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.

All cardinals of authoritie, either for their experi|ence in affaires, or for opinion of their doctrine, or for their familiaritie with the pope. All which things albeit they were begun with great hope and expec|tation, and the vniuersall truce accepted of all men, and all men with no little ostentation and brauerie of words, made shew of their readinesse with their forces to aduance so good a cause: yet, what with the consideration of the perill estéemed vncerteine and farre off, and extending more to one prince than to another, and what by the difficulties and long tract of time that appeared, to introduce a zeale and vnion so vniuersall, priuat interests and respects particular séemed to preuaile more,The popes negociation naked of all hope & issue. than the pietie of the expe|dition: insomuch that the negociation stood not one|lie naked of all hope and issue, but also it was follo|wed verie lightlie, and as it were by ceremonie.