Creichton Prisoner Out of the Prison in the Tower the 20th of February And where also the same Parry was on the same 20th day of February examined by Sir Francis Walsingham Knight what was become of the Letter contained in his Confession to be written unto him by the Cardinal de Como he then answered that it was consumed and burnt and yet after the next day following being more vehemently urged upon that point in examination because it was known that it was not burnt he confessed where he had left it in the Town whereupon by Parrys direction it was sent for where it had been lapped up together with other frivolous papers and written upon the one side of it The last Will of William Parry the which Letter was in the Italian Tongue as hereafter followeth with the same in English accordingly Translated A mon Signore mon Signore Guglielmo Parry MOn Signore la Santita di N. S. ha veduto le Lettere di V. S. del primo con la fede inclusa non puo se non landare la buona disposittione risolutione che serive di tenere verso il servitio beneficio publico nel che la Santita sua lessorta di perseverare con farne riuscire li effetti che V. S. promette Et accioche tanto maggiormente V. S. sia ajutata da quel buon Spirito che l'ha mosso le concede sua Beneditione plenaria Indulgenza remissione di tutti li peccati secondo che V. S. ha chiesto assicurandos si che oltre il merito che n'havera in cielo vuole anco sua Santita constituirsi debitore a riconoscere li meriti di V. S. in ogni miglior modo che potra cio tanto pin quanto che V. S. usa maggior modestia in non pretender niente Metta dunque ad effetto li suoi santi honorati pensieri attenda astar sano Che per fine io me le offero di core le desidero ogni buono felice successo Di Roma a 30 di Gennaro MDLXXXIV Al piacer di V. S. N. Cardinale di Como Al Sig. Guglielmo Parri Cardinal de Como's Letter to Will Parry January 30th 1584. by accompt of Rome MOnsignor the Holiness of our Lord hath seen the Letter of your Signory of the first with the assurance included and cannot but commend the good disposition and resolution which you write to hold towards the Service and Benefit publick Wherein his Holiness doth exhort you to persevere with causing to bring forth the effects which your Signorie promiseth And to the end you may be so much the more holpen by that good Spirit which hath moved you thereunto his Blessedness doth grant to you plenary Indulgence and Remission of all your Sins according to your request Assuring you that besides the Merit that you shall receive therefore in Heaven his Holiness will further make himself Debtour to re-acknowledge the deservings of your Signorie in the best manner that he can And that so much the more in that your Signorie useth the greater Modesty in not pretending any thing Put therefore to effect your holy and honourable thoughts and attend your Health And to conclude I offer my self unto you heartily and do desire all good and happy success From Rome the 30th of January 1584. At the pleasure of your Signorie N. Card. of Como UPon all which former Accusation Declaration Confessions and Proofs upon Munday the 22th day of February last past at Westminster-Hall before Sir Christopher Wray Knight Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of the Pleas before her Majesty to be holden and Will. Perriam one of the Justices of the Common Pleas by vertue of her Majesties Commission to them and others in that behalf directed The same Parry was Indicted of High Treason for intending and practising the Death and Destruction of her Majesty whom God long prosper and preserve from all such wicked attempts The tenour of which Indictment appeareth more particularly in the course of his Arraignment following The manner of the Arraignment of Will Parry the 25th of February 1584. at Westminster in the place where the Court commonly called the Kings-Bench is usually kept by vertue of her Majesties Commission of Oyer and Terminer before Henry Lord Hunsdon Governour of Barwick Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of the Queens Majesties

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 your 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 Paris and lastly commended and warranted by his Holiness digested and resolved in England if it had not been prevented by Accusation or by her Majesties greater Lenity and more gracious Usage of her Catholick Subjects This is my first and last Offence conceived against my Prince or Country and doth I cannot deny contein all other faults whatsoever It is now to be punished by Death or most graciously beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I do confess to have deserved Life I do with all Humility crave if it may stand with the Queens Honour and Policy of the Time To leave so great a Treason unpunished were strange To draw it by my Death in example were dangerous A sworn Servant to take upon him such an Enterprize upon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not been seen in England To Indict him Arraign him bring him to the Scaffold and to publish his Offence can do no good To hope that he hath more to discover than is Confessed or that at his Execution he will unsay any thing he hath written is in vain To conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were very hard and against former Experiences The Question then is whether it be better to kill him or lest the matter be mistaken upon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine own opinion though partial I will deliver you my Conscience The Case is good Queen Elizabeths the Offence is committed against her Sacred Person and she may of her Mercy pardon it without prejudice to any Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled Conscience than to live Pardon poor Parry and relieve him for life without living is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonourable to the Queens Majesty as by your favours I think it full of Honour and Mercy then I beseech your Lordships and no other once to hear me before I be Indicted and afterwards if I must dye humbly to intreat the Queens Majesty to hasten my Trial and Execution which I pray God with all my heart may prove as honourable to her as I hope it shall be happy to me who will while I live as I have done always pray to Jesus Christ for her Majesties long and prosperous Reign From the Tower the 18th of February 1584. W. Parry And where in this mean time Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary to her Majesty had dealt with one William Creichton a Scot for his Birth and a Jesuit by his Profession now Prisoner also in the Tower for that he was apprehended with divers Plots for Invasions of this Realm to understand of him if the said Parry had ever dealt with him in the parties beyond the Seas touching that Question Whether it were lawful to kill her Majesty or not the which at that time the said Creichton called not to his remembrance yet after upon better calling it to minde upon the 20th day of February last past he wrote to Master Secretary Walsingham thereof voluntary all of his own hand to the effect following William Creichtons Letter February 20. RIght honourable Sir when your Honour demanded me if Mr.

