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lowell in the Countie of middlefer gent and Sara his wief fet 
and being (as this deponent taketh it) at Hollowell nere vnto 
ffynnefberry feildes in the Countie of middlefex then fhewing 
vnto this deponent as he now remembreth the Copy of the faid 
leafe at w™ tyme the faid James Burbage and John Brayne did 
declare to this deponent that though the leafe was taken in the 
name only of the faid James Burbage/ yet it was ment to be 
for both their vies and therfore he the faid James Burbage was 
willing to affure the one moytie of the premiffes to the faid John 
Brayne/ Whervpon this deponent did drawe and engroffe an 
Jndenture of leafe betwene them dated the ix daie of Auguft 
in the xix yere of the raigne of o* moft gratious foveraigne lady 
that now is, to the effecte of their then agreamentes./ W" leafe 
fo engroffed this Deponent thinketh (to his now remembraunce) 
was not fealed by the faid James Burbage/ for that the originall 
leafe made to him by the faid Giles Allyn and Sara his wief was 
then at pawne for money w™ was borowed for the building of the 
faid Theatre/ And therefore the faid John Brayne afterwardes 
about the xxij‘" of may in the Twentith yere of the raigne of of 
faid foueraigne Lady did require this deponent to drawe an obli- 
gation wherein the faid James Burbage fhould be bound to the 
faid John Braynes in foure hundreth poundes for the making 
vnto the faid John Brayne his executo™ admini{trato™ or affignes 
a good and lawfull leafe graunt and other affuraunce of the moitie 
. or one Jujt half of all and fingwler the faid Theatre and other 
the premiffes graunted to the faid James Burbage by the faid 
originall leafe and of all the benefit of the Covenantes grauntes 
and agreamentes comprifed in the faid leafe w bond or obli- 
gacion this deponent made and engroffed according to the agrea- 
ment betwene the faid parties./. and afterwardes the faid James 
Burbage did feale and delyver as his dede the faid obligacion to 
the faid John Brayne in the prefence of this deponent and one 
John Gardyner as by the faid obligation and tefte thereof wher- 
vnto he this deponent referreth him felf (being fhewed vnto him 
at this his examinacion doth appere/ And further this deponent 
faieth that fhortlie after the fealing of the faid bond there grew 
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