[1] This league was concluded the two and twentith of Maie in this yeare. What followed thereof, ye may read more at large in the histories of Italie and France,Read Guic. [...].18. where the warres are more at large tou|ched, which chanced in that season betwixt the empe|rour, and the confederats, and how the imperiall ar|mie tooke the citie of Rome, and besieging the pope in castell saint Angelo, constreined him to yéeld, and agree to certeine propositions put vnto him. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 1067 ¶Who being by his aduersitie made naked of all helpe pre|sent, and lesse expectation to be rescued where was so great want of valour and order, was driuen to run the race of his fortune, compounding the sixt daie of Iune with the imperials almost vnder the same conditions with the which he might haue accor|ded before.The pope be|ing abando|ned of all [...]opes, com|p [...]ndeth with the im|perials. That the pope should paie to the armie foure hundred thousand duckets in this order: one hundred thousand presentlie to be defraied of the gold, monie, and treasure reserued in the castell: fif|tie thousand within twentie daies, and two hundred and fiftie thousand within two moneths: assigning to him for these defraiments, an impost of monie to be charged vpon the whole church state. That he should deliuer into the power of the emperour, to re|teine them so long as he thought good, the castell S. Angelo, the rockes of Ostia, of Ciuita Uecchia, of Ciuita Castelano, togither with the cities of Par|ma, Plaisanca, and Modena.