56 Charles William Wallace 



maketh othe, that the sayd def* Willm Henslowe is an aged man, 

 about the age of three-score and eight yeares, and hath been sick 

 ever sithence the feast of S l Bartholomewe last past & seavenight 

 before vntill this present tyme, & yet is very sick & weake & 

 keepeth his bed not able to helpe himself, And that the said def* 

 by reason of his long sicknes is become deafe, & his sences & 

 vnderstanding so decayed that he cannot well heare nor vnder- 

 stand the said compl tes bill (being read vnto him) to make 

 answere therevnto. — // 



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