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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of divers Gentlemen of great Worship and Honour And because his Mothers 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 Creditors 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 slights 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 soon poured out old 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 canses 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 seemed to glory greatly in the Profession of his pretensed Catholick Religion The whole course and action of his Life sheweth plainly how profanely and irreligiously he did always bear himself He vaunted that for these two and twenty years past he had been a Catholick and during all that time never received the Communion Yet before he travelled beyond the Seas at three several times within the compass of those two and twenty years he did voluntarily take the Oath of Obedience to the Queens Majesty set down in the Statute made in the first year of her Highness Reign by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his Conscience that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore did utterly renounce and forsake all Forreign Jurisdictions Powers and Authorities and did promise to bear Faith and true Allegeance to the Queens Highness her Heirs and lawful Successors With what Conscience or Religion he took that Oath so often if he were then a Papist indeed as sithence the discovery of his Treasons he pretended let his best friends the Papists themselves judge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his Offences past that since those three Oaths so taken by him he was twice reconciled to the Pope and so his Conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time of his last Travel he cast away all his former lewd manners that he changed his degree and habit and bought or begged the grave Title of a Doctor of Law for which he was well qualified with a little Grammar-School Latine that he had Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all his Sins in consideration of his undertaking of so holy an Enterprise as to kill Queen Elizabeth a sacred anointed Queen his Natural and Soveraign Lady That he promised to the Pope and vowed to God to perform it that he confirmed the same by receiving the Sacrament at the Jesuits at one Altar with his two Beaupeers the Cardinals of Vendosme and Narbonne And that since his last return into England he did take his Oath upon the Bible to execute it These Reasons may seem to bear some weight indeed amongst his Friends the Jesuits and other Papists of State who have special Skill in matters of such importance But now lately in the beginning of this Parliament in November last he did eftsoons solemnly in publick place take the Oath before mentioned of obedience to her Majesty How that may stand with his reconciliations to the Pope and with his Promises Vows and Oath to kill the Queen it is a thing can hardly be warranted unless it be by some special priviledge of the Popes omnipotency But let him have the glory he desired to live and die a Papist He deserved it it is fit for him his death was correspondent to the course of his life which was disloyal perjured and Traiterous towards her Majesty and false and perfidious towards the Pope himself and his Catholicks if they will believe his solemn protestations which he made at his Arraignment and Execution that he never meant nor intended any hurt to her Highness