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| 12./ To the xij® Jnterrogatory this Deponent faythe that when they 
mett togather to take the viewe the Eighteenth daye of Julye in 
the yeare of ou" lord god one thoufand ffyve hundred Eightie 
Syxe he hard his faid ffather in lawe Bryan Ellame, William 
Botham, and William Clarke affirme that they had fformerlye 
made A wiewe of the faid Buyldinges, about nouember in the 
yeare of ou" Lord god one thoufand ffyve hundred Eightie ffyve 
w viewe they faid they had Confirmed vnder there handes in A 
booke of Accompte of the faid James Burbage And that as he 
remembrithe they affirmed that the eftimate firfte by them made 
came to twoe hundred and twentye poundes And more he Can- 
not depofe touchinge the fame Jnterrogatories to his nowe re- 
memberance./ 
[Signed] Rychard Hudfons 
Thomas Bromfield of the parifhe of S*: Leonardes in Shor- 
dytche in the Countye of Middlefex Bricklayer of the Age of 
thirtye yeares or thereaboutes fworne and examyned the daye 
and yeare abouefaid depofithe and faythe./ 
1/ To the ffirfte Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he knowethe the 
Complainant and defendt and hathe knowne the Complaimant 
about Seaven years and the defendt about ffyve yeares, And 
faythe he did very well knowe James Burbage mencioned in the 
Jnterrogatory father of the faid Complaimant./ 
2. 3. 4. 5. To the fecond, thirde, ffourthe ffyfte, Syxte Jnterrogatories 
6/ this deponent is not examyned at the requefte of the plaintiff./ 
7./ To the vij Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he knowethe of 
his owne knowledge that the faid James Burbage did in his lyffe 
tyme and for diuerfe yeares duringe his terme in his leafe of his 
tenem*¢* from the defendt Allen difburfe and beftowe muche money 
about the reparacions of the faid houfes and tenem‘’* demifed 
vnto him by the faid defendt Allen for this deponent faythe that 
for eight yeares he this deponent w™ others haue yearlye done 
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