Lopez Compounding to Poison the Queen

Lopez Compounding to Poison the Queen

Lopez, Roderigo, 1525-1594

An unknown conspirator meets with Queen Elizabeth's physician (Lopez) to plan to poison her. "What will you give?" In the stark background stands the Tower of London and the gallows, the destined end of traitors.  Engraving from Carlton's A Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercy (1627).

Hulsius, Friedrich van, 1580-

Robert Mylbourne and Humphrey Robinson at the signe of the three Pigeons in Pauls Church-yard (1627)

1627

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