Now as soone as he was made assured of the kings being there,The emperor commandeth that the French king should be re|ceiued with honour in all places where he should passe. he dispatched commandements vnto all places where he should passe, to receiue him with great honours: onelie till it should be otherwise de|termined, he gaue order to kéepe him in the castell of Sciatiua néere to Ualence, a castell ancientlie vsed by the kings of Aragon for the garding of great per|sonages, and wherein had béene kept prisoner for ma|nie yeares the duke of Calabria. But the delibera|tion to kéepe him in that place, séeming farre too rigorous to the viceroy, and nothing agréeable to the promises he had made to the king in Italie, he woone so much of the emperour, that till he had taken an o|ther counsell, the kings person might remaine neere Ualence in a place apt for hunting and other delights of the field. There he left him lodged with sufficient gard vnder the charge of capteine Alarcon, in whose custodie he had alwaies remained since his vnfortu|nate daie.

From thence the viceroy, togither with Mont|merancie, went to the emperour to make reapport of the state of Italie, and the discourse of things which till that daie had béene debated with the king, with whome he persuaded the emperour with ma|nie reasons to draw to accord, for that he could not haue a faithfull amitie and coniunction with the Ita|lians. The emperour after he had heard the viceroy and Montmerancie, determined to conueie the king into Castillo to the castell of Madrill, a place farre remooued from the sea and the confines of France, where being honored with ceremonies & reuerences agréeable to so great a prince, he should neuerthe|lesse be kept vnder carefull and strait gard, with li|bertie to take the aire abroad certeine times of the daie, mounted onelie vpon a mule. The emperour could neuer be brought to admit the king to his pre|sence, if first the accord were not either established, or at least in an assured hope of resolution.

And to the end there might be interposed in the negociation a personage honorable, & almost equall with the king, Montmerancie was sent in great di|ligence into France, to bring the duchesse of Alan|son the kings sister and a widow, with fulnesse of au|thoritie to debate and contract. And to the end this negociation of accord were not hindered by new dif|ficulties,A truce for a time betwéene the emperour and the gouer|nors of Frãce. there was made a little afterwards a truce vntil the end of December, betweene the emperour and such as administred the gouernment of France. Moreouer the emperour gaue order that one part of those gallies which were come with the viceroy, should returne into Italie to bring the duke of Bur|bon into Spaine, without whose presence and priui|tie he gaue out that he would make no conuention: and yet the gallies what for want of monie, and o|ther impediments, were prepared but with slow di|ligence.