England by little and little to straunge himselfe from the Emperours friendship But the thing that most wrought the alteration of his minde was that the Lady Regent of Fraunce the kings mother sent vnto him a gentleman with letters very humbly wrtiten wherein she signified vnto him that it was not honorable for so noble a Prince as he was to inuade a king beeing Captiue a Christian Realme afflicted with the captiuitie of their Prince which submission pearced so depely into the breast of this couragious king that presently he not onely dismissed his armie which he had leuyed to his charge not demaunding one penie in regarde thereof but also from that day forward became the greatest friend that the Realme of Fraunce had and entered into league with the Regent for the deliuerie of the king hir sonne for the accomplishment also whereof the sayd king of England so earenestly trauayled with all the states of Christendome that in the ende he effected it in such sort that so soone as king Francis had set foote in Fraunce the first thing he dyd was that presently hee wroat a letter of thanckes to king Henry aduertising him of his libertie for the which hee acknowledged himselfe more beehoulding to him then to all the Princes of Christendome besides Such true nobilitie reigned in Princes being in hostilitie at those dayes wheras now this age is so farr degenerated frō the magnanimitie of their fathers that one Prince seeketh to take away an others lyfe by treason murther poyson and such like vilanous attempts which the heathen themselues detested and abhorred But to returne to our Historie The kings captiuitie astonished not onely Fraunce but also all Italie beecause all the Princes and states thereof semed now wholy to depend vpon the Emperours clemencie none of thē being able to stand vpon his owne strength The Pope especially was not a litle grieued with this accident who notwithstanding that for his present saftie hee made an accord with the Imperials as did also the Venetians yet their hart was farr from it as the sequell wel declared for secretly vnder hand they practised to make a league betweene the state of Fraunce the Pope the Venetians and the duke of Milan against the Emperour which confederacie the Imperialls hauing discouered presently seazed all the Duchie of Milan to the Emperours vse saue the Castell of Milan into the which the Duke put himselfe and endured the siege and the Castell of Cremona both the which notwithstanding the Imperialls enuyroned with trenches on all sides But this seazing of the sayde Duchie caused the league to discouer it selfe sooner then otherwise it would The king to the ende he mought the sooner recouer his libertie went into Spaine hoping by present conference with the Emperour the sooner to compound all their controuersies But the Emperours rigor was such in rude handeling him neuer once vouchsafing to come to see him and propounding such vnreasonable conditions as the king without the ruine of his Realme could not accept that the King fell into a most daungerous and almost desperate disease for verie griefe of minde Wherefore the Emperour doubting to lose the fruits of his victorie by the kings death came visited him so in the end peace was cōcluded betwene thē at Madrid the 14 of Februarie 1525. after the French but after the Italians 1526. being iust a yeare lacking but 10. daies since the kings captiutie But you shall vnderstand that the conditions of this treatie were so vnreasonable that as it is reported the King protested hee would not obserue them when he should be returned into his Realme especially the articles for the restitution of Burgundy to the Emperour and the releasing of his soueraintie ouer Flaunders Notwithstanding for the performance of this treatie Francis and Henry the kings Children were deliuered in hostage to the Emperour and for farther continuance of amitie beetweene these two Princes it was agreed that the king should marie Elenor the Emperours sister promised as before you haue heard to the Duke of Bourbon but neuer with any meaning to performe it And thus was the King deliuered with promise that if he would not performe the treatie he should returne prisoner into Spaine Cap. 9. The Emperour marieth Fraunce refuseth the treatie of Madrid The kings confederates in Italie beesiege Milan twice but in vayne The Pope is twice taken prisoner by the Imperialls Rome is sacked Bourbon is slayne at the asault The King of England and Fraunce defie the Emperour The Pope is restored to libertie Genoua returneth to the Kings obedience The King inuadeth Milan and the Realme of Naples but by reason of the reuoult of Andre D'oria to the Emperour and the plague that entered into the French camp his enterprise was ouerthrowne ABout the beginning of this yeare 1526. the Emperour hauing refused 1526. the king of Englands daughter as beefore you haue heard maried