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<P>&para;A ioyfull new tidynges of the goodly vic|tory that was &s;ent to the Empe|rour, from the noble Capitayne Marcquis delga&s;to, &s;hewing how and in what maner all the Fre~ch|me~ that were in Italy with all theyr Captaynes be ouer|come and de&s;troyed of the valea~t Prince of Salerne.</P>
<P>&para; Yet another newe tidin|ges, &s;hewyng howe that Barba|ro&s;&s;a the great Turkes Leueten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> and Ad|miral of the &s;ee, is gone out of Fraunce wyth a great army, takyng many noble Lordes &amp; Galleyes, as ye &s;hall heate hereafter.</P>
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<Q><BIBL>&para; Ieremye. ix.</BIBL>
<P>THe <HI>LORDE</HI> &s;ayth thus: Let not the wy&s;e man reioy&s;e in hys wy&s;dome, nor the &s;trong ma~ in his &s;trengthe, nether the ritche man in hys rytches: But who &s;o wyll reioy&s;e, lette hym reioy&s;e in thys, that he vnder&s;tandeth, and knoweth me: for I am the <HI>LORDE</HI> which do mercy, equyte, and righ+teou&s;enes vpon the earthe.</P></Q>
<P>&para; Imprynted in Botulphe lane at the &s;ygne of the whyte Beare by Ihon May|ler for Ihon Ghou|ghe.</P>
<P>&leaf; <HI>Cum priu&s;legio ad im|primendum &s;olum.</HI></P>
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<P>_OUr Lorde Ie&s;u Chri&s;te y^t ordeyneth al thynges af|ter his godly wyl, puny&s;|&s;hynge the wycked, many and &s;undrye wayes, and pre&s;er|uethe them that feare hym, from all maner of perelles, pluckynge downe the proude men, and exal|tynge the meake and geueth to al men after ther worckes. Thys
<PB REF="3">myghty Lord I &s;aye hath now of late begonne to poure oute hys plages vpon the Frenche Kynge, as it dayly dothe appeare more &amp; more, and all the cau&s;e thereof is &s;ynne &amp; vnrighteou&s;ene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>For lyke as y^e I&s;raelites were plaged for y^e &s;ynne of Dauid ther Kynge, wythe Pe&s;tilence. Al&s;o be the Frenchmen nowe de&s;troyedde and puny&s;&s;hed of God the Lorde for ther &s;ynne, in de&s;pi&s;ing of god and his word, for the light is now come into the worlde, but men ha|ue loued darkenes moore then y^e lyght, becau&s;e theyr dedes be euel neyther wyll they comme to the lyght le&s;&s;e theyr deades &s;hould be reproued.</P>
<P>Nowe when y^e Frenche Kynge con&s;ydered and marked wel that the Emperoure woulde &s;et vpon
<PB REF="3">hym wythe &s;tronge hande of the borders of Artoyis and Loreyne. So hath he ymagined and practi|&s;ed after his old v&s;e and cu&s;tome how &amp; after what waye he &s;hould breake this his purpo&s;e &amp; let hym from it, &amp; to prolonge it as longe as he myght, to the entent that y^e Sommer myght be &s;pente or he &s;houlde haue anye power, &s;o that the Wynter myght come, when y^e colde and wette &s;hould dryue the~ oute of the felde.</P>
<P>Now hath the Frenche Kynge thought that he woulde &s;et vpon the Emperoure in another coun|trey farre of to make the Emper. with his armye to get them the|ther.</P>
<P>Whervpon the Frenche Kyng &s;ente the Dolphyne into Italye, thorowe Sauoye wythe a verye
<PB REF="4">great Armye.</P>
<P>And manye Earles, Lordes, &amp; Knyghtes, as the elde&s;t &s;onne of Moun&s;ieur devendome, and the elde&s;t &s;o~ne of Moun&s;ieur degui&s;e and &s;uche other, with many Capi+taynes, for to de&s;troye the Duke|dome of Myliaene,</P>
<P>But God the gyuer of all vic|tory hath ordeyned it otherwy&s;e. For as they wente towardes the Mountaynes of Italye, they had great lacke of vytayle &s;o that for lake of foode, many of them dyed. And when they came into Italy, &s;o dyd they de&s;troye al afore them wherby the land &s;u&s;tayned great lo&s;&s;e, &amp; all thys was done to cau&s;e the Emperour to come thether &amp; helpe the Italyans, &amp; that in the meane tyme the Sommer &s;hould be &s;pent and the Wynter to come
<PB REF="4">on them or they &s;hulde beginne to do any thyng. Now the Frenche|men beinge in Italy wrought all the meanes the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">id to take tow|nes and Ca&s;tells<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. And &s;o they be&s;eged a towne called Caringi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">en, the which they &s;tormed then|kyng to wynne it and to de&s;troye it. But when they marked that it colde not be wonne they thought to haue famy&s;hed them. But the gentyll Lorde &amp; noble Capitaine of the Emperoure called Marcquis delga&s;to, hath withe all &s;pede gathered an Armye to defend the Emperoures countrye. And is come agayn&s;t the Dolfine, to the &s;ame for to vittayle it, for y^e fre~ch|men had layd &s;eage to it afore his comynge the &s;pare of .v. wekes &s;o that all that whyle no vyttayle colde come to the towne.</P>
