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fuche time as the faid Jeames Burbage did tender a Draught of a 
newe leafe vnto the Defend* or at the time of the tender therof: 
And whether haue you not oftentimes heard the Defend* finde 
faulte w™ the faid Jeames Burbage that he was a bad and trouble- 
fome tenante Deliuer what you knowe touchinge this Jnter- 
rogatorye ?/ 
8./ Item whether doe you knowe that the faid Jeames Burbage did 
affigne his interefte and terme (in thofe growndes and buildinges 
he held of the leafe of the Defend‘) vnto one John Hide: And 
howe longe agoe to yo’ rememberance was the faid Affignement 
made: And howe manye yeares of the faid leafe were then to 
come and vnexpired at the time of the faid Affignement./ 
[In dorso:] 
Quinto die Junij Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe &c xlij°./ 
fiant littere dicte Domine Regine directe Willelmo Aylif 
vel duobus 
eorum ad examinandum omnes teftes ex parte defendt 
Virtute Ordinis tam de articwlis infrafcriptis quam per partem miniftran- 
dis in forma iuris iurandi et ad certificandum eadem in 
octabis Michaelis proximis 
Rog? Wilbraham 
DEPOSITIONS 
Depofitiones Captae apud Weftmona/teriwm primo 
die Octobris A°: Regni D"® Regine Elizabethe 
nunc &c Quadragefimo Secundo ex parte Egidij 
Allen generofi deft verfus Cuthbertum Bur- 
badge generofum qre™./ 
Robert Myles of the parifhe of Whitechappell in the Countye of 
Middlefex gentleman of the Age of threefcore and ffoure yeares 
or there Aboutes fworne and examyned the daye and yeere aboue- 
faid depofithe and faythe./ 
I/ To the ffirfte Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he hath hard the 
defendant faye that the Complaimantes father did in his lyffe tyme 
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