a councel in the city of Nureburgh: MarginaliaHēry Cesar condemned of treason and dyeth in prison.Henrye Cesar hys son, after his conspiracy was manifestly detected, which he had in practise with the Longoberdes (wherof, þ^e pope was chief autor) was by iudgement and sentence of 70. princes, condempned of high treason: And beyng commaunded by his father to be bound, was as a prysoner brought to Apulia: where, not lōg after in prisō he died. In whose stede, he ordained Conradus hys iij. sonne Cesar, by consent of all þ^e piers & princes. MarginaliaFridericus Austriacus proclaimed an open enemie to his father and disherited.Furthermore, by publique commaundemēt he denounced Fridericke Austriacus for his sonne, and for an enemie to the publique weale he caused him to be proclaimed. And further, whē he saw that neither that punishment, could cause him to remember him self and acknowledge his abuse: the Emperour with a great armie (acompanied with diuers of the noble men of Germanie) tooke from him all Austria and Stiria, and brought them agayne vnder hys owne obedience and fidelitie.

MarginaliaThe Emperour maryeth kyng Iohns daughter of Englād.The same yeare, maried he his third wife named Isabell the daughter of kyng Ihon of England. Then, whē he had set Germanie in a stay and quietnes, he left there Conradus Cesar his sonne: and with his host returneth agayne into Italie there to punish such, as had with Hēry hys eldest sonne conspired agaynst him: whose treasons were all detected at the condemnation of Henry Cesar his sonne, chiefly set on by the pope. When the Pope had vnderstandyng that the Emperour, with warlyke furniture marched towardes Italy: although he fayned him selfe reconciled and to be a frend to Fridericke, yet was he not withstandyng, to him a most secret and infestiue enemie. MarginaliaThe pope agayne beginneth to playe hys parte.And vnderstādyng, þ^t he brought with him such a power both of horsemen and footemen, to do execution of such as he vnderstoode to haue bene conspiratours agaynste hym in the late tumulte and rebellion: Those which were faultie herin and giltie (and all other that toke their partes) he admonisheth to ioyne them selues together: and that they should furnish strongly their Cities with garrisons: that they send for ayde to their frends, & that w^t al þ^e force they were able, they should prepare them for the warre. The rest of the Cities also in Italie, whether they were the Emperours or hys owne, he indeuoureth to make them all as hys, and propere to hym selfe.

Furthermore, vnto the Emperour he sendeth his embassadours: to whom, vnder the pretence of norishyng a peace he had geuē secret cōmaūdemēt: MarginaliaThe popes message to the Emperour.þ^t they should interdict him & his host, so soone as he came within the borders of Italy. To þ^e preseruatiō of which peace sayth he, he had but late sence promulgate a subsidie to be gathered amongest the Christians, when he began the holy warre. And also to say (not by way of intreatie, but commaundingly) that what cause of controuersie he had w^t the Longobardes: the same he should commit to him, and stand to his arbitriment. Wherunto, the Emperour replieng maketh his legates this aunswere.

Shortly after sayth he, the peace was made betwene the pope & me: he cauled me for a chief defence both of þ^e church and him self, agaynst the Romanes which made warre w^t him: MarginaliaThe Emperour againe vnto the pope.and at his request, with mine own proper charge I maintayned that his warre, and gaue his enemyes the ouerthrowe. And further sayd, that he should not do well through the pretence of peace, to be a let to hym from that whiche both by law and right he myght and ought to do: But rather so he ought to dispose hym selfe, with force to restrayne and expell them, which gathered them together as rebels thinking to exclude them selues from the subiection both of hym and the Empire. And that, such rebels as both had restrayned the souldiers whiche the Emperour sent for when he was in Asia, and diuers others also (whiche for necessarye causes he hadde cauled to hym) they had so wickedlye delte with & abused: He, as they had deserued, should ratherdesire to see punished & reformed, then to mayntaine thē (vnder colour of a peace) being so wicked & manifest euill doers. And touching that he demaūdeth of hym, þ^t he should cōmit & deferre to great a cause wherin þ^e wealth & saftie of the Empire consisteth, to hys arbitriment by him to be determined: Without either assignemēt of any tyme when, or addyng therunto any condition or exception for not doing þ^e same: neither þ^e diminishing & impairing þ^e dignitie & regalitie of his empire cōsidered, he could not but maruel: Seing þ^t neither it appertained to his callyng & facultie, nor to the benefite or commoditie of the Empire. To this effect also writeth Fridericke in his last Epistell of the Pope: the effect whereof amongst other epistles you may reede.

MarginaliaA secret cōspiracie of the pope against the Emperour.And in the same his letters he sheweth, that when the Emperour, at a certaine time had ben with the pope: At his goyng away, he requested that when he came again he would come into Italie, but with his houshold bande and familie: For that, if he should come as before he did accustome with hys armie, he should terrifie them ouermuch: amongst whō sayth he, you may assure your selfe to be in great safty, and finde all thinges in rest & quiet: whō quite cōtrary (as the Emperour for a certeinty had tried) he had there all thinges ready and prepared for his destruction. So that, whē he pretended vnto him greatest frendship, he was busiest in cōspiring his death. The certein tyme, whē þ^e Pope had this exercise in hād agaynst the Emperour I cannot searche out, neyther may it be his epistles vndated, easly found out: But of the certeintie therof no mā nede to doubt, I haue assigned you to þ^e Emperours Epistle where he maketh mētion of þ^e same.

MarginaliaThe Emperour marcheth into Italie not withstanding the popes forbidding.The Emperour thē, as he had determined, prosecuteth his purpose and marcheth into Italy: where he brought vnder his subiection, those cities that agaynst him rebelled: as Mantua, Verona, Ternisium, Patauium and others. And thē, he afterward set vpon the great host of þ^e Mediolanenses, the Brixians, the Placentines and other confederatours, vnto whom the popes legate Georgius Longomātanus had ioyned him selfe: of whom he toke 1000. prisoners, and also their generall beyng the chief Magistrate in the citie of Mediolanum, and Petrus Tenopolus the dukes sonne of Venice, and slue diuers capitaines moe & toke all their enseignes. And in this battell specially at the recoueryng of Marhia and Ternisiana he vsed the frendly aide of Actiolinus.

The Pope now somewhat dismayed at thys ouerthrow of his confederates and mates (though not much) begā yet somwhat to feare þ^e emperour and whereas before, that which he dyd he wrought secretly & by others, now he goeth to work (w^t might & mayn) to subdue & depriue the emperour. And although the emperour sawe & perceiued what inward hate and mortall malice he bare towardes hym: not onely by that he so apertly stoode w^t his conspiratours against hym, but also that on euerye side he heard, and from all partes was brought him certaine word, how greatly he laboured agaynst hym: as with opprobrious wordes, naughty reportes, and slaunders, to the entent to pull from hym the hartes and fidelitie of his subiects, and make those that were his frends hys enemies, neither that he mente at any tyme to take vp and sease from such euill and wycked practises: MarginaliaThe Emperour loth to break the peace, of late cōcluded.yet notwithstanding, for that there should be no defaulte in hym found, for the breache of the leage & peace betwene them a little before concluded: he sendeth foure legates to the bishop of Rome which should aunswer vnto and refute, those criminous obiections whiche he layde vnto hym: as also make hym priuie to hys purpose & what he ment to doe, therby to declare his innocencie towardes hym (in such causes) and simplicitie.

MarginaliaThe pope refuseth to speak with the Emperours Legates.The bishop, when he vnderstoode these ambassadors to be not far of from Rome, and knew the cause of their commyng: he thought wyth hymselfe, that in hearyng þ^e