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<P>Wherfore thys noble Capitai|ne Marcquis delga&s;to entending to &s;ocoure, helpe and re&s;cue the towne with al his youre &amp; &s;tre~gth and to vy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ple it.</P>
<P>Therfore he mente his awn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> per&s;one in the forwarde. And the mayne battel were the mo&s;t part hye douchmen, whych played the men as hereafter &s;halbe declared.</P>
<P>Nowe when they were come neate to the towne &amp; in the &s;yght of the frencht Armey, &s;o &s;hot they at the frenche oo&s;t mo&s;t fear&s;ly, &s;o that Marcquisdelga&s;to with his Sod yars (the which were moo&s;t part Spanyardes and Italians) ran fear&s;ly vppon the frencheme~ and fought longe with them, and at the la&s;te the Frenchemen we|re putte to flyghte and all theyr fyr&s;te Armye (that is to &s;aye La|uangarde)
<PB REF="5">be all &s;layne.</P>
<P>And when the mayne batayle of the Frenchemen were fled, then the Italians and Spaniardes be+gon to gather theyr &s;poyle amo~ge them that were &s;layne and &s;o we~t cleane out of theyr araye, &amp; thou|ghte of no nother thyng but eue|ry ma~, for hym&s;elfe &s;eakyng after ryches, thynkynge that the felde was all wonne, wher vppon the Frenchemen &s;eynge and percey|uynge the Italians and Span|yardes oute of ther araye and or|der, gatheryng the &s;poyle. So the mayne battell of the Frencheme~ came on them withal the ha&s;t the cold, to &s;leye them as they dyd, for the Spanyardes and Italyans &s;eyng them come on the~ &s;o fear&s;ly dyd theyr be&s;t to come in theyr a|raye, and battayle agayne but y^e
<PB REF="6">Frenchme~ came on the~ &s;o &s;tro~gly defendyng them that with great force the kept the Spanyardes &amp; Italyans that they cold come in no aray, nor battayle &amp; &s;o the for|ward of Marcquis delga&s;to were conquered &amp; ouercome, the cau&s;e ther of was theyr couetou&s;enes &amp; for lacke of better takinge hede. And Marcquis delga&s;to was &s;ore wounded, and when he &s;awe that the Frenchemen had gotten the vpper hand, &s;o recolde he backe w^t his halbardes to his great Army y^e whych were mo&s;t part Douche men.</P>
<P>And the Frenchemen folowed hym but whe~ his Armye &s;aw him comming, beynge theyr chefe Ca|pitayne and &s;ore wounded, the o|pened theyr Leger and receaued him into them and clo&s;edde theyr
<PB REF="6">Leger agayne, and &s;ought forthe wythe agayn&s;te the Frenchemen which a&s;&s;ayled them fear&s;lye, &amp; &s;o the recolde backe a lytyl and a ly|tyll &s;yghtynge with the Frenche men tyl they were come to y^e next towne, and lyke valyaunt men of warre &s;pite of the Frenchemen, brought they theyr Capitayne in to it and &s;o &s;aued his lyfe.</P>
<P>Of thys feate the Frenchemen were not a lytyll glad, thynkyng that they welde ouer runne al I|taly &amp; wyn the towne al&s;o of Ca|ringiaen by kepyng theyr vittai|les from them, and the Frenchme~ dyd much my&s;chefe in all parties wher they came. And ther is an Earle in Italy, called Picus Mi|randula which fauoureth y^e fre~ch+men greatlye, and &s;o he tooke vp many Souldiers to the nomber
<PB REF="7">of .xxiiij. M. to helpe the Frenche+men with all, he thynkyng y^t they &s;huld wyn all Italy.</P>
<P>Now when Marcquis delga&s;to hard y^t they robbed, burnt, toke &amp; de&s;troyed the land, the~ he cau&s;ed a great nomber of men of warre to be made redye, and &s;ent them, be|ynge of greate power wythe hys principal Capitaine of Salerne. Whe~ this great Armye was come in to the Dukedome of Myllaene for to fight with the Frenchmen, and to &s;toppe them of theyr my&s;|chefe &amp; de&s;truccio~ y^t they daily did to the countreye. And &s;o it happe|ned y^t on the .iiij. day of Iune la&s;t pa&s;t at .v. of y^e clock at after none came the Prynce of Salerne w^t his people in goodly order, and be|ing all redy to fyght, &s;et vpon the Frenchemen betwene two Cow|nes
<PB REF="7">named Noule and Sarauair Now the chefe Capitayne of the Frenchemen, was one Peter De|&s;tro&s;&s;y, brother to the wyfe of the Dolphyne of Fraunce this Cap|tayne made vnto his people afore they &s;huld fyght a great oracio~, in couraging the~ after the be&s;t wy&s;e he colde and holdened the~ to fight manfullye thorowe whyche they were greatlye encouraged to the battayle. And when they came and mette together they foughte longe tyme &s;o that moche people were &s;layne on bothe the &s;ydes.</P>
<P>Yet at the la&s;t God gaue the vic|torye to the noble Prince of Sa|lerne &s;o that he wan the felde, and with force of Armes ouercame y^e frenchemen, &s;o y^t the moo&s;t parte of them were &s;layne. And manye Lordes, Earles, Capitaynes and
<PB REF="8">gentil men were taken pre&s;oners as hereafter foloweth.</P>
