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258 Charles William Wallace 
To the fecond Interrogatory he faieth that there was an agree- 
mente had betweene them the faid Comp! and the faid Defend‘ 
for the howfes and growndes w' the Theatre which were for- 
merlye Demifed vnto Jeames Burbage the father of the faid 
Comp"* with an increafing of the rente from fourteene powndes 
by the yeare vnto foure and twentye poundes by the yeare w™ 
leafe fhould beginn at the expiracion of the ould leafe made vnto 
the faid Comp"** father and fhould continue for the {pace of one 
and twentye yeares: And this Depon‘* further faieth that the faid 
Defend't was at the firfte verye vnwillinge that the faid Theatre 
fhould Continue one Daie longer for a playinge place yet neverthe- 
leffe at the lafte he yealded that it fhould Continue for a playinge 
place for certaine yeares; and that the faid Defend‘ did agree 
that the faid Comp" fhould after thofe yeares expired Converte 
the faid Theatre to his befte benifitt for the refidue of the faid 
terme then to come; and that afterward it fhould remaine to the 
onelye vie of the Defendte: And further this Depon' faieth that 
the faid Jeames Burbage the father did acknowledge the fomme 
of thirtye powndes mencioned in this Interrogatorye to be Due 
vnto the faid Defend*t for rente then behinde and vnpaied; And 
that the Comp'® Cuthberte Burbage did often times fithence 
promife paiment of the faid fomme of thirtye powndes at the en- 
fealinge of the newe leafe: And he further faieth that the faid 
Agreemente was made betweene the faid Comp'® and the De- 
fend'® nowe twoe yeares fithence or theraboutes at michaelmas 
terme nowe nexte Comminge. And further to this Interrogatory 
this Depon’® cannot Depofe./ 
To the third Interrogatory this Depon‘® cannott Depofe./ 
{In dorso:] 
x° die Octobris Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe &c xlij° 
Juramenta Retourned by Thomas Domiell 
[The depositions were sealed, and signed by two commissioners across 
the sealing strips of parchment, now gone, leaving only parts of their 
names, thus:] 
Art[hur Brea]ther [John] Sames 
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