XLIII

1. To the serenissimo Dno (pronounced Domino)
2. and his most serene aftercomers
3. things, persons et omnia alia juva
4. whatever
5. and the cash in the Pawn Shop 
6. (Mount of Pity)
7. eiusdem civitatis Senén.
8. there being in the third place
9. 2 thousand 310 there to the credit of
10. The Magnificent Magistrates and Lords Officers
11. and 3756 in the same Mount
12. described as to credit of citizens
13. and in common called money of Genova
14. and Most Serene M Dux
15. and serenest (feminine) tutrices
16. by the said Masters Deputies of the Bailey
17. as to the best mode and obligations and cautions
18. most ample dee-liberation
19. prayer, supplication as herewith and herefollowing
20. videlicet alligati
21. In the Name of Omnipotent God 
22. and the Glorious Virgin our Advocate 
23. to the Gd Duke’s honour and exaltation 
24. the Most Serene, Tuscanissimo Nostro Signore 
25. in the Lord’s year 1622 
26. Saturday fourth day of March 
27. at? VIth (hour? after sunrise or whatever)
28. called together assembled in general
29. council of the People of the City of Siena magnificent
30. Symbolic good of the Commune
31. and fatherland dilettissimo
32. having chief place and desire that the
33. citizens get satisfaction (siano soddisfatti) contentment
34. and be fully persuaded of
35. what for the common good is here being dealt with
36. as we have already been for ten years projecting this MONTE
37. for gt. future benefit to the city
38. Worthy will to the chosen end.
39. Ob pecuniae scarsitatem
40. S. P. SENENsis ac pro eo amplissim
41. Balia Collegium civices vigilantiae
42. totius civitatis
43. Urban VIIIth of Siena, Ferd. I mag duce do no
44. felicitatem dominante et Ferd. I
45. Roman Emperor as elected.
46. 1251 of the Protocols marked also
47. X, I, I, F, and four arabic
48. OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
49. because there was shortage of coin, in November
50. because of taxes, exchanges, tax layings and usuries
51. legitimate consumption impeded
52. ten thousand on the office of pasturage
    
    
53. to the end:
54. four fat oxen
55. having their arses wiped
56. and in general being tidied up to serve god under my window
57. with stoles of Imperial purple
58. with tassels, and grooms before the carroccio
59. on which carroch six lion heads
60. to receive the wax offering
61. Thus arrive the gold eagles, the banners of the contrade,
62. and boxes of candles
63. ‘Mn-YAWWH!!!’
64. Said the left front ox, suddenly,
65. ‘pnAWH!’ as they tied on his red front band,
66. St George, two hokey-pokey stands and the unicorn
67. ‘Nicchio! Nicch-iO-né!!’
68. The kallipygous Sienese females
69. get that way from the salite
70. that is from continual plugging up hill
71. One box marked ‘200 LIRE’
72. ‘laudate pueri’
73. alias serve God with candles
74. with the palio and 17 banners
75. and when six men had hoisted up the big candle
76. a bit askew in the carroch and the fore ox had
77. been finally arse-wiped
78. they set off toward the Duomo, time
79. consumed 1 hour and 17 minutes.
80. on the security
81. mobile and immobile
82. of individual citizens
83. in the city or wheresoever REE-
84. sponsibility quocunque aliunde
85. and this obligatio, obligation shd/be divided
86. by portion of immobile goods
87. thus deliberated in full meeting
88. in the name of the OMNIPOTENT, and of the glorious Virgin
89. Ma (meaning Maria) our Advocate
90. year of salvation 1622 on a Saturday
91. as was the 4th day of March
92. having already ten years ago started proposing
93. representatives of the whole people
94. and below written notaries public
95. two hundred thousand
96. (scudi)
97. Maister Augustino Chisio equites
98. anointed of the order of Stephen (pope, holy)
99. ducatorum? no.      ducentorum
100. a return of 10,000 scudi
101. in the parish of San Giovanni (Joannis) 
102. To be or not to be tied up with the Pawn Shop 
103. and his successors in the Great Duchy 
104. guarantee of the income from grazing 
105. up to (illegible) said to mean, no ... 
106. libris septem, the sum of, summam, scutorum
107. ten thousand 
108. On security mobile and immobile 
109. REE- 
110. sponsibility 
     
     
111. Out of Syracuse
112. not having money aboard
113. to Athens at creditors’ risk
114. cut the sails, dumped oil at an island
115. but the S.O. man
116. wouldnt swallow it.
117. Up to the quantity of 200,000
118. on the whole people’s credit
119. for public and private utility
120. shares to be called Loca Montis
121. which is to say sites on the Mountain
122. @ 100 scudi to give 5 scudi a year
123. as long as the MOUNT endure
124. there first was the fruit of nature
125. there was the whole will of the people
126. serene M. Dux and His tutrices
127. and lords deputies of the Bailey, in name of Omnipotent God
128. best mode etcetera, and the Glorious Virgin
129. convoked and gathered together 1622
130. general council there were 117 councillors
131. in the hall of World Map, with bells and with
132. voice of the Cryer (Il Banditore)
133. shares of Mount to yield five scudi on each hundred
134. per annum, and to be separate from the PITY
135. with its own magistrates, its own ministers
136. Illus Balia eseguisca in tutto
137. Rescript of TTheir HHighnesses
     
