Puesto que ciertos alborotadores se han apoderado del reino de nuestros antepasados, y me propongo reclamarlo y restaurarlo a su estado anterior, he reunido una gran fuerza de soldados extranjeros y preparado naves de guerra para este propósito,
Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;