Crookshanke George (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ["Londra, 2d. Maggio 1700."] Autograph letter signed, in Italian. 4to (14.5 x 19.5cm) [2] pages on bifolium, verso of second leaf with manuscript address panel, small tear to second leaf from seal opening, old folds, very good. Penned from London on 2 May 1700, the English merchant George Crookeshanke writes in Italian, to Rafaello del Vernaccia in the Tuscan port city of Livorno. The content concerns a legal dispute over loans involving several other English merchants, including Sir Alexander Rigby (c.1663-1717), the Levant merchant Sir Richard Blackham and the merchant banker Sir John Ward (c.1650-1726). Rigby had become embroiled in financial difficulties on account of the imprisonment of his business partner Plowman by the Grand Duke of Tuscany on charges of piracy.…