12 Charles William Wallace 



sayd Daughter in marryage (save y 1 this Defendante had then 

 brought her to a good perfection in his sayd trade of Tyermake- 

 inge) was Contented to yeelde vnto: though the said Com- 

 plainaunte neither then had nor ever sithence to the knowledge of 

 this Defendaunte any mony, or other valluable goods or lands 

 whatsoever from his sayd friends nor any other thinge whatso- 

 ever but what he had gotten in this Defendaunte service and by 

 the trade that this Defendaunte had learned him And after- 

 wards vid. about five yeares past the sayd Complainaunte was 

 marryed to the sayd Daughter of this Defendaunte at which 

 mariyage it was agreed betweene the said Complainaunte and this 

 Defendaunte that if the sayd Complainaunte with his wife shoulde 

 Continue and worcke in theire trade to the benefitt of this De- 

 fendaunte in the house of this Defendaunte duering the space of 

 twoe yeares or thereabouts after the said Marriage this De- 

 fendaunte giveinge them Conveniente housrome and dayate Con- 

 venient for them so that this Defendaunte might only haue the 

 benifitt of theire labours Then this Defendaunte at the end of 

 the sayd twoe years would give vnto the sayd Complainaunte 

 fiftie pounds or to that effect as this Defend 1 nowe remembreth 

 aft r which time the sayd Complaynaunte did for a little time re- 

 mayne in the house of this Defendaunte accordingly But after 

 the sayd Complaynaunte and his wife had stayed in the house of 

 this Defendaunte as aforesayd the space of halfe a yeare or there 

 abouts he refused to stay there any longer and would needs take 

 oth r Courses for his better prefermente as he then pretended 

 And at the end of the sayd halfe yeare when the said Compl* 

 Did departt from the house of this Defendaunte out of his love 

 to the sayd Complainaunte and his wife (beinge no other way 

 Compellable thervnto) did bestowe on them a good proportion of 

 houshoulde stuff e and the things Concerninge theire trade ac- 

 cording to this Defendaunts poore ability being to the vallue of 

 Twenty pounds or therabouts and lykewyse ten pounds of 

 ready mony to put into theire pursse and did hartely desier theire 

 welfare and lykwise did Intende to leave vnto the sayd Com- 

 playnaunte and his wife beinge the only chylde of this Defend- 



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