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1662
- Jun
Don Duarte Da Silva
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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First Reading
Pedro • Link
Da Silva is first mentioned in the annotations
Pauline • Link
L&M Companion only says:
Portuguese merchant; 'a Jew of great wealth and full credit in Amsterdam' (Clarendon).
Pedro • Link
More on D. Silva.
He was also an intermediary for Catherine
Pedro • Link
From Antonia Fraser's "King Charles II"
He appears as Eduarte Da Silva, a "New Christian" (that is a jew converted to meet the requirements of the Inquisition.)
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Duarte de Silva is mentioned in the Earl of Sandwich's letter to Lord Chancellor Clarendon (dated May 15th, 1662) as "the man that is to make all good." Clarendon called him "Diego Silvas, a Jew of great wealth and full credit at Amsterdam" (see Lister's "Life of Clarendon," iii. 193).
---Wheatley, 1899.