Note 192 — BOOK THE SEVENTH.

By letters patent, issued at Lyons on the 30th of April, 1494, Charles VIII. authorises Master Pierre de Lignac to receive and distribute at Milan a sum of 20,000 ducats “for the payment of the troops we are raising in that neighbourhood to serve in our army for the conquest of our kingdom of Naples.” This money was borrowed from the bank of Paul Sauli at Genoa, as is proved by a receipt in the writing of Pierre de Lignac, which still exists, and is printed in Dupont, ii. 292.