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Richard Perkins and John Cumber or some of them have since 

 the deliume thereof pervsed the same by your said Subiect^ 

 booke and well know that the said some of ffourtie six pounds 

 five shillings & eight pence is due vnto your said Subiect for the 

 same And that your said Subiect since the deliume thereof hath 

 in most kinde and frendly maner required payment of the said 

 Beeston And that the said Beeston hath faithfully from time 

 to time promised vnto your said Subiect payment & satisfacdon 

 for the same Yet now of late the said Christofer Beeston Ellis 

 Worth Richard Perkins and John Cumber combyning themselves 

 together how to deceave your said Subiect of his just and true 

 debt, and have intised over Thomas Chambers your said Subiect^ 

 servant from your said Subiect^ service and caused him to 

 absent himself e vnto some parte beyond the Seas or into some 

 vnknowne & remote place From your said Subiect where your 

 said Subiect cannot heare of him knowing that your subiect^ 

 said servant was the onlie witnes w ch your said Subiect had to 

 prove the deliume of the said Stuffs as aforesaid and of the 

 contract aforesaid And now the said Beeston and the said Worth 

 Perkins and Comber doe give forth & report that they or some 

 of them by the appointment of the said Beeston have paid and 

 discharged the said debt of ffourtie six pounds five shillings & 

 eight pence vnto your Subiect or vnto his said servant whereas 

 in truth they nor either of them have satisfied any peny thereof 

 but deteyne the said some of ffourty six pounds five shillings 

 and eight pence in his their or some of their handes and intend 

 vtterly to defeate your said Subiect of the same And your said 

 Subiect further sheweth that the said Beeston, Worth, Perkins, and 

 Cumber have heretofore and since your said Subiect^ deliume 

 of the said stuff&s as aforesaid falling at variance and strife 

 amongst themselves and separated and devided themselves into 

 other Companies. And vpon their separac/on did acknowledge 

 your said Subiect^ debt but questioned betweene themselves w ch 

 of them should paie and discharge your said Subiect So that by 

 their variance and for want of sufficient witnesses to prove the 

 deliume of the said stuffs and promis for the same your said 

 Subiect is likelie to loose the said debt except he be releived by 



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