cord of the church and Christian cōmon weale. O worthy head, that chalengeth all autority to him selfe in the church of Christ, and in respect of hys owne wylfull reuenge, setteth nothyng by the health and vtilitie of all Christendome. Then therefore, when nothing coulde be done in the matter, and the most part of these noble men departed from Rome: the next yeare after (with muche ado) a peace was made and concluded betwen them, by the helpe and industry of Leopoldus of Austrea, Hermānus capitayne of the Duche soldiours, & the Presidēt of Messanea. MarginaliaThe price of the Emperours absolution.The pope thē absoluing the Emperour Fridericus of hys excommunication, toke therefore of him an hundreth and twenty thousand ownces of golde: restoryng vnto hym agayne the titles both of hys empire, and also of hys kyngdomes. Nowe, considering the vncurteous dealyng of the pope with Fridericke the Emperour herein: MarginaliaVnshamefast Blondus.Who cā sufficiently muse & maruel at þ^e vnshamfastnes of Blondus, whych hath þ^e face to write, þ^t the Pope (yet notwithstanding) had delt more gentlye and curteously with Fridericke then was meete, or beseemed hym to do. Who is it that doth not see hys manifest flattery, coulored neyther wyth reason, nor secrete dissimulatiō. MarginaliaCuspinianus pretely girdeth the Pope.But, much more truely and better writeth Euspinianus concerning thys matter which saith, that the Pope doth occupye verye profitable marchanidse, whych forsomuch money selleth that he receaued frely paying nothing therefore, if he had receaued it of Christ in deede, as he sayth he had.

And yet although the Emperour Fridericke, concluded w^t the Pope thys vnprofitable peace for himself: yet he performed those thinges that were agreed vpon faythfully and diligently. But the pope, which thought it but a trifle to breake his promise, woulde not stand to the condicions of the peace he made. For by the way to passeouer other thinges, neyther hath he restored as he promised the customes in the land of Sicill, neyther yet the city Castellana, which he before the peace concluded betwene them did occupy and enioy. And that doth both Fridericke in his epistles testifye, and also Fazellus in hys. 8. booke, writing of the affaires of Sicilia. Yet that notwithstanding: Fridericke, for the quietnes and vtilitie of the common wealth, purposed w^t him self to beare and suffer these small iniuries. MarginaliaWhat beneficence the Emperour vseth to haue the Popes frendship which he shall neuer gette.And further studied in al that he might, as well by liberall giftes as otherwise, to haue the Pope to be to him a trusty frend. As when, the Romanes and other of the ecclesiasticall number made warre against the pope for certayne possessions whych he kept of theirs: he cōming to him at Reate, and as one that tendred the vnitye of the churche, and thinking to helpe the Pope at hys earnest request in these matters: sent his Legates vnto them, wylling them to lay down theyr armour which agaynste the Pope they bare. And when that would not serue, at the popes further request and desire he leuied an armie agaynst them at hys own charge, and draue them from the siege of Viterbium: with other suche lyke assured tokens of amitie & friendship he shewed hym. Who not withstanding, so soone as the Emperour was departed with a small company which he tooke with him into Sicilia, leauing with him the greater and most part of hys armey for the mayntenance of hys warres: concluded a peace with the Romanes (vnknowing to the Emperour) whom he had procured to trauell and labour therin with great expenses: MarginaliaA well recompenced good turne of the pope to the Emperours.affirming that without his wyl and commaundement, the Emperour had expelled them, and driuen them out of the territories of Viterbium. And hereof, doth Fridericke, also hymselfe make mencion in his second & thyrd epistle, where he complayneth of the iniuries of the pope towardes hym.

MarginaliaBlondus taken with vntruth.Therfore, greater cōmendation had Blondus deserued if he had writen of these trecheries of the pope, thē þ^t forgettyng himselfe (as vnto lyers often it chaunceth) inthat he writeth both contrary to himselfe in the effect of thys matter, and contrarye to the veritie of Fridericus his history: which saith, that the Romaines were incited to these new tumultes by his entising and setting on. As though simple men of vnderstadding, could not both by the offryng of hys sonne in hostage, by the great preparation of the warres, and by the euent especially of the thing it selfe gather the contrary. But to impudent will Blondus nedes shew himselfe.

Whilest that these thyngs were done in Italy & Sicilia, great rebellions were moued in Germany against the emperour by Henricus Cesar and Friderick of Austria, hys sonnes beyng the chiefe autors therof. MarginaliaThe Emperours sōnes no longer suborned make manifest rebellion agaynst their fatherFor Hēry, beyng disapointed and shaken of from hys lord pope and other cōspiratours by reason of the peace betwene his father and hym as ye heard: began now to make open chalēge to the empyre. And for that cause, he as before is sayd, put from him Ludouicus whom he knew to be vnto the emperour hys father so louing and an assured frende: who as willinglye (perceyuing and smellyng what mischief he went about) forsooke his court & came Boioria: who had not there remayned a yeare, MarginaliaA wicked murther of Henry Cæsar for true & faythfull seruice.but was as he walked abrode at a certen tyme stabbed in wyth a dagger of one Kelhemius and presentlye died, hys seruaunts beyng not farre from him. Of whose death dyuers diuersly write. Notwithstandyng the sequell doth shew them to write truliest, that affirme the sayd striker to be suborned by Hēry Cesar: who commyng vnto him in the habite of a messenger, deliuered vnto hym certain letters which he fayned to be sent from the Emperour. And whilest Ludouicus was in readyng the same, he strake hym in wyth a dagger and gaue hym his mortall wound: and wyth spede fled vpon the same. After whose death, succeded in that Dukedome his sonne Otho, whō when solempnly accordyng to þ^e maner of þ^e Boiores he should haue bene created, was also let by þ^e same Henry Cesar: MarginaliaThe outrage of H. Cæsar agaīst the Emperour hys father.who forbad the assembly of the magistrates & citezins of the same. They notwithstandyng, neglecting hys vniust restraint created hym: Wherfore, he first besieged Reginoburgh and with an other company sacked brent, and wasted Boiaria: wyth many mo suche great outrages and rebellions.

When intelligence was brought of these thinges to the emperour, he sent hys legates and commaūded that both the Cesar his sonne and other princes of Germany which had assembled their armies should breake vp and disperse the same. And because he saw & perceiued nowe manifestly that hys sonne made so apparante rebellion against him, and fearyng greater insurrections to insue in Germany, he thought good to preuent the same with all expedition: MarginaliaThe Emperour xiiii. yeares out of Germanye.wherfore he determined to goe in all haste into Germany with his army, (frō whence he had been absent now xiiij. yeares) and hereunto he maketh the pope priuy. The pope promised þ^e Emperour hereupon, þ^t he would write his letters in his behalf to al þ^e princes of Germany: but perswaded hym to the vttermost of hys power, that he should in no case go into Germany hym selfe. For why, his conscience accused hym that he had written to the nobles of Germany euen from the beginnyng of his papacye (for the hate and grudge he had agaynst the emperour) that they should suffer him neither any of his heires to enioy the Empyre, and farther had styrred them all vp to rebel against hym: and had moued Henry the emperours sonne by his brybes and faire promises, to conspyre against hys father. MarginaliaThe pope feareth that hys treason should be spyed by the Emp. going into Germanie.And to conclude, he was the autor and procurer of the conspiracy whiche the Lombardes made then agaynst hym: and fearyng least these thynges should come now to the emperoures eare, he was greatly troubled & carefull. But the emperour not thinking it good at so nedefull a tyme to be absent: he (all doubt set apart) with his second sonne Conradus, went spedily into Germany. And assemblyng there