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shipp and goods sould and disposed off by … shipp and goods sould and disposed off by the said seizors/
Repeated before doctor Clarke./
Rob:t Cole [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 7th day of december <u>1654:-</u>
Pym against Platouch and others of}<br />
Saint Mallo. ffrancklin}
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'''Thomas Webb''' of London Merchant aged 23.<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes seorne and examined.
To the first article hee saith, That hee this deponent hath well knowne the<br />
arlate William Pym by letters of Correspondencie and in person for about<br />
7. yeares last past, during all which time the said William Pym hath bin<br />
and is reputed and generally knowne and observed amongst Merchants to be an<br />
Englishman. And further cannot depose./-
To the second article hee saith, That for 5. yeares immediately proceeding the yeare<br />
<u>1653.</u> last past the said William Pym did live and reside in Saint Mallo in<br />
ffrance in the quality and condition of an English ffactor and was there in that<br />
condition for all that time employed by severall English Merchants of this Citie<br />
and elswhere particular;y by Mr Thomas Lambe this deponents late<br />
Master, Nathaniel Maunton, Mr Bludworth, Mr Thomas Papillon,<br />
and other Merchants of London, and by such his employment to the best of this<br />
deponents judgement and estimation, the said William Pym did and might very well<br />
gett five hundred pounds per annum, for that of this deponents observation, the said<br />
William Pym haveing the repute and name of an honest and able factor.<br />
had during that time severall Commissions of great importance both from this<br />
deponents said Master (by whose Commissions alone this deponent is convinced and verily beleeveth<br />
the said William Pym did really gett one hundred pounds per annum) and from the other<br />
Merchants predeposed, besides severall others by whom the said William Pym was<br />
also imployed in that way as this deponent hath bin informed by persons of<br />
Creditt:- The premisses gwwe deposeth upon the knowledge this deponent hath had<br />
of the negotiation of the said William Pym by meanes of his Correspondencie<br />
with this deponents said master for all the time aforesaid. And further cannot depose.
To the 3. hee saith, That this deponent hath been informed by severall persons of<br />
Creditt both here and in ffrance, That the said William Pym in or about the<br />
time arlate was employed from thence at the request of severall English and<br />
ffrench Merchants, to sollicite the then Parliament and Councill of State<br />
for the permission of a free Commerce between England and Saint Mallo, and<br />
that the said William Pym did accordingly undertake and act in the said imployment<br />
And further cannot depose/:-
To the 4th article hee saith, That forasmuch as hee this deponent was not at Saint<br />
Mallo at the time of the departure arlate of the said William Pym from thence<br />
upon the occasion aforesaid, hee knoweth not what goods or Merchandizes the said<br />
William Pym was then and there possessed off nor can this examinatethere possessed off nor can this examinate +
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