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handled that the Defend‘ could not finde anie fufficient Diftreffe 
to fatiffie him for the arrerages therof and at the time of the 
faid newe leafe tendered by the faid Jeames Burbage he the faid 
Jeames did then owe vnto the Defend‘ thirtie powndes for the 
rent of the faid howfes and growndes Demifed vnto him which as 
yet remayneth vnpaid notw‘{tandinge that the faid Jeames Bur- 
bage in his life time and likewife the Comp" fince his Death haue 
before Diuers Credible perfonnes as the Defend‘ hopeth he fhalbe 
able to proue often times Confeffed the fame to be due vnto the 
Defend‘. And further touchinge the repayringe of the howfes 
and buildinges which the faid Jeames Burbage ought to haue re- 
paired and maintained that was likewife by the faid Jeames Bur- 
bage much neglected; for whereas amongite the howfes and 
buildinges Demifed to the faid Jeames Burbage there was one 
great tiled Timber barne of foure fcoare foote of affife in length 
and foure and twentie foote of affife in breadth or verie neare 
theraboutes verie fubftantiallye builte for the which the Defendt 
had formerlie receiued a rent of good value the faid Jeames Bur- 
bage did devide the fame into eleven feuerall tenementes (as the 
Defend' nowe remembereth and did lett out the fame feuerallie to 
poore perfonnes for the feuerall rentes of twentie fhillinges by the 
yeare to be paid by euerye tenant whoe were and are vnable to 
doe anye Reparacions vppon them; for fuch was and nowe is 
their pouertie that as the Def‘ is informed they vfuallie begge in 
the feildes and itreetes to gett mony for the paiment of their 
rentes by reafon wherof the Defend' hath been muche blamed 
and by the parifhoners there verie hardelie Cenfured that he 
fhould be an occafion to bringe foe many beggers amongit them 
to their great trouble and annoyance which proceeded not from 
any faulte of the Defend‘ but from the Covetous humor of the 
faid Jeames Burbage whoe refpected more his owne Commoditie 
then the good reporte and Creditt either of the Defend‘ or him- 
_ felfe and the like evell Difpoficton appeareth to be in the Comp!" 
whoe fince the Death of his ffather hath Continued thefe poore 
people there and {till doth and yet Doth in noe wife repaire the 
faid tenementes wherby they are growen in great Decaye and 
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