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With the shipp teh ''Adventure'' of London … With the shipp teh ''Adventure'' of London whereof hee was master, at and during<br />
which time the aid William Pym was there residing in the wualitie and<br />
condition of an English factor, which hee knoweth for that this deponent<br />
there sawe him soe imployed, and there the said Pym did businesses<br />
for this deponent in that qualitie, and this deponent sawe and tooke notice<br />
that hee had greate and considerable Commissions of factorage from<br />
English merchants and was in very greate imployment as a factor, and<br />
saith hee lived and maintained himselfe wife and familie in soe<br />
good sort and fashion, that this deponent conceiveth hee could not there<br />
spend lesse than three hundred pounds a yeare, and this deponent<br />
beleiveth hee proffited and gained by his said factorage and imployment<br />
at Saint Malo's five hundred pounds sterling per annum one yeare<br />
with another. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth<br />
of december 1652 the said William Pym being then at Saint Malo's<br />
in ffrance, was there and thence imployed and dep[?uted] by the English<br />
factors and others there living, and in the behalfe of English merchants<br />
living in the west of England to come for England and to sollicite<br />
and petition the then Parliament and Counsell of State for a free<br />
trade and commerce to be had betweene this Nation and Saint Malo's,<br />
which hee knoweth for that this deponent was then at Saint Malo's and<br />
acquainted with such deputation and imployment of the said mr Pymm,<br />
and saith the said william Pym undertooke the said imployment and<br />
came for England, and in or about January next following this<br />
deponent sawe him here in that imployment and had many times<br />
speech with him thereabouts, and thereby this deponent knoweth<br />
and sawe that the said william Pym did wholly betake himselfe yo<br />
the prosecuting of the businesse by frequent applications and<br />
addresses to the then Counsell of State, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that the said William<br />
Pym at such time as hee was upon his departure from Saint Malo's<br />
upon his said negotiation (at which time this deponent was there) had<br />
in his warehouse there and was possessed of severall goods ware and merchandizes<br />
which this deponent sawe therein, as woollen draperies, Indian hides,<br />
linnen cloth and other merchandizes, and commodities, amounting in this<br />
deponents iudgement and estimation to two thousand pounds sterling, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, saving his brother James Pym and one Thomas<br />
Eles were the factors of the said William Pym and soe hee left in<br />
the possession and imployment of his said goods and factorings, as this<br />
deponent sawe upon his comming thither afterwards.
To the fifth article hee saith that in or about the monethes of September<br />
and October 1653, some ffrench merchants shipps of the said towne<br />
of Saint Malo's were taken by the men of warr of this Commonwealth,<br />
upon the arivall of the newes whereof at Saint Malo's, many ffrench<br />
menSaint Malo's, many ffrench<br />
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