Robert Parsons; "A Conference..."
- Artist/Author/Producer: Robert Parsons(1546-1610)
- Confronting Bodies: Parliament
- Dates of action: 1594
- Location: England
- Description of the Art Work
- "A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England": The
intention of the book was to support the title of the Infanta against
that of James I, after the death of Queen Elizabeth.
- Description of incident
- 1603 London, England: The authors, Parson the Jesuit, Cardinal Allen and
Sir Francis Englefield. The book was rigorously suppressed by
Parliament, which enacted that "whosoever should be found to have it in
their house should be guilty of high treason."
- Results of incident
- 1603 England-London: The printer is said to have been hanged, drawn, and
quartered.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
