REPORT OF LOPEZ S TREASON. 



majesty s council long since entered into consi 

 deration, that the retinue of king Antonio, I mean 

 some of therri, were not unlike to hatch these kinds 

 of treasons, in regard they were needy strangers, 

 entered into despair of their master s fortune, and 

 like enough to aspire to make their peace at home, 

 by some such wicked services as these ; and there 

 fore grew to have an extraordinary vigilant eye 

 upon them : which prudent and discreet presumption, 

 or conjecture, joined with some advertisements of 

 espials abroad, and some other industry, was the 

 first cause, next under the great benediction of God, 

 which giveth unto princes zealous counsellors, and 

 giveth to counsellors policy, and discerning thoughts, 

 of the revealing and discovering of these treasons, 

 which were contrived in order and form, as hereafter 

 is set down. 



This Lopez, of nation a Portuguese, and sus 

 pected to be in sect secretly a Jew, though here he 

 conformed himself to the rites of the Christian 

 religion, for a long time professed physic in this 

 land, by occasion whereof, being withal a man very 

 observant and officious, and of a pleasing and ap- 

 pliable behaviour ; in that regard, rather than for 

 any great learning in his faculty, he grew known 

 and favoured in court, and was some years since 

 sworn physician of her majesty s household ; and by 

 her majesty s bounty, of whom he had received 

 divers gifts of good commodity, was grown to good 

 estate of wealth. 



This man had insinuated himself greatly, in 