<P>&para; Fyr&s;te of all the chefe Lord of the felde of the Frenchemen, y^t is to &s;ayz Peter De&s;tro&s;&s;y the Dol|phynes brother in lawe whiche is wounded in flyeng awaye wyth a halfe haecke &amp; after that is taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Earle George Marti|ningo Bre&s;&s;iano a Capitayne of greate myghte is al&s;o taken and wounded in the face.</P>
<P>&para; The Earle Hercules his bro|ther is al&s;o taken the whiche had great rytches with him.</P>
<P>&para; The Earle Iohn Iacques Triul&s;io is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Camillo Triul|lio Capitayne of .iii. vanes or &s;ta~|derdes of &s;oldiers is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Cornelles, Ben|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">illa the chefe and Leuetena~t
<PB REF="8">of Peter De&s;tro&s;&s;y is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Ipolitus Leue|tenant of the Earle of Mirandu|la is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Ipolito Gonza|ga Capiteine general of the Lord vnder Peter de Stro&s;&s;y is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Earle of Pitillano &s;o~ne is &s;layne.</P>
<P>&para; The Lord Vli&s;&s;es Or&s;inos elde&s;t &s;onne of Peter Colo~na Ca|pitayne was &s;layne fyghtynge.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Charle his bro|ther is taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lord Roberte Malate|&s;ta Captayne is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lorde Flaminio Or&s;i|no, Capitayne is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Lord Camilio, Oro&s;ino Captayne is al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>&para; The Duke of Somme is al|&s;o
<PB REF="9">taken and &s;ore hurt in his face.</P>
<P>Yet al&s;o is ther taken a man of great per&s;onage of the hou&s;e of y^t Vi&s;tonce of Milaene.</P>
<P>Yet more .lx. Captaynes wyth .lx. &s;ta~darde bearers be al&s;o taken.</P>
<P>Ite~ yet more two hundred Ge~|tyllmen of the whych the poure&s;t of them is able to brynge for hys Raun&s;ome two. M. Crounes.</P>
<P>Here throw is it good to be mer+ked y^t a myghty Armye hath bene one w^t another, where as al the&s;e ge~tleme~ be take~ be&s;ide tho&s;e why|che be&s;laine, y^t which be yet vnkno+wen. For there be of the Frenche|me~ &s;layne to the no~ber of .xxx. M. men be&s;yde tho&s;e whych be taken and tho&s;e whyche be wounded the which is a greate nomber. Here by maye we well marke that God our Lorde is allwayes withe the
<PB REF="9">righteous, and vnto the meke he &s;heweth his louinge kyndnes, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> the proude &amp; the vnrigteous wyl he brynge lowe: Therfore let all men geue thankes vnto the Lorde for al his benefites, which he &s;he|wed to all them that feareth him, and that it woulde plea&s;e hym to kepe and defende both the Empe|roure. With our moo&s;t excellente prince Kynge Henry the ryght of that name the which hathe al&s;o a great co~pany of people lyenge now among hys enemy|es the whych Ie&s;u pre+&s;erue &s;aue and kepe from all euell. AMEN.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; The copye of the goyng away of the chefe Cap|tayne of the Turke called Barbaro&s;&s;a, onte of Fraunce.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter this Barbaro&s;&s;a, vn+der&s;tode how that the ali|antes and Leages of ma|ny Prynces, was broken, which helde with Fraunce, &amp; they had for&s;aken to ayde the Frenche Kynge, as the Duke of Cleaue on the one &s;yde, and the Duke of Lo|reyne of the other partye, whiche was neuer afore again&s;t the fren|che Kynge, but becau&s;e the Kyn|ges de&s;yre was to de&s;troy his cou~|trey burnyng vyllages &amp; townes and to bryng it in to great pouer+tye, becau&s;e the Emperoure &s;huld
<PB REF="10">haue no lodgi&s;e nor yet fynd any by talles there. Therfore y^e Duke con&s;yderynge all this, thought it better to holde wythe the Empe|rour, than to haue thus his coun|trey de&s;troyed. And al&s;o that the Scots nowe on the other &s;yde ha|uyng to theyr Leage. Now Bar|baro&s;&s;a hearinge al this, thought all men falleth of from the Fren|che Kynge, wherfore I wyll pro|uyde for my &s;elfe be times and get me awaye. And &s;o is Barbaro&s;&s;a departyd out of Fraunce &amp; hathe taken hys vyage towardes Tur|kye, and takynge wyth hym per|force &amp; wyth &s;trengthe, verye ma|ny Galleyes once of nomber lade~ with great rytche&s;&s;e, Iewelles &amp; all manner of trea&s;urye, amonge whych were .vi. of y^e be&s;t Galleyes
<PB REF="11">that the Frenche Kynge had. And oute of the re&s;te of the Gal|leyes that he woulde not haue w^t hym, he tooke oute al the thynges that was in them, that wolde do him any &s;eruyce, as Gonnes, gon pouder, gon&s;tones, mory&s;h&s;pikes, harnes, Helmettes, Halbardes, &amp; &s;uche other lyke ordynaunce for warre of all maner &s;ortes of wea|pons.</P>