Isabella Daughter of Emanuel and sister to Ihon King of Portugale The king being returned into his Realme complayned greatly of the Emperours great inhumanitie towards him and his vnprincely vsage of him being farre different from the entertainment that Edward the third king of England gaue to king Ihon of Fraunce taken prisoner by the Prince of Wales at the battaile of Poicters Farther hee assembled the estates of his Realme who according to the Kings minde vtterly condempned the treatie of Madrid as forced vppon a prisoner by violence and not being in the kings powre to performe and thus was the treatie broken and the Emperour deluded and so his owne councell tould him he should be before the Kings deliuerie vnlesse he altered some points of the treatie Notwithstanding the King offered him two millions of crownes for the deliuerie of his children and diuers other honorable conditions in consideration of the articles for the restitution of Burgundie and the release of the Soueraintie of Flaunders which the Emperour vtterly reiected charging the king with periurie because not performing the treatie he returned not prisoner againe according to his promise But the Pope voluntarely without intreatie had assoyled him of that oath The king perceuing the Emperours obstinacie renewed his league with the king of England and farther cōfederated himselfe in Italie with the Pope the Venetians the Duke of Milan and diuers other states against the Emperour who all ioyntly sent vnto him for the deliuerie of the kings children offering him verie honorable conditions in consideration thereof if he would accept of them but finding him to stande stifly vppon the treatie of Madrid and that hee would admit no other conditions they iointly began war vpon him inuaded his dominiōs in Italic came with their armie before Milan hoping to take it to deliuer the duke of Milan who held the Castle as yet but they failed of their purpose were constrained with dishonor to leuie their siege notwithstanding that their armie came
leading of Trimouille went and beesieged Nouara but this their good successe in the beginning was ouerthrowen in the twinkeling of an eye for you shall vnderstand that the Swyssers who had bound themselues to the defence of the sayde Duchie of Milan as before you haue heard came to leauie the siege of Nouara had the french in so great contempt that they assaulted them vpon a sodaine and defeated them in their owne camp which was one of the noblest victories that euer any nation obtayned This battaile is called the battayle of Nouara After this victorie all the Duchie of Milan reuolted in a moment chaced away the French and returned to the obedience of Maximilian Sforce and the king by this ouerthrow lost his honor his treasure and all that he held in Italie as well Genoua as the whole Duchie of Milan yea and the Castels of Milan Cremona which in all these troubles had still continued French seing themselues now in vtter despaire of succors and beeing in extreame distresse of victualls were yeelded into the Duke of Milans hands and the Kings armie in great feare and distresse returned into Piemont The Venetian forces vnder the leading of Aluiana were comming to ioyne with the French but hearing of the ouerthrow they retired to Padoua whether the Viceroy of NAPLES and PROSPERO COVLONNE beeing in pay with the Pope and the duke of Milan went to besiege them but not beeing able to take the towne they leuyed theyr siege and then ALVIANA issewing out of the towne pursewed them and charged them which charge they valyauntly receaued through the vertue of the Spanish footmen and cowardise of the Italian footemen the Venetian armie was ouerthrowen and lost all their artilery cariagde and ALVIANA retired to Treuisa This battayle was fought nere to Vincense and the Venetians lost in it 400. men of armes and 4000. sootemen Cap. 9. The king of England ouuerthroweth the french winneth Therouenne and Tournay The Swyssers inuade Burgundy Queene Anne dyeth The Pope maketh peace beetweene all these Princes The king marieth the King of Englands sister and dyeth THE same yeare also Henry King of Englād with a mightie armie which the Italians report to haue been to the number of 80000 men inuaded the Realm of Fraunce ouerthrew the French in a battaile called la iournee des esperons wherin the Duke of Longueuille with diuers noble men of Fraunce were taken prisoners the Emperour Maximilian being at that time in person in the king of Englands camp being alowed dayly by the sayd king 100 crownes for his diet The English men after this battaile toke Therouanne the two and twentith of August and from thence by the Emperour Maximilians persuasion went before Tournay which was yelded to them the nine and twentith of September and hauing defcated in an other battaile in England the Scots the ninth of September slaine their King in the feeld