And standing in a state no lesse impouerished for monie and treasure,The empe|rours hope to recouer more pro [...] by the French king in [...] than [...] than made wearie with labours and perils, he hoped to draw more commodities from the French king by the meane of peace, than by the violence of armes and warres, speciallie ioi|ning with the king of England. Besides, he made not that accompt which he was woont to doo of the mariage of his daughter, both for hir minoritie in EEBO page image 887 age, and also for the dowrie for the which he should stand accomptable for so much as the emperour had receiued by waie of loane of the king of England: he séemed by manie tokens in nature to nourish a woonderfull desire to haue children, and by the neces|sitie of his condition he was caried with great co|uetousnesse of moni [...]: vpon which two reasons he tooke a great desire to marie the sister of the house of Portugall, which was both in an age able for mari|age, and with whome he hoped to receiue a plentifull portion in gold and treasure, besides the liberalities of his owne people offered by waie of beneuolence in case the mariage went forward: such was their desire to haue a quéene of the same nation and lan|guage, and of hope to procreat children.

For these causes the negociation became euerie daie more hard and desperat betwéene both those princes, wherein was also concurrent the ordinarie inclination of the cardinall of Yorke towards the French king, togither with the open complaints he made of the emperour, as well for the interests and respects of his king, as for the small reputation the emperour began to hold of him. He considered that afore the battell of Pauia, the emperour neuer sent letters vnto him which were not written with his owne hand, and subscribed, your sonne and coosine Charles: but after the battell, he vsed the seruice of secretaries in all the letters he wrote to him, infixing nothing of his owne hand but the subscription, not with titles of so great reuerence and submission, but onelie with this bare word Charles. In this alterati|on of affection in the emperour, [...]at mooued [...] king of England [...] the [...] regents [...]bassadour. the king of England tooke occasion to receiue with gratious words and demonstrations, the ambassadour sent by the ladie regent, to whome he gaue comfort to hope well in things to come. And a little afterward, estranging his mind wholie from the affaires which were in ne|gociation betwéene him and the emperour, he made a confederation with the ladie regent, contracting in the name of hir sonne, wherein he would haue inser|ted this expresse condition, that for the kings ran|some and deliuerie, should not be deliuered to the em|perour anie thing that at that time should be vnder the power or possession of the crowne of France.

Shortlie after, the viceroy & the other capteins im|periall were induced vpon vrgent reasons to trans|port the person of the French king into a surer hold, [...] pag. 930. The person of [...] French [...] led pri|s [...]er into Spaine. than where presentlie he was kept, iudging that for the ill disposition of others, they could not without perill kéepe him garded in the duchie of Millan: in which feare ioined to their continuall desire so to doo, they resolued to conueie him to Genes, and from thense by sea to Naples, where his lodging was pre|pared within the new castell. This determination brought no little gréefe to the king, who from the be|ginning of his captiuitie, had vehementlie desired to be carried into Spaine: perhaps he had opinion (measuring happilie an other man by his owne na|ture, or else running with the common errour of mortall men being easilie beguiled in things they de|sire) that if once he were brought to the presence of the emperour, he doubted not of some easie passage for his libertie, either through the emperours benig|nitie, or by the conditions he meant to offer. The vice|roy was of the same desire for the augmentation of his owne glorie.