158 Charles Wiliam Wallace 
MYLES ¥, BURBAGE AND ALLEN 
Court of Requests Proceedings, Uncalendared, Bdl. 306. 
BILL 
[Bill only. No answer has ever been attached to it. Filing entry, regu- 
larly placed on back of bill, wanting. Undated; but internal evidence 
shows the bill was drawn early in 1597, shortly after the death of James 
Burbage, which fell in February. The first court-order on it is dated 
May 9, 1597. The suit is an attack on the Burbage estate. Having failed 
in his previous long litigation, Miles as executor of the late Margaret 
Brayne, now claims a moiety of the Theatre and 600 /. as due to him. 
Giles Allen is cunningly made co-defendant with the Burbages. It is 
evident on the face of it that the case could not stand in either law or 
equity. ] 
To the Quenes Mofte excellent Ma‘ 
in her highnes courte of Requefte 
Humblye complaynyng fheweth vnto your Mofte excellent ma‘? 
your ma*®* mofte faithfull fubiect Robert Myles of London Gould- 
{mythe executo™ of the laft will and teftament of Margerette 
Braynes Deceafed executrixe of the laft will and teftament of 
John Braynes her hufband allfo Deceafed That wheras one Gyles 
Allen gent and Sara his wief did for a ffyne of twentye powndes 
wherof one haulf was paid by the faid John Braynes and the other 
by one James Burbage Deceafed by their Deede Jndented Demytfed 
and leafed to the faid James Burbage in the eightenth yeare of the 
Quenes Mat reigne Dyvers meffuadges and tennementes and 
vacant peeces of grounde in Hallowell in the countye of Myddle- 
fexe for the terme of twenty and one yeares rendring the yearly 
rent of fowrtene powndes in which Demyfe or leafe the faid James 
did covenaunte to beftowe two hundreth powndes in buyldinges 
in and vppon the Demyfed premyffes Jn confyderacyon wherof 
the faid Gyles and Sara did covenaunte to and with the faid James 
and his affignes that hee the faid Gyles and Sara and their heyres 
and affignes within tenn yeares followyng the begynyng of the faid 
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