210 ! Charles William Wallace 
12./ Item whether did not the faid Jeames Burbage often times faile 
in the paiment of his rent, and in the performance of other Cov- 
enantes: and whether had not the defend‘ muche trouble and 
Difquietneffe by occafion therof: and whether did not the faid 
Jeames Burbage place Diuers verye poore people in fome parte 
of the howlfes & buildinges aforefaid: and whether did not Diuers 
of the inhabitantes much miflike therof & fpeake ill of the Defend 
for the fame and whether did not the Comp" itill Continue thofe 
poore people there for his owne profitte Deliuer what you knowe 
or haue Crediblie heard herein ?/. 
DEPOSITIONS 
Depofitiones captae apud weltmona/terium xxvj 
die Aprilis A° Regni Domine Regine Elizabethe 
nunc &c Quadragefimo Secundo ex parte Egidij 
Allen generoji defend"*® verfus Cuthbertum Bur- 
bage qeen.y 
Phillippe Baker of Clyfton in the Countye of Bedff: gentleman 
of the Age of ffyftye Eight yeares or there aboutes fworne and 
examyned the daye and yeare aboue faid depofithe and faythe./ 
1/ Ti the ffirite Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he hath hard the 
defendt (and others) faye that the Complainantes father did in 
his lyffe tyme Tender and deliuer vnto the defendt the Drawght 
of A newe leafe of Certayne houfes and groundes w™ the faid 
defendant had before that tyme formerlye demifed vnto him the 
Complainantes father. And that the Complainantes father did 
vppon the deliuerye thereof requyre the defendt to Seale and 
deliuer the fame accordinge to fforme of Law in thofe Cafes pro- 
vided:/ And the defendt faid in his this deponentes prefentes 
that he refufed the fame for that the Leafe w the Complain- 
antes father foe tendered vnto him was not verbatim agreeable 
w' the ould Leafe before demifed as there agreem* was to- 
geather./ And for that there was fome rent behynde and vn- 
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