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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

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

A true and plain DECLARATION OF THE Horrible Treasons PRACTISED By WILLIAM PARRY Dr. of the Civil Law BEING A PAPIST AGAINST Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory Because She was a 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 Westminster-hall Together with his Denyal thereof at the place of Execution and his manner of Behaviour there Written in the Year 1584. Audax omnia perpeti Gens Romana ruit per vetitum nefas Published to shew how little credit is to be given to the last and dying words of the Romanists LONDON Printed for William Crook and Charles Harper at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar and at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1679. THE PREFACE TO THE READER READER THE Papists those restless Enemies of the Protestant Religion are not more infamous for the unsoundness of their Doctrines than for the greatness of their Treasons where they cannot convince they labour to destroy and rather than not subdue what they call but cannot prove a pestilent Heresie they will massacre the whole Protestant Party and will pull down a flourishing State to build a corrupt Church Their Subjection to the Pope is in consistent with their Allegiance to the Prince and if they are true Roman Catholicks they cannot be good English Subjects For when they are designed by the Church to be made Saints they never afterwards by the Law can be made Rebels And therefore when God is pleased by discovering their Designs to expose them to Justice there is not a man of them that is guilty but as innocent as the Child unborn For unless their attempts succeed and declare to all the World their actual Treason in despight of all other proofs they will brag of their constant Loyalty Willing enough they are to reap the fruits of Rebellion but take care if the case be hazardous to avoid the Scandal And therefore sometimes they stand behind the Curtain while they spur on others more adventrous though no more wicked to execute their Counsels and by exposing them secure themselves from the Censure and the Punishment To be sure when they have Power they never want Cruelty The Turks and the Pagans have been out-done by their greater Persecutions The Stakes and the Pagots and the Fire bear witness against them And when they have no strength we know they want not malice but labour by Treachery to undermine when by Power they cannot subdue His Majesty and our Religion have been brought into great danger by their secret Plots and Conspiracies The unhappy Quarrels and Dissentions amongst our selves are Tares of their sowing But if they want might or subtilty of their own before they will desist they will crave assistance from abroad Foreign Powers shall be ingag'd to weaken us and rather than Popery should be kept out they will truck for an Invasion Indeed there is no Age no place but gives us too sad Examples of their Villanies either Acted or Contrived Nor is it strange when men call Evil Good that they run into all excess of wickedness With them 't is lawful to tread upon the Royal Diadem to advance the Triple Crown and meritorious to kill the Lords Anointed who is really Gods Vicegerent for the Interest of the Man of Sin who falsly calls himself Christs Vicar Hence it is that these fiery Zealots so often ingage to Assassinate Soveraign Princes and imbroyl Peaceable Kingdoms The proofs hereof are too plain and one would think needless but that the impudence of our Adversaries that teaches them to deny the plainest Evidence will not suffer them to confess the most apparent Crimes Wonder not Good Reader at this their boldness For 't is the old Roman-Catholick usage under a deep guilt to protest an unspotted Innocence and then chiefly to declare that it is not lawful to depose or murther the King when they are not able or want an opportunity The truth is 't is no new thing for them when they have done or intended evil to wipe their mouths and say they have done or intended nothing Tresham one of the Gunpowder Traytors in King James his time when he came to die denied what Garnet the Provincial proved against him and what he himself had formerly confessed And Garnet denied upon his Salvation with horrid imprecations what Father Oldcorn alias Hall proved against him and at his Execution he said he was sorry for dissembling with the Lords of the Council but excus'd it by affirming he did not think they had such proofs against him These things are evident and appear by the Printed Tryals of those Traytors Here I present thee with a true and faithful account of William Parry's Treason against Queen Elizabeth and of his behaviour after his Apprehension upon his Arraignment and at his Execution written in the Year of our Lord 1584. Sir Richard Baker in his History of England p. 366. gives us a short Essay of all the remarkable passages thereof which in this