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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… especially should they in his absence, be corrupted by gold; that he is well aware what years of toil and what … of silver plate for coining money with the royal die. The gold and silver mines of England are not worth working. The … the rich hangings of so many palaces, the silver and gold, including many sacred vessels,the heritage to which the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… do so by the Senate, he shall have two hundred ducats of gold a month, of which he need render no account, but he must … this city he shall receive in gift one thousand ducats of gold, and if he remains his full two years he shall, receive another thousand ducats of gold. For equipage, strong boxes, outfit, he shall receive …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… to ancient usage; each knight made his offering of gold and silver Then the procession was formed, and they all …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… of wine, cheese, Genoese vermicelli ( paste), cloth of gold, silk, and so on; but they are acceptable, as his …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… informed that the export exceeds five millions 2 a year in gold. Then there is tin, lead, leather, coal, meat, butter, … come from France and Spain, wine, oil, silk, cloth of gold, woven stuffs, gall nuts for dyeing. On account of these … beautiful quality, valued, they say, at three millions of gold. The ordinary revenue is of two kinds; the income from …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… one of the Suite who did not receive at the very least a gold ring. The King named the place Britain's Burse. 2 ( Il … the troops in Flanders are calculated at five millions of gold. The Archdukes have agreed to pay a third of this sum …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… rise to the rumour that he had brought two millions in gold and the troops were to be sent from Spain by sea. The … this attitude, and continues to make great chains of gold to bind, as best he can, the mind of some one among …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… with a large part of the royal tapestries of silk and gold, and some gentlemen of the Court who did the honours. … all alike. The altar was richly adorned with cloth of gold, with a cross and some fine effigies of our Saviour and … of that day's banquet was twenty four thousand crowns of gold. There were not wanting concerts of voices or …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… is likewise a rich sword with a hilt, pommel and chaffe of gold, set full of diamonds to the value of 16,000. A …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… and especially with some velvet hangings wrought in gold and silver thread. There is also a baldacchino. He is … would, no doubt, carry the negotiation through; that gold did not count for everything with great Kings, and that … a dower to a Florentine Princess with any amount of gold they might offer. As to the marriage with the Palatine, …