<P>And aboue this al&s;o this Bar|baro&s;&s;a hath taken with hym ma+ny pry&s;oners Lordes &amp; other Ge~|tyll men of great byrthe amonge whyche .viij. were men of greate power, and hath al&s;o taken many Captaynes pry&s;oners with hym perforce and agen&s;t theyr wylles for y^e whych ther was made great lamentacion on the borders, and many a heuy hart hathe he made
<PB REF="11">there. And a boue this he hathe robbed .vij. Vyllages and taken away with him into Turkaye al the people Pry&s;oners that was therein. Whe~ al this newes came to y^e Prince of Doria, how y^e Bar+barus was gone to y^e &s;ee after this maner, he &s;ent in al the ha&s;t after hym, hys neve Iohn Doria with xxx. Galleyes, whych were ordey+ned and appoynted wyth all ma|ner of Artyllarye, gonne&s;hot and other weapons great plenty, and al&s;o men of Armes, to make that he &s;huld not do any hurte or my&s;|che&s;e on the borders of Chri&s;ten|dome whych they manfully defen+ded. For Barbaro&s;&s;a had taken his cour&s;e and iourney thorow y^e kyngdome of Cecilie.</P>
<P>Thus this Noble Capieayne Doria letted the Turke from do|ynge
<PB REF="12">any more hurt to Chri&s;ten|dome, and hath al&s;o taken parte of hys Galyes, and cha&s;ed diuers of them, wher of the Emperoure was very glad with al his Lordes and people.</P>
<P>Of thys it is euydentlye to be marked that our Lord fyghte the all wayes for all them that feare hym, and turne from al ther wic|kednes. For to them that feare y^e Lorde, maye no maner yll cha&s;ice but whan they come into tempta+cion they &s;halbe delyuered. But the wycked and vngodly whyche hath hardened theyr hertes as an Adamant &s;tone and &s;topped theyr eares becau&s;e the wolde not hea|re the wordes of God theyr Lord, whiche he hathe &s;ente into all the world &s;o plenteou&s;ly, vnto al &s;uch I &s;aye he &s;endeth his plages and
<PB REF="12">&s;ome he &s;cattereth among the He then where they be &s;olde and en|treated lyke as they were bea&s;tes and haue great &s;car&s;enes both of meate, drynke, and clothe. &amp;c.</P>
<P>And &s;ome he de&s;troyeth withe the &s;werd, &s;ome with honger, &s;ome w^t Pe&s;tilence, and after this world, they he tormented, wythe euerla|&s;tynge fyre, as we may &s;e by euy|dent tokens, of gods fear&s;e wrath how that he de&s;troyed the Sodo|mytes, and de&s;troyed al the world wythe water &s;aue Noe and hys chyldren whych &s;huld be an exam+ple to all them that lyue vngodly and wythoute the feare of God, le&s;t they peri&s;he and be de&s;troyed as other haue bene bothe of olde tyme and now of late dayes in I|taly as you haue harde, wher the Frenche kynge hath lo&s;t the mo&s;t
<PB REF="13">part of the nobles of hys Realme wyth a great nomber of hys peo|ple and Artyllary and other ordy|naunces perteyning to warre, w^c hys Galleyes and other trea&s;ury taken awaye by Barbaro&s;&s;a &s;o y^e the Frenche kynge hath loo&s;t the moo&s;t part of his power, thorowe which he may wel mark that god is angry wyth hym, and hath pu|ny&s;hed hym for hys de&s;py&s;yng of hys word and for hys wycked ly|uynge, for what a poyntme~t lege peace other wy&s;e that he maketh wyth any prynce is neuer on his party hold nor yet kept. As apart you &s;hal heare. For wha~ the Em|perour began his rayne in the ye|re of our Lorde a M.CCCCC .xvi. the Emperour &s;ent his legat to the Frenche Kynge for to make an euerla&s;tynge Peace betwene
<PB REF="13">them, the which was done cou&s;en+ted and fully made on bothe par|tyes and a &s;trong lege was made on bothe &s;ydes, whyche was not longe kepte of the Frenchekynge as his maner is, to breake all his couenauntes &amp; to performe none as neare as be can, but went and de&s;troyed the Emperous lande &amp; Townes within &s;hort &s;pace after &amp; de&s;royed his countreyes wher he myght or colde, &amp; &s;ea&s;ed not to worke &s;uch my&s;chefe tyll that the Emperoure had taken hym pry&s;o+ner a foore Pauien, wher many a man lo&s;t ther lyfe and moo&s;t py|tyou&s;ly murdered and drowned, among which the chefe Captayne of Fraunce lo&s;te his lyfe namedde Laydowycus Dela Truuoille w^t many other.</P>
<P>And not with&s;tandynge that
<PB REF="14">the Emperoure hadde hym Pry|&s;oner, yet wold he not go forth to wyn and de&s;troy his lande which he might wel haue done yf he had would, and had therto good occa+&s;ion geuen hym of the Frenche Kynge, to haue taken in much of hys countrey, the which was tha~ ea&s;ye for hym to do, the la~d being without a heade and gouernoure</P>
<P>Butte the Emperoure was &s;o good that he (after that he come|ned of the matter) was contente to heare the treatye of peace the .xiii. daye of Ianuarye the which was concludedde at Madryll in Spaine, and aboue that to make the frend&s;hyp more greater) hath gyuen hym hys owne &s;y&s;ter to be his wife, tru&s;ting that after that he &s;hulde haue euerla&s;tynge peace betwene them durynge theyr ly|ues.</P>
