John Pym was a Parlement surface English, born in 1584 with Brymore (Somerset) and dead the December 8th 1643 with Derby House. It was buried with the Abbaye of Westminster, but its remainders were unearthed and hidden in a common grave following the English Restauration of 1660.

Pym was a Puritain ( Puritan ) savagely opposed to the Roman Catholic church and the development of the Arminianisme within the church Anglicane.

It was one of the principal opponents to the King d' Angleterre Charles 1 {{er}}. Chief of the parliamentary opposition, it makes vote the " Great Remonstrance " who enumerates the objections against the crown. In 1628 it wrote the " Petition of droit" ( The Petition off Right ). The January 4th 1642, after its judgment for high treason, the king sends his soldiers to stop it him and four other members of the House of Commons. But, put at the current, the five men manage to flee.

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• John Pym, 1584-1643
• The Petition off Right, 1628