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Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 1, 1202-1509. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

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'Venetian Consuls in England', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 1, 1202-1509, ed. Rawdon Brown( London, 1864), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol1/cxxx-cxxxi [accessed 28 November 2024].

TABLE No. 3.

Venetian Consuls in England.


Consul's Name.	Date of Employment.	Documentary evidence of the Appointment.

Andrea de Molino (Vice Consul)	1410	Missive from the Senate to Antonio Bembo. Misti Senato, vol. 48, p. 142.
Hugh Rys (Venetian Consul at Sandwich) probably a British subject.	1427	Parchment broadside certificate, in the Venice Archives.
Andrea Cornaro	1440	Senate's Registers “Sea,” vol. 2, p. 107.
Marco Barbarigo	1448–49 February 15	” ” ” vol. 3. p. 99.
Bertuccio Contarini	1456–1460	” ” ” vol. 5. p. 167.
		” ” ” vol. 6, p. 42.
		” ” ” p. 163.
Bernardo Giustinian	1463–64	” ” ” vol. 7, p. 150.
Marco da Ca da Pesaro	1468	” ” ” vol. 9, p. 13.
Paulo Tiepolo	1471–72	” ” ” vol. 9, p. 125.
Perrigo de Priuli	1480	” ” ” vol. 11, p. 89.
Alvise Contarini	1481–82	” ” ” vol. 11, p. 128.
Pietro Trevisan	1487 March 8	” ” ” vol. 12, p. 107.
Piero Contarini	1490 March 11	Deliberazioni Senato, vol. 34, p. 59.
Lorenzo Pisani	1492 December 14	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 13, p. 103.
Almorò Griti	1494–95	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 82–90.
Nicolò Giustinian	1495 April 3	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 57.
Piero Contarini	1495	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 82.
Almorò Pisani	1496	Marin Sanuto's Diaries, passim.
Thomaso Oure (Consul at Hampton) probably a British subject.	1498 April 18	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 60.
Andrea Bragadin	1499	Marin Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 2, p. 612.
Piero Tlepolo	1501	Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 15, p. 160.
Andrea Bragadin	1502	” ” ” ”
Nicolò Giustinian	1503–4	Deliberazioni Senato vol. 39, p.153, 27 January 150–4.
Pietro Tiepolo	1507	Maria Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 7, p. 190.
Lorenzo Giustinian	1509	Marin Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 8. p. 16, and p. 23.
Lorenzo Pasqualigo	1510 until March	” ” ” vol. 9, p. 393.
Ferigo Morosini	1510 April 13	” ” ” vol. 10, p. 241.
Lorenro Pasqualigo	1512 March	” ” ” vol. 14, p. 187.
Hieronymo Molin	1532	” ” ” Date 6 April 1532.
—Erizzo	1533	” ” ” Date 16 June 1533.
Gio. Da Ca Da Pesaro	1568	Original letter from Queen Elizabeth in the Venice Archives, date Oatlands, 29 June 1570.

The foregoing list, imperfect as it is, has been formed with much difficulty. As the elections were annual, the missing names must be very numerous, unless we suppose the same persons were frequently re-elected. All those in my list, except Rys and Oure, had their residence in London; and often seem to be styled indifferently consuls or vice-consuls.

The only documentary evidence hitherto discovered by me to prove the re-election of any consul in. the 14th and 15th centuries relates to Piero Contarini, who held that post in London in March 1490, and the same name occurs in the same office in 1495–96.

In November 1457 the Senate confirmed the election of Bertuccio Contarini for an indefinite period, in order that he might wind up the accounts of the factory, and on the 28th March 1460 the Senate, on finding he had not completed his task, directs that his successor should be elected within the space of one month, for the usual term “per unum annum.”

In Queen Elizabeth's time, Giovanni Pesaro retained the consulate without question for many years.