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<P>But al this notwyth&s;tanding he was not longe in Fraunce a|gayne but he brake his couena&s;i|tes of peace and would not keaps hys promes, althoughe he hadde bound hym&s;elfe &s;o &s;tronge therto as any man myghte, whych was that he &s;huld delyuer to the Em|perour all the Emperours Lord|&s;hippes townes and lande that he with held in Apulia, Cecilia, Lo~|bardie, Burgon, Flaunders, Ar|toi&s;e and Dornicke, vpon al why|che couenauntes he receaued the Sacramente and made a &s;olom oothe, that he &s;huld performe the~ and &s;uffer euery prynce to enioye hys owne lande by hym peceably all which he neuer performed, but &s;hortlye after in the yeare of oure Lorde a M.D.xxviij. the .xxij.
<PB REF="15">day of Ianuary y^e frenche Kynge &s;ente hys Legate to Burgois in Spayne where the Emperours was that &s;ame tyme &amp; hath made hym there de&s;yaunce proclaming open warre agayn&s;te the Empe|roure bothe to fyre and &s;word, w^t moo&s;t &s;pytefull and prowde wor|des thretenynge hym greuou&s;lye to the which the Emperoure me|kelye aun&s;wered as here after fo|lowethe.</P>
<P>It doth not make me a lytel to maruel, but moch aboue mea&s;ure to wo~der y^t your lord my pri&s;oner &s;omtyme was wyl thus begynne a newe warre agen&s;t me, the whi|che I thoughte full lytell that he woulde haue done. It is al&s;o a &s;traunge thynge to me, to heare nowe thys defyaunce, &s;eyng that he warred vpo~ me moore then .vj.
<PB REF="15">yeares continually without any defyaunce &s;endynge. Al&s;o he kno|wethe what aun&s;were I &s;ente to him by his Legat that was with me and how I aun&s;wered to him &s;o rea&s;onable that all men maye perceaue that no faulte is in me.</P>
<P>For after the con&s;yderacion of the conclu&s;ion and agreemente y^t we made at Madryl, is very ma|ny of my &s;ubiectes taken Pri&s;o|ners and &s;et them in his Gallyes agayn&s;t all truthe and promy&s;es made to the contrary, for whyche cau&s;es &s;ake I haue taken agayne of hys people pry&s;oners, nowe yf he wyll delyuer my people free, I &s;hall al&s;o delyuer hys wythoute any fayle &amp; led the~ home ageyne.</P>
<P>Let your Kyng are his Legat what aun&s;were I made hym at Granaten, and he &s;hal well fynde
<PB REF="16">that I haue done muche better, than I had promy&s;ed to hym at Madrylen.</P>
<P>And after that the Emperour had &s;poken the&s;e wordes he com|maunded to hys Secretary that he &s;hulde be we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l entreated, and y^t they &s;houlde be broughte to theyr lodgyng and that they &s;huld tary for theyr aun&s;were, whych thyng they dyd. Now to con&s;ider the ge~|tle an&s;were of &s;o noble an Empe|rour, to hys enemyes &s;piteful and proude wordes, manye men maye learne to refrayne them&s;elf from foly&s;he ha&s;tynes and ra&s;he iudge|ment, by thys man beyng &s;o hy in degre &amp; mightye of poure, hauing &s;o great a cau&s;e, and yet doth reco~+pence good for yll but no doubte therbe many men that be muche <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oore prouder of hart then thys
<PB REF="16">noble Emperoure, whych wyl be ave~ged for euery trifle, the Lord gyue to all &s;uche better grace.</P>
<P>Now whyle that the Legat tary|ed for hys aun&s;were, came vnto hym the Emperours chefe&s;t Se|cretary named M. Iohn Aleman and delyuered to hym in wryting hys full and &s;ufficient aun&s;were &s;ayeng heare is the ful aun&s;were, go and &s;howe it to youre Kynge where in he &s;hall playnlye &s;e that he doth fare otherwy&s;e wyth hys workes, the~ he dyd promis w^t hys wordes at Toleten and Madryll And &s;hewe hym that from the be|gynnynge of hys Kyngedome he neuer cea&s;ed from warre to &s;hed the Chri&s;ten bloud moo&s;t vnrigh|teou&s;lye.</P>
<P>Now when al thys came to the Frenche Kyng and had redde the
<PB REF="17">aun&s;were of the Emperoure, he was exceadyngelye full of wrathe and angery therat, &s;o that incon|tinent he begon a newe to warre vppon the Emperour in the yea|re of oure Lorde a M.D.xxvij. cau&s;ing his &s;ee robbers and other to do all the my&s;chefe the coulde both by water and by lande.</P>
<P>And when the Emperour &s;aw this he dyd his be&s;t to wyth&s;tand hym &amp; to pre&s;erue his poure &s;ub|iectes and becau&s;e he wold &s;toppe hys tyrany that y^e Chri&s;ten bloud &s;huld not be &s;hedde, he &s;ente to the Frenche Kyng to haue peace and tru&s;e, &s;aieng he had &s;pilt the chri|&s;tens bloud long I noughe, wher+fore he prayed him of tru&s;e, which the Frenche kynge graunted at y^e la&s;te, and &s;o the tru&s;e was procla|med the fyr&s;t daye of Iuly. Anno.
