And afterwards calling vpon the helpe of m [...]n he wrote letters to all christian princes, both admo|nishing them of the perill, and persuading them to lay aside all ciuill discords and contentions, and at|tend spéedilie to the defense of religion & their com|mon safetie, which he affirmed would more and more take increase of most grieuous danger, if with the vnitie of minds, and concordances of forces, they sought not to transferre the warre into the empire of the Turks, & inuade the enimie in his owne coun|trie. Upon this aduise and admonition, was taken the examination and opinion of men of warre,The pope [...] him [...] his securi| [...] [...] tuition. and persons skilfull in the discouerie of countries, the dis|posing of prouinces, and of the nature and vsage of the forces and weapons of that kingdome, and there|vpon a resolution was set downe to make great le|uies of monie by voluntarie contributions of prin|ces, and vniuersall imposts of all people of christen|dome.

It was thought necessarie that Cesar accompa|nied with the horssemen of Hungaria and Polonia, nations warlike, and practised in continuall warre a|gainst the Turke, and also with the footmen of Ger|manie, should saile along Danubi into Bossina cal|led ancientlie Misia, and from thence to Thracia, and so to draw neare Constantinople, [...]litike deui| [...]s to [...] & preuẽt [...]he Turkes [...]poses. the seat of the em|pire of Ottomanes: that the French king with all the forces of his kingdome, the Uenetians, and the other potentates of Italie, accompanied with the infanterie of Swizzerland, should passe from the port of Brindisi in Albania, a passage verie easie & short, to inuade Greece, a countrie full of christian inhabi|tants, and for the intollerable yoke of the Turkes, most readie to rebell: that the kings of Spaine, of England, and Portugall, assembling their forces to|gither in Cartagenia, and the ports thereabouts, should take their course with two hundred ships full of Spanish footmen and other souldiers, to the streict of Galipoli, to make rodes vp to Constanti|nople, hauing first of all subdued the castels and forts standing vpon the mouth of the streict: and the pope to take the same course, imbarking at Ancona, with an hundred ships armed.

Why it was generallie thought that this warre would haue [...]ckie succes.With these preparations, séeming sufficient to couer the land, and ouerspread the sea, it was thought that of a warre so full of deuotion and pietie, there could not be but hoped a happie end, speciallie adding the inuocation of God, and so manie seuerall inua|sions made at one time against the Turkes, who make their principall foundation of defense, to fight in the plaine field. These matters were solicited with no small industrie, and to stop all matter of imputa|tion against the office of the pope, the minds of prin|ces were throughlie sounded, and an vniuersall truce for fiue yeares betweene all the princes of christen|dome, published in the consistorie, vpon paine of most grieuous censure to such as should impugne it. So that the negociation continuing for all things apperteining to so great an enterprise, he assigned ambassadours to all princes: to the emperour he sent the cardinall S. Sisto, to the French king he dispat|ched the cardinall of S. Maria in Portico, the cardi|nall Giles to the king of Spaine,This ope| [...]h the place in our Eng|lish historie. and the cardinall Campeius to the king of England.