XLII 

1. We ought, I think, to say in civil terms: You be damned’

2. (Palmerston, to Russell  re/  Chas. H. Adams)

3. ‘And how this people CAN in this the fifth

4. et cetera year of the war, leave that old etcetera up

5. there on that monument!’ H. G. to E. P. 1918
6. Lex salica! lex Germanica, Antoninus
7. said law rules at sea
   
   
8. FIXED in the soul, nell’ anima, of the Illustrious College
9. They had been ten years proposing such a Monte,
10. That is a species of bank—damn good bank, in Siena
    
    
11. A mount, a bank, a fund a bottom an
12. institution of credit
13. a place to send cheques in and out of
14. and yet not yet a banco di giro, and the Bailey
15. sought views from the Senate ‘With paternal affection
16. justice convenience of city what college had with such
17. foresight wherefore S. A. (Your Highness) as in register
18. Nov. 1624
19. following details: as third, a Yearly balance
20. as 5th that any citizen shall have right to deposit
21. and to fruits therefrom resultant at five percent annual interest
22. and that borrowers pay a bit over that
23. for services (dei ministri) that is for running expenses
24. and book keeping which shall be counted a half scudo
25. per hundred per year
26. (All of this is important)
27. and 6thly that the Magistrate
28. give his chief care that the specie
29. be lent to whomso can best use it USE IT
30. (id est, piú utilmente)
31. to the good of their houses, to benefit of their business
32. as of weaving, the wool trade, the silk trade
33. And that (7thly) the overabundance every five years shall the Bailey
34. distribute to workers of the contrade (the wards) holding in
35. reserve a prudent proportion as against unforeseen losses
36. though there shd. be NO such losses
37. and 9th that the borrowers can pay up before the end of their
38. term whenso it be to their interest. No debt to run more than
39. five years.
40. July 1623
41. Loco Signi 

42. †                 [a cross in the margin]

43. That profit on deposits should be used to cover all losses
44. and the distributions on the fifth year be made from remaining
45. profits, after restoration of losses no (benché) matter how small
46. with sane small reserve against future idem
47. I, Livio Pasquini, notary, citizen of Siena, most faithfully copied
48. July 18th. 1623
49. Consules, Iudices, and notary public pro serenissimo
50. attest Livio’s superscript next date being November.
51.                wave falls and the hand falls
52. Thou shalt not always walk in the sun
53.        or see weed sprout over cornice
54. Thy work in set space of years, not over an hundred.
    
