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Report by Francesco Contarini, Venetian Ambassador-Extraordinary to England.

Catalogue reference: PRO 30/25/125

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This record is about the Report by Francesco Contarini, Venetian Ambassador-Extraordinary to England. dating from 1610 Sept. 6 in the series Venetian Manuscripts. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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PRO 30/25/125
Date
1610 Sept. 6
Description

Report by Francesco Contarini, Venetian Ambassador-Extraordinary to England.

Note
22pp On the front page is the following note in Contarini's own handwriting:- "The present Report was bought by me in Rome this year 1621, and contains substantially divers particulars, which are in the true Report delivered in the Senate. I do not know how they could have come out." Mr Rawdon Brown also appends the following (in Italian) concerning the above:- "This note is curious, being by Ser Francesco Contarini (manu propria), who was nominated by the Senate, on the 3rd April, A.D. 1621, Ambassador-Extraordinary to the Court of Rome, together with the noble Hironimo Zustinian, Antonio Grimani, and Hironimo Soranzo, to congratulate Pope Gregory XV on his accession: and, being thus Ambassador at Rome, Ser Francesco found this MS copy of a report on England made by him eleven years previously. This he bought, making the note annexed; and two hundred and sixteen years after, i.e. on the 2nd Feb. A.D. 1837, this very same MS was bought in Venice by me, an Englishman, for 55 centesimi."
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Report by Francesco Contarini, Venetian Ambassador-Extraordinary to England.

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