who by the persuasion of the French had inuaded the Realme of England during the Kings absence in Fraunce the sayd king of England triumphantly returned home Farther the Swyssers being secretly hiered with the Popes monie who loued not the French for the reasons aboue reherced inuaded Fraunce also on the other side and besieged Dijon in Burgundy into the which Monsieur de la Trimouille had put him selfe who doubting the vtter ruine of the Realme of Fraunce so many enemies inuading it on all sides without any commission from the king made a composition with the sayd Swyssers more necessarie than honorable for the Realme which was this that the King should renounce all his right to the Duchie of Milan and paye them at a day agreed vpon six hundreth thousand Crownes for the which also he deliuered them Hostages and they bound them selues onelie to retourne home into their Countrie for that tyme. The Pope was not a litle offended with this theyr returne but they excused the matter because they receaued not out of England the monie that was promised them but in truth their greedinesse of the six hundreth thousand Crownes aboue mentioned was the principall cause of their returne whereof notwithstanding their hope was frustrate for the King would not ratifie this disshonorable treatie made by Trimouille notwithstanding that it were the saftie of his Realme but sought to content those Swyssers with other conditions which they would not accept but threatned if the treatie were not accomplished by a certaine day to strike of the hostages heads About the beginning of the yeare 1514. dyed 1514. Queene Anne of France Farther you shall vnderstand that the Pope being by nature an enimie to the warres and wholie giuen to delights and pleasures namely to Musick to hearing of Playes and to beeholding of Maskes bouffons and ieasters yea somewhat more then was semely for his estate Laboured earnestly to reconcile these Princes and to ende the warres But the Swyssers would in no wise bee reconciled to the king Notwithstanding the truce betwene him the King of Spaine was continewed in the which also the Emperour Maximilian contrarie to his promise to the king of England was included and ratefied the sayde truce which vnprincely dealing of the sayde Maximilian caused also the king of England to encline to peace which soone after namely the seauenth of August by meanes of the Duke of Longueuille being prisoner in England was concluded betweene king Lewis and him and afterward in October folowing more strongly confirmed by the mariage of the Lady Marie the King of Englands sister with the sayd King Thus the king hauing made peace with all his neighbours and being assured of quietnesse on this side the mountaines turned his thoughts to the recouerie of that which hee had lost in Italie namely the Dutchie of Milan and the estate of Genoua But being in the midst of his preparation and incited therevnto by the Pope though not sincerly as some thought sodaine death which cutteth of all worldly cogitations seazed vpon him for while hee tooke to extreame pleasure in the excelent beutie of his young wife without regard either of his age or the weaknesse of his complexion hee was assaulted by a feuer wherevnto a fluxe being ioyned hee departed almost sodainely out of this present life the first day of Ianuarie in the yeere 1515. after the Ducche and Italian computation who begin the yeare at newyerstide but 1514. according to the French who begin it not till Easter This king liued 55. yeeres and raigned 17. Cha. 10. A discourse of certaine vertues and vices of King Lewis the twelfth BEtweene this King Lewis and Pope Iulius the 2. aboue mentioned was deadly hatred as by the Historie aboue written easely you may perceiue so farre foorth that they pursewed one an other not onely with armes but also with gybes scoffes The Pope accused the king of sacriledge wherevnto the king answered that it was most absurde for him to accuse an other of sacrilige that miantained his estate
condition that the king should ayde him to chace Francis Maria de la Rouere Nephew to Pope Iulius owt of the Duchie of Vrbin which also the king did in the yeare 1516. And the Pope gaue the saide Duchie of Vrbin to Laurens of Medices his nephew to whom also the king the more to content the Pope gaue in mariage the lady Magdelaine heire of the Earledome of Bouloyne in France of the which mariage issued Catherin of Medices queene of france Notwithstanding in the yeare 1517. the sayde Francis Maria recouered his Duchie againe out of the Popes hands notwithstanding that afterwards by aide of the French the Pope draue the said Francis Maria to a hard cōpositiō whereby he left the saide duchie to the Pope was constrained to take a Pension in regarde therof yet cōtinued he not long in this estate for so soone as pope Adrian was chosen Pope he restored Francis Maria to his Duchie