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Marriadge and accordingly this deponent did moue and perswade 

 the complainant thervnto: And more to this Jnterrogatorye he 

 cannott depose :/ 



4/ To the ffourth Jnterr this deponent sayth that the defendt prom- 

 issed to gene the said Complainant a pordon [of monie and goodes 

 (stricken out in original)] in Marriadgfe] w th Marye his 

 daughter./ but what certayne pordon he Rememberithe not./ 

 nor when to be payed [yf any some weare promissed, (stricken 

 out in original)] nor knoweth that the defendant promissed the 

 [defendt (stricken out)] plaintiff 1 twoe hundered pounds w th his 

 daughter Marye at the tyme of his decease./ But sayth that the 

 plaintiff was dwellinge w th the defendant in his house And they 

 had Amongeste themselues manye Conferences about there 

 Marriadge w ch [afterwardes] was Consumated and Solempnized. 

 And more he cann[ott depose./] 



5 /To the v th Jnterrogatory this deponent sayth he can saye 

 noth[inge] touchinge any parte or poynte of the same Jnterro- 

 gatory for he knoweth not what Jmplen tes and necessaries of 

 househould stuffe the defiant gaue the plaintiff in Marriadge 

 w th his daughter Marye./ 



Willm Shaker 



[On Shakespeare's signature here, see my article in the Nation, 17 

 March, 1910, or the Westminster Gazette, 12 March.] 



[17] 



Decrees and Orders, Miscellaneous Books, vol. 26, p. 270. 



[An order for publication of the preceding depositions and for hearing 

 the case, dated 15 May, 1612.] 



Decimo quinto die Maij Ann° Regni Regis Jacobi Angliae 

 ffranciae et hiberniae decimo et Scotiae xlv t0 ./ 



Beiiot In the cause at the sute of Stephen Bellot complainant against 



Mountioy Xpofer j-_ Chr i st0 { tr ] Mountioy def 1 vpon the modon of M r 



Wormeleighton of counsaill w th the said complainant yt is ordered 



that the same matter shalbe published vpon Wednesday next if 



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