to all þ^e world apparāt. Let the Barons of Englād consider whether this be true or not, whom Pope Innocent by hys bulles with one consent encouraged, to rise and rebell against their soueraigue lord and prince, king Iohn your father, as an obstinat enemy to þ^e church of Rome. MarginaliaKing Iohns submission to the pope blamed by the emperourBut after that the kyng (far out of square) remembring hymselfe, had crouched vnto hym and had obliged both hymselfe and kyngdome to the church of Rome, more lyker a woman then a man: and that the wyse Barones whom the pope had fyrst maintayned and stirred vp, w^tout al shame eyther of þ^e world or feare of god, had done þ^e same: sought how he myght w^t gaping mouth deuour & cōsume þ^e swete fat frō them, whom he had miserably to deathe betrayed and disherited, as the maner of the Romayne bishops is. By whose gredye auarice it came to passe, þ^t Englād the prince of prouinces was brought vnder miserable subiection & tribute. Behold þ^e manners & cōditions of our Romayne bishops: behold the snares wherwyth these prelates do seeke to intangle men wyth all: to wipe their noses of their money: to make their children bondmen: to disquiet such as seeke to liue in peace: Marginaliawho be the raueninge woolues in shepes clothing.beyng clothed wyth shepes clothing, when in deede they be but rauening Wolues, sēdyng their legates hether & thether to excommunicat & to suspend: as hauing power to punish whome they list: not sowing the seede, that is þ^e worde of God to fructifie: but þ^t they may bribe and pole mens purses, and reape that which they neuer did sowe. MarginaliaThe treasure of the church belongeth to the pooreThus commeth it to passe, that they spoile the holy churches and houses of God, which should be the refuge for the poore, and the mansion houses of sainctes: which our deuout & simple parēts to þ^t purpose builded & ordeyned, to þ^e refection of poore men & pilgrimes, & to þ^e sustentation of suche as were well disposed and religious. But these degenerate varlets, whom onely letters hath made both madd and malipert, do striue and gape to be both kings and emperours.

MarginaliaChrists church was buylded in himility, The Popes church is al superfluiti. Ergo the Popes church is not Christes churche.Doubtles the primatiue church was builded & laid in pouertie and simplicity of lyfe, and then as a fruteful mother begate she those her holy childrē, whom the Cataloge of saynts now maketh mention of: and verily no other foundation can be layd of any other church, then that which is layd by Iesus Christ. But this church, as it swimmeth and waloweth in all superfluitie of riches, and doth builde and raise the frame in all superfluous welth and glorye: So is it to be feared least the walles thereof in tyme fall in decaye, and when the walles be down, vtter ruine and subuersion folow after. Agaynst vs, he knoweth þ^t is þ^e sercher of all harts, how furiously these catholiques rage & go to work: Saying, therfore & excōmunicating me that I wil not take vpon me þ^e iourney I haue promised beyond the seas: wheras, inemicable and most vrgent causes & perils, as wel to þ^e church of god as also to the empire, besydes the anoyaunce of myne infirmitie and sicknes, do detayne me at home, & stay þ^e same, but especially, the insolencie of þ^e rebellious Sicilians. For why, neither do we think it safetie to our empire, nor expediēt to the christian state: that we should now take our iourney into Asia, leauyng behynde vs at home such intestine and ciuill warres: no more then for a good surgeon, to laye a healing playster to a greuous wound new striken wyth the sword, and made, In conclusion, also to this he addeth: admonishyng all the prynces of the world, that they would beware and take head (by their auaricious iniquitie) of lyke perill and daunger to themselues: Because, þ^t as the prouerbe is: It behoueth hym to looke about, that seeth his neighboures house on fyre. Thus much out of Paris. pag. 69.

