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fame of the defendt nor before./ but fayth that eighteene yeares 
pafte or there about he this deponent came thyther to dwell: fynce 
w™ tyme he hath knowne the fame, and faythe that when he this 
deponent firfte knewe the fame the faid tenem‘®* weare very ould 
and houfes of office, and his owne dwellinge houfe was but 
ruynous and ould buyldinge and the faid James Burbadge did 
buyld his owne houfe newe and an other nexte vnto yt and re- 
payred and Amended the other buyldinges w™ weare houfes of 
office before, and converted them to tenem'®* and made them ten- 
antable whereby the fame are bettered and are lett for more rent 
then they then went: for mofte of w™ alteracion and cofte be- 
{towed there, was donne fynce he this deponent came thither to 
dwell as tenant to the faid James Burbadge. ‘And therefore 
knowethe the premiffs to be true/ And more he Cannot depofe 
touchinge the faid Jnterrogatory to his nowe rememberance./ 
10/ To the x® Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe that when he this 
deponent came to dwell in the faid James Burbadge his rentes the 
decayed longe Barne mencioned in the Jnterrogatory was in-as 
greate decaye as yt is nowe, for yt {toode then Shored vpp againfte 
the playhoufe called the Theater and nowe yt is but fhored vpp 
from the ground, and the deceaffed James Burbadge did in his 
lyffe tyme from tyme to tyme repayre the fame and foe hathe the 
Complainant fynce his deceafe./ but he remembrythe not that 
Richardes and Staughton mencioned in the Jnterrogatory had the 
tenure thereof. And more he Cannot depofe touchinge the faid 
Jnterrogatory to his nowe rememberance./ 
11/12/ To the Eleventhe and tweluethe Jnterrogatorics this deponent 
is not examyned at the requefte of the Complaimant./ 
[His mark] X 
William Smythe of Waltham Crofe in the Countye of Hartforde 
gentleman of the Age of ffortye yeares or thereaboutes fworne and 
examyned the daye and yeare abouefaid Depofithe and faythe 
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