The Case of Dr. Lopez

The unhappy story of Dr. Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth’s household, who was executed for treason and attempted murder, has already been before the Society on two occasions. The first was on 27th April, 1908, when Major Martin Hume in a detailed examination of the case showed, I think conclusively, that Lopez was not guilty of the charges brought against him. The second was on 2 ist November, 1926, when the late Lucien Wolf, in the course of his paper on the Jews in Elizabethan England, added some interesting and enlightening particulars about Lopez’s private life and family connections.

It may seem otiose and even impertinent to raise the matter for a third time ; and I do so the more diffidently since I have few, if any, new facts to add. There is, however, one direction in which I hope to be able to carry my predecessors’ investiga?

Written by

John Gwyer

Published in

Volume 16

1945

Other articles within the volume

• William Wollaston (1659-1724): English Deist and Rabbinic Scholar
• A Hebrew Elegy on the York Martyrs of 1190
• The Case of Dr. Lopez
• The Case of Dr. Lopez
• More Anglo-Jewish Leading Cases
• Grace Aguilar : A Centenary Tribute
• Jewish Residents in Eighteenth-century Twickenham
• Sir Edward Brampton: AN ANGLO-JEWISH ADVENTURER DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES
• Sir Henry Finch (1558-1625) and the first english advocates of the restoration of the jews to palestine
• Maimonides and England
• Jewish Finance in Thirteenth-century England
• The Strayings of Paul Isaiah in England, 1651-1656
• The Non-Christian Oath in English Law
• The Damascus Affair-1840
• Solomon ben Joseph Buzaglo
• Church and Synagogue in the Middle Ages
• Levi Barent Cohen and some of his descendants
• War and Jewish History
• Preface