Houshold Sir James Croft Knight Comptroller of the same Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty Sir Christopher Wray Knight Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Chief-Baron of the Exchequer and Sir Thomas Hennage Knight Treasurer of the Chamber FIrst three Proclamations for silence were made according to the usual course in such cases Then the Lieutenant was commanded to return his Precept which did so and brought the Prisoner to the Bar to whom Miles Sandes Esquire Clerk of the Crown said William Parry hold up thy hand and he did so Then said the Clerk of the Crown Thou art here Indicted by the Oaths of twelve good and lawful men of the County of Middlesex before Sir Christopher Wray Knight and others which took the Indictment by the name of William Parry late of London Gentleman otherwise called William Parry late of London Doctor of the Law for that thou as a false Traitor against the most Noble and Christian Prince Queen Elizabeth thy most gracious Soveraign and Liege-Lady not having the fear of God before thine eyes nor regarding thy 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 Soveraign Lady didst at Westminster in the County of Middlesex on the first day of February in the 26th year of her Highness Reign and at divers other times and places in the same County maliciously 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 thy 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 day of March in the 26th year aforesaid didst traiterously receive Letters from one called Cardinal de Como directed unto thee William Parry whereby the same Cardinal did signifie unto thee that the Bishop of Rome had perused thy 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 26th year aforesaid at Saint Giles in the fields in the same County of Middlesex didst traiterously confer with one Edmund Nevil Esquire uttering to him all thy wicked and traiterous devises and then and there didst move him to assist thee therein and to joyn with thee in those wicked Treasons aforesaid against the Peace of our said Soveraign Lady the Queen her Crown and Dignity What sayest thou William Parry Art thou guilty of these Treasons whereof thou standest here Indicted or not guilty Then Parry said Before I plead not guilty or confess my self guilty I pray you give me leave to speak a few words and with humbling himself began in this manner God save Queen Elizabeth and God send me grace to discharge my duty to her and to send you home in charity But touching the matters that I am Indicted of some were in one place and some in another and done so secretly as none can see into them except that they had eyes like unto God wherefore I will not lay my Blood upon the Jury but do minde to confess the Indictment It containeth but the parts that have been openly read I pray you tell me Whereunto it was answered that the Indictment contained the parts he had heard read and no other whereupon the Clerk of the Crown said unto Parry Parry thou must answer directly to the Indictment whether thou be guilty or not Then said Parry I do confess that I am guilty of all that is therein contained And further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the Clerk of the Crown said If you confess it you must confess it in manner and form as it is comprised in the Indictment Whereunto he said I do confess it in manner and form as the same is set down and all the circumstances therof Then the Confession being Recorded the Queens learned Council being ready to pray Judgment upon the same Confession Master Vice-chamberlain said These matters contained in this Indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the Person of the Queens most excellent Majesty in the highest degree the very state and well-doing of the whole Common-wealth and the truth of Gods Word established in these her Majesties Dominions and the open demonstration of that capital envy of the man of Rome that hath set himself against God and all godliness all good Princes and good Government and against good men Wherefore I pray you for the satisfaction of this great Multitude let the whole matter appear that every one may see that the matter of it self is as bad as the Indictment purporteth and as he hath Confessed Whereto in respect that the Justice of the Realm hath been of late very impudently slandered all yielded as a thing necessary to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarily comprised in the Indictment though in the Law his Confession served sufficiently to have proceeded thereupon unto Judgment Whereupon the Lords and others the Commissioners her Majesties learned Councel and Parry himself agreed that Parry's Confession taken the 11th and 13th of February 1584. before the Lord of Hunsdon Master Vice-chamberlain and Master Secretary and Cardinal de Como his Letters and Parry's Letters to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Steward should be openly read And Parry for the better satisfying of the people and standers by offered to read them himself but being told that the Order was the Clerk of the Crown should read them it was so resolved of all parts And then Master Vice-chamberlain caused to be shewed to Parry his said Confession the Cardinals Letter and his own Letter aforesaid which after he had particularly viewed every leaf thereof he confessed and said openly they were the same Then said Master Vice-chamberlain Before we proceed to shew what he hath Confessed what say you said he to Parry is that which you have Confessed here true and did you Confess it freely and willingly of your self or was then any extort means used to draw it from you Surely said Parry I made that Confession freely without any constraint and that is all true and more too for there is no Treason that hath been sithens the sirst year of the

