HCA 13/70 f.183r Annotate

From MarineLives
Jump to: navigation, search

Expand this area to see details of page purpose, how to register, how to add footnotes, and useful links.




Purpose

This page is for the annotation of HCA 13/70 f.183r.

Annotations can be viewed by everyone on a read-only basis.

For more information on MarineLives and the MarineLives Annotation Project read our Shipping News blog entries:

Annotating Marine Lives, May 1st 2013
Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013
Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)




Registration to annotate documents

Registration is required to contribute annotations to this page and to other pages in the wiki.

You can register using the following Form, and we will issue you with a UserName and Password for the wiki.




Text formatting

The MarineLives transcription platform is built on MediaWiki, which uses wiki markup to format text. For a guide showing how to produce italics, bold, escaped text and headings, see the MediaWiki page on formatting; there are also guides for internal and external links, image embedding, tables, and more on lists.




Adding footnotes

  • Go into edit mode
  • Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
  • Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number
  • Save the page


For more information and advanced formatting, including how to add and format links within the footnote, see the Wikipedia help on footnotes. This uses the same markup formatting.

Example footnote template:

  • ''HCA 13/XX f.XXXX Case: XXXX; Deposition: XXXX; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by XXXX''<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>




Suggested links

Annotate HCA 13/64 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/65 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/68 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/69 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/70 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/71 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/72 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/73 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/74 Volume Page
Marine Lives Tools

Image

HCA 13/70 f.183r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

shipp and goods sould and disposed off by the said seizors/

Repeated before doctor Clarke./

Rob:t Cole [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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

The 7th day of december 1654:-

Pym against Platouch and others of}
Saint Mallo. ffrancklin}

4us/

Thomas Webb of London Merchant aged 23.
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes seorne and examined.

To the first article hee saith, That hee this deponent hath well knowne the
arlate William Pym by letters of Correspondencie and in person for about
7. yeares last past, during all which time the said William Pym hath bin
and is reputed and generally knowne and observed amongst Merchants to be an
Englishman. And further cannot depose./-

To the second article hee saith, That for 5. yeares immediately proceeding the yeare
1653. last past the said William Pym did live and reside in Saint Mallo in
ffrance in the quality and condition of an English ffactor and was there in that
condition for all that time employed by severall English Merchants of this Citie
and elswhere particular;y by Mr Thomas Lambe this deponents late
Master, Nathaniel Maunton, Mr Bludworth, Mr Thomas Papillon,
and other Merchants of London, and by such his employment to the best of this
deponents judgement and estimation, the said William Pym did and might very well
gett five hundred pounds per annum, for that of this deponents observation, the said
William Pym haveing the repute and name of an honest and able factor.
had during that time severall Commissions of great importance both from this
deponents said Master (by whose Commissions alone this deponent is convinced and verily beleeveth
the said William Pym did really gett one hundred pounds per annum) and from the other
Merchants predeposed, besides severall others by whom the said William Pym was
also imployed in that way as this deponent hath bin informed by persons of
Creditt:- The premisses gwwe deposeth upon the knowledge this deponent hath had
of the negotiation of the said William Pym by meanes of his Correspondencie
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
Creditt both here and in ffrance, That the said William Pym in or about the
time arlate was employed from thence at the request of severall English and
ffrench Merchants, to sollicite the then Parliament and Councill of State
for the permission of a free Commerce between England and Saint Mallo, and
that the said William Pym did accordingly undertake and act in the said imployment
And further cannot depose/:-

To the 4th article hee saith, That forasmuch as hee this deponent was not at Saint
Mallo at the time of the departure arlate of the said William Pym from thence
upon the occasion aforesaid, hee knoweth not what goods or Merchandizes the said
William Pym was then and there possessed off nor can this examinate