Treatise are more particularly and at large set forth being done by an exact hand immediately after Parry's Execution Peruse it and thou wilt find that the Pope and the Cardinal like Simeon and Levi have joyned hand in hand in wickedness endeavouring by hook or by crook to bring Popery into England And that confederation with Foreign Powers hath heretofore been entred into to root out Protestant Religion Popish Forces uniting to cut off us poor Hereticks And that 't is commendable to destroy the Prince and overthrow the Government to make way for the Popes Supremacy and the Churches Vsurpation Nay that 't is part of the Religion of Rome to commit Treason the greatest Monsters of Mankind being the chiefest Darlings of that Church And that the Laity aswell as the Clergy may be influenc'd so far by the power of wicked Principles as to Espouse the interest of the Church to the loss of their Allegiance Read on and thou wilt likewise find that the Papists formerly have had brows of Brass as well as wanted bowels of Compassion and have been as unwilling to confess Treason as forward to commit it And that the Papist after he hath acknowledg'd his guilt can deny his Confession and impudently contradict what himself hath freely owned For should he suffex as an evil doer he might forfeit the title of his Martyrdom And that 't is no new thing for a Papist to tell a lye with his dying breath Rather than a true Roman Confessor will be foiled his last words shall be the falsest For they that are nurst at Rome are educated at Crete and are as infamus for their Lies as their Blood-shed Let the Church of Rome

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.

Queen any way touching Religion saving receipt of Agnus Dei and perswading of others wherein I have not much dealt but I have offended in it And I have also delivered mine opinion in writing who ought to be Successor to the Crown which he faid to be Treason also Then his Confession of the eleventh and thirteenth of February all of his own hand writing and before particularly set down was openly and distinctly read by the Clerk of the Crown And that done the Cardinal di Como his Letter in Italian was delivered unto Parry's hand by the direction of Master Vicechamberlain which Parry there perused and openly affirmed to be wholly of the Cardinals own hand writing and the Seal to be his own also and to be with a Cardinals Hat on it And himself did openly read it in Italian as before is set down And the words bearing sence as it were written to a Bishop or to a man of such degree it was demanded of him by Master Vice-Chamberlain Whether he had not taken the degree of a Bishop He said No But said at first those terms were proper to the Degree he had taken And after said that the Cardinal did vouchsafe as of a favour to write so to him Then the Copy of that Letter in English as before is also set down was in like manner openly read by the Clerk of the Crown which Parry then acknowledged to be truely translated And thereupon was shewed unto Parry his Letter of the 18th of February written to the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Steward which he confessed to be all of his own Hand-writing and was as before is set down These matters being read openly for manifestation of the matter Parry prayed leave to speak Whereto Master Vice-chamberlain said If you will say any thing for the better opening to the world of those your foul and horrible Facts speak on but if you mean to make any excuse of that which you have confessed which else would have been and do stand proved against you for my part I will not sit to hear you Then her Majesties Attourney-General stood up and said It appeareth before you my Lords that this man hath been Indicted and Arraigned of several most hainous and horrible Treasons and hath confessed them which is before you of Record wherefore there resteth no more to be done but for the Court to give Judgment accordingly which here I require in the behalf of the Queens Majesty Then said Parry I pray you hear me for discharging of my Conscience I will not go about to excuse my self nor to seek to save my Life I care not for it you have my Confession of record that is enough for my Life And I mean to utter more for which I were worthy to die And said I pray you hear me in that I am to speak to discharge my Conscience Then said Master Vice-Chamberlain Parry then do thy Duty according to Conscience and utter all that thou canst say concerning those thy most wicked Facts Then said Parry My cause is rare singular and unnatural conceived at Venice presented in general words to the Pope undertaken at Paris commended and allowed of by his Holiness and was to have been executed in England if it had not been prevented Yea I have committed many Treasons for I have committed Treason in being reconciled and Treason in taking Absolution There hath been no Treason sithens the first year of the Queens Reign touching Religion but that I am guilty of except for receiving of Agnus Dei