[1] Further he said, that in matter of combat there was the assailant,The field, that is, a place where they may safelie come to fight in [...] be|fore indiffe|rent iudges. which ought to giue suertie of the field, and the defendant the weapons. Herewith al|so he caused a letter to be read, which the emperour had written to maister Iohn de Caluimont presi|dent of Burdeaux, the said kings ambassadour in the court of the said emperour: the tenor of which letter imported, that the emperour put the said ambassa|dour in remembrance of spéech which he had vttered to the said ambassadour in Granado, Guic. pag. 1091. repeating the same in substance as followeth. That the king his maister had doone naughtilie in not keeping his faith which he had of him, acording to the treatie of Ma|drill: and if the king would saie the contrarie, I will (said the emperour) mainteine the quarrell with my bodie against his. And these be the same words that I spake to the king your maister in Madrill, that I would hold him for a lewd and naughtie man, if he brake the faith which I had of him, &c.