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Item whither doe yo" knowe that vppon the eleuenth day of [une 
in the Two and ffortieth yeare of her Ma'** Raigne the faide 
Cutbert Burbage made oath in the faide Court of Requeftes, that 
the nowe Complaynant had caufed the demurrer aforefaide to be 
ioyned vp, contrary to the order of the faide Court, and whither 
did not the faide Cutbert Burbage therevpon in the vacation then 
following, procure a Purfiuant to be fent downe into the Cuntery 
for the Complaynante, and whither was not the Complaynante 
brought vp to London by the faide Purfiuant, and carryed before 
one of the Mafters of the faide Court of Requeftes, and then en- 
forced to enter into a bond of Two hundred poundes, to appeare 
in that Court the ffirft day of Michaellmas terme following, to 
anfwere the Contempt, and allfo to {ftand to the order of that Court 
vpon the heareing of the faide Caufe, or otherwife to haue been 
committed to prifon./ 
Item whither did not the Complaynante appeare in the faide Court 
according to his faide bond, and whither was it not then opened 
vnto the Court, and teftifyed by the Complaynantes Councell, that 
by the true order aforefaide made the faide laft daye of May the 
Complaynant had libertie geuen him by the faide Court to ioyne 
vp the demurrer aforefaide, and that the Court was much abufed, 
and the Complaynante much wronged by the practife of the faide 
Cutbert Burbage and the faide Maddox, and the Regifter, in that 
behalffe, and whither was not the Complaynante therevppon dif- 
charged of the faide fuppofed contempt./. 
Item whither did not the Councell of the Complaynante make a 
mocion in the faide Court of Requeftes, after the heareing of the 
faide caufe betwen the faide Complaynant and the faide Cutbert 
Burbage to this effect, That the faide Cutbert Burbage was no 
affigne in Lawe or equitie vnto James Burbage deceafed, (late 
ffather to the faide Cutbertt) of the faid Theater, and therefore 
not able to maynteyne anie bill in his owne name towching the 
fame, and whither did not the Councell of the Complaynante 
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