and perswading as I have said And yet never intended to kill Queen Elizabeth I appeal to her own knowledge and to my Lord Treasurers and Master Secretaries Then said my L d Hunsdon Hast thou acknowledged it so often and so plainly in writing under thy hand and here of record and now when thou shouldest have thy judgment according to that which thou hast Confessed thy self guilty of doest thou go back again and deny the effect of all How can we believe that thou now sayest Then said Master Vice-chamberlain This is absurd Thou hast not onely Confessed generally that thou wert guilty according to the Indictment which summarily and yet in express words doth contain that thou hadst Traiterously compassed and intended the death and destruction of her Majesty but thou also saidst particularly that thou wert guilty of every of the Treasons contained therein whereof the same was one in plain and express letter set down and read unto thee Yea thou saidst that thou wert guilty of more Treasons too besides these And didst thou not upon thy examination voluntarily confess how thou wast moved first thereunto by mislike of thy state after thy departure out of the Realm And that thou didst mislike her Majesty for that she had done nothing for thee How by wicked Papists and Popish Books thou wert perswaded that it was lawful to kill her Majesty How thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort that held her Majesty for neither lawful Queen nor Christian And that it was meritorious to kill her And didst thou not signifie that thy purpose to the Pope by Lettersand receivedst Letters from the Cardinal how he allowed of thine intent and excited thee to perform it and thereupon didst receive Absolution And didst thou not conceive it promise it vow it swear it and receive the Sacrament that thou wouldst do it And didst not thou thereupon affirm that thy Vows were in Heaven and thy Letters and Promises on Earth to binde thee to do it And that whatsoever her Majesty would have done for thee could not have removed thee from that intention or purpose unless she would have desisted from dealing as she hath done with the Catholicks as thou callest them All this thou hast plainly Confessed And I protest before this great Assembly thou hast Confessed it more plainly and in better sort than my memory will serve me to utter And saist thou now that thou never meant'st it Ah said Parry your Honours know how my Confession upon mine Examination was extorted Then both the Lord Hunsdon and Master Vice-Chamberlain affirmed that there was no Torture or threatning words offered him But Parry then said that they told him that if he would not confess willingly he should have torture whereunto their Honours answered that they used not any speech or word of torture to him You said said Parry that you would proceed with rigour against me if I would not confess it of my self But their Honours expresly affirmed that they used no such words But I will tell thee said Master Vice-chamberlain what we said I spake these words If you will willingly utter the truth of your self it may do you good and I wish you to do so If you will not we must then proceed in ordinary course to take your Examination Whereunto you answered that you would tell the truth of your self Was not this true Which then he yielded

unto And hereunto her Majesties Attourney-General put Parry in remembrance what Speeches he used to the Lieutenant of the Tower the Queens Majesties Serjeant at Law Master Gaudie and the same Attourney on Saturday the twentieth of February last at the Tower upon that he was by them then examined by Order from the Lords which was that he acknowledg'd he was most mildly and favourably dealt with in all his Examinations which he also at the Bar then acknowledg'd to be true Then Master Vice-chamberlain said that it was wonder to see the magnanimity of her Majesty which after that thou hadst opened those Trayterous Practices in sort as thou hast laid it down in thy Confession was nevertheless such and so far from all fear as that she would not so much as acquaint any one of her Highness Privy-Council with it to his knowledge no not until after this thine Enterprise discovered and made manifest And besides that which thou hast set down under thine own hand thou didst confess that thou hadst prepared two Scottish Daggers fit for such a purpose and those being disposed away by thee thou didst say that another would serve thy turn And withal Parry didst thou not also confess before us how wonderfully thou wert appaled and perplexed upon a sudden at the presence of her Majesty at Hampton-Court this last Summer saying that thou didst think thou then sawest in her the very likeness and image of King Henry the Seventh And that therewith and upon some Speeches used by her Majesty thou didst turn about and weep bitterly to thy self And yet didst call to minde that thy Vows were in Heaven thy Letters and Promises on Earth and that therefore thou didst say with thy self that there was no