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being then the dwelling howfe of Richard Ibotfon Cittizen and 
Bruer of London, and ther by vertue of precept to attache the 
bodie of this Complayn', for the fome of ffyve poundes one fhil- 
linge and a pennye w™ yo" John Hinde had Recouered for coftes 
& Charges in lawe againit the faid John Braine & the faid 
Comp" by a Nifi prius out of Ma‘** Benche at Weitmin/ter tried 
in the guildhall in London, And whether did this Compl' James 
Burbage fatiffie and paie vnto the faid Officer the faid fome of 
v'i_ 18, 14. to yo™ vie, And whether receaved yo" the faid money 
of the faid Officer yea or noe/. 
DEPOSITIONS 
Ex parte Jacobi Burbage querentis verfus Mar- 
garetam Brayne viduam et Robertum Myles de- 
fendentes Tefte examinatore per Henricum 
Johnes in Cancellaria Examinatorem/ 
Henry Bett of the parifhe of S' Leonardes Shorditch, in the 
Countie of Middlesex gen, of the age of xlij yers or theraboute, 
fworne and examined the Laifte daie of Septemb’, A° 1591 in the 
xxxiij4 yere of the raigne of our Sovereigne Ladie Quene 
Eliz &ct, 
To the firft Interrogatorie, that he hath knowen the Compl. 
James Burbege, about xiiij yers, and hath knowen the faid Robert 
Myles, and Margaret Braine the defend'*, as longe, and that he 
well knewe John Braine whilft he lyved, by the fpace of many 
yeres 
To the fecond iij and iiij Interr and to the matters in them Con- 
teyned, this depon' faith. That he the faid John Braine or Robert 
Myles, or both of them, were indebted to one Noble a Carpenter, 
for a frame for a howfe, & certaine tymber beftoed about the Inn, 
called the George in white Chappell, the certaine fome wherof he 
remembrethe not, the w™ debt one W™ white demaunded of them, 
by reafone that he had taken to wief, the executrix or Adminif- 
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