52 Charles William Wallace 



Appearance Book, 16 and iy James I. 



[This book was found by me among the uncalendared Proceedings of 

 the Court of Requests, and handed over to the proper official who has 

 placed it among the " Miscellaneous Books " of this court.] 



Liber Emptae per Petruw Langley in 

 Termino pasche xvj t0 Jacobj Regis &c 



23 April, 17 James I. 



Johannes Heminges et Henricus Cundall generosi personaiiiter 

 comparucrunt coram consilio per mandate m nostrum Cameras ad 

 sectam Johannis Witter generosi. postea viz 28 die mensis 

 instant admissi sunt per Lee : consilio magistri Kele 



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ANSWER. 



xxviij°: die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Jacobi 

 Anglioe ffranciae et Hibemiae xvij°. ct Scotiae. lij d0 ./ 



The ioynt and seuerall answers of John Hemings 

 and Henry Conciell gentlemen def tes to the bill of 

 Complaint of John Witter gentleman Complaynant. 



The said Def tes and either of them saueing to themselues and 

 either of them nowe and at 'all times hereafter all advantages of 

 excepcion to the incertentie & insufficiencie of the said bill of 

 complaint for answer to so many of the matt rs therein conteyned 

 as any way concerne them the said def tes or is materiall for them 

 or eith r of them to answer vnto* Do say & eith r of them for him- 

 self saith That he thincketh it to be true that the said Augustine 

 Phillipps in the said bill of Complawt named was in his life time 

 lawfully possessed of such terme of yeeres of & in a fiveth parte 

 of the moitie of the said galleryes of the said Playhowse Called the 

 globe in the said bill menc/oned and of divers gardens therevnto 

 belonging & adioyning And that the said Nicholas Brend in the 



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