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nacion, is the proper hand writinge of the faid Robert Miles 
written to the faid Burbege, the now Compl‘. this he knowethe 
to be true, for that he this depot at the requeft of the faid Burbege, 
who was moved therat, did go to conferr w* the faid miles, about 
the matters therin./ who did then confeffe, that the fame was 
his hand, & thate he did demaunde, the Moitie of the xxvj! x® 14. 
of the faid Burbege/ paide to the faid John Hynd in the Interr 
named/, by force of a precept and execucion laid on him the faid 
Myles as a fuertie for Braines, yt beinge alfo, the debt of the faid 
Burbege; acknowledginge alfo, that he had receyved vj! of the 
faid Burbege towardes the faid moitie, but at what tyme the faid 
letter was written, this depont remembrethe not, but he thinckethe 
yt was fince the dethe of Braine, and this depon' further faiethe 
That in the life tyme of the faid Braine, the faid Myles and 
Braines, reafoning together about dyvers matte’, in ther accomp'®, 
befor this depon', he the faid Myles did chardge the faid Braine 
that he had fufteyned dyvers troubles, for him, and recited his 
trouble for the faid debt, At w" tyme, the faid Braine did then 
afferme, before the faid Miles, That he for his parte had paid to 
the faid Miles, to fatiffie Hynd, the one half of the faid monye 
paid to Hynd & that Burbege, whom he called his brother, had 
fatiffied the other half alfo, and thervpon he produced a Booke 
of Reconinges betwene them importinge afmutche, the w** the 
faid Miles, did not then contradict, but rather confeffed, only 
reporting and ftanding vpon his trouble, for the fame. and more 
in this matter he now remembrethe not, but refferrethe him felf 
to his examinacion taken in that matter in London. 
To the vj Interr this depont faiethe, That the noate and fomutch 
of the writinge therin vndefaced now produced and to him 
fhewed, at the tyme of this his examinacion, is the proper hand 
writinge of John Braine, the w™ he well knowethe, for that he 
had often fene him write, and that he knowethe that Burbege did 
demaunde the fame fomes of monye, in the faid noate, confeffed 
to be by him the faid Braine Receyved, beinge 135! 1° w'* other 
fomes afterwardes by him Receyved, the w™ he refufed to yeld, 
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