of Vrbin againe who quietly enioyed it to his dying day which happened in the yeer 1538. Thus much I thought good to write in this place of the successe of this warr of Vrbin because hereafter I meane not to make farther mention thereof This yeare also Martin Luther beegan openly to preach against the Popes pardons in Germanie Cap. 3. Maximilian the Emperour dyeth Charles king of Castile succeedeth him The King confederateth himselfe with the King of England who restoreth Tournay to him The two Kings meete beetweene Ardres and Calais The King of England and the Emperor mete also together at Calais and Grauelin a rebellion in Spain THE King perceauing by diuers apparent 1518. reasons that the King of Castile ment to performe nothing of that which was promised at Noyon and farther vnderstanding that the Emperour Maximilian laboured the electors of the Empire to choose king of Romaines the sayde king of Castile his Nephew a thing greatly displeasing the king because the Empire being ioyned to his Patrimoniall seniories the sayd king of Castile should bee so mightie that no Prince in Christendome should bee able to withstand his power dyd both with his money and by his ministers disswade the electors from that election and stayed it during Maximilians lyfe Notwithstanding after the sayde Maximilians death which happened the twelfth of Ianuary 1519 after the Duch and Italian accompt who beginne the yeare at Newyerstide but 1518. after the French who begin it not till Easter the said Charles king of Castile was elected Emperour notwithstāding all the impediments of the king and the great sute both he and his friends had made to obtaine the Empire for himselfe but god had otherwise disposed of it Wherefore the king hauing failed of his hope for the obtaining of the Empire and seeing the powre of the Emperour elect so greatly to increase determined to enter into a straight confederacie alliance with the king of England to whom he sent Ambassadors to treate of a mariage betwen 1519. their children which was concluded and as well performed as the other treatise of mariage with the king of Castile had bene Farther the king laboured the king of England to restore Tournay vnto him because it was a towne that serued the English men to small purpose being far from their dominions and the defence thereof being yearely to the King of England a great charge but stoode verie commodiously for the king to offend at his pleasure the Emperour in his low coūtries which matter was so earnestly pursued that for the summe of 400000. crownes the towne was deliuered into the kings hands and a straight league concluded betwene the king of England and him and it was agreed that the next yeare an enteruiew should be of the two kings betwen Calais and Ardres which also was accomplished accordingly with so great 1520. triumph brauerie on both sides that the French called the place of the enteruiew Le Camp de drap d'or and with so great demonstrations of loue betweene the two Princes that the like was not seene in many hūdred yeares before For besides the roiall sumptuous entertainment that they gaue each to other such brotherly loue and assurance was betwene them that in one day the two kings went dined each with others Queene and farther one morning verie earely the king of Fraūce came with a small traine to Guysnes before the king of England was stirring and tould him that he was come to yeld him selfe his prisoner in his Castle of Guysnes whereunto the King of England answered that he was come to take his hart his prisoner which was a verie readie an apt answere To conclude such signes of perfect loue amitie passed betwen these two princes by the space of 15. or 16. dayes for so long they were together that all men thought their friendship to be indissoluble that war could neuer arise betwene thē but it happened otherwise afterwards whereby it appereth that he spake truth that said Princes amitie to be no inheritance Not long after this enteruiew aboue mētioned the new Emperour elect ariued in England where contrarie to the king of Fraunce his expectation he was most honorably receaued in such sort that the King of England accompanied him to Calais afterwards to Grauelin where they were together a certaine space in great friendship and fraternitie and where diuers things were concluded betwene them no whit to the contentation of the King of Fraunce Among other articles this was one that what controuersie soeuer happened beetweene the Emperour and the King the King of England should bee the iudge thereof which article beecause the king would not agre vnto the king of England toke occasion to become his enemie therevpon Notwithstanding the warres brake not out betwene them this yeare as well because they had no apparant quarell on either side as also because they had not as yet made their prouisions for the warres beesides that Spaine