<PB REF="17">Dn~i. M.D.xxvij. for .viij. yeres Not longe after thys the French Kynge made alyaunce withe the Venecia~s; to the ente~t they &s;huld al&s;o be hurtefull and noy&s;ome to the Emperour; &amp; had con&s;ented, &amp; agreed together, to be &s;eage Na|ples, whiche was in the yeare of our Lorde a M.D.xxix. becau&s;e they wolde dryue the they wolde dryue the Emperour Emperour oute of Italye. But God dyd or|deyne it other wy&s;e, for theyr hole Armye was de&s;troyed; &s;ome tho|rowe Pe&s;tilence dyed, another part were &s;tayne among whyche was the Lorde Lotrechte theyr Chiefe&s;t Captayne and Lorde of the hoale Armye, wythe many o|ther ge~tyl me~ &s;o that very few e&s;|caped ageine in to Fra&s;ice: Thus was the frenchemen with al them that toke tyer partes, moo&s;t &s;ha|mefullye
<PB REF="18">de&s;troyedde, where by menne maye well marke it was no nother but the verye plage of God for theyr wycked Imagina|cions.</P>
<P>When the Frenchekynge &s;awe thys he held hym more &s;tyller the~ to foore, and con&s;entedde to haue peace and quietnes, wher vpon y^e frenchekynges Mother came to Camerike. An. Dn~i. M.D.xxix. Who&s;e name was Ludouica, and met ther wythe the Emperoures Aunte Lady Margrit, and ther was moued on both &s;ydes manye wayte and difficultye matters &amp; &s;o at the la&s;t the co~cluded on both &s;ydes to haue peace, whyche was proclamed in Camerycke, the .v. daye of Augu&s;t a M.D.xxix.</P>
<P>Now men hoped that this pea|ce &s;huld continew and not be bro|ken,
<PB REF="18">for as moche as the Frenche Kynges Mother had con&s;ented therto and was partly cau&s;e ther+of. But with in &s;horte &s;pace ther+after that is to &s;aye in Anno. M.D.xxxv. When the Emperoure was purpo&s;ed to go warre vpon the Turke, he thinkyng y^t the pea+ce &s;huld neuer be broken agayne betwene the frenche Kynge and hym, and al&s;o preparyng all thyn+ges for his Iourney the therward to &s;yght agayn&s;te the Turke the vtter enemye of al Chrin&s;tendo~e, and to delyuer the Chri&s;ten Pry|&s;oners whych were in his handes moo&s;t cruelly handeled, wher vpo~ the Emperour takynge his Iour+ney from Spayne towardes A|fryka, for to putte the Turke to flyght and &s;o he dyd and wan the hoole Kyngedome of Tunis and
<PB REF="19">put Barbaro&s;&s;a to flyght y^e which is the moo&s;t Tyraunte that euer was to the Chri&s;ten people.</P>
<P>The frenchekynge markynge that the Emperour was farre of out of hys lande, hys fal&s;hed and di&s;ceyte to declare that laye hyd within him, ray&s;ed a great Army and toke his iourneye towardes Italy and toke the towne Genua with much land, and many other townes he de&s;troyed with the cou~+treyes rounde aboute them, and burnte Sauoye. The Emperour hearyng thys, is incontynente w^t all &s;pede come backe into Italy &amp; draue the kynge out wyth all his Armey. And he made all his wip|pes in a redynes with all other or|dinaunce redy agayn&s;te the next Sommer, to &s;et ageane vpon the Turke, the which the frenchkyng had
<PB REF="19">letted many tymes to &s;ore for the Emperoure knew well that there was a great leage betwen y^e fre~ch-Kynge and the Turke, agayn&s;te hym and all Chri&s;tendome.</P>
<P>What &s;huld a man &s;aye to this wycked Kynge, whome the By&s;|&s;hop of Rome callethe the moo&s;te Chri&s;ten Kynge, but hys deades declare hym to be the moo&s;te vn-Chri&s;ten Kynge, lyke as the By&s;|&s;hoppe of Romes worckes declare hym to be very Antechri&s;te. For the&s;e two, that is to &s;ay the fre~ch-Kynge and the By&s;&s;hop of Rome hath taken vpo~ them the name of Chri&s;ten Rulers, but yet ther be nomen moore agayn&s;te Chri&s;tes doctrine and his flocke then the&s;e men are. But the booke of wy&s;do~ &s;ay the. Eccle .xlj. The chyldren of the vngodlye are abhomynable
<PB REF="20">chyldren; and &s;o are they that ke|pe company with the vngodlye. Thus the french-kinge hath done wyckedly to for&s;ake his God, and hath vaynely Imagyned to tru&s;t vnto the Turke for helpe &amp; ayde, and hath not rather turned hym from hys wycked wayes and dea|des, vnto the almyghty God, for the man is ble&s;&s;edde in deade that hathe his hope and tru&s;t onely in God the Lorde of all Lordes, and kynge of all kynges, for a kyng is not helped onely by his great po|wer, &amp; a &s;trong man is not delyue red by hys &s;tre~gthe. For it is god y^t geueth y^e victory. Therfore cur|&s;ed in any ma~ or i~ any creature. But ble&s;&s;ed &amp; happy is y^e ma~, who&s;e hel+pe is y^e God of Iacob, and who&s;e hope &s;ta~deth vpo~ y^e Lord his god.</P>
