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.

But being reteined for feare of the French armie by sea,M [...]nsieur Montmera [...]| [...] sent to [...] ladie re| [...]nt. they dispatched by common consent monsieur Montmerancie to the ladie regent: who granted to him six light gallies of those that laie in the port of Marseilles vpon promise to haue them restored as soone as the king was arriued in Spaine. With these gallies, he returned to Portofino, where the kings person was alredie arriued, and ioining them to six|téene gallies of the emperour, which was the nauie appointed at first to conduct him to Naples, he redu|ced them all into one fléet, and armed them all with footmen of the Spanish. The capteins imperials and the duke of Burbon were persuaded, that the kings person should be led to Naples: but of the contrarie, setting vp saile the seuenth of Iune, they tooke such course, that the eight daie they arriued with a happie voiage at Rosa a hauen of Catalognia: their com|ming brought no small ioy to the emperour, who vn|till that daie had vnderstood nothing at all of that re|solution.

Now as soone as he was made assured of the kings being there,The emperor commandeth that the French king should be re|ceiued with honour in all places where he should passe. he dispatched commandements vnto all places where he should passe, to receiue him with great honours: onelie till it should be otherwise de|termined, he gaue order to kéepe him in the castell of Sciatiua néere to Ualence, a castell ancientlie vsed by the kings of Aragon for the garding of great per|sonages, and wherein had béene kept prisoner for ma|nie yeares the duke of Calabria. But the delibera|tion to kéepe him in that place, séeming farre too rigorous to the viceroy, and nothing agréeable to the promises he had made to the king in Italie, he woone so much of the emperour, that till he had taken an o|ther counsell, the kings person might remaine neere Ualence in a place apt for hunting and other delights of the field. There he left him lodged with sufficient gard vnder the charge of capteine Alarcon, in whose custodie he had alwaies remained since his vnfortu|nate daie.