Appendix: Miscellaneous 1479

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 2, 1509-1519. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1867.

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'Appendix: Miscellaneous 1479', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 2, 1509-1519, (London, 1867) pp. 577. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol2/p577a [accessed 27 March 2024]

Miscellaneous 1479

1479. Oct. 20. Notarial Archives, Venice. 1329. Protest for nonpayment of a Bill of Exchange for 300 ducats.
Drawn at Venice at usance on the 20th July 1479, by Pardaino de' Cholti, on Lodovicho Contarini in London, at the exchange of 551/1 sterlings per ducat.
Protest registered by the notary public, &c. &c., William Slade, at his dwelling in Lombard Street, &c., on the 20th October 1479; the bill-broker, Ambrosio de Barazijs, certifying that on the day in London the Venetian ducat was worth 50c?. sterling.
Witnesses: Stephano Fasan and Giovanni Andrea Cini, both Venetians. (fn. 1)
[Protest in Latin; copy of the bill in the original Italian; parchment. Protest and copy, 15 lines; Notarial signature, 3 lines.]

Footnotes

  • 1. At the foot of this protest there is a, memorandum in Italian, to the effect that Romaldo Guarenti (the English notary wrote his name Revaldo Quarenti), the purchaser of the bill in Venice, was repaid its cost by Marco . . . on 13th April[1480 ?].