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regard he was of the same nation, with the king 

 Antonio, whose causes he pretended to solicit at the 

 court : especially while he supposed there was any 

 appearance of his fortune; of whom also he had 

 obtained, as one that referred all his doings to gain, 

 an assignation of 50,000 crowns to be levied in 

 Portugal. But being a person wholly of a corrupt 

 and mercenary nature, and finding his hopes cold 

 from that part; he cast his eyes upon a more able 

 paymaster, and secretly made offer long since of his 

 service to the king of Spain : and accordingly gave 

 sundry intelligences of that which passed here, and 

 imported most for the king of Spain to know, 

 having no small means, in regard of his continual 

 attendance at court, nearness and access, to learn 

 many particulars of great weight : which intelli 

 gences he maintained with Bernardine Mendoza, 

 Antonio Vega, Roderigo Marquez, and divers others. 

 In the conveyance of which his intelligences, 

 and in the making known of his disposition to do 

 the king of Spain service, he had, amongst others, 

 one Manuel Andrada a Portuguese, revolted from 

 Don Antonio to the king of Spain ; one that was 

 discovered to have practised the death of the said 

 Don Antonio, and to have betrayed him to Bernar 

 dine Mendoza. This man coming hither, was, for 

 the same, his practice appearing by letters inter 

 cepted, apprehended and committed to prison. 

 Before which time also, there had been by good 

 diligence intercepted other letters, whereby the 

 said Andrada advertised Mendoza, that he had won 



