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tell her more of his mynde/ Then this depot told him that 
thoughe he overreached her hufband being but a plaine & fymple 
man/ yet fhe being enforced to feke remeadye againft yo"/ hath 
the Chauncerye being the highest co'te and A cote of confcience 
on her fyde and hath an Ordre out of the fame to haue her moytie 
therof/ Confcience qd he/ godes blood what do yo" tell me of 
Conicience/ or Ordres/ No qd this depot/ Remember yor felf 
well/ ffor yf my lord Chauncello"/ make an Ordre againft yo"/ 
yo" were beft to obey it/ otherwyle it will prove A contempt/ 
and then yo" fhall purches my lord Chauncello™s Difpleafure/ 
and he made an{were that he cared not for any contempt/ faying/ 
that yf ther were xx contemptes/ and as many Jniumccions he 
wold w'itand them all/ before he wold lofe his poffeffion/ And 
further faith that/ when this Depot about viij Daies after came 
to him for certen money w™ he deteyned from this depot and his 
fellowes/ of fome of the Dyvydent money betwene him & them/ 
growing alfo by the vfe of the faid Theater/ he denyed to pay 
the fame/ he this depot told him that belike he ment to deale w* 
them/ as he did wt the po™ wydowe/ meaning the now comp!/ 
wifhing him he wold not do fo/ for yf he did/ they wold com- 
pleyne to ther lorde & M’ the lord Admyrall/ and then he in A 
Rage litle Reuerencing his hono’/ & eftate/ fayd/ by a great othe/ 
that he cared not for i1j of the beft lordes of them all/ And 
further faithe/ that at the tyme when the comp! and the faid 
Myles Requyred (as is beforefaid) her Moytie of the faid Theater 
& premiffes this depot found the forefaid Ry. Burbage the yongelit 
fone of the faid James Burbage there/ wt A Broome ftaff in his 
hand/ of whom when this depot afked what {turre was there/ he 
aniwered in laughing phrafe hew they come for A moytie/ But 
qd he (holding vppe the faid [/taff of that {tuck in the (stricken 
out)] broomes staff) I haue, I think deliuered [them (stricken 
out)] him A moytie wt this & fent them packing/ and then this 
depot fayd vnto him & his ffather/ that the faid Myles might haue 
an Accion again{ft the faid Rychard/ Tufche qd the father/ no J 
warraunt yo" but where my fone hath now beat him hence/ my 
fones/ yf they wilbe Rueled by me/ fhall at ther next coming pro- 
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