142 Charles William Wallace 
A {mall lyving by the fame/ gave it over/ and became A commen 
Player in playes/ And further faith/ that he doth knowe/ that 
his Credit was fuche/ as nether merchant nor Artificer wold gyve 
him Credit for the value of x" vnles his brother Braynes wold 
Joyne wt him/ being A man well knowne in london both of his 
own wellth and of good credit/ And faith yt he hath heard the 
faid Braynes by earneft othe afferme/ that all the readye money 
w“ his brother Burbage brought fourthe to be ymployd towardes 
the building of the faid Theater was but about [fyftie & od 
poundes (stricken out)] xxxvij"/ and the reft that made vppe 
about the fome of fyftie & od poundes w™ was in maner all that 
he bore towardes the faid charge/ was in od peces of Tymber/ 
waynefcott & fuche like thinges and his own labo"/ wherin the 
faid Braynes told this Depot/ his brother Burbage made him to 
allow him/ in fome thinges the value of vj‘ for A grote/ So as 
this Depot knowethe yt the whole building of the premiffes in 
effecte and the taking of the faid leafe/ was done at the onlye 
charge of the faid Braynes by his own goodes/ & credit/ 
To the 7. that whan the faid Playe houffe was fynifhed/ and 
playes performed in the fame/ and great fomes of money gathered 
& had of the repairers therunto the faid Braynes told this Depot 
that his brother Burbage/ contrarye to his faith and promes that 
the faid Braynes fhuld haue parte & partelyke of the fame/ did 
by the {pace of about ij° yeres/ purloyne & filche therof to him 
felf moch of the fame money/ by A fecret key w’" he caufed one 
Braye A Smyth in Shordiche to make for him of the Commen 
box where the money gathered at the faid Playes was by both ther 
confentes putt in/ by meanes wherof he did not onlye playe falce 
w' him the faid Braynes to A great value as it was thoght but 
alfo Difceyve his fellowes the Players/ And many tymes wold 
thruft fome of the money Devident betwene him & his faid ffel- 
lowes/ in his bofome or other where about his bodye/ Difceyving 
his fellowes of ther due Devydent/ w™ was equally to haue bene 
devyded betwene them/ All w% this Depot dothe verelie beleve 
to be true/ ffor that he hath heard the faid James Burbage vppon 
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