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<P>Nowe to proceade forthe. The Emperour w^tin &s;horte &s;pare after in the yeare a M.D.xxvi. came to Rome in Lent, where he recea|ued the holy Sacramente, &amp; wa&s;|&s;hed the feate of .xii. poure men a al&s;o gaue them foode and rytche gyftes both golde a &s;yluer, wher|at his enemyes marueled, to le y^e goodnes of the Emperoure. And the morow after the Emperoure came before the Frenche Emba&s;&s;a+doure and Legat and hath &s;poke~ the&s;e wordes followynge openly that all men myght heare them.</P>
<P>I beleue and know of a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> that it is not knowen, howe that I haue alwayes is &s;poken and labo|red for peace, and quietnes that we &s;huld be of one mynde al Chri|&s;tendome together, and that ther &s;oulde be no warre amonge the
<PB REF="21">Chri&s;ten, but that we &s;hulde al to+gether warre vpo~ the Turke the enemy of our Lorde Ie&s;u Chri&s;t. And it is al&s;o well knowen howe that this Fraunces the Frenche king, hath bene alwaies froward and ouertwart, v&s;ynge allwayes no nother again&s;t me nor again&s;t my forefathers, but craft and di&s;|&s;imulacio~, as agayn&s;t Marimilia~ &amp; lykewy&s;e Fardina~ders, to whom he neuer kept any promes that he made to the~. For Marimilianus la&s;t wordes were the&s;e, when that he made peace the la&s;t tyme wyth the frenchekynge: Behold (&s;ayth he this is now y^e leauenth tyme y^t I haue made peace wyth him, the whyche neuer kepte anye of hys promy&s;es.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it is wel knowe~, how that he dyd breake his promes at Na|ples
<PB REF="21">and at Nauerne contrarye to hys oothe and couenauntes. and what confederacion and aly|aunce that he hath made wyth y^e Turke, and howe he ayded hym when we were withe oure greate Army in Hungry, where as God byd gyue vs great vyctory, forwe put to flyght an excedyng greate nomber of Turkes, and al&s;o flew manye of them. And &s;o I de&s;yred thre tymes of hym prayenge him earne&s;tly, that he wold helpe and ayde me, as all Chri&s;ten Princes dutie is. To dryue the Turke out of Chri&s;tendome, and help and de+fende the poore Chri&s;ten, from his cruel tyranny. And &s;o he made me an aun&s;were that it was not po&s;|&s;yble for hym to helpe or ayde me any thynge, becau&s;e of his greate my&s;fortune that he hath had.</P>
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<P>The &s;econd tyme, I haue de&s;yred him of his ayde and helpe again&s;t the Turke, to the whiche he made aun&s;were agayne, that he coulde not in &s;o &s;hort tyme delyuer &s;uch a great Armye. The thyrd tyme, yet ones agayne when I &s;houlde tourney to Tunis I prayed hi to le~d me &s;ome of his &s;hyps, &amp; he ma|de aun&s;were y^e he mighte not do &s;o becau&s;e he was at peace &amp; vnyed w^t Barbaro&s;&s;a &amp; become together fre~des. And aboue this I gat cer|teyne letters y^e was taken, which came fro~ Barbaro&s;&s;a to y^e Fre~che king y^e which I haue yet in &s;tore.</P>
<P>And all thys hathe he done be|cau&s;e he woulde haue Myllaene. Yet neuer thele&s;&s;e I deliuered his Chyldren that were pledges for hym, francke and free becau&s;e he &s;hulde neuer de&s;yre agayne anye
<PB REF="22">tytyll to Myllane but be conten|ted that I myght quyetly kepe it wyth Italy and Florence.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e noma~ &s;huld thin|ke that I haue con&s;entedde to do this out of any feare, he knoweth how that I &s;ent moore than. L. thou&s;ande men of warre befoore Tunis, for to helpe a king to hys kyngdo~e againe which was dry|uen perfor&s;e the route, &amp; &s;huld not I haue bene able to haue brought forth twy&s;e &s;o manye men of Ar|mes to defende my &s;elfe wythe all thoro we goddes helpe. And far|ther I &s;aye. If it be &s;o that the frenche Kynge wyl poynt to ma|ke Campe agayn&s;te Campe wepe+ned or vnwepened by lande or by &s;ee that we may try it together I am and &s;halbe alwayes troye to performe it, becau&s;e that for hys
