Letter from James Bagg, Plymouth, to Filippo Corsini, London, 1596 [manuscript].

England, 4 January 1596.

1 item ; 22 x 31 cm

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Great Britain -- England.

FAST ACC 271966 (flat)

From dealer's description: "The prominent Plymouth merchant James Bagg (c.1554-1624) writes 4 January 1596 to his business partner Filippo Corsini (1538-1601), a wealthy Florentine merchant resident in London. Against the backdrop of widespread crop failure Bagg begins by reporting on details concerning a dispute over the quality of a cargo of grain. Bagg mentions Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1568-1647), "and the reste of the comyssioners, that they should not meadle any farther in the salle of the wheate". He continues by explaining emphatically that a cargo of 262 quarts London measure of grain is not at all "well conditioned" as Corsini has been led to believe: "once againe I doe asure you that corne is very bad, pinched, white, and crusted, and will not serve but for the poorer sorte of people, and touchinge the measure, it is not other than the lawfull sealed and accustomed measure of towne of 17 gallons ..." Other shipments of corn are mentioned, together with the arrival of a ship "of Mr John Baptista Justiano ... bound for Legorne with herringe." A second letter penned on the same sheet informs Corsini that "about 12 of the clocke of the same daye, the shippe of Mr Sopame [?] was caste awaye and loste uppon the rockes within the harbour, by reason of the extremytie of the great storme that was at that tyme ..." Bagg adds "I have good hope to save your tynne because shee came uppon the rockes uppon a full sea ..." Provenance: this is one of a relatively small number of letters penned in English from the Corsini archive (dispersed Christies Robson Lowe, 1984-1988)."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 9.