48 Charles William Wallace 



Vocentur deiendentes per nuntiuw Camerae./ 



Ar. Parkins 



To the kingcy most excellent Maiestie 



Most humbly eomplayninge sheweth vnto yo r most excellent 

 Maiestie yo r most humb/e Subiecte John Witter of Mortlake in 

 the Countie of Surrey gentleman That Whearas Augustine 

 Phillippes of London gentleman deceased was in his lyeffe tyme 

 lawfully possessed for many yeares then in beinge and yet to 

 contynewe of and in a sixte parte of the moytie of the gallories of 

 the playehowse called the Globe in Southwarke in the Countie of 

 Surrey (sithence the death of the said Augustine Phillipps con- 

 sumed with fier and lately reedified) And of divers gardeins 

 thervnto belonginge and adioyninge by force of a demise or lease 

 to him the said Augustine Phillipps made of all the same by 

 Nicholas Brenn of Mouldsey in the said Countie gentleman who 

 was therof seized in his demeasne as of ffee, And he the same 

 Augustine Phillipps soe beinge thereof possessed in or aboute the 

 moneth of Maie in the third yeare of the raigne of yo r Maiestie 

 made his last will and testament in writinge, And thereby did 

 constitute and make his then wyeffe Anne his Executrix of his 

 said last will and testament, and shortly after dyed soe possessed 

 of the said tearme, And sone after the decease of the said Augus- 

 tine Phillipps his said will or testamente was duely proved before 

 S r John Bennett Knight then Iudge of the Prerogatyve Courte of 

 the then Archbyshoppe of Canterburie w ch was the Competente 

 Ordinarie to whome the same did then app^rtaine and belonge of 

 right accordinge to your Maiesties Ecclesiasticall lawes of yo r 

 highnes Realme of England. By virtue whereof and of a devise 

 or guifte in and by the same will and testamente to her gyven and 

 devised, shee the said Anne Phillipps the executrix and relicte of 

 the said Augustine Phillipps into the said sixte parte of the said 

 gallories ground and play howse of the Globe and gardens entered 

 and was thereof possessed accordinglie and did receaue and take 

 the yssues profittes and commodities therof as well and lawfull 

 was for her to doe And shee soe beinge thereof, and of the other 

 goodes and Chattells of her said late deceased husband w ch shee 



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