Errata

ERRATA, &c, Vol. I.

Preface, p. xxxvii, last line, for “Correr Museum” read “Giustiniau Museum.”

Preface, p. liii, line 14, for “1360” read “1340.”

Preface, p. lxxii, note, line 2, for “Sesperte antiche” read “Scoperte artiche.”

Preface, p. lxxxvi, penultimate line, for “Amboise” read “Amiens.”

Preface, p. cxxiv, 2nd column, 4th entry, after “March 28” insert “1551.”

Preface, p. cxxviii, col. I, for “Francesco Querini” read “Tommaso Querini.”

Preface, p. cxxxi, continuation of note, concerning the Venetian Consul in London, Giovanni Pesaro :—

By the File No. 38, “Senato Terra,” it is seen that Giovanni Pesaro was formally accredited by the Signory to Queen Elizabeth as Venetian Consul in London on the 5th March 1563.

Preface, p. cxliv, for insertion after “Sir Gregory Cassalis”: —

Preface, p. cxlv. The agent extraordinary in Venice of Henry VIII., Lodovico dalle Arme, was not a Venetian nobleman. The Criminal Register of the Council of Ten, No. 6, p. 84, shows that he was a Bolognese, which fact is also recorded by Andrea Morosini, in his History of Venice, vol. 2, p. 169. I had confounded the name with that of the Venetian family, Darmer, Armerio, Armio.

The proof that Lodovico dalle Arme was the accredited agent of Henry VIII. in Venice does not exist in the “Deliberazioni Senato,” 8 June 1546. It is registered in the “Deliberazioni Senato,” 17 December 1546, and in the “Esposizioni Principi,” vol. i., p. 9, and following.

It is also seen by a letter from the Council of Ten to the Venetian Secretary in England (Parti Secrete Cons⁰ X⁰), date 16 December 1546, that being considered the agent of Henry VIII. the Signory had then hesitated to proceed against him for the murder of Maphio Bernardo; but on the 24th January 1547 his arrest was ordered, and on the following 11th of May he was condemned to death.

The first mention of Lodovico dalle Arme in the Venetian territories, which I have as yet met with, is dated 15 May 1545. He was then raising troops at Verona, on account of Henry VIII., who apparently destined them for the League of Smalkade. I think it probable that Dalle Arme received his credentials from Henry VIII. to the republic of Venice in 1545; and that be was chiefly employed by the King to aid the cause of the Protestant Princes. To account for the mission of this Bolognese during the residence in Venice of Sigismund Harvel, the foregoing notices will be found of use, and I therefore took pains to collect them. Lodovico dalle Arme was a bravo, and a recruiting agent rather than a diplomatist.

Preface, p. cl. The last Secretary resident accredited to the republic of Venice by George III. was Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. The name has been misprinted Wolsey. There is mention of Sir Richard Worsley in Burke's History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (p. 382), but his secretaryship at Venice is not alluded to in that work, and it is therefore the more necessary to correct the misprint, which does not exist in the presentation copies of the Preface.

Preface, p. clii. The consulship of Neil Brown has been dated 1723 to 1738 and to account for the English secretaryship at Venice, attributed to Sir Robert Brown, I suggested that Neil and Robert were identical.

In the Necrological Register, in the Venetian Archives, No. 137 and 930,—Proveditors for the Health Office,—I lately found the following entry : —

“A.D. 1740, 29 June.

“Signr. Neil Brown, English Consul, 75 years old, seized this morning suddenly with an apoplectic fit and a cold sweat. Died in a short space of time at the 13th hour. Physician, Antonio Maria Zanini.

“He is not a Catholic. His parish, Sta. Fosca.”

The duration of Neil Brown's consulship was therefore from 1723 to 29 June 1740, and as Sir Robert Brown lived until the 5th of October 1760 ( see Burke, as above, p. 86), it cannot be presumed that he and Neil Brown were one and the same person. I am, however, still unable to find any corroboration of the statement, that “Sir Robert Brown, a merchant at Venice, was some time His Majesty's resident there.”

Preface, p clvii. As already noticed at p. 10 of the “Report on the Documents in the Archives “and Public Libraries of Venice,” by the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, the conjectural translation of some of the names on Bianco's Chart of the British Channel has been corrected by Mr. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, thus:—

Calendar, p. 176, No. 546, margin, for “Dec. 29” read “Nov. 29.”

“Calendar, p. 219, Nos. 642, 643, and 644, insert “Original Letter Book” in the margin.

Calendar, p. 219, Nos. 643 and 644, for “Ambassadors Contarini and Trevisano” read “Contarini and Trevisano, Venetian ambassadors to Maximilian, King of the Romans.”

Calendar, p. 273, line 1, after “774” insert “a.”

Index, p. 349, col. 2, for “See Bernardo, Bembo” read “Ser Bernardo Bembo.”

Index, p. 392, col. 1, for “Lorenado” read “Loredano.”

ERRATA, Vol. II.

No. 49, line 19, for “Cardinal of Gurk” read “Bishop of Gurk.”

No. 163, line 8, for “Latin, 22 lines” read “Italian, 22 lines.”

No. 250, line 8, for “Surrey” read “Shrewsbury” (Sara in MS.).

No. 328, line 8, for “Bishop of Gurk” read “Cardinal of Gurk.”

No. 531, line 2, for “Sebastian” read “Andrea.”

No. 762, line 4, for “Queen to Scotland” read “Queen of Scotland.”

No. 1051, note, for “No. 1356” read “No. 1355.”

No. 1287, margin, for “Sept. 10” read “Oct. 10.”