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the tyme mencioned in the Jnterrogatory. And more he Cannott 
depole./ 
3./ To the third Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe that James Bur- 
badge in his lyffe tyme kepte the premiffs demifed vnto him in 
reafonable good reparacions: but he knowethe not in what decaye 
they nowe are for that he fawe them not of A longe tyme./ nor 
whether the plaintiff hath vnderpropped them w™ Shores, nor 
whether they be nowe remayninge vnderpropped./ nor what yt 
will cofte to fett the howfes in reparacions for that he knowethe 
not nor hath feene howe they are decayed./ And more he Can- 
nott depofe touching the faid Jnterrogatory./ 
Ba. / To the ffourthe Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he knowethe 
not that Ellen Burbadge hath any goodes or Chattles in her 
handes that weare her late hufbond James Burbadge his goodes 
wherby the defendt maye haue recompence at her handes for the 
fome of thirtye poundes and the breache of other Couenantes./ 
And faythe that Ellen Burbadge is accompted A poore woeman 
not hable to Satiffie her hufbondes Credyto™./ And faythe he 
knoweth not whether the Complainant and his brother or one of 
them procured the faid Ellen Burbadge to take adminiftracion 
of the goodes of James Burbadge they or one of them havinge 
firfte gotten the faid James Burbage his goodes into there handes 
thereby to deceave the Credito™ of the faid James./ And more 
he cannot depofe./ 
5./ To the v™ Jnterrogatory this deponent faythe he hath Crediblie 
hard that the Theater menczoned in the Jnterrogatory was not 
buylte at the Alone charge of James Burbage./ but that one 
John Braynes defrayed the halfe of the Charge vppon Agreemt 
betweene them that Braynes fhould be partner w™ Burbage in 
the profyttes therof. And that he hath feene A bonde of Bur- 
bages to Braynes whereby yt playnelie appeareth that Braynes 
had the moyetye of the profyttes therof in his lyffe tyme and 
burbage was bound that he fhould enioye the fame./ And more 
he Cannott depofe./ 
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