Letter from Elie Auvray, Great Yarmouth, to Bartolomeo Carsini, London, 3 November 1596 [manuscript].

England, 3 November 1596.

1 item ; 21 x 32 cm

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Great Britain -- England.

FAST ACC 271961 (flat)

From dealer's description: "Verso penned with manuscript address panel, small red wax residue from sealing with related small hole from opening (not affecting text). These two letters record mercantile correspondence between Elizabethan East Anglia and the London business of the prominent Florentine brothers Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613) and Filippo Corsini (1538-1601). By the 1590s many Calvinist weavers and cloth traders from the Low Countries had emigrated to Norwich, Colchester and other locations in East Anglia, fleeing Roman Catholic persecution. The first letter here, penned by Davyd Lamoott in Colchester 12 March 1594 concerns cloth sales involving baize and serge cloth, also discussing transactions involving lead and an increase in wool prices due to prolonged cold and rain. The second letter, dated 3 November 1596, was written in Great Yarmouth by Elie Auvray. Writing to Bartolomeo Corsini, he mentions a letter of credit to Estienne Chauvyn which has been paid through John Ladd, his factor in Great Yarmouth, also discussing payments to Nathaniel Bishop, a merchant draper in Cheapside. Amongst the approximately 3,600 letters of the Corsini archive only 374 are recorded as having originated in the British Isles (see: P. Beale, A. Almond, M. Scott Archer, The Corsini Letters, 2011, p.98). Provenance: Corsini archive (dispersed Christies Robson Lowe, 1984-1988)."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 12.