*298 REPORT OF LOPEZ S TREASON. 



ordinarily passed to and fro between him and Lopez I 

 by whom he did also, the better to colour his 

 employment^ write to Lopez intelligence, as it was 

 agreed he should between him and Lopez; who 

 bad him send such news as he should take up in the 

 streets. From Calais he writeth to count de Fuentes 

 of Lopez s promise and demands. Upon the receipt 

 of which letters, after some time taken to advertise 

 this proposition into Spain, and to receive direction 

 thereupon, the count de Fuentes associated with 

 Stephano Ibarra, secretary of the council of the wars 

 in the Low Countries, calleth to him one Manuel 

 Louis Tinoco, a Portuguese, who had also followed 

 king Antonio, and of whose good devotion he had 

 had experience, in that he had conveyed unto him 

 two several packets, wherewith he was trusted by 

 the king Antonio for France. Of this Louis the 

 first received a corporal oath, with solemn ceremony, 

 taking his hands between their hands, that he should 

 keep secret that which should be imparted to him, 

 and never reveal the same, though he should be 

 apprehended and questioned here. This done, they 

 acquaint him with the letters of Andrada, with 

 whom they charge him to confer at Calais in his 

 way, and to pass to Lopez into England, addressing 

 him farther to Stephano Ferrera de Gama, and 

 signifying unto the said Lopez withal, as from the 

 king, that he gave no great credence to Andrada, 

 as a person too slight to be used in a cause of so 

 great weight : and therefore marvelled much that he 

 heard nothing from Ferrera of this matter, from 



