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CHAPTER XLV
1525-1526
The court at Toledo—Francis 1. brought to Spain — Gattinara
threatens to resign—Illness of the French King—Charles V.
visits him at Madrid—Terms of peace discussed—Treaty of
Madrid — Intrigues of the Pope — Morone's conspiracy —
Castiglione's protest against the Papal policy.
A MONTH after Castiglione's arrival the Emperor
left Madrid for Toledo, and entered the capital of
Old Castile in state on April 27. The representatives
of the city guilds rode out to meet him, followed by
the doctors and jurists, clad in crimson velvet, and
attended by a guard of peasant archers in green
liveries, bearing pennons and crossbows, and sounding
hfes and drums. Charles, who was mounted on a
bay horse and attired in silver brocade, received the
keys of the city at the gates, and rode through the
streets under a canopy of crimson and gold, borne by
the chief magistrates. The Grand Equerry, Cesare
Fieramosca, rode in front of His Majesty, bearing a
drawn sword in his hand, and immediately behind
came the foreign ambassadors, with the nuncio at
their head. So the stately cavalcade wound its way
through streets hung with tapestries and thronged
with thousands of spectators, to the cathedral which
crowns the rocky heights. Here the Emperor
alighted, and, after kneeling in prayer at the high
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1525-1526
The court at Toledo—Francis 1. brought to Spain — Gattinara
threatens to resign—Illness of the French King—Charles V.
visits him at Madrid—Terms of peace discussed—Treaty of
Madrid — Intrigues of the Pope — Morone's conspiracy —
Castiglione's protest against the Papal policy.
A MONTH after Castiglione's arrival the Emperor
left Madrid for Toledo, and entered the capital of
Old Castile in state on April 27. The representatives
of the city guilds rode out to meet him, followed by
the doctors and jurists, clad in crimson velvet, and
attended by a guard of peasant archers in green
liveries, bearing pennons and crossbows, and sounding
hfes and drums. Charles, who was mounted on a
bay horse and attired in silver brocade, received the
keys of the city at the gates, and rode through the
streets under a canopy of crimson and gold, borne by
the chief magistrates. The Grand Equerry, Cesare
Fieramosca, rode in front of His Majesty, bearing a
drawn sword in his hand, and immediately behind
came the foreign ambassadors, with the nuncio at
their head. So the stately cavalcade wound its way
through streets hung with tapestries and thronged
with thousands of spectators, to the cathedral which
crowns the rocky heights. Here the Emperor
alighted, and, after kneeling in prayer at the high
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