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Appendix: Miscellaneous 1458

Pages 571-572

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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Miscellaneous 1458

1458. April 21. Notarial Archives, Venice. 1312. Protest for nonpayment of a Bill of Exchange for 130 ducats.
Drawn at Venice at usance on the 20th January 1458, by Zuan Tenchetta da Lona of Brescia, on Bertuzi Chontarini in London, payable to himself; value received in Venice from Baldisera and Marcbo di Cholti, at the exchange of 45 sterlings per ducat.
Protest registered by the notary public (by Imperial authority), William Styfford[&c. &c., as in former protest], on the 21st April 1458; the bill-broker, Giovanni de Diversis, certifying that on that day in London the Venetian ducat was worth 437/8d. sterling.
Witnesses: Gerardo Caniziam and Giovanni de Bardis, both of Florence.
[Protest in Latin; copy of the bill in the original Italian; parchment. Protest and copy, 21 lines; Notarial signature, 3 lines.]