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A relation, or rather a true account, of the island of England; with sundry particulars of the customs of these people, and of the royal revenues under King Henry the Seventh, about the year 1500 / Translated from the Italian, with notes, by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd.

Date:
1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A relation, or rather a true account, of the island of England; with sundry particulars of the customs of these people, and of the royal revenues under King Henry the Seventh, about the year 1500 / Translated from the Italian, with notes, by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. wards found guilty of embezzling, whilst ambassador at Turin, part of the subsidy paid by Venice to the Duke of Savoy in order to carry on the war with Spain. On the 19th July, 1619, Donato was degraded and condemned to be hanged. No Relation by him is known. 1620-1622. Girolamo Landi. He left England 24th June, 1622. No Relation known. 1622. [Alvise?] Valaresso arrived in June, when he was formally received by William Lord Cavendish, afterwards second Earl of Devonshire. His Relation is in the Bibhothéque du Roi, and is mentioned by Von Raumer. (Pol. Hist. 1. 462, and Letters, 0. 279.) 1625. Antonio Correro and Angelo Contarini, sent as ambassa- dors extraordinary to congratulate Charles I. on his accession. Correro had been previously in England in 1608. Conta- rini was afterwards sent, in 1629, to Pope Urban VIIL., in 1634 to France, and, in 1637, as ambassador extraordinary to the Emperor Ferdinand ITI. No Relation of England by them is known to exist, nor perhaps, theirs being a special mission, did they write one. A diary by Ottobone, who accompanied them, describing their journeys to and from Venice and their stay in England, is in the collection of the Reverend Walter Sneyd. 1625-1626. Giovanni Pesaro. No Relation of England by him is known. He had been shortly before ambassador at Paris, and he was ambassador to Rome in 1655: of his Relation of Rome the British Museum possesses three copies. In 1657 he was elected Doge of Venice. 1626-1629. Alvise Contarini, who was knighted, and had a grant of arms by letters patent, 20 July 1629. Whilst he was in England, in 1628, a portrait of him was engraved by Luke Vosterman. A considerable portion of his life was passed in the diplomatic service of Venice. On leaving England in