    
55. That the Mount of Pity (or Hock Shop)
56. municipal of Siena has lent only on pledges
57. that is on stuff actually hocked ... wd be we believe useful
58. and beneficent that there be place to lend licitly
59. MONEY to receive licitly money
60. at moderate and legitimate interest
61. was sent months ago to YYour HHighness AA VV a memorial
62. to erect a New Mountain
63. could accept specie from Universities (id est congregations)
64. and individuals and from Luoghi
65. i.e. companies and persons both public and private
66. WHOMSOEVER
67. not requiring that they have special privilege
68. because of their state or conditions but to folk of
69. ANY CONDITION
70. that the same Mount cd/lend on good Mallevadoria
71. (that is security) at the same rate plus a little over
72. to cover current expenses of supervisors and employees
73. & being sent to YY. HHighnesses (AA. VV. = YY HH)
74. that you might understand it
75. that it be brought to consideration with certain details
76. discussed first orally and then put into writing
77. (in what wd. seem to have been 1622)
78. Stating that Siena had no income and Their Highnesses
79. had provided credit from customs
80. and from miscellaneous taxes
81. and that the Grand Duke hadn’t lost anything by it
82. Plus a list of Sienese assets (coolish)
83. Plus a lien on ‘The Abundance’
84. And knowing that all this is but a little
85. Pledge the persons and goods of the laity
86. And leave open door to other towns in the state
87. who care to give similar pledges
88. And that whoso puts in money shall have lots in the Monte
89. that yield 5% interest
90. and that these shareholders shall receive their due fruit
91. And that the Gd Duke make known at Siena
92. to the same deputies of the Bailey ...
93. but that it be separate from the Pawn Shop
94. and have its own magistrates and employees
95. and that YYour HHighnesses send approbation
96. commanding their will, we humbly with reverence
97. ... the 29th day of Xember 1622 ...
98. servants of YYour HHighnesses
99. Nicolo de Antille
100. Horatio Gionfiglioli
101. Sebastiano Cellesi
102. TTheir HHighnesses gratified
103. the city of this demand to
104. erect a New Monte
105. for good public and private and to facilitate ...
106. ..agreed to accommodate
107. ......and to lend the fund against the Gd Duke's
108. public entries to the sum of
109. 200,000 scudi
110. capital for fruit at 5% annual
111. which is 10,000 a year
112. assigned on the office of grazing
113. on caution of said security offered
114. leaving ground for other towns that
115. wish to participate
116. with TTheir HHighnesses 
117. approbations as follows:
118. Maria Maddalena Tutrice
119. Hor^o della Rena 30 Xembre 1622
120. Needs a stamp
121. refer to
122. the Governor
123. Fabbizio bollo
124. vedo
125. Governatore                                     the illustrious Bailey
126. executed in toto & as per true rescript of
127. TTheir HHighnesses
128. 2 Jan 1622
129. Cenzio Grcolini
130. which date goes in the Sienese calendar
131. whereof December was the x th month and
132. March was the New Year
133. ACTUM SENIS, the
134. Parish of San Joannij in the Gd Ducal Palace
135. present the Marquis Joanne Christophoro the
136. illustrious Marquis Antony Mary of Malaspina
137. and the most renowned Johnny something or other de Binis
138. Florentine Senator, witness and I notary undersigned
139. Ego Livius Pasquinus of Marius
140. (deceased) filius Apostolic Imperial and Pontifical notary
141. public Judge Ordinary, Citizen of Siena
142. WHEREFORE
143. let all sundry and whoever be
144. satisfied that the said MOUNT may be created.

145. so that the echo turned back in my mind: Pavia:

146. Saw cities move in one figure, Vicenza, as depicted
147. San Zeno by Adige ...
148. I Nicolaus Ulivis
149. de Cagnascis citizen of Pistoja Florentine notary public
150. countersigning
151. Senatus Populusque Senensis
152. ob pecuniae scarcitatem
153. borrowing, rigging exchanges,
154. licit consumption impeded
155. and it is getting steadily WORSE
156. others with specie abundant do not use it in business
157. (to be young is to suffer.
158. Be old, and be past that) 
159. do not use it in business and everyone remains here
160. without work
161. few come to buy in the market
162. fewer still work the fields
163. Monte non vacabilis publico
164. shares not to expire with death ... will TTheir HHighnesses
165. against public entries
166. get that straight—capital two hundred thousand
167. which wd. correspond to 10,000 income
168. on the entries of the office of grazing
169. with precautions (cauteles)
170. to guarantee their same Highnesses against any possible loss
171. Which idea dates at least to July 1623
172. die decima ottava
173. and other copies 1624, 1622
174. which seems to have been approved ‘last October’
175. by Della Rena and M. Magdalene the She Guardian,
176. tutrice, more or less regent
177. Don Ferdinandus Secundus           Dux Magnus
178. and his Serenest she tutrices
179. with public documentation
180. for public and private utility
181. foreseeing erection
182. legitimate and just, such a MOUNTAIN

     

183. Chigi, Soffici, Marcellus de? Illuri,
184. no, Marcellus Austini, Caloanes Marescotti and
185. Lord Mt Alban effected
186. that the officers of this Mountain
187. and in time to come all their successors
188. shares that shall be called Loca Montis—
189. Have you a place on the Hill, sir?
190. out of sure knowledge and
191. ex certe scientia et in plenitude of their powers
192. inviolable for observance, so to be comprehended
193. 10 thousand scudi
194. de libris septeno
195. ? one scudo worth 7 lire
196. in respect to 200,000 (two hundred thousand).