146 Charles William Wallace 
Depot thinketh in his confcience/ to Defeat the comp" of her 
right in the premiffes/ And then the faid hyde anfred/ this Depot 
that he graunted the rather therunto for that bothe the faid James 
Burbage & his faid fone Did faithfullie promes him/ that the faid 
comp! fhuld haue her comtynuall moytie of the proffittes and 
Rentes of the premiffes/ w™ they faithfullie promifed vnto him 
(as he faid) fo to do/ During the tyme of the faid leafe/ the w™ 
(as he faid) he wold not haue done yf he had known they wold 
not haue lett her quyetlie haue the fame/ 
To the 18. that he doth well Remember/ that the faid James Bur- 
bage after the death of the faid Braines & before the Redempcion 
of the faid leafe did for a tyme fuffer the comp! to take fome of 
the profittes of the faid Playes/ fo long as fhe was hable to laye 
out money/ to the neceffary vfe of the faid Playe houffe/ to the 
fome of xxx" or theraboutes as fhe reported/ And no longer/ 
Whervppon this Depot on the comp"’* behalf both before & fins 
the Redempcion of the fame charged them w* the fame/ and the 
faid James made him anf*/ that fhe fhuld haue her moytie accord- 
ing to the faid Award/ whan all ther Debtes were payd/ and that 
fhe fhuld fufteyne no wrong ether at the handes of him/ or of 
his fone/ And likewyle this Depot meeting wt the fayde Cuthbert 
dyvers tymes & falling into fpeche wt him of the faid comp!es 
wrong myniftred vnto her by his ffather & him in that they wtheld 
her right from her of the Theater/ he anfwered/ that for his own 
part he was very well contented that the comp! fhuld haue her 
part of the faid Profittes/ yf his father wold agree to it/ being 
forye that ever he did entre into that accion/ ffor that he had both 
loft his tyme/ and trobled his M* in the fame/ Whereas fome other 
Sute vnto his M™/ would haue bene more profitable vnto him as 
had bene to fome of his fellowes that had not ferued his Mr” fo 
long as he had and wifhed he had never Delt in it/ 
To the 19. that he dothe verelie thinke in his confcience that the 
faid James Burbage/ and his faid fone/ and ther affignes fyns the 
laft Accompt or Reconing had & made betwene him the faid James 
and the faid Jo. Braynes for the proffittes & Rentes of the Theater 
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