32 diaries William Wallace 



SMITH VS BEESTON 



Court of Requests Proceedings, Uncaleiidered, James I. 

 [1619.] 



smith's bill 



[Date of filing, in dorso] x° die Novembris Anno Rni Rg 

 Jacobi Angl fr et hibmiie xvij° et Scotie lxiij° 

 Defend vocet r per nuncium Camer. 



To the Kings most Ex- 

 ellent Ma tie ./ 



Humbly complayning sheweth vnto your most exellent Ma tie your 

 faith full and obedient subiect John Smith Citizen and ffishmonger 

 of London That Whereas your said Subiect did heretofore 

 betweene the Seaven and twentith daie of June in the yeare of 

 our Lord God One thousand six hundred and twelve and the 

 three and twentith daie off ffebruary Anno Do;;? mi One thousand 

 Six hundred and Sixteene at the earnest request and intreaty of 

 one Christofer Beeston deliu^r or cause to be deliiu?red vnto him 

 the said Christofer Beeston and his Assignes and at his request 

 and by his direccion vnto and for the vse of the Company of 

 players at the Redd Bull neere S l Jones viz. 1 vnto Ellis Worth 

 Richard Perkins and John Comber and others diverse tinsell 

 stuffs and other stuffe for their vse in playing amounting in the 

 wholl to ffourtie six pounds five shillings and eight pence or 

 thereabouts And the said Christofer Beeston did faithfully 

 promis to make payment vnto your said subiect and to satisfie 

 him for the said stuffe. Now soe it is may it please your most 

 exellent Ma tie that your said subiect having deliuered the said 

 stuffs by the appointment of the said Beeston as aforesaid vnto 

 him or his assignes And althoughe the said Beeston doth well 

 know that the said stuffs were deliuered vnto him & vnto his 

 vse and by his appointment And that the seuerall parcells 

 deliuered as aforesaid did amount vnto the said some of ffourtie 

 six pounds five shillings & eight pence or thereabouts accord- 

 ing to the seuerall rats and pries agreed vpon by the said 

 Beeston or his Assignes And that the said Beeston Ellis Worth 



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