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the faid gentlemans Requeft/ and partlie at inftant entreatye of 
the faid James Burbage & his faid fone) did indede vppon the 
conlideracions aforefaid convey over the premiffes to the faid 
Cuthbert/ But whether this depot faid vnto them that he wold 
not fo do/ except the comp! had her moytie in the fame/ or not/ 
he doth not Remember/ But he well Remembreth/ that he 
wilfhed the faid Burbages to do the comp! no wronge/ her huf- 
band was dead/ & had left her in g* lack/ and that he did vndoe 
him felf/ by entring in the doinges of the Theato"/ and they 
faid/ & many tymes haue faid/ that they wold do her no wronge/ 
To the 12. that true it is, the faid Burbages did promes this Depot 
that took what was the compl*'’* right & due to haue/ that fhe 
fhuld haue it at ther handes 
To the 13. that he can fay nothing 
To the 14. that to the firft poynt of this Jnterrogatory he faith 
he can fay nothing/ And to the fecond poynt of the fame he 
faith/ that he doth thinke that when the faid Braynes entred into 
the Accion of the faid Theater/ he was wo'th fyve hundreth 
poundes at the leaft and by commen fame wo'th A thowfand 
markes/ and A man well thoght of in london/ And this depot 
verelie thinketh he beftowed the fame/ or the moft part therof 
vppon the fame Theater/ to his vndoing/ And to the laft poynt 
of this Jnterrogatory he faith he cannot depofe/ And more he 
faithe he camnot faye to all the faid Jnterrogatories/ 
[Signed] per me John Hyd grocer 
BRAYNE VU. BURBAGES 
Idem, Bundle 228, No. 10, Hilary and Easter, 34 Elizabeth 
(Feb., April, May, 1592). 
[Four skins of interrogatories—one to John Hyde, one to Nicholas 
Bishop, one to Ralph Miles, and one to John Allen—thonged in this order 
to the depositions, which are incorrectly arranged in the following order— 
Bishop, 2% sheets, Miles, 3 sheets, Allen 2, Hyde 1. 
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