remedy but to do it Didst thou not confess this The which he acknowledged Then said the Lord Hunsdon Sayest thou now that thou didst never mean to kill the Queen Didst thou not confess that when thou didst utter this practice of treachery to her Majesty that thou didst cover it with all the skill thou hadst and that it was done by thee rather to get credit and access thereby than for any regard thou hadst of her Person But in truth thou didst it that thereby thou mightest have better opportunity to perform thy wicked Enterprise And wouldest thou have run into such fear as thou didst confess that thou wert in when thou didst utter it if thou hadst never meant it What reason canst thou shew for thy self With that he cryed out in a furious manner I never meant to kill her I will lay my Blood upon Queen Elizabeth and you before God and the World And thereupon fell into a rage and evil words with the Queens Majesties Attourney-General Then said the Lord Hunsdon This is but thy Popish Pride and Ostentation which thou wouldst have to be told to thy fellows of that Faction to make them believe that thou diest for Popery when thou diest for most horrible and dangerous Treasons against her Majesty and thy whole Country For thy laying of thy Bloud it must lye on thine own Head as a just Reward of thy wickedness The Laws of the Realm most justly condemn thee to die out of thine own mouth for the conspiring the Destruction both of her Majesty and of us all Therefore thy Bloud be upon thee neither her Majesty nor we at any time sought it thy self hast spilt it Then he was asked What he could say why Judgment of Death ought not to be awarded against him Whereto he said he did see that he must die because he was not settled What meanest thou by that said Master Vice-Chamberlain Said he Look into your Study and into your new Books and you shall finde what I mean I protest said his Honour I know not what thou meanest thou dost not well to use such dark Speeches unless thou wouldst plainly utter what thou meanest thereby But he said he cared not for Death and that he would lay his Bloud amongst them Then spake the Lord Chief-Justice of England being required to give the Judgment and said Parry you have been much heard and what you mean by being settled I know not but I see you are so settled in Popery that you cannot settle your self to be a good Subject But touching that you should say to stay Judgment from being given against you your Speeches must be of one of these kinds either to prove the Indictment which you have confessed to be true to be insufficient in Law or else to plead somewhat touching her Majesties Mercy why Justice should not be done of you All other Speeches wherein you have used great Liberty is more than by Law you can ask These be the matters you must look to what say you to them Whereto he said nothing Then said the Lord Chief-Justice Parry thou hast been before this time Indicted of divers most horrible and hateful Treasons committed against thy most gracious Soveraign and Native Country the matter most detestable the manner most subtle and dangerous and the occasions and means that led thee thereunto most ungodly and villanous That thou didst intend it it is most evident by thy self The matter was the destruction of a most Sacred and an Anointed Queen thy Sovereign and Mistriss who hath shewed thee such Favour as some thy betters have not obtained Yea the Overthrow of thy Country wherein thou wert born and of a most happy Commonwealth whereof thou art a Member and of such a Queen as hath bestowed on thee the Benefit of all benefits in this world that is thy Life heretofore granted thee by her Mercy when thou hadst lost it by Justice and Desert Yet thou her Servant sworn to defend her meant'st with thy bloudy hand to have taken away her Life that mercifully gave thee thine when it was yielded into her hands This is the matter wherein thou hast offended The manner was most subtle and dangerous beyond all that before thee have committed any Wickedness against her Majesty For thou making shew as if thou wouldest simply have uttered for her safety the Evil that others had contrived didst but seek thereby credit and access that thou mightest take the apter opportunity for her Destruction And for the occasions and means that drew thee on they were most ungodly and villanous as the perswasions of the Pope of Papists and Popish Books The Pope pretendeth that he is a Pastor when as in truth he is far from feeding of the Flock of Christ but rather as a Wolf secketh but to feed on and to suck out the blood of true Christians and as it were thirsteth after the bloud of our most Gracious and Christian Queen And these Papists and Popish Books while they pretend to set forth Divinity they do indeed most ungodly teach and perswade that which is quite contrary both to God and his Word For the Word teaches Obedience of Subjects towards Princes and forbideth any private man to kill But they

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