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are almoft vtterlie Ruynated and are nowe by the Comp" vnder- 
propped with fhores to keepe them from fallinge Downe in ftead 
of Repairinge and amendinge the fame as by the Covenante of 
the faid Jeames Burbage ought to be done infoemuche that the 
{aid poore people haue Complayned vnto the Defend‘ that they 
were foe Decayed both without and within that they were in 
feare that they would fall vppon their heades wherbye it ap- 
pearethe that the Comp" hath fmale regard either of the Creddit 
or the Commoditie of the Defend‘ but feeketh onely to enriche 
himfelfe by the rentes and other proffittes which he vnconi{cion- 
ablie receyueth for the fame And the faid Jeames Burbage & the 
Comp" or one of them haue likewife heretofore placed other 
poore people in other tenementes there which ftill Continue in the 
fame which tenements are by reafon therof foe Decayed that the 
Defend! feeth not howe he fhall well be anfwered the ould rent 
of fourteene powndes of fuche tenantes as be of abilitie to paie 
the fame foe that howefoeuer the Comp" hath furnifed that by 
the faid twoe hundred powndes fuppofed to be beftowed by the 
faid Jeames Burbage his father that the howfes and buildinges 
were greatlye amended and betterred (as in trueth they ought to 
haue been) yet the Defend* taketh it that he fhalbe able to make 
it appeare vnto this Honourable Court that they are rather im- 
paired and in worfe plight for the benifitt and profitt of the 
~ Defendt all thinges Confidered then they were at the time when 
the faid Jeames Burbage firft tooke them, neither yet in trueth 
had the faid Jeames Burbage at the time of the faid fecond leafe 
tendered or anie time after (as the Defend‘ hopeth he fhalbe able 
to proue to this Honourable Court) beftowed the faid fomme of 
twoe hundred powndes or neare thereaboutes for the betterringe 
of the howfes and buildinges demifed neither was there anie like- 
lyhood that the faid Jeames Burbage fhould performe the fame 
within the time limitted by the faid Indentures the faid fecond 
leafe beinge tendered but a verie fhort time before the expiracion 
of the faid terme of tenn yeares win which time the faid fomme 
of twoe hundred powndes fhould haue been beftowed as before is 
fhewed for all which Caufes the Defend' did refufe to feale the 
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