[1] Thus far haue I ouerpassed the common bounds of my purpose, in speaking so largelie of this mat|ter of combat, bicause of the rarenesse thereof, chan|cing betwixt two so mightie princes, although it came not to the effect of triall. And now to returne to that which followed further vpon the defiance,The empero [...] defied by the kings of Eng|land and France. de|nounced to the emperor by the two kings of armes, Guien and Clarenceaux. Ye shall vnderstand, that the lords and nobilitie, to the number of seuen hun|dred in whose presence it was giuen, tooke it so offen|siuelie, that drawing foorth their swords, they sware that the same should be reuenged: for otherwise they protested, that the infamie would redound to them and their heires for euer. Herewith the warre was proclamed through all Spaine with baners displaied, in which were painted a red sword, with a burning cresset against the French king and his partakers, but not mentioning the king of England by expresse name. But it was recited in the proclamation, that the king of England had menaced and defied the em|perour in the French kings quarell.