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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This answer made by the emperour to the king of armes Clarenceaux, the said Clarenceaux tooke his coat of armes, which he had lieng on his left EEBO page image 902 arme (as before is said) and put it vpon him.The English herald is cõ|manded by the emperour to leaue his ora|tion behind him in wri|ting. The em|perour herewith commanded him to deliuer by wri|ting into the hands of the lord of Buclans all that he had vttered by word of mouth, as is aboue expres|sed. Which Clarenceaux promised to doo, & so he did afterwards, signed with his owne hand, word for word. Clarenceaux hauing thus doone his dutie, in|continentlie withdrew: but before his departure, the lord of Buclans said to him, and also to Guien, these words insuing. Behold here this writing in my hand, conteining the articles of the composition be|tweene the emperour and the pope.

Guic. pag. 1085. Accord be|twéene the pope & the emperours agents.¶That the pope should be no partie against the em|perour, neither in the affaires of Millaine, nor in the kingdome of Naples. That he should accord vnto the emperour the croisade in Spaine, and a tenth of the reuenues ecclesiastike through all his dominions. That to assure the obseruation of these things, Ostia should remaine in the hands of the emperour, and Ciuita Uecchia which Andrea Dore had left to him before. That he should assigne ouer to him Ciuita Castellana, a towne which had refused to receiue the imperials, Mario Perusquo procuror of the filke be|ing entred within the rocke by secret commission from the pope, notwithstanding he made semblance of the contrarie. That he should also deliuer ouer to him the rocke of Furlie, and to put into his hands for ostages Hyppolito and Alexander his nephues, and till they were come from Parma the emperour to be possessed of the cardinals Pisani, Triuulco, and Gaddi, whome they led to the realme of Naples.

Furthermore, that he should make present pai|ment to the lanceknights of three score thousand du|cates,Heauie pai|ments for the pope to dis|charge. and to the Spaniards thirtie & fiue thousand. That in so dooing they should let him come out at libertie with all the cardinals, and they to go out of Rome and out of the castell, alwaies interpreting to libertie when soeuer they should be conueied in safetie to Orbietto, Spoletto, or Perousa. That with|in fiftéene daies after his going out of Rome he should paie the like quantitie of monie to the lance|knights, and afterwards the residue within thrée moneths to the Spaniards & lanceknights ioint|lie, according to their shares and portions. Which re|sidue togither with the summes paid amounted to more than thrée hundred and fiftie thousand ducats.]

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