The discouerie and confutation of a tragical fiction
Subtitle: deuysed and played by Edward Squyer yeoman soldiar, hanged at Tyburne the 23. of Nouemb. 1598. Wherein the argument and fable is, that he should be sent from Spaine by William Walpole Iesuit, to poyson the Queen and Earle of Essex, but the meaning and moralization therof was, to make odious the Iesuites, and by them all Catholiques. ... VVritten for the only loue and zeale of truth against forgerie, by M.A. preest, that knew and dealth with Squyer in Spayne.
Contributors: Walpole, Richard, 1564-1607 attributed name.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 635:6.
Publisher: Imprinted vvith licence [by A. Conincx?]
Published: 1599
Place of publication: [Antwerp]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Early works to 1800.; Essex, Robert Devereux, -- Earl of, -- 1566-1601 -- Early works to 1800.; Jesuits -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction; Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction.
Notes: M.A. = Martin Aray; sometimes also attributed, in error, to Richard Walpole.

Place of publication from, and printer's name conjectured by, STC.

"An addition to the reader" begins on B6v, with caption title; it is apparently written by a different author, and is an attck on STC 10017, "A letter written out of England to an English gentleman at Padua".

Signatures: A-B (-A1, blank?).

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

STC (2nd ed.) 9.

Allison & Rogers. Catholic Books, 35.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1955. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 635:06).