THE INTENDED Treason, of Doctor Parrie: AND HIS COMPLICES, Against the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. With a Letter sent from the Pope to the same effect.  
❧ Imprinted at London for Henry Car, and are to be sold in Paul's Churchyard at the Sign of the Blazing Star.   

❧ The Treason of Doctor Parrie against the Queen's Majesty.  
THe state and condition of these our days (Christian Reader) is most to be lamented or rather to be bewailed with bitter tears. Wherein are found such hollow hearted, not Christians: but Tartarians and most cruel vipers, whose properties as they are to thirst after blood: so they leave no way unattempted, no policy unassayed, nor any exploit unatchived to bring their blood thirsty purposes about. The experiment whereof, although many times heretofoe to our great grief, we have tasted: yet now of late to our greater jeopardy and peril, yea to our and the whole realms destruction, and overthrow for ever, we should more truly have felt indeed, if this bloody purpose of the traitorous papists had not been discovered, for the prevention hereof and all other the like: the Eternal God be praised. Now me think I hear it asked by whom this bloody deed or rather most cruel Massacre of Gods anointed, should have been committed. Truly by no stranger nor forriner but even by one of her majesties own native (but disloyal and most unnatural subject) the truth whereof was as followeth. One Doctor Parrie Doctor of the Civil Law being (though beyond his deserts) very dear unto her majesty, and well liked of, was by her grace sent over Seas in very weighty affairs, which he well achieving: returned home and no doubt was bountefully rewarded of her grace for his service, and pains sustained, within a while after: this doctor Parrie unworthy the name of a doctor, or of a Christian, conspired the death of her majesty, having received his fees of the Pope (as it should seem) for the same. For the accomplishing of which most heinous fact: he with another determined to kill her majesty, sometimes with a Dag, sometimes with a Poynado or dagger, sometime with one thing and sometimes with an other. Well this platform being laid, and he having promised the Pope to perform the thing: one of his conspirators through the goodness of God disclosed the same, which done: both he & the said archtraitor Parrie were both apprehended and committed, and upon the 25. of February the said Parrie was conveyed from the Tower of London to Westminster hall, where he was arraigned according to the law in that case provided.  
The Pope that great Antechriste, and rose coullored whore of Room, as he suborned many heretofore to kill her majesty: so he hired this traitorous villain Parrie, and therefore sent him a letter dated the 30. of january 1584. annimating, exhorting, and persuading him, as he tendered his holiness favour: that he would bring to pass and perform this their bloody purpose, and in so doing he should merit great thanks at his hands, and to the end he should go forward in that wicked enterprise: he granted him plenary, absolution, indulgence and remission of sins. The which letter was written by the Cardinal of Como. For the further credit of the thing itself: I have hear set down word for word, as it was writ to the said Parrie.  
The copy of the Letter sent to Doctor PARRIE.  
SIR, his Holiness hath seen your Letters of the first, with the assurance concluded: and cannot but commend the good disposition which you writ to hold towards his service and benefit public.  
Wherein, his Holiness doth exhort you to persever with causing to be brought to effect: that which you promise. And to the end you may be so much the more helped 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 merits 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 to effect your holy and honourable determinations and attend your health, and to conclude:  
I offer myself to you heartily and wish you all good and happy success. From Rome the 30. of january 1584. At your commandment N. Cardinal of Como.  
NOw whose heart is so stony, that reading this bloody letter will not burst forth into tears? See here how her grace was (as it were) bought and sold, nay see how bloodily and how unmercifully they had murdered her royal majesty in their hearts if their intended practices had taken expected success and effect.  
What good subject now, knowing the Pope and papists to be the instruments of all mischief, of blood, and of treason, will not abhor and detest both the one & the other? how many times hath the Pope and papists practised her majesties destruction? nay not only the destruction of her grace, but also the overthrow of the whole Realm, the massacre of God's Saints, and utter desolation for ever. And how mercifully, or rather miraculously hath God preserved her grace, discovered their treasons, laid open their conspiracies, & turned their inventions to their own deserved destruction? how merciful a watch man hath the Lord been over her grace, her people & Country these many years defending both the one and the other from all mischief what soever? how true is it which is written He shall give his Angels charge over thee, that thou dash not thy foot against a stone? The Lord continue watchman over her grace, still confound her foes and preserve her majesty for ever.  
God grant that her majesty with her most honourable counsel, may sound the depth of these things and prevent them in time, for the performance whereof: would god papistry might be punished with death (as it ought to be) and that all obstinate papists might sustain the same punishments which traitors are to sustain, for take this for a Maxim, that all papists are traitors in their hearts, how soever otherwise they bear the world in hand.  
And therefore how many papists her grace hath in the Land: so many deaths, may she fear. God grant that this high Court of Parliament may see to this gear. For shall it be lawful for the papists to put to death true professors of God's word without law, without reason, without conscience, or warrant of the word of God and shall it not be lawful for us to inflict the punishment of death upon them being traitors to God, their Prince and country, having the law of God upon our side, reason, good conscience, and else what soever? Well how soever we persuade ourselves, this is certain, that blood, treason, rebellion, insurrections commotions, mutinies, murder, and the like are the badges and cognizance of them, and of that wicked generation, and let us look for it, they will be pricks unto our eyes, whips unto our backs, and knives to cut our throats withal if time would serve them, which I pray God never do.  
In conclusion, in as much as it hath pleased the majesty of our good God in mercy to preserve her grace heretofore and especially at this time, not only from imminent daugers: but even from present death itself.  
I beseech all true Christian hearts and loving subjects even in the bowels of jesus Christ, to rest thankful to God for it, and to pray to God to preserve her grace still, and confound her foes and to bring to light all treason's and conspiraces what soever shall be intended against her Majesty, that peace may be in Israel, unto the end of the world. And in the end when she must yield to nature to receive her into his everlasting kingdom, crowning her with the immercessible Crown and most glorious Diadem of eternal glory  
Amen.  
FINIS.  
Philip Stubbes Gent.