<PB REF="23">vnryghteou&s;enes &s;ake no moore &s;ymple &amp; innocente Chri&s;te~ blood &s;huld be &s;pylte. And becau&s;e he &s;hulde take heare in good coun&s;ai+le, &amp; make his aun&s;were di&s;crete|ly, therfore I gyue hym .xx. dayes tru&s;e. And withe thys I make an ende &s;ayeng ones, twy&s;e &amp; thry&s;e, peace, peace, peace I de&s;yre. From that tyme forth the frenche kyng began agayne to burne, robbe, &amp; de&s;troye the Emperoures land &amp; pryncipally y^e Dukedome of Sa|uoye, &amp; &s;o &s;one as the Emperoure harde that, he &s;ente hys warryers forth withal, agayne into hys la~|de, &amp; hath almoo&s;t marred and de+&s;troyed al Pykardye, and toke &amp; wonne Gui&s;en, and He &s;dyne and lykewy&s;e burnte the Cowne of &s;int Poule, and murtheredde all that was therin. And lykewy&s;e
<PB REF="23">got the Emreroure Mon&s;tru&s;t &amp; burnt all the Towne, and wende from tho&s;e to Terwin, to gyue a&s;|&s;aute therto but when the french kynge perceyued that his lande wente thus to wracke &amp; was de|&s;troyed, knowynge that the Em|petoure was a gentyl prynce and ea&s;y to entreate, de&s;yred of hym tru&s;e, becau&s;e y^e warre &s;hulde &s;ea|&s;e incontinent, the whyche be ob|tayned, for the Souldyars were &s;ent home incontynent and tru&s;e proclamedde, thorowe the whych many noble men de&s;yrynge and prayenge that ther myghte a pea+ce be made, whyche was conclu|ded at Genua &s;o &s;trong that men thought it would neuer haue be|ne broken, but a contynued for e|uer, wher vppon the Emperoure made and prepared al thinges re|dye
<PB REF="24">to &s;et a fre&s;he vpon the Turke both by water and by lande, thyn kyng now that he had &s;urely pea|ce for euer wyth the frenchkyng.</P>
<P>But the wynd turnedde yet a geane contrarye, for the frenche|kynge &s;ought with great dylyge~+ce to begyn a newe warre agayne and &s;ecreetly concluded wyth dy+uers prynces and &s;pecially with y^e Duke of Cleaue agayn&s;t the Em+perour who~ he had brought ther+to with his flatterye &amp; fayre pro|my&s;es, and made hym to brynge in &s;uddenlye hys warryars into Braband, which dyd there much harme thorowe a Captayne that they had named Martyne of Ro&s;+&s;en, whyche thoughte to de&s;troye muche of the Emperours lande. But God whych defe~deth alway+es the ryghteous, hath broken al
<PB REF="24">the aliances that was made and con&s;pyred again&s;t the Emperour &s;o that nowe they that were the frenchekynges frendes haue lytil poure to helpe hym and &s;omme be become hys enemyes.</P>
<P>Of the which no~ber the great Turke was one, w^t whome he had made the moo&s;t wycked &amp; vngod|lye&s;t co~&s;edaracio~ y^e euer was hard beyng betwene an Heathen Ty|raunt &amp; one y^e hath take~ vpo~ him to be the mo&s;te Chri&s;ten Kynge.</P>
<P>Therfore I feare y^e the cur&s;e of God hange the ouer hym and hys realme which is &s;poke~ by the pro|phet (&s;ayeng.) Wo be vnto them that go downe into Egypte, &s;ea|kynge for helpe of the Heathen, &amp; tru&s;t in hor&s;es, and confort them &s;elues in Charettes, becau&s;e they be many, and in hor&s;eme~, becau&s;e
<PB REF="25">they be lu&s;ty &amp; &s;tronge. But they regard not the holy one of I&s;rael nother do they &s;eake helpe &amp; com|fort of hyme y^e is y^e almyghty god.</P>
<P>Therfore &s;et vs al that wyl be Chri&s;ten people, pray together to our Lord God, y^e he wyll pre&s;erue the noble Emperour &amp; our moo&s;t victorius Kyng, w^t all ther noble Captaynes and Soldiars w^t all other theyr &s;ubiectes that it wyl plea&s;e y^t lyuynge God to gyue the~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ctory ouer ther enemyes, y^e we may haue a &s;pedy ende of y^e warre and y^e we maye lyue in peace &amp; re&s;t al the dayes of our lyfe after, and al&s;o al Chri&s;tendome the whyche graunt to vs the Father, Sonne and holy Gho&s;t. So be it.</P>
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