¶The cause of all that we have suffered this twenty years.¶The cause of all that we haue suffred thys twentye yeares.

¶The cause of all that we have suffered this twenty years.

¶The cause of all that we haue suffred thys twentye yeares.

About the beginning of the Kings grace that now is / france was mighty / so y• I suppose it was not mightier this five hundred years. King Lewis of France had won Naples / and had taken Bonony from saint Peters s•.¹ Wherefore Pope July was wroth and cast² ⟨image 60⟩how to bring the frenchmen down, yet soberly lest while he brought him lower / he should give an occasion to lift up the Emperor higher. Our first voyage into Spain was to bring the frenchmen lower. For our meiny were set in the forefront and borders of spain toward Gascony: partly to keep those parties, and partly to fear y• Gascons, & to keep them at home while in the mean time the Spaniards wan Navarre. When Navarre was won our men came to house as many as dyed not there, and brought all there money with them home again / save that they spend there. How be it for all the loss of Navarre the frenchmen were yet able enough to match Spain, the Venetians and the Pope with all the Zwytzers that he could make: so that there was yet no remedy but we must set on the frenchmen also, if they should be brought out of Italy.

ABoute the beginning of the Kynges grace that now is / fraūce was mightie / so y• I suppose it was not myghtier thys fyue hundred yeares. Kynge Lewes of Fraunce had wonne Naples / and had taken Bonony from sainct Peters s•.¹