But now, that Fridericus themperour might in very deede stop the slaunders of the cruel pope, which did persist and go forward stil in excommunicatiō against him: And that he might declare to the whole world, how that the last yeare he forslowed not his iourney by his ownevoluntary will, but by necessitye: When he had deuised and prepared all thyng meete for the warre, and that he had gathered together and leuied a greate armie of men: MarginaliaAn other iourney of the Emperour to Ierusalem.He departed from thence to Brundusium, committyng the gouernment of hys kyngdom to Renaldus the sonne of duke Spoletus, and to Anselmus a Baron of Istingensis & came by sea to Cyprus with hys hoste.

Frō Cyprus, the Emperour w^t his whole nauy sayled into Ioppa, which citie he fortified, forthat the passages by land were stopped and kept of the enemyes: And by sca myght he not passe nor trauayle, by meanes of þ^e extreme wether and tempest: MarginaliaThe emperour oppressed by fameine and bi prayer miraculusly releued.wherby it came to passe, þ^t wythin short pace they lacked vitayles and were sore afflicted wyth famyne. Then fell they to prayer & made their humble supplication to God, wyth whose teares his wrath beyng appeased: the great tempest and long continued foule weather seased, whereby (the seas now beyng calme) they had both vittayle, great plentye and all other necessary things for their nede, brought vnto them: wherby immediatly it came to passe, þ^t both the Emperour and hys armye as also the inhabitauntes of Ioppa, were greatly refreshed & animated: and on the other side their enemies being disappointed of their purpose, were greatly discouraged. In so much, þ^t the kyng of Egipt who w^t a great power (accompanied with Scarapho his brother prince of Gaza, and the prince of Damascus their nephew, with manye other dukes and nobles) hauyng incamped thēselues wythin one dayes iorney of Ioppa, thinking to haue besieged the same: were contented vpon the commyng of the Emperors harolds vnto them, to intreat of a peace. Wherupon, embassadours were sente vnto them wyth the Emperoures demaundes right profitable to the christian cōmon weale. MarginaliaA Conclusion of a profitable peace during ten yeres betwene the Turkes & the Christians.The Sarasens (immediatly consultynge vpon the same) graunted therunto: so that, a peace of x. yeres was concluded, and was confirmed by solempne othe on the behalfe of both princes accordyng to theyr seueral vsages and maner: the forme & condition of which peace, briefly collected are these.

MarginaliaThe articles of the peace agreed vpon.Fyrst, that Fridericke the emperour, should be crowned and annointed kyng of Ierusalem accordyng to the maner of the kynges of Ierusalem before hym.

Secondly, that all the landes and possessions which were situate betwixt Ierusalem and Ptolomaida, & the greatest parte of Palestina, and cities of Tyrus and Sydon which were in Syria, and al other territories which Baldwinus the iiij. at any time had and occupied there: should be deliuered vnto hym, onelye certayne castels reserued.

Thirdly, that he myght fortifie and build what fortresses and castels he thought good, cities and tounes: in all Syria and Palestina.

Fourthly, that all the prisoners whiche were in the Saracens hands, should be raunsomed freely and sente home: and agayne, that the Saracens might haue leaue wythout armour to come into the Temple where the Lordes sepuchre is, to praye: and that they should holde and keepe still Chratum, and the kyngs mount.

MarginaliaThe letters of Friderick to the princes & pope of his succese.Friderick now, forthat he thought the conclusion of this peace to bee so necessarye as also profitable for all Christians, and had also gottē asmuch therby, as yf the warres had cōtinued he should: he sent hys legates with letters into þ^e west, to all christiā kings, princes, & potentates, as also to the bishop of Rome: declaring vnto thē þ^e circumstance & succes of his iourney and warres, as partly ye haue heard: Requiring thē, þ^t they also would prayse and geue god thankes for this good succes & profitable peace concluded: And desyreth the pope, that for as much as he had now accomplished hys promise, neyther that there was any cause now wherfore he shoulde be wyth him displeased, that he myght be reconsiled and obtayne his fauour.