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2./ Item whether was there not an agreament made betweene the 
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vicecomiti Effexie et 
Hugoni Barbon 
[For Allen’s account of the execution of this order against him, see his 
suit of Allen v Burbage, Star Chamber, 1602, infra.] 
Court of Requests Proceedings, 87/74. Depositions ex parte 
Allen, 14 August, 1600. 
[These two depositions were taken in the country by commission. The 
parchments of interrogatories, commission to examiners, and depositions 
by Robert Vigerous and Thomas Nevill are attached to the three large 
skins of pleadings in the suit of Burbage v. Allen, as already noticed. 
Halliwell-Phillipps found this set of records, as above mentioned. See 
his Outlines, I, 350.] 
INTERROGATORIES 
_Interrogatoryes to be miniftered to the witneffes 
to be produced on the parte and behalf of Giles 
Allen gentleman Defend againfte Cuthbert Bur- 
bage Complainante./ } 
./ Inprimis whether doe you knowe the parties Comp"* and Defend' 
and howe longe haue you knowen them./ 
Comp" and the Defend! to this effecte: that the Defend fhould 
make a newe leafe vnto the Comp"® of the howfes and groundes 
which were formerlye Demifed vnto Jeames Burbage ffather of 
the Comp" for one and twentye yeares from and after the expi- 
racion of that former leafe and that the Comp"* fhould paie yeare- 
lye for the fame the fomme of foure and twentye poundes: And 
whether was it not likewife agreed betweene them that the Thea- 
tre there erected fhould Continue for a playinge place by the 
{pace of fiue yeares onelye, and that then it fhould be Converted 
to fomme other vie for the benifitt of the Comp" Duringe his 
terme, and after for the benifitt of the Defendt: And whether did 
not the Comp"* vppon that agreament promife the Defend‘ to 
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