BIB_ID
206668
Accession number
MA 2594.2
Creator
Coke, Thomas, active 1609-1610.
Display Date
1610 July 22.
Credit line
Purchased, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 29.5 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Address panel "To the Right Honorable / my Lord my m't the / Earle of Shrewsbury one / of the Lords of his Mat's / most ho/ble Privy Con-cell at Broadstreet in / London."
Address panel "To the Right Honorable / my Lord my m't the / Earle of Shrewsbury one / of the Lords of his Mat's / most ho/ble Privy Con-cell at Broadstreet in / London."
Summary
Describing the political and economic situation in Florence, in particular noting the effects of the Inquisition in Florence which caused him to flee to Venice; saying "The 1. of this moneth I understoode at Florence that the father Inquisitor enquired much after the religion of the English[;] he had then examined 3 of our English gentlemen theare, and although the inquisition weare generall and concerned all the english in the Towne, yet it made me principally to seeke som place with speede wheare such questions weare not made..."
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