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Appendix: Miscellaneous 1473

Pages 453-454

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 4, 1527-1533. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

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Miscellaneous 1473

Dec. 11. Library of the Venetian Archives. 991. Protest for Non-payment of a Bill of Exchange for 50 ducats.
Drawn at Venice at usance on the 11th December 1473, by Matio Spiera on Hironimo Contarini in London; value received in Venice from Alvise Trevisan, at the exchange of 55¼ sterlings per ducat.
Protest registered by the notary public (by Imperial authority) William Slade in front of his house (ante domum) in Lombard Street, parish of St. Nicholas Acon, on the 15th March 1473 [1474], the hill-broker Manfred de' Nocchij, certifying that on the 12th March in London the ducat was worth 50¾ pence sterling.
Witnesses, Gabriel de Ursi and Lorenzo Franchini, both of Bologna.
[Protest in Latin. Copy of the bill in the original Italian. Protest and copy, 15 lines. Notarial signature, 3 lines. Parchment.]