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A36075 The Damnable principle of the Jesuites touching the murdering of Kings fully laid open in two eminent instances, de facto, by their own confession 1679 (1679) Wing D156; ESTC R5571 11,836 27

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went to wait upon him in his Chamber and told him that he remembred he had held some discourse with Nevil touching a point of Doctrine contained in the Answer made to the Book Intituled The Execution of Justice in England in which it was proved that for the Advancement of the Catholick Religion it was lawful to take away the life of a Prince but that as to him he had never spoken a word of any design against the Queen But yet Parry and Nevil are sent to two several Prisons with interdiction to their Keepers not to let any whosoever to come near either of them but those the Queen shall appoint The former for having concealed six Months and above this Conspiracy the other for the Treason whereof he was charged and accused Both of them are interrogated and afterwards upon request made to them gave their Confessions in writing Nevil the tenth of February Parry the eleventh and the thirteenth That of Nevil containing the subornations and pursuits of Parry to the utmost of his power that of Parry how he had at first projected this Treason in Venice incouraged to it by the exhortations of the Jesuite Palmio afterwards confirmed by the Jesuites of Lyons and last of all positively concluded on by the instigations of Hannibal Coldretto and other Jesuites of Paris whereupon that devotion he had been first confessed and afterwards he received the Communion And it is a thing which methinks ought not to be buried in silence that being interrogated by his Judges he confessed that when he first of all discoursed with the Queen about the Conspiracies which the Fugitive Catholicks contrived against her to be re-instated in their houses she made him answer that her Opinion had never obliged h●r to treat any person ill for Religion unless under that colour and pretence they endeavoured to attempt against her and her Kingdom and that for the future none should be punished for holding the Supremacy of the Pope so long as they behaved themselves like good and faithful Subjects Nevil being re-examined and brought face to face to Parry persisted firmly in his deposition But it was a thing absolutely superfluous and needless for Parry had sufficiently confessed it also there were found in his house several Missives Instructions and Memorials that condemned him Likewise during his imprisonment he wrote Letters to the Queen by which he most humbly intreated her to be pleased to pardon the fault but not the penalty he deserved He had for his Judges Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice of England Speeds Chron. f. 1158. n. 99. Parries Letter to the Lords of the Council and several other Lords appointed for that purpose who made him to come from the Prison to Westminster and there being again interrogated in the presence of all the people he confessed the Treason Also his precedent confessions were read before him his missives that were sent to him for that effect and other pieces which were any wayes serviceable for the clearer proving of the crime adding that there was not any Conspiracy since the first year of the Queens Reign as touching Religion in which he was not concerned excepting that of the Agnus Dei and that besides that he had set down his Opinion in writing concerning the Successor of the Crown to induce the people to Rebellion This criminal Cause was in hearing from the eighth of February 1584. unto the five and twentieth On which day Parry was condemned to be hanged by the Neck and that the rope should be presently cut and he should be Bowelled to have his Entrails flung into the fire and burnt before his eyes afterwards to have his Head cut off and his Body set at four quarters of the Town and that from the Prison he should be drawn on a Sledge through the City of London unto the place of Execution That Sentence was then pronounced but yet not immediately Executed The second of March Parry was put into the hands of the Executioner He being advertised of this by the Sheriffes of London and Middlesex as if he were going to his Nuptials and to meet at the place of his Execution the Mistris of his dearest Vows dressed himself up in a long morning Gown of black Damask and put about the neckband of his Shirt a great starched Ruff such as was then wore and in fashion And taking his leave of the other Prisoners with a smooth and pleasant countenance he made a Present to the Goaler of a Ring in which was set in Gold a rich Diamond with these words That he was very sorry he was not in a capacity of gratifying him better After that he was drawn upon a Sledge and having mounted the Ladder it is reported he prayed the Executioner putting the Rope about his neck himself not to rumple and disorder his Ruff. Thus dyed that great Martyr of the Jesuites to be sure not promising to himself any thing less than a Celestial Paradise for so detestable an enterprise in it self though set out to himself as Sacred and as Meritorious a piece of Service as almost was possible to be performed So worthy was it that Raggazzoni the Pope's Nuntio promised him so Catholick and pious an undertaking should not be forgot at their Altars and so Meritorious as that it did not only find his Holiness his appprobation but it stirred up the Pope to give him readily and as it were by divine commission the Absolution of all his sins upon the first solicitation of Cardinal Como And because the Letter does come in here so pat to the purpose methinks I cannot in Justice deny you the seeing of it as it is Translated from the Original Italian and inserted in Speeds Chron. In loc qu. sup Cardinal Como's Letter to Parry SIr His Holiness hath seen your Letter of the first with the Assurance included and cannot but commend the good disposition and Resolution which you write to hold towards the Service of the Church and publick benefit wherein his Holiness doth exhort you to persevere with causing to be brought to effect that which you promise And to the end you may be so much the more enabled by that good Spirit which hath moved you thereunto his Holiness doth grant 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 debtor to acknowledge and requite your deservings by all the best means he may And that so much the more in that you use the more modesty in not pretending any thing Put therefore into effect your holy and honourable determinations and attend your health And to conclude I offer my self unto you heartily and with all good and happy success From Rome the xxx of January 1584. At your disposing N. Card. de Como BUt you shall now hear another worse Tragedy acted against the same Gracious Queen which was an Assassination