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videlicet draperies Woollen and linnen. re … videlicet draperies Woollen and linnen. readie moneys and debts<br />
amounting in all to the valew of Two thousand five hundred<br />
pounds sterling or thereabouts, which then and there were actually<br />
seized upon and taken away by the order aforesaid, and the said<br />
William Pym absolutely deprived thereof, by reason, (as this deponent by<br />
the said letter and by other letters of advise, and by relation of credible<br />
persons hath understood) That it had beene publiquely sworne and affirmed<br />
in the Court of Saint Malo, That the said William Pym was personally<br />
in the English friggat which had seized the ''Saint John de Grace'' and<br />
the ''three kings'' being laden from Saint Malo; And further to these<br />
articles hee cannot depose, for that hee this deponent was not at the<br />
said seizure present at Saint Malo:-/
To the sixth article hee saith hee cannot depose otherwise or further<br />
then hee hath predeposed to the 4th and 5th articles:-/
To the seaventh hee saith, That hee this deponent hath by [?severall] letters of<br />
advise from the said Thomas [?Elese] and information of and by Merchants of creditt hath understood<br />
That the Magistrates of the said Towne of Saint Mallo condescending to<br />
the rage of the Commonalitie of the said Towne arising and occasioned by<br />
the seizure of the said shipps the ''Saint John de Grace'' and the ''3. kings''<br />
cominf from Saint Malo by a man of warr of this Commonwealth, had<br />
caused all English shipps and goods there belonging to Englishmen in<br />
or about the moneth of Aprill last past to bee seized upon for and<br />
towards satisfaction, as was then and there pretended, of their losse<br />
sustained by the English, And further as to the said William Pymms<br />
particular losse sustained by the meabes aforesaid, This deponent doeth<br />
referr himselfe to his precedent deposition, wherein hee hath comprised and<br />
expressed so farr as hee knoweth the totall reall losse sustained by the<br />
actuall seizure of the goods and Merchandizes to the said William Pym belonging<br />
And further cannot depose./
To the 8th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition And further<br />
cannot depose./
To the 9th here saith, That forasmuch as this deponent was not at the time<br />
arlate at Saint Malo hee knoweth nothing of the barbarous usage<br />
or murther arlate, save onely by letters of advise from the said Thomas<br />
[?Eles] his Correspondent there, and by the credible relation of Merchants<br />
and Masters of shipps who have since come from Saint Malo, whereby this<br />
deponent hath understood, That the English then and there were very<br />
barbarously used by the enraged multitude there, and particulalry the<br />
family of the said William Pym, And otherwise saving his foregoeing<br />
(depositioning his foregoeing<br />
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