was troubled with a great rebellion which the Spaniards called La Santa giunta which could not bee appeased till the next yeare that feare of the forraine enemy namely the French inuading Spaine caused the Spaniards to forget all the domesticall dissentions and to attend to the defence of their countrey Cha. 4. VVars betwene the king the Emperour The French conquer Nauarre and presently lose it againe The Imperials winne many places from the French in the Duchie of Milan The French win Fontarabia Nassau inuadeth Picardie The Emperour recouereth Tournay BVt to proceede the long dissembled euill will 1521. betweene these two mightie Princes could no longer be hidden but like a fier that had long been smothered brake sodainely forth into a great flame partly by the solicitation of the King of England Francis Sforce and partly by a quarell that happened betweene Robert de la Marche and Monsieur d'Emeriez about a Castell called Hiergie This la Marche beeing in league with the King in his protection inuaded his
the kings griefe for she was a most wise and vertuous Ladie The Imperials hauing chaced the French armie cleane out of the Duchie of Milan as before you haue heard but knowing the kings magnanimitie to bee such that hee would not faile to attempt the recouery therof determined to inuade him first in his owne Countrey thereby to cause him to attend to the defence of his owne Realme to stay him from trobling the Emperour on the other side of the mountains Wherefore the Duke of Bourbon with a mightie armie entered into Prouince promising the Emperour to worke wonders there for his seruice and besieged Marseilles But the king in person with a great armie came to succour the towne wherevpon Bourbon for all his great bragges and the Imperials were forced to leuic their siege and in great hast retired to Milan whether the king with his whole armie folowed them soone recouered Milan and in a manner the whole countrie except Pauia before the which he went and layde his siege Wherevpon the Pope entered into league with him and the Swyssers who the last yeare had traiterously refused to ioyne with the Admirall Boniuets armie and had abandoned the French as before you haue heard returned to the kings seruice againe But while the king lay beefore the siege of Pauia and had brought it to extreame necessitie Bourbon went into Germanie and brought with him 6000. footemen and 2000. horse Farther 6000. Rhetians being corrupted by the Imperials abandoned the kings campe and returned home leading also certaine bands of Swyssers away with them The king also by the Popes perswasion had sent the Duke of Albanie from the siege of Pauia vvith 10000. footemen and 600. horse to inuade the Realme of Naples supposing to drawe the Imperialls thither for the defence of that Realme vvhich notwithstanding wisely they forbare to do knowing the Realme of Naples to be in sufficient saftie if they ouerthrew the king Thus the kings camp being by the departure of those aboue mentioned greatly weakened and the forces that remayned with him through the corruption of his officers not being the one halfe of the number that he payed which was a wonderfull thing that such an abuse should be offered to a Prince beeing with his armie in person himselfe the Imperialls being ignorant of none of these disorders determined to inuade him in his owne Campe where through the defect of courage in the Swyssers hee was taken prisoner him selfe fighting more valiauntly then any man in his armie many of the nobilitie were slayne and many taken and the Swyssers were in manner all cut in pieces by the Landsknights in reuenge of the auncient hatred betwene the sayde Swyssers and them This battaile is called the battaile of Pauia and was fought vpon Saint Mathias day being the day of the Emperours Natiuitie in the yeare 1525. according to the Italians but 1524. according to the French which variance ariseth as before I haue mentioned because the one beginne the yeare vpon the first of Januarie and the other not before Easter The Duke of Albanie after the kings captiuitie by the Popes meanes passed by sea with his armie safly into Fraunce Thus was this noble King through the disorders principally proceding from his owne officers and Captaines taken prisoner as you haue heard who not being dismayed with this sodaine blow of fortune behaued himself with such princely magnanimitie that he was honored had in admiratiō euen of his enemies in such sort that his captiuitie blemished not but rather caused his noble vertues the more to shine as by this one example which I will rehearse shall well appeare So soone as hee was brought to his lodging hee sent for the leaders of the Imperiall armie and tould them that hee had a sute vnto them which he trusted they would not denie him Wherevnto when they semed doubtfull what answere to make supposing it to bee some great matter of