And for the more facilitie and spéedie passage of this negociation, rather than for anie desire she had to nourish hir inclination to the warre, she dispat|ched immediatlie ambassadours into Italie, to re|commend to the pope and the Uenetians the safetie of hir sonne. To whome she offered, that if for their proper securitie they would contract with hir, and raise armes against the emperour, she would for hir particular aduance fiue hundred lances, togither with a great contribution of monie. But amid these trauels and astonishments,The [...] standeth [...] in feare [...] king of [...]lands [...] the principall desire as well of hir, as of the whole realme of France, was, to appease and assure the mind of the king of England, iudging trulie that if they could reduce him to amitie and reconcilement, the crowne of France should re|maine without quarrell or molestation. Where, if he on the one side, and the emperour on the other, should rise in one ioint force, hauing concurrent with them the person of the duke of Burbon, and manie other opportunities and occasions, it could not be but all things would be full of difficulties and dangers.

Of this the ladie regent began to discerne manie tokens and apparances of good hope: for notwith|standing the king of England immediatlie after the first reapports of the victorie, had not onelie expressed great tokens of gladnesse and reioising, but also pub|lished that he would in person passe into France: and withall had sent ambassadours to the emperour to solicit and treat of the moouing of warre iointlie togither: yet procéeding in deed with more mildnesse than was expected of so furious shewes and tokens, he dispatched a messenger to the ladie regent, to send to him an expresse ambassadour: which accordinglie was accomplished, and that with fulnesse of authori|tie and commission, such as brought with it also all sorts of submissions & implorations which she thought apt to reduce to appeasement the mind of that king so highlie displeased. He reposed himselfe altogither vpon the will and counsell of the cardinall of Yorke,Note how forren chro|niclers could report of car|dinall Wo [...]l|sie. who séemed to restreine the king and his thoughts to this principall end, that bearing such a hand vpon the controuersies and quarrels that ran betwéene o|ther princes; all the world might acknowledge to de|pend vpon him and his authoritie the resolution and expectation of all affaires.

And for this cause he offered to the emperour at the same time to descend into France with a puis|sant armie, both to giue perfection vnto the aliance concluded betwéene them before; and also to remooue all scruple and gelousie, he offered presentlie to con|signe vnto him his daughter, who was not as yet in an age and disposition able for mariage. But in these matters were very great difficulties, partlie depen|ding vpon himselfe, and partlie deriuing from the emperour, who now shewed nothing of that readi|nesse to contract with him which he had vsed before: for the king of England demanded almost all the rewards of the victorie, as Normandie, Guien, and Gascoigne, with the title of king of France. And that the emperour, notwithstanding the inequalitie of the conditions should passe likewise into France, and communicate equallie in the expenses and dangers. The inequalitie of these demands troubled not a little the emperour, to whome they were by so much the more grieuous, by how much he remem|bred that in the yeares next before, he had alwaies deferred to make warre euen in the greatest dan|gers of the French king. So that he persuaded him|selfe that he should not be able to make anie founda|tion vpon that confederation.