Spain: January 1513  Pages 85-92     January 1513  1513. 11 Jan.
(?) S. E. A. L. 635. f. 17. 80. King Ferdinand The Catholic to
Pedro De Urea, his Ambassador at the Imperial Court. (fn. 1)
When it was known that the Cardinal of Gurk had concluded the
treaty with the Pope, and that he (Don Pedro) and Vich had
consented to it, and had signed a paper excluding the Venetians
from the league, the general opinion was that they had undone
all that God in his mercy had vouchsafed to grant him. The
French had been driven out of Italy. It had cost much trouble,
an immense expenditure of money, and a great sacrifice of life
to effect this object ; but the advantages were evident, and it
was every day better understood that the peace of Christendom
would thereby be secured for many years. The treaty they have
concluded at Rome has reversed all. Nothing more favourable to
the French and more detrimental to those who have undertaken to
oppose the tyranny of France could have been devised than this
treaty. Not to mention ot