difficultie that they mought not aduenture to graunt without the Emperours priuitie he perceauing their immagination tould them it was no such important suit that required any such doubt onely his desire was that the young French boyes taken in the battel mought not remaine with the Italians but in exchaunge of other prisoners bee deliuered to the Spaniards which was presently graunted and executed accordingly though not without great admiration of the Imperialls who wondered that the king forgetting his owne misfortune being of a Prince made a prisoner in one day could remember to bee so carefull of the chastitie of these young boyes Cha. 8. The King of England confederateth himselfe with the estate of Fraunce and the Princes and states of Italie themselues against the Emperour The Imperialls seaze vpon the Duchie of Milan The King sayleth into Spaine The treatie of Madrid The king is deliuered The Children of Fraunce goe in hostage into Spaine T The Emperour hauing receaued the 1525. newes of the kings captiuitie semed to take it very modestly forbidding all signes of ioy to be vsed alledging that we ought to reioyce at the ouerthrow of Turkes and infidels but not of any Christian Prince which his modest behauiour put the world in great hope that hee would deliuer the king with such honorable conditions as mought establish a quiet peace in Christendome perpetual amitie betweene them twayne But his rigor to the king afterwards declared his spirit to be farre from any such moderation as his externall beehauiour made shew of Farther you shall vnderstand that the king of England vpon the receipt of these newes leuied amighty armie purposing in person to inuade Fraunce but hee continued not long in that minde vppon these occasions folowing First certaine difficulties arose betwene the Emperour and him the king demaunding bearing but equall charges with the Emperour an vnequall part of the conquest of Fraunce and the Emperour hoping to obtaine better conditions of the King of Fraunce by making peace then he should doe if he ioyned with the king of England by making warre Secondarely the Cardinall of YORKE being altogether French and enemie to the Emperour diswaded the king of England from farther ioyning with the Emperour who was alredie so mightie that his greatnesse was become terrible to all his neighbours round about him Thirdly after the battaile of Pauia the Emperour semed not to make so great accompt of the king of England as before he had done for first he refused to marie the Lady Mary the king of Englands daughter being very young and maried the sister of Ihon king of Portugale as hereafter you shall heare with whom he receiued a great masse of money whereof he stood in great neede Farther whereas beefore the battaile of Pauia he neuer wroat letter to the king of England but with his owne hand and with this subscrption Your sonne and Cosin Charles after the battaile he neuer wroat letter with his owne hand nor with other subscription then his simple name Charles all the which reasons caused the king of
twice to the reliefe of the said castle of Milan which the duke considering despairing of succours being almost starued in the castle for victuals he made a compositiō with the duke of Bourbon gouernour of Milan for the Emperour whereby he yelded the castle into his hands and it was agreed that Coma being held by the Imperials should be deliuered to the duke of Milan that there he should reside till the Emperour had heard his iustification The Emperour sent against the confederats a mightie armie vnder the leading of the said duke of Bourbon and sought also to stir vp a rebellion against the Pope in Rome itselfe by meanes of the Coulonnois who by cunning toke him prisoner in the vatican made him yelde to such conditions of peace as pleased them and constrayned him to abandon his league with the confederats and to enter into league with the Imperials with these conditions he was deliuered by thē But that notwithstanding the duke 1527. of Bourbon whose armie wanting pay desired no thing more then to be inriched with the spoile of Rome marched directly against the citie toke it sacked it though with the losse of his owne life The Pope with many of his Cardinals was emprisoned in the castle of Saint Angelo put to their raunsome constrained to yeld to such cōditions of peace as it pleased the Imperials to propound vnto thē The Emperour hearing these newes semed in outward shew to sorrow greatly for the Popes emprisonment the sacking of Rome but the truth is he was glad of it at his very hart which also well appeared because that notwithstanding he ceased not the pastimes triumphs that he had appointed for the birth of his sonne But the king of Fraunce and England sent their Ambassadors to the Emperour demanding the Popes deliuerie And being entered into a straight league together by means of the Cardinall