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it was covenanted on the parte of your fayd fubiect and the fayd 
Sara to make a newe Leafe of the premiffes to the fayde James 
Burbage or his affignes att any tyme win the firfte Tenne yeers 
vppon his or their Requeft for the terme of one and twenty yeeres 
from the making hereof. And it was by the fame Indenture cove- 
naunted on the parte of the fayd James Burbage That he or his 
affignes fhould win the fayd firft Tenne yeeres beftowe the fomme 
of two hundred powndes in alteringe and amendinge of the buyld- © 
ings there (The value of the olde ftuffe therof to be accompted 
parcell) In Confideracion of w™fomme of two hundred powndes 
foe to be beftowed It was covenanted on the parte of your Sub- 
iect that it fhould be lawfull for the fayd James Burbage and his 
Affignes att anie tyme win the firft one and twentye yeeres 
graunted, or win the one and twentye yeeres by vertue of the 
Covenante aforefayd to be graunted to take downe fuch Buylding 
as fhould win the fayd Tenne yeeres be erected on the fayd 
voyde growndes for a Theater or playinge place, And after- 
wardes the fayd James Burbage did w‘"in the fayde Tenne yeeres 
(A Theater being then there erected att the Coftes and Charges 
of one Braynes and not of the fayd James Burbage to the value of 
one Thowfand Markes) tender vnto yo® fubiect a Draught of a 
newe leafe of the premiffes requiring yo" Subiecte to feale the fame 
w yo’ fubiect refufed to doe, by reafon that the fayd Draught foe 
tendred varyed much from the Covenantes in the former leafe, 
And alfo for that the fayd James Burbage had before that tyme 
affigned all his Intereft and terme in the fayd premiffes vnto one 
John Hide and had alfo bene a verye badd and troblefome tenante 
vnto your fayd Subiect. So that yo™ Subiect was in noe wyfe 
bounde either in lawe or confcience to feale the fame, And after- 
wardes the fayd Hide conveyed all his Intereft and terme in the 
premiffes vnto one Cuthbert Burbage the fonne of the fayd James 
Burbage, whoe being defirous {till to make gayne of the fayd 
Theater fuffered the fame there to contynue till the expiracion of 
the fayd Terme, Wherby the right and Intereft of the fayd Thea- 
ter was both in lawe and Confcience abfolutely vefted in your fayd 
Subiect, Whervppon your Subiect feeing the greate and greevous 
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