Venice: 1421-1430 | British History Online

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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'Venice: 1421-1430', 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/pp61-63 [accessed 25 November 2024].

1421–1430



1421. Jan. 11. “Misti Senato.” v. liii. p. 97.	228. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London Voyage.
	General regulations ; but, as the London galleys constantly leave goods on shore from want of room, facilities are to be afforded for the shipment by the London merchants of merchandise at Sandwich, on board the galleys homeward bound from Sluys.
	[Latin, 184 lines.]
Jan. 11. “Misti Senato” v. liii. p. 99.	229. Appointment of “Ser” Pietro Balbi by the Senate to be vicecaptain of the London galleys.
Jan. 11. “Misti Senato” v. liii. p. 99.	[Latin, 2 lines.]
1421. Dec. 30. “Misti Senato” v. liii. p. 199.	230. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London Voyage.
	Regulations as formerly. Pay for one month and half to be given to the oarsmen and sailors in London, at the rate of thirty-eight pence per ducat ; and should they require loans beyond that amount, repayment to be made at the rate of thirty pence per ducat. The masters not to be compelled to ship wool at Sandwich ; nor may the shipment be effected by windlass, as it causes great inconvenience and delay.
	[Latin, 230 lines.]
1423. Jan. ? “Misti Senato”	231. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London voyage. (fn. 1)
1424. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	232. Decree of the Senate for fitting out five galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
1425. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	233. Decree of the Senate for fitting out five galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
Dec. ? “Misti Senato.”	234. Decree of the Senate concerning cloths, serges, and other goods brought from Bruges and London by land, for shipment on board traffic-galleys.
1426. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	235. Decree of the Senate for fitting out five galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	236. Letters from the Senate to the Captain of the Flanders galleys, and to the Vicecaptain of the London galleys, concerning the plague in England.
1427. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	237. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
Nov. 4. Miscellaneous Documents in the Archives Library.	238. Marco Tarado.
	Notarial attestation by Robert Lockyng, clerk of the diocese of Lincoln, public notary, that on 4th Nov. 1427, at the notary's dwelling in the parish of St. Peter's, Sandwich, Hugh Rys, burgess of Sandwich, consul of the Venetians, Genoese, and Catalonians, and William Rawlyns, clothier of the same town, made affidavit that in January 1420, there arrived in the port of Sandwich Marin de Michiel, with his ship called the “Santa Maria and Sancta Veneranda of Venice.” He loaded it with wool and tin, and also with a quantity of grain, for one Marco Tarado, then a mariner on board the ship. Part of this grain was sold to William Gayler, then mayor of Sandwich, and Richard Talker, a London merchant, by Tarado, who after receiving the price from Gayler and Talker, and delivering the grain, escaped to foreign parts; nor did Marin alienate any part of the grain, or receive any money for it. Witnessed by Nicolo Joardo and Andrea de Alegro, notary of the merchants of Genoa; its truth being certified by Gayler. (fn. 2)
	[Latin, 26 lines, pardhment.]
1428. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	239. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
1429. Jan. ? “Misti Senato.”	240. Decree of the Senate for fitting out four galleys for the Flanders and London voyage.
May? “Misti Senato.”	241. Decree of the Senate granting permission to the captain of the Flanders galleys, Stefano Contarini, when on the homeward voyage, to go from Sandwich to Canterbury, the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket.
1430. “Misti Senato.”	242. Various Decrees of the Senate postponing the voyage of the Flanders and London galleys.
Oct. 28. “Secreta Senato Deliberazioni.” v. xi. p. 143.	243. The Senate to “Ser” Frederico Contarini, Captain of the Flanders galleys.
	There are reports that a Genoese armada is fitting out; not known for what purpose. He is to keep a good look out on the homeward voyage, both for the Genoese and for certain Catalonian and Biscayan galleys, which are at sea, since the agreement between the Kings of Castile and Catalonia (Arragon), who wish to live at their neighbours' cost. Order him on quitting Flanders and London to keep good guard at all places where he may touch over the galleys and merchandise, and over the crews when they go on shore. This however he is to keep secret.
	[Latin, 10 lines.]