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then promifed to geue the defendt twentye ffoure poundes per 
Annum for A yearlye rent for the premiffs and would take vppon 
him to paye the defendt the fome of thirtye poundes w™ the de- 
fendt Claymed for Arerages of Rent dwe in James Burbage his 
lyffe tyme and would vndertake to putt the manfion houfes vppon 
the premiffs in reparacion./ ‘And the defendt was Contented and 
did accepte of the Complainantes proffer in all, excepte his de- 
maund for the Theatre to {tand as a playe houfe w™ he miflyked 
wt wherevppon the Complainant requefted the defendt that he 
would Suffer yt to ftand for A playe houfe but the ffyve ffirite 
yeares of the one and twentye yeares and afterwardes he would 
Converte the fame to fome other better vfe. viz into tenem'’* or 
repayringe thother premiffs demifed vnto him and afterwardes 
leaue the fame vppon the premiffs for the defendtes benefytt. 
w the defendt then Agreed vnto And then demaunded of the 
Complainant Suffytient fecurytie for the paym' of his the Com- 
plainantes Rent duringe his terme of one and twentye yeares: 
wherevppon he made proffer vnto the defendt of his brother 
Richard Burbage w" whome the defendt miflyked and foe there- 
vppon they lefte of and parted. And more he Cannot depofe 
faue onlye that there faid Communycacion was the Michaelmas 
terme was tweluemonethe and the pullinge downe of the Theatre 
was the Chriftmas ffollowinge./ 
7./ To the vij™ Jnterrogatory this deponnt faythe he thinkethe that 
the faid Ellen Burbage mencioned in the Jnterrogatory is A very 
poore woeman and hath not in her handes fuffytient to Satiffie 
her late hufbond James Burbage his debtes: nor for his breache 
of other Couenantes. And more touchinge the faid Jnterroga- 
tory this deponent cannott depofe faue onelye that he hath hard 
that the Complainant and his brother did take that Courfe men- 
cioned: in the Jnterrogatory to defraud there fathers Credyto™./ 
8./ To the viij* Jnterr this deponent faythe he thinkethe that the 
deceafed James Burbage did not of his owne proper Coite and 
Charge buyld and erecte the playe houfe called the Theater: ffor 
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