till to morrow And if one man be in the Town I will not fail to shew you the thing it self and if he be not he will be within these five or six days at which time if it please you to meet me at Chanon-row we may there receive the Sacrament to be true each to other and then I will discover unto you both the party and the thing itself Whereupon I prayed Parry to think better upon it as a matter of great charge both of Soul and Body I would to God said Parry you were as perfectly perswaded in it as I am for then undoubtedly you should do God great service Not long after eight or ten days as I remember Parry coming to visit me at my lodging in Herns rents in Holborn as he often used we walked forth into the fields where he renewed again his determination to kill her Majesty whom he said he thought most unworthy to live and that he wondred I was so scrupulous therein She hath sought said he your ruine and overthrow why should you not then seek to revenge it I confess quoth I that my case is hard but yet am I not so desperate as to revenge it upon my self which must needs be the event of so unhonest and unpossible an enterprise Unpossible said Parry I wonder at you for in truth there is not any thing more easie you are no Courtier and therefore know not her customs of walking with small train and often in the Garden very privately at which time my self may easily have access unto her and you also when you are known in Court Upon the fact we must have a Barge ready to carry us with speed down the River where we will have a ship ready to transport us if it be needfull but upon my head we shall never be followed so far I asked him How will you escape forth of the Garden for you shall not be permitted to carry any men with you and the Gates will then be locked neither can you carry a Dagge without suspition As for a Dagge said Parry I care not my Dagger is enough And as for my escaping those that shall be with her will be so busie about her as I shall finde opportunity enough to escape if you be there ready with the Barge to receive me But if this seem dangerous in respect of your reason before shewed let it then rest till her coming to St. James and let us furnish our selves in the mean time with men and horse fit for the purpose we may each of us keep eight or ten men without suspition And for my part said he I shall finde good fellows that will follow me without suspecting mine intent It is much said he that so many resolute men may do upon the suddain being well appointed with each his Case of Dagges if they were an hundred waiting upon her they were not able to save her you coming of the one side and I on the other and discharging our Dagges upon her it were unhappy if we should both miss her But if our Dagges fail I shall bestir me well with a sword ere she escape me Whereunto I said Good Doctor give over this odious enterprise and trouble me no more with the hearing of that which in heart I loath so much I would to God the enterprise were honest that I might make known unto thee whether I want solution And not long after her Majesty came to St. James's after which one morning the day certain I remember not Parry revived again his former discourse of killing her Majesty with great earnestness and importunity perswading me to joyn therein saying he thought me the onely man of England like to perform it in respect of my valure as he termed it Whereupon I made semblance as if I had been more willing to hear him than before hoping by that means to cause him to deliver his minde to some other that might be witness thereof with me wherein nevertheless I failed After all this on Saturday last being the sixth of February between the hours of five and six in the afternoon Parry came to my Chamber and desired to talk with me apart whereupon we drew our selves to a window And where I had told Parry before that a learned man whom I met by chance in the fields unto whom I proponed the question touching her Majesty had answered me that it was an enterprise most villanous and damnable willing me to discharge my self of it Parry then desired to know that learned mans name and what was become of him saying after a scornful manner No doubt he was a very wise man and you wiser in believing him and said further I hope you told him not that I had any thing from Rome Yes in truth said I. Whereunto Parry said I would you had not named me nor spoken of any thing I had from Rome And thereupon he earnestly perswaded me estsoons to depart beyond the Seas promising to procure me safe passage into Wales and from thence into Britain whereat we ended But I then resolved not to do so but to discharge my conscience and lay open this his most traiterous and abominable intention against her Majesty which I revealed in sort as is before set down Edmund Nevil After this confession of Edmund Nevil William Parry the 11th day of February last being examined in the Tower of London by the Lord Hunsdon Lord Governour of Barwick Sir Christopher Hatton knight Vicechamberlain to her Majesty and Sir Francis Walsingham Knight principal Secretary to her Majesty did voluntary and without any constraint by word of mouth make confession of his said Treason and after set it down in writing all with his own hand in his Lodging in the Tower and sent it to the Court the 13th of the same by the Lieutenant of the Tower The parts whereof concerning his manner of doing the same and the Treasons wherewith he was justly charged are here set down word for word as they are written and signed with his own hand and name the 11th of February 1584. The voluntary Confession of William Parry in writing all with his own hand The voluntary Confession of William Parry Doctor of the Laws now Prisoner in the Tower and accused of Treason by Edmund Nevil Esquire promised by him with all faith and humility to the Queens Majesty in discharge of his Conscience and Duty towards God and her Before the Lord Hunsdon Lord Governour of Barwick Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vicechamberlain Sir Francis Walsingham Knight principal Secretary the 13th of February 1584. Parry IN the year 1570. I was sworn her Majesties servant from which time until the year 1580. I served honoured and loved her with as great readiness devotion and assurance as any poor subject in England In the end of that year and until Midsummer 1582. I had some trouble for the hurting of a Gentleman of the Temple In which action I was so disgraced and oppressed by two great men to