A TRUE REPORT 



OP , 



THE DETESTABLE TREASON, 



INTENDED BY 



DOCTOR RODERIGO LOPEZ, 



A PHYSICIAN ATTENDING UPON THE PERSON OF THE QUEEN S 

 MAJESTY, 



WHOM HE, FOR A SUM OF MONEY, PROMISED TO BE PAID HIM BY THE KINO OF SPAIN, 

 DID UNDERTAKE TO HAVE DESTROYED BY POISON; WITH CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES 

 BOTH OF THF. PLOTTING AND DETECTING OF THE SAID TREASON. 



[Penned during the Queen s Life.] 



THE king of Spain having found, by the enterprise 

 of 88, the difficulty of an invasion of England, and 

 .having also since that time embraced the matters of 

 France, being a design of a more easy nature, and 

 better prepared to his hand, hath of necessity for 

 a time laid aside the prosecution of his attempts 

 against this realm, by open forces, as knowing his 

 means unable to wield both actions at once, as well 

 that of England as that of France ; and therefore, 

 casting at the fairest, hath, in a manner, bent his 

 whole strength upon France, making, in the mean 

 time, only a defensive war upon the Low Countries. 

 But finding again, that the supports and aids which 

 her majesty hath continued to the French king, are a 

 principal impediment and retardation to his prevail 

 ing there according to his ends, he hath, now of late, 

 by all means, projected to trouble the waters here, 

 VOL. v. u 



