Appendix: Miscellaneous 1551

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

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'Appendix: Miscellaneous 1551', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554, (London, 1873) pp. 634. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol5/p634 [accessed 23 April 2024]

Miscellaneous 1551

Oct. 17. Parti Comuni, Consiglio X., v. xx. p. 55. 1037. Motion made in the Council of Ten.
That at the request of the ambassador of the most Serene King of England, license be given to the Cavalier Spinola, a Genoese, to carry arms in Venice for one year, together with two servants who are in his pay, and at his cost, he notifying their names at the office of the night watch. (fn. 1)
Ayes, 12. Noes, 2. Neutrals, 0.
[Italian.]

Footnotes

  • 1. By an entry in Foreign Calendar, date 12th September 1551 (p. 171), it appears that “Captain Spinola” brought letters of favour from England, addressed to the ambassador Peter Vannes. The historian Hume (vol. iii. p. 324) calls this soldier Battista Spinola.