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December 6. <u>1654:-</u>
Pym … December 6. <u>1654:-</u>
Pym against Platouch and others}<br />
of Saint Malo. ffrancklin}
Examined upon the said Allegation:-
'''3us./'''
'''Richard Webbe''' of the parish of Lawrence Jury London<br />
Merchant aged 26. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee this<br />
deponent hath knowne the arlate William Pym for about 4. yeares<br />
last past, And saith the said Pym was and is an Englishman borne, and<br />
commonly reputed and taken for a Native of Devonshire in England And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the second article hee saith and deposeth, That this deponent hath heard and<br />
understood from very Credible persons That the said William Pym the<br />
producent hath formerly lived for sewerall yeares togeather at Saint Mallo in<br />
ffrance in the quality of a factor and Agent for sewerall English Merchants,<br />
and that this deponent in the yeare <u>1652</u> last past sent Commission in the<br />
said William Pym to act for him in that quality and condition of an English<br />
factor hee further saith, That of this deponents knowledge the said William<br />
Pym in the said yeare <u>1652.</u> was employed in that notion and condition by<br />
Mr Richard fford, Nathaniel Maunton Thomas<br />
Lambe, Thomas Papillon, Captaine Burton, Thomas Bludworth and severall<br />
other Merchants of London, and had and did, as this deponent hath credibly<br />
heard, received severall Commissions of great consequence from them both in that<br />
yeare and severall yeares before, whereby and by employment from severall other merchants in [?XXX] to the best of this deponents Judgement<br />
and estimation the said William Pym did yearely during such his<br />
imployment get and gaine five hundred pounds sterling and upwards/:
To the third article, this deponent saith, That in or about the<br />
moneths of ffebruary or March <u>1652</u> old style this deponent saw and conversed<br />
with the said William Pym, being then (as hee affirmed to this deponent and<br />
as this deponent hath since credibly heard by severall persons that sent him) imployed<br />
and sent from Saint Mallo at the request and by the appointment of severall<br />
English Merchants, and also of severall ffrench Merchants residing at Saint<br />
Malo to sollicite the then Parliament and Councell of State for the<br />
permission of a free trade and Commerce between England and Saint Mallo<br />
and in order thereunto the said William Pym did in this deponents sight and<br />
observation act and negotiate by petition solicitation, and otherwise to and<br />
with the said Councell And further cannot depose./:-
To the 4th and 5th articles hee saith, That this deponent hath been credibly informed by<br />
ample letter of Advise concerning the losse of the said William<br />
Pym, dated the 4th of Aprill <u>1654:</u> and written<br />
by Thomas E[?iles] factor and agent at Saint Malo to and for this deponent and his friend<br />
That by authority and Order from the Burgesses and others of Saint<br />
Malo, the said William Pym, had sewerall goods wares and Merchandizes<br />
(videlicetes and Merchandizes<br />
(videlicet +
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