     
138. ACTUM SENIS in Parochia S. Giovannis
139. blank leaves at end up to the index
140. hoc die decim’ octavo, from the Incarnation
141. year 1623. Celso had a wheat scheme
142. July to December, July to November
143. Grass nowhere out of place.
144. pine cuts the sky into three
145. Thus BANK of the grassland was raised into Seignory
146. stati fatti Signoria, being present Paris Bolgarini
147. credit of the Commune of Siena
148. 12 of the Bailey present ... went into committee
149. I cancellarius wrote to His Highness
150. A New Mount that shall receive from all sorts of persons
151. from Luoghi public and private, privileged and non-privileged
152. a base, a fondo, a deep, a sure and a certain
153. the City having ‘ entrate’
154. the customs and public income

155. M

     150 to ——  scudi

     200

156. to guarantee which
157. wd/suffice 8 to 10 thousand yearly
158. on the gabelle and/or on the dogana
159. Tuesday 3 Jan to Wed. 6 Epifany 1622
160. a New Monte requested to bear @ 5% annual
     
     
161. 1622 January, assigned on the Paschi
162. Off^o de Paschi
163. March 1622 Donna Orsola of wherever removed from the book
164. of the Sienese public women (motion approved by the Bailey)
165. March 24 again appeared black money from Florence
166. Monte de Firenze, vacabile, 1591,
167. payable every two months had been 8 and ½
168. gangsters admitted.
     
     
169. 1621 to provide WORK for the populace.
170. register, rescript
171. O—
172. razio della Rena to be recognized 
173. as illegitimate father of the bastards of Pietro de Medici
174. at 100 scudi per annum
175. if you follow me, not as the
176. legitimate father of Pietro’s illegitimate offspring
     
     
177. Orbem bellis, urbem gabellis, Urbanus octavus
178. implevit.
     
     
179. June 21st Friday or thereabouts 1624
180. agreed to magistrate’s order that
181. Mrs Margurita de Pecora Gallo
182. be removed from the register of the town whores
183. of Siena, on charge of thievery
184. Friday the first day of July
185. Merchants spoke to the Bailey, action on Monte Nuovo
186. delayed
187. Jan. 1622 the Duke answered, and already spoke of the
188. grass land
189. 16 July, Monte Nuovo, committee to arrange it.
190. New Mount approved by their Highnesses
191. Xbre Monte Paschale, fatto Signoria      notice served to the
192. Magistrates for Conservations and to the Magistracy of
193. the Grazing
194. May 1626 more stew about the black money (lead money)
195. rescript:
196. that in the said place
197. be not put for the Lord Count nor his successors
198. any surety for bandits and criminals
199. but only for civil debts, that it serve not as safe cache for criminals
200. as did the Florentine Loan Office
201. anno domini 15 hundred an’ whatever
202. remain obliged to take salt from Grosseto
203. at the same price as now ruling
     
     
204. 1676 ambassadors to Firenze

205. when the Grand Duke said he did not understand economics
206. non intendeva di quella materia
207. being obliged to trust in his ministers
208. 1679 for two years no one gaoled
209. for debts under 14 lire, those in for 30 or under
210. cd. be released on order of the Buonuomini
211. who shd/fix terms for arbitration
212. Monte to lend 4736 scudi
213. to the Tolomei foundation, and to take no interest on this sum
214. spent for the college
215. 1680 to debtors 4% and one third
216. to creditors be paid 2/3rds of 1% under that, frozen assets
     
     
217. Dixbre ‘22 make responsible
218. all persons, and all goods of the laity
219. that the Mount have its fund secure
220. that whoso puts his coin in it shall hold his luoghi
221. bearing 5% fruitage per annum
222. Signed Nicolo de Antille
223. Horatio Gianfiglioli
224. Seb. Cellesi LL AA (Their Highnesses)
225. gratify this demand to set up a Monte
226. to Public Good and to private
227. to empower, facilitate, and be licit
228. were pleased to accommodate, and prestare
229. the fund on the Grand Duke’s public income
230. to the sum as of capital 200,000
231. for 5% fruitage that wd. be ten thousand the year
232. which attain to the Office of Grasslands
233. Paschi di detta Città
234. the said sum with cautele
235. that no one shd/suffer
236. Maria Maddalena, tutrice
237. Horo della Rena
238. (whose bastards)
239. 1622 thirtieth of Xembre were not his natural bastards
240. that the Illustrious Bailey shall execute this order in all points
241. (but only his bastards officially)
242. faithful rescript of their Highnesses
243. 2 Jan. 1622, Orazio Grcolini
244. Stile senese or the year beginning in March
245. Enacted Siena, in the Parish of S. Gionni, in palatio,
246. with witnesses above mentioned, apostolic, imperial, citizen
247. of Siena
     
     
248. Firenze 1749, 1000 scudi
249. for draining the low land
250. 2000 to fix Roman Road advance authorized up to 12,000
     
     
251. Public debt at the end of the Medici

252. scudi 14 million
253. or 80 million lira pre-war.