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Transcription

And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
the 12th of May. 1658:/

Gregory Wescomb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

**********************************

The same day

Examined on the sayd allegation/

dt. 2

William Westcombe of London Merchant aged thirty ye[ares GUTTER]
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate
shipp the Guift of Topsham with her ladeing was by reason of certayne
moneys which as hee hath heard was found aboard her, seized in or about
the moneth of November one thousand sixe hundred fiftie three in Purtug[alot GUTTER]
the Entrance into the harbour of Bilboa, at which tyme of her seizure shee
was freighted and laden with forty tonnes of Iron and was ready to proceed
upon her homeward voyage and had receaved eher dispatches and was well
and sufficiently provided with victualls and all other necessaries fitting for
her homeward voyage and had her full company of mariners fitt for
her sayd voyage this hee the better knoweth for that hee this deponent
lived in house with his precontest Gregory Westcombe one of the factors
or Agents of the producents Pitt and Company who laded part of
the sayd fforty tonns of Iron and was very familiarly acquainted
with Samuell Sainthill the other factor who laded the rest of the sayd
Iron and privie to their transactions thereabout and to their provideing
the sayd shipp with mariners victualls and all other necessaries And
further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 2 hee saith that for that hee was privie to the transactions made
by his precontest Gregory Westcombe one of the Agents or Correspondents
of the arlate Thomas Pitt hee knoweth that the sayd Thomas Pitt
was lawfull Owner and Proprietor of two hundred and eleven Kintalls
part of the Iron laden aboard the sayd shipp the voyage in question
and hath receaved letters of advice from the sayd Pitt that the arlate James
Marshall was Owner of three hundred Kintalls other part of the sayd Iron
soe laden aboard the sayd shipp the sayd voyage And further to this article
hee cannot depose./

To the 3 and 4th articles hee saith that hee was not present at the tyme of
the seizure of the sayd shipp the Guift of Topsham and her ladeing but sawe
the same presently after while it continued under seizure and in the
Custody of the King of Spaines officers and knoweth it continued in their custody
two or three moneths after the seizure In which tyme hee beleeveth much of
the sayd shipps victualls and provisions were either taken out of her or [spent GUTTER]
by the King of Spaines Officers and much of her tackleing by them wasted
and imbezelled to the great losse and preiudice of the Owners of the sayd
Shipp And that there was a suite commenced in Portugal[?e]t for the sayd Iron
seized in the sayd shipp by the Agents of the arlate Pitt and Marshall in
which suite (for that hee was privie to the transactions thereof) hee
knoweth the sayd Iron was recovered and fifteene pounds sterling spent
in the recovery of it And further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 5th hee saith that for that hee was privie to the transactions [there GUTTER]
being brother and liveing in house with his precontest Gregory Westcombe one of
the Agents of the sayd Pitt and Company hee knoweth that there were three suites
Commenced and prosecuted by the Agents of the sayd Pitt and Company [?for GUTTER]
the

Sources

Primary sources

TNA

Chancery

C 5/399/333 Short title: Westcombe v Colborne. Plaintiffs: Richard Westcombe. Defendants: Nicholas Colborne and Ralph Colborne. Subject: property in Wellington, Somerset. Document type: answer. 1659

C 6/58/67 Short title: Lynne v Drake. Plaintiffs: Jacob Lynne. Defendants: William Drake, Richard Westcombe, Gerard Vanderhoeve and John Baptista Vanderhoeve. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, three answers, replication. 1673
C 6/79/73 Short title: Warren v Harwood. Plaintiffs: Nicholas Warren, Richard Westcombe and Edward Boverie . Defendants: John Harwood . Subject: money matters. Document type: answer only. 1676
C 6/200/18 Short title: Cunliffe v Westcomb. Plaintiffs: Nicholas Cunliffe. Defendants: Gregory Westcomb and Anne Westcomb. Subject: will of the deceased Ellis Cunliffe, of Chiselhurst, Kent. Document type: bill, answer. 1672

C 10/471/47 Fly v. Page & Westcombe: Middx. 1668
C 10/471/116 Prince v Page and Westcombe: Middlesex. 1668

HCA

HCA 13/128 No fol.: Case: Allegation on behalfe of Nicholas Warren, Gregory Westcomb, John Jermin and Richard Westcomb: Personal answeres: Nicholas Pengelly and Alexander Ash: Date: November 22nd 1658

PROB

PROB 11/222/771 Will of Clement Westcombe, Doctor of Physic of Exeter, Devon. 31 August 1652
PROB 11/250/565 Will of Edward Wescombe, Merchant of London. 31 October 1655
PROB 11/406/235 Will of Sir Martin Wescombe of Spain. 03 October 1691

State Papers

SP 84/163 Folio 162. Nicholas Warren, Gregory Wescomb, John Jerwin and Company of London Merchants to Charles II. Relates how a merchant ship, the Anne and Margaret was plundered by the Dutch. Petition that their claim for reparations may be referred to the High Court of Admiralty.
1660/1661 n.d.
SP 89/6/164 Folio 298: Consul Maynard to Consul Westcombe at Cadiz. Illness and the death of his wife have prevented him from writing lately. Description of the `prodigous comet'. Date and place: 1664 Dec 22 Lisbon.