For these causes the negociation became euerie daie more hard and desperat betwéene both those princes, wherein was also concurrent the ordinarie inclination of the cardinall of Yorke towards the French king, togither with the open complaints he made of the emperour, as well for the interests and respects of his king, as for the small reputation the emperour began to hold of him. He considered that afore the battell of Pauia, the emperour neuer sent letters vnto him which were not written with his owne hand, and subscribed, your sonne and coosine Charles: but after the battell, he vsed the seruice of secretaries in all the letters he wrote to him, infixing nothing of his owne hand but the subscription, not with titles of so great reuerence and submission, but onelie with this bare word Charles. In this alterati|on of affection in the emperour, [...]at mooued [...] king of England [...] the [...] regents [...]bassadour. the king of England tooke occasion to receiue with gratious words and demonstrations, the ambassadour sent by the ladie regent, to whome he gaue comfort to hope well in things to come. And a little afterward, estranging his mind wholie from the affaires which were in ne|gociation betwéene him and the emperour, he made a confederation with the ladie regent, contracting in the name of hir sonne, wherein he would haue inser|ted this expresse condition, that for the kings ran|some and deliuerie, should not be deliuered to the em|perour anie thing that at that time should be vnder the power or possession of the crowne of France.

Shortlie after, the viceroy & the other capteins im|periall were induced vpon vrgent reasons to trans|port the person of the French king into a surer hold, [...] pag. 930. The person of [...] French [...] led pri|s [...]er into Spaine. than where presentlie he was kept, iudging that for the ill disposition of others, they could not without perill kéepe him garded in the duchie of Millan: in which feare ioined to their continuall desire so to doo, they resolued to conueie him to Genes, and from thense by sea to Naples, where his lodging was pre|pared within the new castell. This determination brought no little gréefe to the king, who from the be|ginning of his captiuitie, had vehementlie desired to be carried into Spaine: perhaps he had opinion (measuring happilie an other man by his owne na|ture, or else running with the common errour of mortall men being easilie beguiled in things they de|sire) that if once he were brought to the presence of the emperour, he doubted not of some easie passage for his libertie, either through the emperours benig|nitie, or by the conditions he meant to offer. The vice|roy was of the same desire for the augmentation of his owne glorie.

But being reteined for feare of the French armie by sea,M [...]nsieur Montmera [...]| [...] sent to [...] ladie re| [...]nt. they dispatched by common consent monsieur Montmerancie to the ladie regent: who granted to him six light gallies of those that laie in the port of Marseilles vpon promise to haue them restored as soone as the king was arriued in Spaine. With these gallies, he returned to Portofino, where the kings person was alredie arriued, and ioining them to six|téene gallies of the emperour, which was the nauie appointed at first to conduct him to Naples, he redu|ced them all into one fléet, and armed them all with footmen of the Spanish. The capteins imperials and the duke of Burbon were persuaded, that the kings person should be led to Naples: but of the contrarie, setting vp saile the seuenth of Iune, they tooke such course, that the eight daie they arriued with a happie voiage at Rosa a hauen of Catalognia: their com|ming brought no small ioy to the emperour, who vn|till that daie had vnderstood nothing at all of that re|solution.