[1] [2] About the same time, the king and the emperour sent Garter and Toison Dor,Articles de|manded of the French king. kings at armes, to de|mand the performance of certeine articles of the French king, which if he denied, they were comman|ded then to defie him, but he would not suffer them to come within his land, & so they returned. Whervp|on the king caused the said demands to be declared to the French ambassador at Westminster. And in Iulie the king sent ouer six thousand men, vnder the leading of sir Iohn Wallop, appointed to haue the generall conduction of them, accompanied with di|uerse other knights, esquiers and gentlemen right hardie and valiant. Sir Thomas Seimer was mar|shall of that armie, sir Robert Bowes treasuror, sir Richard Cromwell capteine of the horssemen, and sir George Carew his lieutenant. There were like|wise sir Thomas Palmer, sir Iohn Reinsforth, sir Iohn saint Iohn, and sir Iohn Gascoigne, knights, that were capteines of the footmen. They were ap|pointed to ioine with the emperours power, and so to make warre into France. They departed from Calis the two and twentith of Iulie. The third of August open warre was proclamed in London be|twixt the emperour and the king of England on the one part, and the French king on the other, as eni|mie mortall to them both, and to all other christian princes beside, as he that had confederated himselfe with the Turke.