Letter from Jean Channyn, Dieppe, to Bartolomeo Corsini, London, 23 March 1582 [manuscript].

France, 23 March 1582.

1 item ; 21 x 31 cm

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France.

FAST ACC 271959 (flat)

From dealer's description: "Verso penned with manuscript address panel, residue of red wax seal, old folds, edges uncut. Addressed to the prominent London-based Florentine merchants Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613) and Filippo Corsini (1538-1601), these two mercantile letters were both sent to Elizabethan England from France. The first, dated 27 May 1579, penned in Paris by Barthelemy Martin, concerns his dealings on Filippo Corsini's behalf with Dominique Boucher and other merchants in Lyon. Martin is recorded in 1588 as a courier of letters for English spies and diplomats during the unravelling of the Babington Plot. Dated 23 March 1582, the second letter here was penned in Dieppe by a merchant named Jean Channyn. He begins by mentioning the Lyon bankers Rinuccini, Jacquinotti and Del Barbigia in relation to a loan, following with discussion of how to proceed with business as a result of new duties on merchandise passing through the port of Dieppe and negotiations with local French authorities, noting the possibility that Corsini could reroute his goods through Germany. Provenance: Corsini archive (dispersed Christies Robson Lowe, 1984-1988)."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 13.