of Yorke who came this yeare with wōderful pomp to Amiens to the king they both sent their Heraults to defie the Emperour farther the king gaue the Emperour the lie sent vnto him a cartell of defiance wherein he chalenged the combat of him But the Emperour seeing so many Princes and states against him restored the Pope to his libertie and about this time Genoua by meanes of Andre D'oria beeing then in seruice with the King retourned to the Kings obedience Wherevppon foorth with 1528. the king leuying a mightie armie sent it vnder the leading of Monsieur de Lautrech into Italie which recouered diuers townes in the Duchie of Milan and besieged tooke Pauia sacked it in reuenge of the kings captiuitie had so good successe there that it is thought the French mought haue recouered not onely Milan but also the whole countrey But the Pope being set at libertie eyther to be reuenged of the Emperour or in hope to haue the Realme of Naples for himselfe according to the agrement in his confederacie with the King perswaded the king to withdraw his armie out of the Duchie of Milan where his affaires prospered well and to send Lautrech to inuade the sayde Realme of Naples which the king to gratefie the Pope was contented to doe Lautrech recouered all the sayde Realme saue Naples it selfe which he also besieged But during that siege Anáre D'oria who with the French nauie held the towne enclosed by sea sodainely left the king and went to the Emperours seruice by meanes whereof the Imperialls were masters of the Sea which beefore the French commaunded Farther the sayd D'oria reuolted Genoua also from the king dyd much mischiefe to the French by sea But their greatest misfortune and the very ruine of this enterprise was the plague which entered into the French camp whereof Lautrech himselfe dyed and whereby his armie was so extenuated that the siege was abandoned and the French forced to retourne home hauing lost all that they had before taken as well in the sayde Realme as in the Duchie of Milan Cap. 10. Peace is concluded at Cambray The Children of Fraunce are deliuered the King marieth the Emperours sister The Emperour is crowned Florence is be sieged and yelded to the Pope Ferdinand is chosen king of Romaines BVT in the end peace was cōcluded 1529. betwene these princes at Cambray for all parts were wearie of the warrs and the kings children were restored vnto him for the summe of two millions of crownes which were presently to be payd in this sort First the king was presently to paye to the king of England for the Emperour 400000. crownes of debt which the Emperour heretofore had borowed of the sayd King Farther he was likewise to pay to the sayd king of England for the Emperour 500000. crownes forfaited by the Emperour to the sayd king for refusing to marie the La die Marie the king of Englands daughter and marying the princesse of Portugale vppon payment of the which summes the king was to redeme all the Emperours obligations out of the king of Englands hands and to deliuer them to the Emperour Thirdly he was to redeme out of the sayd king of Englands hands a Iewell engaged to the sayd kings father by the Archduc Philip father to the Emperour for 50000 crownes being a flower deluce set with stones which beecause it had beene a Iuell of Philip surnamed Le bon duke of Burgundie the Emperour made no small accompt of the rest of the two millions was presentlie to be payed to the Emperour himselfe these conditions being performed the Children of Fraunce to bee deliuered otherwise not T The Emperours purpose in turning the king of Englands debt vpon the king was this First hee hoped that the king his Realme being empouerished and consumed with the long warrs that it had endured should not bee able to make present payment of so huge a masse of money as was to bee payed first to the Emperour himselfe and secondarely to the king of England for the redeeming of the Emperours bonds and iuells out of his hands without present payment whereof he assured himselfe that the king of England would not delyuer the foresayde bondes and iuells and by that meanes the children of Fraunce should remayne his prisoners still Neyther was hee out of hope that happilie some variance would arise beetweene these two kings about payment of the money and so their friendship be dissolued which was the principall marke he shot at and as also partly it fell out in the ende as heereafter you shall heare But the king of England perceauing the Emperours cunning and not beeing ignorant of the poore estate the Realme of Fraunce was fallen into hauing sustained such a continuall tempest of warres against so many mightie enemies euer since the beeginning of the reigne of king LEVVIS the twelfth till this very time as by the course of this Historie aboue written you may easely perceaue of a noble and heroicall mynde sent Sir Francis Brian with all the Emperours