Venice: July 1547

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

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July 1547

July 9. Senato Terra, v. xxxv. p. 44, tergo. 523. Motion made in the Senate concerning a pension received by Francesco Bernardo, knight, from Edward VI. (fn. 1)
That the nobleman, Francesco Bernardo, knight, son of the late Ser Benetto, who, contrary to the Republic's statutes (affording thus a bad and perilous example), receives certain pensions from the Kings of France and England, do immediately renounce them to the State Attornies' office within the next four months, under the heaviest penalties ordained by the Republic's statutes in this matter. Should he employ any fraud or compromise herein, he is proscribed for life from Venice and the district, from [Venetian] ships armed and unarmed, and from all the Signory's places, continental and maritime, and shall pay 10,000 ducats to the Republic's arsenal. Should he at any time disobey the sentence and be captured, his captors to receive 1,000 ducats from his effects, he remaining for one year in one of the Signory's dungeons, and then to return to the boundaries assigned him. The person who shall reveal the aforesaid things, shall have his name kept secret, and gain 2,000 ducats.
— 76 77 Undecided.
— 81 88
— 32 26
The kinsfolk of Ser Francesco Bernardo were made to withdraw and the State Attornies did not ballot.
[Italian.]

Footnotes

  • 1. This pension is alluded to in the late Mr. Turnbull's Calendar, date 7th and 23rd March 1556, pp. 215, 219.