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Information on the payment of couriers and on their expenses is comparatively difficult to find. However, the small amount available can, hopefully, be brought to some sort of order. An even greater problem is to give to the results some real meaning. With a bit of finagling modern equivalents can be given, but price fluctuations were far greater in the sixteenth century than today.
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Allen, E.J.B. (1972). Courier Finances. In: Post and Courier Service in the Diplomacy of Early Modern Europe. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2847-9_3
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