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ffortune Playehouse and other tenements thearevnto adioyninge 

 scituate and beinge in Goldinge Lane in the County of Middlesex 

 should from thence be released and dischardged by your said 

 subt to the said Phillipp Henslowe his executors and assignes, 

 \v ch rent of eighte pounds per annum your subiecte did accord- 

 inglie release to the said Phillippe Henslowe in his liffe tyme 

 and did ffree and acquite him his executors and assignes from 

 the payement thearof, and for Consideracion hearof the said 

 Phillippe Henslowe did Covenaunt and agree w th your said sub- 

 iecte that hee the said Phillippe Henslowe his executors and 

 assignes that your said subiecte or his assignes w th ffoure ser- 

 vaunts should or might haue the vse or occupation of a Certaine 

 messuage or tenement whearin your said subiecte then dwelt 

 beinge parcell of a messuage or tenement Comonlie Called the 

 Beare garden and the newe buildings then latelie built before the 

 same scituate and beinge in the parish of S' Saviours in South- 

 warke aforesaid for your subircte his assignes or servaunt^ 

 necessarie or Convenient Lodginge w th the vse of the kitchen of 

 the same messuage or tenement for dressinge of his or theire 

 meate washinge or other necessarries w th ingresse, egresse and 

 regresse into and from the same att his or theire wills and 

 pleasure duringe the rest and residewe of the said tearme of 

 ffoure and twentie yeares then to comme and vnexpired w th out 

 anie rent or other recompence to be yealded or payed for the 

 same other then the release and dischardge of the said yearelie 

 rent of eighte pounds payeable to your subte by the said Phillipp 

 Henslowe as is aforesaid and w th out the lett disturbaunce moles- 

 tation, expulsion evicc/on or interrupc/on of the said Phillippe 

 Henslowe his executors or assignes or of anie other person or 

 persons by his or theire meanes, mighte, Title, estate, interest, 

 Consent or procurement, And your subzVcte did accordinglie hold 

 and enioye the said messuage or tenement whearin your subfVcte 

 then dwelt and the vse of the said kitchen quietlie and ffreelie 

 duringe' all the liffe tyme of the said Phillipp Henslowe w ch was 

 about ffive yeares after w th out yealdinge or payeinge anie rent 

 for the same to the said Phillipp Henslowe other then the release 

 and dischardge of the said yearlie rent of eight pounds to the 



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