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COURT ORDER, MAY 27, 1597 
Idem. 
xxvij™ die Maij A° predicto (1597) 
ffor afmuche as in the caufe at the fute of Roberte Myles compl* 
againit Giles Allen and others defend'’* M* Scott beinge of coun- 
faill w™ the faid compl' hathe this day enformed her Ma‘ coun- 
faill in this corte that the perfons named in the bill w™ formerly 
depended in Chauncery concerninge this caufe and in the bill 
nowe dependinge in this corte concerninge the fame caufe are not 
all one but feuerall and diftincte Therefore vppon mocion of M* 
Scott aforefaid yt ys Ordered (notw{tandinge any former 
Order) that this caufe fhalbe reteyned in corte to be heard in 
the fame, And that the faid defend*e* fhall make their full and 
perfect Aunfweres vppon their othes vnto the faid compl** bill 
in this corte w™out delay at their pevills/ 
[Succeeding orders, if any, are lost. The Order Books that should have 
contained them are missing. It is doubtful if answers were ever made, 
as above ordered. In any case, they are not now extant, for we have 
searched the records of the Court of Requests from end to end and 
transcribed for publication all the theatrical documents they contain, 
without coming upon the answers referred to. | 
ALLEN UV, STREET 
Queen’s Bench, Trinity, 42 Elizabeth. (1600), m. 587. 
[This suit was brought by Giles Allen nominally against Peter Street, 
the carpenter, but in effect against Cuthbert Burbage, for tearing down 
the Theatre. In the course of it, the unexecuted lease of 1585, incorporat- 
ing main parts of the original lease of 1576, is quoted entire. The case 
was stopped by the Court of Requests, first by injunction of April 10, 
1600, and finally by decree of Oct. 18, 1600. See next suit. The present 
suit was found by Halliwell-Phillipps, who quoted extracts from it in his 
Outlines, I, 348-49, 359-60, 361-373. Allen caused the pleadings to be 
entered on the records, contrary to an order of the Court of Requests of 
May 31, 1600. See affidavit of Cuthbert Burbage on it, June 11, 1600, Sir 
Julius Caesar’s order, of same date, for arrest of Allen for contempt, 
Allen’s statement of the affair, in his Star Chamber suit, Allen v. Burbage, 
1602, and the examination of Richard Lane in the same suit.] 
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