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appoiiiiSled to fleye don Fernando thcmpero" lieutenant in Italy 

 and being by one y' kncwe of this confpiracie dyfcovered were ij 

 of them flaine (who with the reft ftode ftoutelye,at defence at the 

 tyme of there apprehencon) and t'he reft taken alyve who have 

 confelTed the hole circumftaunce of this treafon, theffed whereof 

 is that the houfe of fernefe afwell the duke Odavian as the B of R 

 had hired them to flay the fayd don Fernando to what ende or 

 uppon what occafion they knewe not, this thing being conferred 

 w''' the fi'renchc kings pnt repaire towards italyc maketh men 

 miftruft leaft h^ be altogether unwitting thereof the rather for 

 that aboght the tyme y' this man fhold hav byn flayne he apointed 

 to be in the confynes of piamount towards italye, which being 

 fo, what was ment ther by his nigh approchc to mylaine aud lofs 

 of the gnall capitaune of the fame doth ea(ely declare, for which 

 refped themper'' it is fayd fendyth now into italic owt of this 

 eountrie ij"" v" Spaniards fotemen and ij bands of horfcmen, it is 

 allfo reported by tres owt of italic that the B of R ffynding hym 

 fellf not thoroughly fatisfied w'" the ffrenche kings detracion in 

 thaccomplyfliement of certayne poinds agreed upon in the league 

 betwene them hath lately called to hym the ftrench^ am. in Rome 

 and declarid his grefe complayning y' he is not fo well and frendly 

 xifed as he fuppofed to have byn at the ffrenche kings hands it is 

 of fome coniedured hereby that the league betwene them is not 

 altogether fo ffirme as it was at the begning beleved which never- 

 thelefle how it can agre w"" the former newes I can by no means 



perceyve 



